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Cyrus“Are you serious?” Sadie exclaimed, her voice a mixture of fear and fury. “You think that animal wants to kidnap his own daughter and go on the run with her?”I nodded. I knew the theory sounded a little wild, but after everything that had happened, I was growing more and more convinced of it. He wasn’t acting rational. Ralph might be crazy, but he wasn’t an idiot. He had to know what he was doing and the consequences if he was caught. All I knew was that Ralph was dangerous and posed an immediate threat to my family.I thought Sadie might break down into tears and express her obvious fear of the situation. However, Sadie leapt to her feet and began to angrily pace, just as I had done a few moments before.“We’ve got to do something,” she snarled. “We’ve got to keep him away from Megan! And make him pay for what he’s done!”I raised my brows in surprise. I hadn’t expected such a bloodthirsty reaction from her. Her anger was overtaking her fear, sharpening her focus and turning h
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Sadie’s brows rose, and she looked surprised.“You…you want us all to go to the country?”She seemed hesitant, which made me frown. “You don’t like that idea?”She quickly shook her head. “Oh, no! That’s not it. I think it’s a great idea, I just…”Trailing off, she glanced away, but not before I caught sight of the blush spreading across her cheeks. What was she thinking? I’d give just about anything to know what was on her mind at that moment. Was she nervous to be secluded in the country with me?When I thought about being out on the estate with her, away from everything, all but alone, I felt a jolt of heat course through me.Damn it, I needed to get a grip. Now was not the time to be thinking about her and what could happen between us, isolated away from the city.“Then why do you seem nervous?” I asked, unable to help myself.Her lips parted, and a breath slipped past them. The flush in her cheeks deepened, and her hands opened and shut at her sides, a nervous gesture that I reco
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He turned to me with a start. “Oh, Sadie…I didn’t hear you come in.”I closed the door behind me. “What were you thinking about? You looked like you were lost in thought.”Shaking his head, he turned back to stare out the window.“Just considering everything that’s happened,” he murmured. “Trying to decide what I do next.”There was an emotion in his voice that was very close to despair. It made my heart ache. He looked as though he had the weight of the world resting on his shoulders. I wanted to comfort him so badly. Wanted to wrap my arms around him and ease his worries.I hesitated to go to him, though, remembering the last time we had touched each other. His rejection still stung when I thought about it. I was still so confused as to why he would push me away like that.When he released a long breath, something inside me snapped. Suddenly, I didn’t care about his rejection. At that moment, I just wanted to give into my desire for him. After everything we had been through, didn’t
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Sadie“Of course you do,” he growled. He placed a kiss between my breasts and then continued down my belly. He reached my panties and curled his fingers around them to tug them down my legs. I felt his breath on my sensitive sex, and it made me shiver.“Cyrus,” I whispered. “Don’t tease me. Please.”“Don’t worry, baby,” he replied, glancing up at me. “I don’t have the patience for that today.”With that, he lowered his head and buried his face between my legs. I let out a strangled cry as he began licking and sucking at me in earnest. My hands found his hair and my fingers tangled in the strands. It felt so, so good. I couldn’t keep myself from moaning loudly as he practically feasted on me.“You taste so sweet,” he growled, momentarily lifting his head to look up at me. “I’m going to grow addicted to this. To you.”I might have already been addicted to him, but I didn’t say so out loud. There was a part of me clinging to the walls around my heart that he had been bulldozing his way t
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Cyrus“How does a scumbag like that just disappear? Help me understand this, Caleb!”I heard Caleb sigh through the phone. It had been several days since Megan, Sadie, and I had arrived at the country estate. I had expected a more optimistic report from Caleb by this point, but I was disappointed to find that he and his team hadn’t come any closer to finding Ralph than the night he’d shown up outside Megan’s window. It was frustrating as hell, and I simply didn’t understand how it was possible for the bastard to just disappear.“We’ve been scouring the city, hitting up all his old haunts and acquaintances,” Caleb told me. "Nobody’s seen him.”“Bullshit,” I spat. “His junkie friends are covering for him. Why would they give him up?”“I don’t know why they’d bother hiding him,” Caleb countered. “No one we talked to is overly fond of Ralph, and we offered generous incentives to anyone who could point us in the right direction.”“What kind of incentives?” I grumbled.“Well, it depended on
