I feel a pair of hands on my shoulders all of a sudden but I don't freak out because I instinctively know it's Liam. "Come on, it's time to go home," he says and lightly pushes me to walk to his car, "You guys can leave now. Split the money left between you all and have fun tonight.""Thanks, Boss, you're the fucking best," one of them says and pats his shoulder before leaving, just like everyone else, except Kit. He gets into Liam's car with us."Isabella, don't do this," Liam growls as soon as we're in the car, squeezing the steering wheel with both hands and giving me a heavy look."I'm not doing anything," I mutter, refusing to look at him. I just keep my eyes straight ahead."Yeah, you're turning into Ice Queen again. You're freezing me out," he grumbles. I roll my eyes and shake my head, he’s so dumb. "This has nothing to do with you," I spit, finally looking at him, "Didn’t you hear? Everyone is calling me Lunatic Isabella because they know I'm a fucking psycho who attacked h
I don't know at what point I fell asleep, but I wake up the next morning with the sun on my face because I forgot to close the curtains last night. Liam is snoring lightly behind me and hugging me tightly like I'm his teddy bear. I know he's a heavy sleeper, so I don't even try to wake him up. I just fall back to sleep for a while longer until he starts to stir on his own. "Hm, shit," he groans and lets go of my body. Finally able to move, I roll over so I'm facing him as he spends half a minute stretching his whole body, "That feels so good. I love sleeping.""Okay," I laugh at his crazy hair and puffy eyes. He's so cute in the morning, it reminds me of our time living together in Vegas, "I've cured your insomnia again?""Yes, it's easy to sleep next to you," he replies, serious again. He lifts a hand and touches my cheek, "Are you feeling better?""Yeah, a little," I say honestly. Liam smiles and pulls his phone out of the jeans he's still wearing because he drunkenly crawled int
Before I can respond anything to that, Daisy comes over with another employee and they start serving us breakfast. "Are the boys here, Fidel?" Daisy asks, pouring him a cup of coffee. He looks up at her and smiles as if he didn’t just threaten to torture me. Such a bad man has no right to be so handsome, even at his age.But on the bright side, Liam has at least another twenty-five years of being beautiful. That's good news for me. "No, dear. Liam's gone to work and Kit and Caleb are out, so it's just me and my daughter-in-law," he says, "Having a lovely chat.""I heard," she murmurs, seemingly unfazed by what he's said, which... I guess she's used to. I wait for the moment when she laughs and tells me he was just joking, but she doesn't. She just gives me a serious look. "If you want to join us..." Fidel offers, surprising me."Thank you, Sir, but I've eaten more than enough. You know I have happy fingers while I'm cooking," she replies and, when everything is ready, she glances
I text His Majesty as requested, letting him know I've received the phone, and then I sigh in annoyance as Kit sits down next to me. Caleb stands off to the side. "You know what would be nice? A pool that works," I murmur, looking at Fidel hoping he'll immediately try to make his daughter-in-law happy."It's winter, girl. You'd freeze to death," he exaggerates without giving my request a thought, "Greyhound is not Colombia.""Yeah, clearly... well, if you refuse to give me a pool maybe I could convince Liam to take me to some tropical island and start our new life there," I joke, but everyone gives me a dirty look, "Gee, I was just kidding. I'm a new person. And the new Isabella is funny.""You're not funny at all, try something else," Kit says, stealing a piece of my buttered toast. He's so annoying. I look at Caleb. For the first time, he doesn't look drunk in love with Kit. He looks annoyed, "You should eat something, bab...""I'm not hungry yet," he blurts out in a snappy tone, "
"So, what? What the hell has been going on all this time? Did she lend me her man? Was I the other woman in their situation?" I ask, not understanding how that worked out. If Nukea knew that Alpha Theodore was her damn fated mate, why didn't she step forward? Is she that stupid? She had much more power over him than I did. Why did she let it go so far? I would never let her keep Liam if the roles were reversed. Honestly, if the roles were reversed, she would be dead by now. "Nukea is an omega, genius, she didn't know until recently. Theo hid the fact and decided to focus on you, since you were the 'perfect' Luna," he says with a ridiculous tone, pretending to gag for a second. But that puts a bit of a damper on my fire... It strokes my ego a bit, actually. Theo found his fated mate while we were dating. An omega. A poor One... and he knew that would destroy him. So he chose me over her. Damn, that's really amazing. It speaks wonders about me and how wonderful I am, even against a
{ Liam }I stay in bed, looking up and feeling good. I won't lie... I loved that little fight we had. I loved how she finally got jealous and possessive of me. I loved how she felt like shit because I like another girl. She has to know deep down my love for Nukea is not even close to the love I have for her, but of course, she flipped out anyway.And I don’t even feel bad about it. It wasn't the blowout I expected, though. I wanted her to insult me, yell at me and shove me down in bed so she could ride me and remind me of who owns me.But no, she just left. That was annoying. Isabella is acting very different, and I'm not sure I like it. I know she's confused and her whole world flipped upside down when her plan went to shit, but I don't like her new personality. That 'trying to be better' bullshit is poisoning her brain.My door opens up suddenly. I look up expecting to see Isabella there, but it's just Kit."Go get your girl," he growls out. I get up immediately, "She is in my ro
