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I bucked against the driver and yelled, “Did you ever think to ask what I wanted?”
Mickey turned on me, grasping my cheeks to silence me. His frigid eyes locked on to mine. “The world, Jessica.”
A sharp laugh burst from my chest. “Yeah, the world you think I want.”
“Every woman wants what I’m offering you.”
He’s more insane than I am.
“I’m not every woman.” I jerked my face from his grasp, another laugh tumbling from my lips when the driver abruptly released me and I nearly fell to the floor. “What makes you think I would’ve ever wanted this? What makes you think I would ever want to push the madness inside me on any child?”
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sp; Wrapping one arm around me to pull me closer, he traced his fingers along the water that raced down my cheek then slowly moved to curl his hand around my throat. The touch was sensual and threatening all at once. “You want me to think you’re crazy? Keep laughing. You think it’s going to push me away? Jessica”—his mouth curled into a devastating smirk—“as you already seem to know, my children are dead or dead to me. And I need my blood running through and ruling Holloway.”
“You sick fuck. You can’t force this on someone.”
“Try me.” That smirk widened into a chilling grin. “Just think of what your crazy mixed with mine will create.”
With that, he pushed away from me and walked through the house I already knew like the back of my hand from the years that Beck, Lily, and Kieran had lived there.
When Mickey came back, he was holding a towel for me.
“Look around the house. See if there’s anything that you might want or need that we can have brought here first thing in the morning.”
I wrapped the towel around my shoulders but still didn’t move. “Is my mom here?”
He gave me an amused look. As if he thought it was funny I’d even ask or think it.
“Then that’s what I want and need. You said if I did what you wanted me to, she would be brought here. I want her here.”
Mickey cocked his head to the side. “You’ve done nothing.”
Hate coursed through my veins. I forced myself to grip the edges of the towel so I wouldn’t attack the man standing in front of me. “What I just went through was nothing?”
“It was necessary for what I want. It wasn’t what I want. Besides, I also told you that you needed to behave. You screamed and broke the doctor’s nose.”
“If you wanted a silent, mindless dog, you came after the wrong bitch.”
His mouth slowly curved into a wry smile. “I don’t want you silent or mindless. Just obedient. You might’ve heard Conor’s name from your investigations on Kieran. He’ll be outside to protect you. If you need anything, tell him. He’ll make sure you get it.”
That had been Conor’s job with Lily.
It was also why he had a tombstone looming over his head.
I looked down at myself. “This is all I have. If I need clothes?”
Mickey dipped his head in acknowledgment. “He’ll make sure you get them.”
“Tampons?”
He huffed in annoyance. “That too.”
I bit on my lip as I thought. “What if it’s the middle of the night and I’m craving—”
I was slammed against the door before I could finish my thought, Mickey’s outraged face directly in front of my own.
“I don’t share,” he bit out. “If you attempt to seduce Conor, he’ll be dead within the hour. If you touch him, I’ll make you watch as I force Conor to kill your mother.”
