Total pages in book: 36
Estimated words: 35767 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 179(@200wpm)___ 143(@250wpm)___ 119(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 35767 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 179(@200wpm)___ 143(@250wpm)___ 119(@300wpm)
It had pissed him off, but it had also reminded him that he was supposed to be taking care of her, not keeping her to himself, which was what he wanted to do.
He didn’t want the world to know how precious she was, or how amazing their life was out here.
When people saw happiness like this, they set out to either destroy it or replicate it. This was their own piece of heaven.
He shouldn’t have yelled at her, and it pissed him off that he allowed the pressure of everything else to make him lash out.
She’d been so hurt, and he’d just walked away because that was what adults did.
She’s an adult too, asshole.
Stop treating her this way and either commit or let her the fuck go.
He didn’t want to let her go, and didn’t believe for a second that it was even possible for him to do something like that.
Could he really let her go?
No.
It was the one thing he couldn’t do.
He’d refuse to give her up.
Mavis deserved someone who cared about her, who would do everything in their power to keep her safe and protected, and he was that person.
What about love?
He wouldn’t think about that. Love wasn’t part of him. He couldn’t do it.
Susan was still cooking away, the delicious scents permeating the entire house. He checked upstairs but didn’t find Mavis anywhere in sight.
He checked the dining room, the library, and the movie room. Still nowhere in sight. He’d only caught her a few times in the kitchen, but he figured that was where she had to be.
Susan was at the stovetop, stirring something in a pot.
“Have you seen Mavis?” he asked.
“She went out in the yard. I don’t know what is going on with you two, but she looked really upset.”
He ignored Susan’s prying tone, and went out into the yard. He gave Mavis’s name a shout but still nothing.
The chill in the air nipped at the exposed flesh of his arms. Today he’d purposefully put on one of his business suits in an attempt to distract himself from the woman that was living with him.
He moved off the porch step and started walking through the garden.
She had to be in the pool house.
He’d not gotten the carpet removed yet, but it was on his list of things to do. Would she be disgusted when she saw the blood? The evidence of her virginity?
Thinking about that night made his dick hard, and all he wanted to do was lay her out beneath him and make love to her. He’d been a giant dick to her, and there was no getting past that.
Running fingers through his hair, he came to the opening of the pool and the house, only to see Mavis in the water.
Her eyes were closed, and he saw tears running down her cheeks.
You did that to her, asshole.
You made her cry.
“Mavis, honey, did you hear me shouting?”
“Go away,” she said.
She whispered the words so slightly, but he heard the pain deep inside them. She was upset, and he knew why.
He’d been a total dick and asshole to her, and she deserved more and better, especially from him.
“I’m not going away,” he said.
She opened her eyes, and he stared into their blue depths. “Why? Do you need your dick attended to, is that it? You want to forget for a few minutes that I’m a teenager. That you’re my guardian.”
“Mavis?”
“No. You can’t do this. It’s not fair. I may be eighteen years old, but this hurts. Don’t you get that? It hurts to be part of something and then have it torn away from you. I thought we were doing really well, and then today, why yell at me? Why do this to me? Why kick me out of your bed?”
He noticed her lips were blue, and he frowned.
“You heated the water, right?” he asked.
“Go away, Luca. I don’t want you here.”
He didn’t go away. Stepping up to the pool, he crouched down and felt the cold of the water.
“What the fuck! Get out of the water.”
“No.”
“How long have you been in there?” he said.
“Stop it. Just stop it.” She screamed each word at him.
“I’m not joking around here, Mavis.”
“Neither am I.”
“Then get out of the damn water and stop acting like a child.”
“How am I acting like a child? You can swim in cold water. I’ve not been in here long enough and I’m fine. I’ve read all about it. Leave me alone.”
He was done trying to reason with her.
Climbing into the water, he felt the chill go straight to his bones. If she wasn’t ill after this, it would be a fucking miracle.
She started to move away from him, and it was then he noticed she was completely naked, and it pissed him off.
He turned his back for two minutes and look what kind of shit was going on.