"What the fuck did I do wrong?" I spit out as soon as they leave, forcing myself to stab my food because I can feel Daisy's eyes burning on the back of my head. "Calling her jealous and pathetic," Kit answers immediately, still eating. I wasn't really asking, "You haven't reassured her at all, you just keep reiterating that you love Nukea. it's as if you're hurting her on purpose.""I'm not, I want us to finally be okay. But everything I told her is truth, I love Nukea, she's like my little sister and I won't stop talking to her just because Isabella hates her," I keep going, making Kit roll his eyes."Boss, tell him he's wrong," Kit tells my dad, shaking his head at me, "I keep forgetting he's a total relationship virgin. Kid, you have to lie to your girl... or not be as truthful. Don't say you love someone else, just say she's your good friend. Isabella is obviously possessive and insane. Even more than Caleb. And I would be missing a limb right now if I claimed to love some other
{ Isabella }The two random guys waiting outside for us come for me as soon as Liam utters his order. Each of them grabs one of my arms and they pull me into the backseat of a black van while Liam climbs in the driver seat and starts driving in complete silence.That fucking prick. We haven't talked in five days and he's still acting like that? I'm the one who is mad this time. He should suck up his pride and apologize like I've done...ma couple of times. But no, he looks unshakable right now and I hate it.I want to talk to him. I’ve wanted that all these days. I want to tell him I saw Millie's room and Daisy told me he picked most of the stuff. I want to ask if he feels ready. I do want us to be a real couple... but he's letting his love for another girl keep us away. "Nukea has been taking good care of our daughter," he starts talking all of a sudden, as if he's reading my mind. Her name coming out of his lips makes me snarl, "She hasn't done anything to deserve you bitching out
{ Fidel }Finally feeling better after so much time of worrying and stressing out about this woman, once I allow my body to relax, I end up passing out next to her. It’s like my body released all the endorphins at once and now I’m drained. I don’t know how long I sleep next to Daisy’s lovely naked body, but when I wake up, she’s playing with my hair and doing something on her phone with her free hand. As if this is our normal.“You awake?” She whispers.“Yeah, sorry. How long have I been out?”“Just over twenty minutes,” she answers, letting her phone down to look at me with a smile, “Kit is texting me, asking if I’m still grounded. The kids are hungry.”“Tell them to go out or something. I want to stay here longer,” I admit, hugging her waist until she’s turning on her side to face me. I let my hand caress the length of her body, from her delicate shoulder to her plump hips. She’s pure perfection. The definition of a true woman, “I want to enjoy you some more.”“That sounds good,”
"That's the only way you'll stay quiet, apparently," he growls, then he looks down at my body again, without anything covering me at all. I know I don't have the most perfect body out there, but I'm also not hideously ugly. And by the way he's starting to fill the room with his arousal, I think he likes what he's looking at, "I've been denying myself this since the moment I first met you, Daisy. But I finally have you right here... and you're just as delicious as I thought."I swallow and bite down on my own panties when his hands start roaming around my body. They feel possessive and authoritative.He grabs my breasts and cups them, pinching both of my nipples at the same time. I moan and trash around, but he pins me down with just a look before moving down until he's in between my legs again.I’m going to pass out. I’ve never been this aroused. "If I ever found out you're fucking someone else, I'll chop his head off right in front of your eyes. I won't let you convince me to let hi
{ Daisy }I told him. I just let it out. I knew he wouldn't stop torturing me one way or another until he got what he wanted, so I just gave it to him. And the fucker just looks at me with a stunned face for a few seconds, not saying anything back.My worst fear is coming true the more he stays silent. He's going to reject me. He doesn't want me. He won't give me what he promised. He'll fire me and push me away. I start crying again just thinking about it, because I don't want any of that to happen. I've been so angry today because he forced me to stay here, but I know I would hate it even more if he forced me to go away and never come back. "Is that all?" he asks in a cold voice, my crying stops. I narrow my eyes at him, "You could've said that sooner, Daisy.""Yeah? So you could reject me sooner?" I snarl, getting angry now, especially when he smiles like the evil person he is, "Get off me!""No," he simply says, "You're not getting rid of me now. Ever. I hope you're happy and
