Page 64 of Captivated By You
If he did go ballistic, I wanted to have my hand on something sharp.
“Harrison, listen. This is absurd. I’m not the girl you buy with money and owning.” And oh, the irony of that statement. I didn’t think of Liam. I’d finish this, get out, and go find him. Explain everything. “You don’t even care about me. The very fact you think you can buy me with this house I don’t want anything to do with, proves it.”
He didn’t look confused, but his anger deepened. Cheeks turning hot, they clashed with his light purple polo and gray sports coat. In my old life, I would have found him attractive.
That was before Liam.
“You little bitch,” he growled.
I laughed. Good grief. “I don’t even need the money anymore.” I hoped I didn’t, anyway. But at least I had the security of Infidelity. And Karen. She’d proven able to care for me.
“Listen here,” he said again and tossed the paperwork on the counter. He lunged at me and before I could jump out of his way, his hand was around my throat and he shoved me into the refrigerator. The steel metal was cold at my back and I fought a shiver, clawing helplessly at his hands.
His hand pressed in, his body followed. An arrogant psychopath surrounded me, but I refused to give up. “I can’t breathe,” I gasped and dug my fingers into his forearms.
“You were promised to me. Your father. My father. It’s a signed contract. I take your house, I take your money, and I can fucking destroy you, Claudia, you little cunt.”
Oh shit. I hadn’t even considered. Another lawsuit for a broken contract, this one selling his daughter? My father’s crap would resurface all over again.
“I don’t care. Do it, you pig. Then everyone will know how pathetic you are.” I spit the words out, gasping for breath. His hand at my throat shoved me harder into the fridge. My head hit it and I shook off the pain. Black spots speckled my vision but I focused on the area between his eyes. “You wouldn’t sue. Then everyone would know you couldn’t find your own woman to fuck, you had to buy one like a cheap prostitute.”
Again. The irony, but if that’s what I’d become with Infidelity, I certainly wasn’t cheap.
The idea almost made me laugh. Good grief. The lack of air supply was killing me. Literally.
“Then I’ll take what I want from you until you see sense.”
His free hand dropped between us and he shoved up my black dress. I kicked and flailed. For being on the thinner side, he was strong.
“Don’t.” I thrashed against him and he slapped my thigh. The stinging pain made me cry out and he was able to wedge his hand beneath my dress.
Between my thighs.
My God. Was this what Sophie felt like? So helpless? I could barely breathe, much less fight. The black spots grew larger until unbidden tears swam in my eyes.
“Fuck you.” I spit at him and he didn’t seem to notice. His dark brown eyes. Evil and wicked glared at me, lips twisted in victory.
“I plan to. Tell me, my little cunt, Claudia. Did you keep yourself pure for your husband to be? Or are you now a worthless whore?”
“Neither,” another voice said and if I could have, I would have sighed with relief. “She’s not a whore, but I’ve had her pussy wrapped so tight around my dick it’s the most amazing sensation in the world.”
My eyes flashed to our side and I cried. “Liam.”
My God. He was here. Tendons and veins I had never seen before bulged at the side of his neck.
“Take your fucking hands off her, before I break them.”
He’d do it, too. But he couldn’t. Not after this morning. Not after I’d already scoured gossip sites on the plane ride. People werelovinghim. All of them.
“Don’t,” I gasped. Harrison’s hold went tighter and he tugged me toward him. It freed his hand from between my thighs but he spun us so my back was to his chest.
“Yeah? Who the fuck are you? You get all that ink in prison?”
Liam flashed me a shocked look, as if someone had the audacity not to know who he was. Then they went to concerned. Back to white hot rage. It all happened in a moment but relief was still replacing fear.
He’d take care of me. I knew he would.
“Doesn’t fucking matter who I am,” he said, prowling closer. This was the kind of predator I liked. Evil only against evil.
