All Chapters of Love At First Taste: Her Stepfather's Pet: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

"Get up, Sheryl. There is nothing I can do for you at the moment." I say and turn to Hernandez in the driver's seat."You think that is it?" "Yes. Abbie and the three guys with her would surround the building, we don't know if he is harmed or not. Also if he is alone or not. They will check if there are other entrance points and signal to me. What is the plan, Mr. Dmitri? I know we are keeping this as quiet as possible. Do you want him captured or...?" Hernandez looks behind to see Sheryl on her knees and trails off. Sheryl whips her head up at him in panic, she looks at me, I look away. "Just get Amelia out of there safe and sound. That is all that matters to me." I say watching Abbie and the men come out of their vehicle ahead of us, their weeapons are properly concealed and they look almost inconspicuous in rheir black leather clothings. Hernandez nods. "Linc! Please!" Sheryl cries.I can't stand being in the car with her anymore. I am thrumming with nerves as I watch Abbie sign

"Yes. Trust me." He says. "Okay. Thank you. She took the worst of it." I try to sit up but my body is heavy, like I weigh a thousand pounds. My head is heavy too. Dull. I look around the sparsely decorated hospital room, it is spacious enough for two beds. "I know and I can't apologise to her enough. I doubt I will ever make it up to her. Or you." Linc says looking away from me for a second. I see the regret pronounced on his face so clearly, it tugs at my heart. "Can I see her? I want to see her." I don't know how I would do it, but I intend on walking down to her room right now. My body just refuses to cooperate. But I will go see her even if I have to wrestle with my weak body. "Are you sure?" Linc asks with a raised brow. I do a double take at his face, he looks ruggedly handsome. The man can pull of anything. Even extreme stress. How is he middle aged with that spotless face? "Why are you looking at me like that?" He asks, no trace of teasing in his tone. He is too far insid

For the first time since I was rescued from Tyler, I feel the stirring of my anger come alive. Of the need to revenge. To cause him harm. I want to inflict ten times the amount of pain and humiliation he inflicted on me and Ashley in that warehouse. I want to make him bleed and beg. I want to watch the fear come alive in his eyes with me standing over him. "Ashley, he is still out there. He ran away." I say and it elicits the reaction I want. She stiffens and her mischievous grin bleeds off her face. "Oh." She says quietly, shrinking into herself. I feel awful. "Yeah, so I don't know the plan but I think you will be safer if you move into the mansion with us for the main time once you are discharged. It has more security." "Okay." She says, avoiding my eyes. "Yeah." Now that I have successfully stopped her deflection tactics, I find myself at a loss of what to say. There are topics to talk about, of course, but I just don't feel like discussing them at the moment anymore."Amelia

Linc POV::I do my hardest to keep my thoughts clean and dignified. But it is close to impossible with Amelia hovering above me. Pink tongue out, carved brows knit in concentration as she scrapes the shaving cream off my cheeks with gentle motions of the sharp blade. I can't think straight. It is impossible. Her steady breaths serenade me, I clench my fists. Fighting for every shred of control. And she is oblivious to it all. We decide to use the space under the shower head, there is a marble platform that I am using as a seat, whilst Amelia straddles me. Well almost. Our bodies do not touch, but she is close enough that the scent of her body overpowers my senses. I ache to reach out and hold her soft body. But I keep my hands to myself. I can't look in her eyes without feeling like a fraud. A failure. A liar. Incompetent. Useless. All the colourful adjectives that describes my inability to protect her when it was crucial. It is the one thing I have sworn to do and I failed. I shoul

"I am sorry, I didn't mean to snap at you. It is just, I don't know, Amelia, you have no idea what it was like seeing you in that warehouse. I walked in and there you were, helpless. I have never felt guilt as I felt that day. And to think it was all for a stupid misguided lie. You and Ashley had to suffer the trauma of being kidnapped by a madman, and it was for nothing. I can't forgive Sheryl and I definitely wouldn't forgive Tyler. I can't possibly move past my own contribution to the situation. I am responsible and I wouldn't be myself if I just shoved it aside and continue fucking you like that wasn't what endangered your life in the first place." Linc says, his face twisted with displeasure at some parts of his monologue. I guess I would never really see his point of view of the situation with Tyler.I don't know what to say. I feel conflicted. His logic makes sense. It is charismatic and typical of him. That is the man I know and fell in love with. The only man I know who would