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SadieThe morning after Cyrus and I had made love in the library, I honestly wasn’t sure what to expect from him. I woke up in my bed, alone. He had been with me when I’d fallen asleep, but should I have been surprised he wasn’t there in the morning?I wasn’t sure, but it hurt waking up and feeling abandoned. I got out of bed and got dressed and ready for the day, then cautiously made my way out of my room to wake Megan up for breakfast. Her door was just a few down from mine, but before I reached it, I heard a throat clear behind me.“Good morning.”I stopped, my whole body going rigid with surprise and tension. Slowly, I turned around and found Cyrus standing just a few feet away. He was wearing a white t-shirt and gray sweatpants, and I felt my mouth literally begin to water as I stared at him.He smirked. “Cat got your tongue?”Remembering how to breathe, I cleared my throat and said, “Sorry…you startled me.”He tilted his head and took a few steps closer to me. “Clearly. I was ju
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SadieI didn’t want to stop. I wanted to push him over the edge, so I defiantly kept going.With a growl, he finally gripped my hair and held my head still. Moving back, he slipped himself from my mouth, and I looked up at him, ready to protest.The words died on my tongue. The need blazing in his eyes stole my breath.“Stand up,” he growled.I did. He immediately picked me up into his arms. I let out a surprised squeak.“Cyrus…” I gasped.“You’ve got me all worked up,” he said, turning to my bed. “Now you’ve got to deal with it.”I let out a laugh and clutched his shoulders to bring him in for a kiss. He laid me on the bed and followed me down onto it, and we lost ourselves to each other once again.***The next few days passed much like that first one after our encounter in the library. As I went about my day, Cyrus would flirt with and tease me. We were careful not to do anything in front of Megan. I understood why we were keeping our blossoming romance from her, but there was a pa
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SadieI laughed softly and reached up to touch the side of his face with my fingertips.“You are romantic,” I murmured. “And sweet and kind. You put on this tough guy act all the time, but you’re just a big teddy bear on the inside.”“How dare you.” He chuckled, leaning in for a soft kiss.When we moved apart from each other again, I released a long sigh.“Can I ask…will we be going back to the city soon?”He furrowed his brow. “You want to go back?”I shrugged and looked around us. “Not necessarily. It’s lovely here, and Megan is doing so well, but…we can’t hide from our real lives forever. You know that as much as I do.”He nodded and shoved a hand through his hair.“When it’s safe, we’ll go back,” he said in a slightly sharper tone.I sighed. “Cyrus, that isn’t an answer, and you know it.”“I don’t know what you want me to say,” he replied with a scowl. “I can’t predict what I have no control over.”I didn’t want him to get upset, and I didn’t want to ruin this moment for us. Howev
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EpilogueSadie – One Year LaterI gazed down at my baby, my son, in absolute wonder. My heart swelled in my chest with so much love, I thought it would burst. I was exhausted, and my whole body hurt, but I didn’t care. All that mattered was my little boy, that he was healthy and whole.“Are you feeling up to visitors?” the nurse attending to me asked in a soft voice, careful as to not disturb my sleeping baby.I smiled at her and nodded. “I am.”“I’ll let them in, then,” she replied with a grin.Turning, she made her way out of the room, closing the door behind her. I turned my gaze back down to my little boy and couldn’t help the smile that curled my lips.He was so beautiful. Tiny and pink and perfect.I couldn’t wait for his daddy and sister to meet him.At that moment, the door to my room opened back up, and the nurse returned with Cyrus and Megan in tow. Cyrus had been with me during the labor, but had gone out to wait with Megan while the baby was cleaned up so he could bring h
