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And yet none of it even matters any more, because of Winter Chastine.
My worst and best made plan.
She’s been unpredictable from the moment that she got here, and even now I don’t know what’s going to come next with her.
It was all supposed to be so simple.
Step one: Force Maddox Hawthorne’s bastard daughter into signing a deal with me.
Step two: Use her, mutilate her, destroy her. Right in front of her father.
Step three: Take my time torturing Maddox Hawthorne, letting him soak in everything that I did to his daughter.
Step four: Blow Maddox’s monster of a son’s head off right in front of him.
Step five: Give Maddox a matching head wound.
Step six: Pick a part the scraps left over of the Seven Quad gang.
Step seven: Have a nice bottle of bourbon and finally rest now that I’d avenged my father.
Seven simple steps.
Completely fucked over by that damn confusing woman.
Because I don’t want to kill Winter Chastine anymore, despite the fact that I’ve known for years it would come down to it. I toldeveryone, don’t get attached to her, don’t allow any feelings to develop for her.
Don’t forget that she’s just a piece of collateral.
But apparently, I wasn’t listening to my own sermons and now I’m at a loss. I’ve been coming up with a new plan, new steps but they keep taking me in a different direction.
Winter keeps changing.
Just the other day, she’d taunted me in my own home, a little smirk on her lips as she’d held information she knew I needed. She hadn’t cared about the consequences or my anger, instead she’d done as she pleased.
The way any strong woman would.
But Winter isn’t supposed to be strong.
She’s supposed to be a little doe caught in the headlights who I can manipulate any way I want, any damn time that I want.
She should be able to look at the score, see that every time she tried to fight back against me, I won.
Her first morning here she’d smarted off to me as I’d given her the rundown of what her new life would be. In return I’d wrapped my fingers around her throat, squeezing. Vocally, I’d made my intentions clear, letting her know that such disrespect came with real repercussions in my home.
Once, she’d stormed into my office, attempting to berate me for getting the doctor to prescribe her birth control without her permission. It’d made me want to fuck her, show her exactly why she was going to take those damn pills, because I was going to fill her up with my cum. Instead, I’d used my fingers to fuck her, forcing moans from her lips and an orgasm from her convulsing cunt. And as a reminder that I’d done her a favor and could do much worse as a punishment next time, I’d tossed her right out of my office, enjoying the way her body had thumped against the ground, her lips parted in shock.
The last time she’d tried to rebel against me, I’d nearly killed her. I’d let my emotions get the best of me as I tried to find out what she had going on with Diamond Hawthorne. I knew he’d contacted her at the club, Enzo having spotted them talking. And I had no doubt that Maddox had gotten to his son, telling him lies about who Winter was. I hadn’t known until later he’d hidden behind the half truth of Winter being his niece and Diamond’s cousin. So I’d interrogated Winter, trying to force her to tell me what she knew.
Instead, she’d held steady as I put my hands on her, called her names that would have my mother praying for my soul.
Even while being stubborn, she’d been so pretty, the fire in her brown eyes threatening to burn me. But instead of burning, I’d drowned her.
I knew she couldn’t swim, it didn’t take a genius to figure that out. Any time she’d been in the pool, she never went toward the deep end. Instead, she’d waded in the shallow waters. I had no doubts about her capability, especially when I’d tossed her in the deep end and she never resurfaced.
I’m a calculated man, everything I do has already been well thought of. Being brash and impulsive is my brother’s job. And yet, instead of doing the logical thing and saving my prized possession, my insurance policy, I’d left, leaving her to sink to the bottom of the pool and drown. Vito had been the only reason that she’d survived, because like the love struck idiot he’s always been, he’d saved her.
I’d been irritated in the moment when I found out what he did, because he’d gone behind my back, against my twisted wishes. If I wanted Winter to die, it was his job to sit by and watch it happen. But he’d fixed the problem before I even realized the consequences of my actions.
