Chapter Fifty Eight
I had wondered why they were both absent for the past two days, if only I knew what they had been busy with.
I sobbed silently. I would never survive here. Now I doubted that Thane would keep to his words of letting me go; maybe I would end up there, just like those girls:
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I had never felt so afraid in my life.
I rolled over Beatrix’s offer in my mind; she was willing to help me escape this place, but she couldn’t help my mother. I shouldn’t leave my mother behind, but I was so afraid, I didn’t want to be here for the next minute.
I jumped to my feet when someone walked in; it was Thane. I quickly wiped off my tears.
“Why are you crying?”
“Is nothing?” I lied, my heart pounding. Now I knew what he could do; I would never be able to sleep on the same bed with this man. Everything about him frightened me, but what was more alarming was how indifferent he was, because this was his life. Even after what he had done – what he had been doing, he could still sleep without being hunted. He was twisted in more ways than I could tel.
“You lie to me again, Riley.”
“I just got emotional thinking about my past,” I say, and he gave me a long look before deciding to let it go I hoped.
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“There is a feast coming up, you will be accompanying me; it would be different from the previous; Slade and Freya are gone now.” He says, mentioning his parents by their names.
“I… I can’t.”
“I didn’t remember giving you an option”
“I’m not feeling very well; please Thane, I’d prefer to stay in,” I said.
Thane walked closer to me, his intense gaze on me. Did he know that something was off with me? Could he feel it? I couldn’t tell, but his hands trailed down my hair, and… I couldn’t–I couldn’t take it. I flinched; he gripped me. “What was that?” he asked, and to that I gave no response; it seemed to irritate him. He pushed me against the bed, and I fell, bouncing on the bed. He joined me.
I placed my hands on his chest in an attempt to push him off me, but I didn’t think he could even notice my effort. His lips slammed into mine as he kissed me fiercely. I bit his lips, hard enough to draw blood, but the sicko had read a different meaning to that. And he tore off my clothes.
“No!” I cried out, and he paused. He finally noticed my struggle.
Chapter Fifty Eight
“Are you going to pretend now that you don’t like being fucked by me?”
“I’m tired, Thane; please let me go.” I hated begging him, but violence wouldn’t help me now.
“I’ll have you, Riley, whenever and wherever the need arises,” he reminded me, and I closed my eyes. I wasn’t going to watch this time. But to my surprise, he rose from the bed and disappeared into the bathroom.
I let out a shaky breath. One thing was for sure, I didn’t care how my body reacted to him, I wouldn’t willing let him touch me ever again. Fuck the contract; I didn’t think he planned on keeping to that either.
He returned back, dressed for the night; he joined me on the bed, and I stiffened; maybe I was pushing my luck, but I couldn’t bring myself to care.
“I don’t want to share the bed with you, Thane.”
He inhaled sharply; I heard it. He turned me over so I was facing him.
“Okay, what is your fucking problem? Yes, I had been away for a while, but I had been busy. What the hell do you want? Is it attention? I’m willing to fuck you till dawn if that’s enough attention for you.”
“I just don’t want you on the same bed with me.” I don’t want you close to me; I don’t want you touching me; damn, I don’t even want you breathing the same air with me.
“Then maybe I should lay with someone who appreciates my presence,” he says. I don’t look, but I know a smirk was on his face.
Go fuck yourself. Gof
“If that sooths you,
“Riley”
“Yes?”
then you are free,” I say.
“If you try this next time, I won’t let you go so easily,” he threatens before rising from the bed and walking to the couch.
Once, I could play around with his threats, but now… now I knew how dangerous his threats
could be.
I couldn’t stay even a single day with a monster like him, and so I made
my
choice.
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