“I couldn’t.”
“Why?”
He could tell she was getting upset, but he needed answers.“You can tell me anything.”
“When I turned eighteen, or rather when Mother Teresa deemed me old enough, I didn’t want to leave the convent.I wanted to become a nun like them, but Mother Teresa told me I was not suited to be a nun.It was the only thing I knew, and I was terrified to leave my home.Mother made arrangements for me to marry a man.I didn’t want to, so I ran away.”
“Why?”
“Because he was a ...hard man.I didn’t like the way he looked at me.He terrified me.When I told Mother Teresa this, she told me I was imagining it.But Sister Sara saw it too.She was always nice to me, so she encouraged me to run and gave me everything she could.”
“Some of the nuns were mean to you?”
Angel nodded.“Most ignored me, but Sister Mary, who was in charge of me, was mean.She said she hated me from the start.I never knew why.She said I was a ruffian, garbage, and the spawn of Satan.”
That pissed him off.He thought nuns were supposed to be nice, especially to young children.Jesus, he hadn’t known her long, but he could tell she was the opposite of what the nun called her.In fact, she was a ray of sunshine in his otherwise mundane world.
“Why didn’t you tell whoever was in charge?”
“I tried to tell Mother, but Sister Mary found out.She acted nice in front of Mother, but when she got me alone, she made me repent.”
“How did she do that?”He was afraid to ask because of the desolate expression on her face.
“She made me kneel on rice as I repeated, ‘thou shalt not tell ever again or pay the price,’ a hundred times.”
Fucking bitch.If he could get his hands on the woman, he’d strangle her.He didn’t care whether she was a nun or not.
“I’ll go check and see if any of your clothes are dry enough to wear,” he said.
“Okay.Thank you.”
He shut her bedroom door behind him and then leaned against it.This little bitty woman made him feel more than he ever had before, and it unsettled him.The fact that his palms itched, wanting to touch her all the ways he thought about, made his body feel charged and his cock ache.He knew it would take time for her to get used to him enough to trust him, and he wondered if his cock would ever soften enough for his comfort.
Fuck, he knew she would disrupt his life at least in the beginning, but he had a feeling she was going to change everything exponentially.
Chapter Six