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CyrusThe silence stretched between us for several long moments, and with each second that passed, I grew more and more nervous that she was going to say no.Her expression flickered between so many emotions so quickly, I couldn’t fully decipher what she was thinking.At length, she slowly said, “Are…are you asking me to marry you because you genuinely love me and want to…or are you just afraid of losing me after everything that happened with Ralph?”“Oh, baby, no,” I assured her with a firm shake of my head. “I love you with my entire being, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. I want us to raise Megan together and be a family. I swear to you, this has nothing to do with Ralph.”I held her gaze, praying she believed me. I was ready to do whatever I had to in order to convince her I was being entirely serious.To my complete relief, though, her lips curled into a smile, and she blurted, “Yes! Yes, Cyrus, I’ll marry you!”I surged to my feet, pulling her from her chair. Wr
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Sadie It was hard to break that bond between a child and parent, and no matter what Ralph did, I think there would always be a part of Megan that wanted that connection with him.“I hope so,” Cyrus told her. “He’s going to try. That’s what’s important.”Megan regarded him a long moment before saying, “I’m glad he’s going to try.”Cyrus smiled softly. “Me, too. I promise you, Megan, I’m going to take care of you and protect you no matter what. Okay?”The corners of her lips curled up at that. “Okay. I love you, Uncle Cyrus.”“I love you, too, Megan,” he replied. Then, he looked up at me. I couldn’t help but smile back at him. My heart swelled, and I fell even more in love with him at that moment. I wanted to explain my feelings to him in more depth, but we needed to talk away from Megan. I didn’t want to confuse her even more as Cyrus and I tried to figure out the stuff between us.“All right, is there anything else you want to talk about?” Cyrus asked, turning back to Megan.She blin
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SadieA week after Ralph’s arrest, things finally felt as though they were getting back to normal. Ralph was charged with breaking the restraining order. True to his word, Cyrus didn’t press any other charges. Ralph would spend a little time in jail before his trial, and then, it was up to the courts to decide his fate.I didn’t worry about him, though. I focused on Megan and helping her overcome the latest trauma she’d been through. I hated that she’d gone through so much at such a young age. It wasn’t fair. She deserved so much better. I wanted to make it my mission in life to make up for all that she’d suffered. I wanted all this mess with Ralph to fade into distant memories for her. I wanted her to be happy. More than anything else in the world, I wanted her to just be a normal, six-year-old girl.We were out on the terrace one day, coloring, when she looked up at me and asked, “Sadie? Is my daddy gone forever?”I frowned at her and replied, “What do you mean, sweetie?”She hesita
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Ralph stared at me. I could tell he wanted to argue.I waited for him to say something, anything, that I could use to shut down any chance he had left of getting close to Megan.To my surprise, though, he reluctantly nodded. “All right…all right. I’ll…I’ll do what you say. So long as you promise you won’t stand in Megan’s way if she wants to see me someday.”I regarded him a long moment before releasing a long sigh. “I promise. I won’t stand in her way. And I promise that I will take excellent care of her.”Ralph dropped his head, looking defeated.“I know you will,” he whispered.At that moment, I heard Sadie rushing back to us.“The cops are on their way,” she gasped when she reached me. She looked between me and Ralph and then gave me a relieved smile. “I’m glad to see everyone is still in one piece.”“Barely,” I grumbled.She wrapped her arm around mine and hugged it.“Thank you,” she whispered.I smiled down at her, but I then caught movement out of the corner of my eye. Turning
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CyrusI was at the very end of my control. My temper was about to snap. I kept reminding myself of Sadie’s words. Of my promise to her, but it was getting damn difficult to hold myself back. Ralph would just not give up. He kept pushing and pushing, bringing up Kate’s name and claiming Megan as his.It was infuriating. He kept saying he was a changed man, but he wasn’t taking responsibility for what he’d done. He wasn’t owning the fact that Kate wouldn’t have driven off the road that day if he hadn’t chased after her. I didn’t care that it was an accident. I didn’t care that he thought he loved her.In the end, it didn’t matter. It didn’t matter because Kate was still gone. And she was gone because of him.“You know what, Cyrus?” Ralph growled. “You think you’re so high and mighty. You think you’re so much better than I am, but the truth is, you failed Kate just as much as I did.”My whole body went cold. “What the hell are you saying?”Ralph had the gall to glare at me. “If you thou
