There’s plenty of guilt related to what I’ve to do. A daughter’s guilt. However realizing my father won’t ever really feel a touch of guilt over what he’s finished to me—or what he needed to do to North—makes me twice as decided to do the arduous factor.

North’s lips press to the nape of my neck. “You’re all tensed up. What are you excited about, magnificence?” His hand travels by way of the valley of my hip and waist, sending a heat shiver down my backbone. “Speak to me.”

I moist my lips and snuggle again, laying my head on his huge shoulder. “Keep in mind final night time once I advised you my father is working with a extremely harmful man?”

“Yeah.”

“It’s Curtin Tennison,” I whisper, as if the person himself is perhaps listening within the hallway.

North stiffens behind me, the temperature of his physique dropping barely. “Your father threatened to have Curtis Tennison bump me off if we proceed to see one another?”

“That about sums it up.” I take a deep breath, stress pushing down on my collarbone. “Does that…change issues? Now that you understand the menace is actual?”

“Change issues how?”

He appears genuinely perplexed. “With us. Being with me may get you killed—”

“Gracie. Jesus.” He lifts his head and appears down at me, brows drawn collectively, incredulous. “When are you going to know that I’m in for all times, child? Allow them to kill me. It’s higher than residing 5 extra minutes with out you. Don’t ask me…please, don’t ask me once more if I’m certain. I’m effectively previous certain. I’m certain sufficient to go to the grave.”

I exhale unsteadily, making room for my fluttering coronary heart to increase. “That’s not going to occur. I gained’t let that occur.”

“We gained’t.” His arms tighten round me. “Inform me what you’re pondering.”

“I’m pondering…we’ve got to go to the police.” Saying the phrases out loud makes my coronary heart pound loudly in my ears, the room spinning barely round me. “As soon as I take this step, although, I can by no means go house.”

North makes a halting sound. “You’re actually going to provide all of it up…for me?”

“I’m gaining a lot greater than I’m giving up. A lot extra. You.”

He holds me tighter. “Then your house is with me now, Gracie,” he whispers into my hair. “I’m going to win that battle on Friday, child. I’m going to maintain you. Purchase us a home the place we will get up collectively each morning. We’ll have a Christmas tree within the window in December. A wreath on the door. Our final identify on the mailbox. I can paint the partitions any coloration you need. And sooner or later, we’ll make one of many rooms right into a nursery.”

His manhood is rising thicker in opposition to my backside and that languid, delirious, lovesick feeling wraps round me, my physique transferring unconsciously, teasing his erection to make it even stiffer, larger. All this discuss of getting kids, having our personal home, is intoxicating. Like a lungful of oxygen after being submerged in a lake. I need it. I need what he’s providing me with each fiber of my being. As a result of my coronary heart tells me it’s what I would like. Tells me it’s proper. That something and every little thing is true with this man by my aspect.

“Earlier than any of that, I’m going to place a hoop in your finger,” he rasps, his contact touring over my hip and down, testing the wetness between my legs, plunging a thick finger into my intercourse, making me sob as he attracts it out and in. “Grace Whitlock,” he murmurs in my ear, including a second finger. “Don’t take a look at North Whitlock’s spouse or he’ll break your fucking jaw. You need individuals to say that while you stroll this superb ass down the road, don’t you?”

I nod, tilting my head for his mouth, moaning when he slicks his tongue up the curve of my neck. “Sure. I need that.”

“I’ll give it to you. Belief me to provide every little thing to you.” My breath catches a second later when he replaces his fingers together with his lengthy, thick shaft, rolling me face down within the hospital mattress, shoving the pillow beneath my hips and taking me roughly. “Love my Gracie.”

“Love my North,” I choke out, my enamel starting to rattle.

That’s my fact. This man is my fact.

Conserving him, protecting what we’ve got, goes to imply betraying every little thing I do know. The whole lot I’ve grown up with. It’s going to imply setting a bomb and watching it go off. However as my coronary heart swells together with my pleasure, I do know there’s nothing that may cease me.

Not when our life collectively is on the road.

I stroll into my home in Beacon Hill and shut the door.

I creep towards the staircase, freezing once I hear the fast method of footsteps.

My father seems across the nook, cellphone in hand. “The place the fuck have you ever been?” He emphasizes each phrase by way of clenched enamel. “In case you inform me you’ve been with that piece of shit from Southie, I’ll put you in boarding faculty for the remainder of your senior 12 months. Proper up till day considered one of faculty—so quick your head will spin. Do you perceive me?” I don’t reply. I can’t. My legs are trembling and my tongue appears like sandpaper. Even now, even with him red-faced and hurling threats at me, I can’t assist feeling the guilt, nevertheless it’s quite a bit lighter than my concern of being with out North without end. “I’ll defend my funding,” he finishes.

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