My mouth always had gotten me into trouble. When I’d asked him what price his daughter brought, he’d struck me. I touch my face, the most persistent of my pains, the only one anchored in the physical instead of emotional. A meeting of two wealthy families with ties to the criminal underbelly everyone in this mausoleum of a house pretends doesn’t exist. He called it a merger secured by marriage. Another betrayal after a lifetime of them shouldn’t be enough to keep sleep from me, but this most recent hurt weighs heavier than most. My feet ache from hours’ worth of pacing, my chest aches worse from the heart pain my father delivered earlier. Not even the ghost of my poor dead mother dares wander theses halls after hours. Certainly none of the men he insists on keeping in our house. This book contains depictions of consensual non-consent sex.Įven if I’d been sleeping, the creak of my bedroom door would have startled me into awareness.
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