Total pages in book: 149
Estimated words: 141255 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 706(@200wpm)___ 565(@250wpm)___ 471(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 141255 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 706(@200wpm)___ 565(@250wpm)___ 471(@300wpm)
“I’ll talk to him,” she said softly.
“Let’s go. Baby, you can’t tell him anything about me and Tommy wanting out. You can’t let on that–”
“I know, Master,” she winked at me, “I’ll be your good girl.”
I smiled and took her hand.
We walked hand-in-hand from the house to the barn, which was only on the other side of the driveway, and I saw that there were, indeed, men surrounding the barn.
Nino winked at me and opened the door and then I walked down a path with stalls on either side, down to the middle where another guard, a young and good-looking blond guy with a wholesome boy-next-door face smiled at me.
“Please don’t go,” I whispered to Dare as he led me closer.
“I won’t,” he said firmly.
We approached the stall. It was gated with thick iron, unlike the other stalls that’d been traditional horse stalls.
I saw Jason sitting on an overturned milk crate in the back corner and when his eyes met mine, they were filled with pain. He looked the same though. In two years, he hadn’t changed. Tall, dark, handsome, well-dressed. I hadn’t seen him in over a year but hadn’t looked him in the face in almost two.
“Angie!” he exclaimed, and then his expression dropped when he saw Dare at my back.
“Jase,” I said softly.
He got to his feet, moved toward the gate, grabbing it. I stepped back and landed against Dare’s body. Dare’s arm curled around my belly and he gave me a little squeeze, kept holding on, gave me support.
Jase launched right in. “I’ve been trying to figure out how to get to you. He was a horrible bastard, Ang. It took time but I was trying to find a way to get you out all that time. I had to end his life so I could get you out. I had him poisoned. I figured it was a deserving death after what he did to us.”
I got a shudder from head to toe remembering the stench of death.
Jase continued, looking proud of himself.
“He had to pay, sweetie. But I think they suspected I had a hand in it because after Uncle Donovan died, they wouldn’t let me on the premises and they watched me. I was heir to his shares but they kept me on a need-to-know basis. I already tried to buy you, to get you out of there. But they blocked it and wouldn’t even let me see you. I got adamant about it, especially with what percentage of that place I own, and I think that’s one of the reasons they let you go to him.” He jerked his chin at Dare. “So I’d give up. When I found out they sold you to Dario Ferrano, I figured I could save you, finally. I know of that family. I met his father many times. I didn’t mean for any of it to happen, Ang. I didn’t. I love you. You were supposed to be mine, not Uncle Donavan’s, no one else’s.” He gave Dare a dark look.
“Jason…” I started but I started to choke up, “I’m good now. I have a Master and he’s good to me. You don’t have to rescue me. What’s done is done.”
“Well, clearly I failed again. I failed to keep you safe from Uncle Donavan and I failed to rescue you. And now I’ll probably pay with my life.”
I started to feel bad for him.
But then he said, “I was supposed to be your Master,” dejectedly and my blood ran cold. He kept talking. “Watching them break you? I watched hours of footage of how they broke you. Watched it over and over. I wanted to kill him. I wish I could’ve seen him die. He made me watch as he beat you, as he made you beg, as he fucked you and made you come. I wanted to kill him for stealing that from me. I got him out of the way so I could take his place at Kruna with you. But fucking Chen, Lucas, Delgado, and the others? They fucking blocked me.”
I felt weak. I leaned against Dare. “Master, could we go, please?”
Dare turned me to face him and looked right into my eyes and answered, “Absolutely, my Angel.”
“Angie?” Jason called my old name, but I walked faster and faster and then I broke into a run and I ran back to the house and right upstairs and threw myself into the bed where I wept. I wept hard.
I didn’t love Jason. I knew love at first sight was real because with Dare it’d happened, within 24 hours. With Jase it was just some fun. Good sex; he was rough and I liked it rough. He liked it often and I liked it even more often. He joked that I was a dream come true. He called me his spirited sexy submissive who he could barely keep up with. Seeing those traits in me and living in the Kruna world? Of course, he wanted to take ownership of me; I’d be the envy of the resort. I’d thought, at first, that it was so he could keep me safe but it evidently was just so he could keep me for himself, break me himself. How could he watch that footage over and over? I wanted to puke remembering some of what’d be on those recordings.