"No, I can't say," she mumbles and tries to get up, but I move faster than her and I grab her arm to keep her in place, "Fidel, stop. It has nothing to do with you.""So what, you want another man?" I ask, pulling her harder until she falls on top of me. Daisy tries to get up, but I don't let her. I flip us until I'm on top of her, "Is that it? You know I'll find him, too.""No, Fidel," she says, trying to push me away, "Stop. Please, get away from me.""Not until you tell me what you're hiding from me," I demand, slipping a leg in between hers. I can hear how fast her heart starts beating and I can smell her scent getting thick with arousal. I think she liked being manhandled like that, "I'm not fucking asking, Daisy, I'm ordering you to tell me.""Well, now I want to tell you even less," she snaps, closing her eyes and moving her head to the side, "I'm disappearing inside my mind again.""No. Stop that, stop doing that," I growl and grab her face to force her to look back at me, "Co
"B-b-but," she lets out, her pale face blushed now, "But that would make this very unprofessional.""You really think I care about being professional? I almost kill your boyfriend and I grounded you, Daisy, I'm not a professional boss," I say, laughing at myself, "Or are you disgusted at the thought of touching me?""What?!" she almost yells. I have to bite on the inside of my cheek to stop my smile as she gives me a very incredulous look. She's so fucking gorgeous and I want her so fucking bad, "Of course I'm not disgusted! Why would I be? You're not that evil, everyone just says that because they don't really know you. Don't believe their words, Fidel, you're not disgusting."This time I can't stop myself from laughing out loud, feeling days and days worth of tension leave my shoulders. She's back. "Thanks for letting me know everyone calls me evil and disgusting behind my back, Daisy. But I meant you'd be disgusted because I'm so damn old," I let her know. She looks shocked again
Isabella keeps me company while I eat. She tries and tries to get me to admit I want Fidel. I might like her, but I know she’ll definitely tell everyone everything I say, so I say almost nothing.When she leaves, I decide to take a shower and put on some of the old clothes I have in this room. They’re old jeans and a shirt that are now around two sizes too small and it just reminds me of how imperfect I am.I’ve let myself go in this house. I got too comfortable, I denied myself of everything too, just like Fidel. I denied myself of a man, of more friends, of a job that didn’t involve talking to the same four people every single day.I’m so sick and tired of this life, something has to change. And now that I have the idea of the sperm donor in my head, I really think I could make it happen. Even if I can’t go out, there’s a lot of viable men in this house: Kit, Caleb… even Roger. He might be old, but his swimmers could be alive, right? Other than them, Fidel has a lot more guys that
{ Daisy }I can’t believe this is really happening, but he put the idea in my head and now I really, really want it.He gave me a solution to my issue. I would be an idiot if I don’t try to go for it. But Fidel drops his mouth open in shock as he looks at me, as if he can’t believe I’m being like this. And yeah, even I can’t believe I’m speaking to my boss this way, but really, this isn’t a normal work environment anymore. Not since he forced me back here.I have so much money saved that I could afford to retire, but I don’t think he would even let me. And I really don’t think he would hurt me or kill me, so if I have nothing to lose, I can be a little bitch if I want.“I’m so fucking mad at you,” he lets me know, pointing at my face before walking away and out of the kitchen, “I don’t want to eat dinner here anymore. I’ll go out again.”“Fine!” I let out, “Have fun!”“I will,” he responds, “And you’ll stay here tonight. You’re grounded until you apologize for saying that shit. Kit,
Before I leave my car, I down the last bit of the cognac bottle and get out. Instead of heading to the front door, though, I walk to the backyard and get in through the kitchen door. My Daisy is already here, cooking something delicious. She was humming a song and moving her plump hips from side to side before looking at me and giving me yet another annoyed eye roll.“Forgive me,” I demand, taking a few steps closer to her, “Forgive me now.”“Of course, I forgive you,” she says with a bored voice. I growl and walk closer to grab her. Daisy gasps, finally looking at me with something other than distaste in her eyes. She’s shocked by my attack, “What is this about?”“I want you to be normal Daisy again,” I demand, realizing I’m drunker than I thought because then I hug her waist, allowing myself to touch her more than ever before. My hands dare to roam down her ass too, “Please, Daisy, I don’t like you being like this. I know you’re mad, but I won’t let you go no matter what, so I’m b
{ Fidel }"Dad," Liam growls, entering the bathroom without knocking while I'm taking a shower to wash the blood off my body, "Who the hell was that?!”Amazing. I’ve been found. "What do you mean?" I ask, "And why are you here, Liam? We're not that close, show me some damn respect.""Shut up, old man," he says and opens the sliding door of the shower to give me a disapproving look, "Who the hell was that guy in the cabin and why did you kill him?""Do you think I owe you an explanation, pup?" I scoff and turn off the water, "You're wrong. I do what I want and there’s no one alive who can stop me.Not even you.”"You've been in the cabin every day this week. Nobody knows anything about this, there is nothing bad going on at work right now, so... who was that guy in the cabin and why did you kill him?" He asks, talking very slowly as if I’m an idiot or something. "Because I felt like it, Liam. Is that what you want to hear?" I admit, pushing him aside to get out of the shower and cove