Total pages in book: 120
Estimated words: 109976 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 550(@200wpm)___ 440(@250wpm)___ 367(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 109976 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 550(@200wpm)___ 440(@250wpm)___ 367(@300wpm)
The tabloids would’ve had a field day if such a thing had happened. And because I knew that she wouldn’t have wanted that I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I couldn’t be that selfish even though it damn near killed me to leave her there.
Her sweet innocence wouldn’t have allowed her to betray her vows and I couldn’t see her being tarnished as a woman who’d left his bed for mine. The one and only time I’d let principles rule me to that extent.
Now my heart was bleeding out in my chest because she had to go through some shit that I had no control over. She was scared and alone and once again I wasn’t there beside her. Last fucking time though.
There’ll never be another time when she has to face shit alone. I’ll never let such ugliness touch her again in this lifetime. Not while there’s still breath in my body. “Just get through this night baby and I’ll do the rest.”
I shut out the noise of the station house and just focused all my energy on her. Only now that I had her in my sight did I allow myself to truly relax. Now that I could see her finally starting to relax herself with Marcus there to help.
I took a few deep breaths and relaxed my folded fists as reality began to sink in and my heart and mind was finally beginning to accept what this truly meant. The fact that she was free. It was like feeling the sun on my face after a rainstorm. I felt…happy.
Something inside me opened up and all the barriers I’d had in place to keep her out came tumbling down one by one. Now when I look at her I see my woman, mine. And not someone else’s wife.
I knew the second she sensed me, saw her body tense and the struggle not to turn around. Is she thinking the same thing I am? That we can now be together? Or is she mourning him? Not too fond of that last thought.
Is she blaming me for not being in there with her? At least I’d sent Marcus to take care of her. There was nothing I could do at this point about them questioning her. Had I known before they took her she’d never have stepped foot in this fuck. I’ll make it up to her later.
As I stood there watching over her I got that old familiar feeling in my gut. It’s the same feeling I get when I’m moving in for the kill on a deal. If I were a better man I’d give her more time, she’d just lost her husband after all, but I need to wipe him from her mind, and what better way to start.
There are a thousand unanswered questions playing around inside my head, but there was one thing I was definitely sure of. Tonight I’m finally going to claim her. There’s nothing on this earth that can stop me.
I let myself watch her for a few minutes more just to make sure she wasn’t hurt anywhere. In those few minutes I cursed myself for being ten kinds of fool for not taking her away from him before things came to this. I knew he was a weak fuck who was always caught up in some shit, but I thought for sure that he’d protect her. I’d mistakenly believed that he would at least take care of her the way I would’ve had she been mine.
That he would’ve seen how special she is and though he was a fuck up from the start, would at least treasure that and make sure none of his filth touched her. It’s what I would’ve done had I been in his shoes.
The fuck was lucky enough to win someone like her and didn’t know what to do with her. Now she’s sitting in a police station answering questions about his last fuck up. Things she probably didn’t have the answers to.
I wonder which one of his fucked up schemes had driven him to off himself? Not that I care. I’d only kept an eye on his dumb ass because of her; to make sure that none of the scum he fucked around with touched her in any way.
I’m pretty sure Kevin and his team would get to the bottom of it all before long, so for now I’ll just wait until I have all the answers. It didn’t matter though. All that matters is that she is mine to claim.
Gavin
Since it looked like she was going to be a while I walked a short distance away. I still didn’t go too far though as I pulled my phone and called Kevin for an update. “What else did you get for me?”
“They were coming down on him pretty hard, apparently about to take him down all the way. He was going to lose the house, the business, everything.” He gave me a rundown of what he’d learned so far and just as I thought, it was his fucked up lifestyle that had led to his demise.