CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
–FIERO –
From the corner of my eye, I notice Floris who strides into my office and takes a seat across from me.My attention stays on the laptop where I’m watching the feed of a camera inside of Quinn’s room.One might think it’s a breach of privacy, but it’s my damn house, my child she’s carrying, and my responsibility to keep her safe.
I’m very aware I’m lying to myself because this woman has a hold on me.It’s as if she crawled under my skin the first time we met and has slowly rooted an infection that’s now festering and turning it into an obsession.
The condom breaking, the pregnancy, it’s all a twisted way to bind us in life.Any other time I’d be furious about outside forces controlling parts of my life.Yet, having Quinn close releases a completely other turmoil inside me these days.One where I want to possess her.
I shouldn’t have acted on my urge earlier, or at least treated her differently.Then again, she drives me fucking crazy.There hasn’t been a woman in all my life who I’ve fucked more than once.The first time Quinn’s pussy felt like the ultimate wet dream, something I might have hyped up inside my head.Shoving my cock inside her today proved nothing about her is hyped up; she feels like the perfect fucking fit.
Floris touches the contract lying on my desk.“Did she sign yet?”
A wave of annoyance flows through me.I should have offered her the contract before I fucked her.The chance of striking a new deal with her, one involving an arranged marriage, has drastically changed.Those parting words I threw at her let me know because after an hour, I’m still waiting for her to show.
“Any update on Cillian?”I fire back, ignoring his question.
“Nope.”He jerks his chin in the direction of the papers.“Well?”
Quinn’s reaction causes me to ignore Floris this time.The way she abruptly stood and is now pacing the room while glaring at her laptop makes me curse.
“What’s wrong?”Floris asks.
I get to my feet.“I think she just received the same video I did.”
Floris follows me to her room, and once I step inside I’m sure.Quinn rushes to the laptop and slams it shut.
“What are you doing here?”she snaps.
The anger in her voice doesn’t distract me from the redness and the panic in her eyes.She’s been crying and what she just stumbled onto shook her to her core.
“It’s my house.”I point at her laptop.“What are you hiding?”
I know what she’s hiding, and I have the ability to get into her laptop and see what she just received.It’s the whole reason she was allowed to have her laptop back.
Quinn closes her eyes and inhales deeply before she releases it in a huff.“This world is fucked-up and so is my freaking life.How can I trust anything?Nothing seems real anymore.”
