Page 41 of Sinful Desires

Chapter Eighteen

Malik heard a car pullup outside and looked out the kitchen window.“What the fuck?”

Aiden came to stand beside him.“A limo?Who the fuck drives a limo up a mountain?”

They watched the driver open the back door, and an older man stepped out and looked around.Malik could see, from where he was watching, the disdain the man had for their place, and the man looked like he had smelled rotting food or something.

“That’s got to be Warner.What the hell is he doing here this early?”

Malik glanced at Aiden and shook his head.“I’ve no idea.But I don’t like this one bit.I’ll go out and talk to him while you get Camila up.Remind her she isn’t going anywhere.Her stepfather will look at her, they will talk, but then the man will leave.”

“The sooner, the better.”

Malik nodded.“Keep her out of sight for a bit until I can get a read on the man.”

“Good idea.”

Malik waited until Aiden walked out of the room before he made his way out the front door.

“You must be Edward?”Malik ignored the disapproving look the man gave him as he walked toward him.

“Yes, I’m Mr.Warner.Now, where is my princess?”

Malik knew the man was off from the first look he got, and it just kept getting worse the longer he stood with him.He made a snap decision.

“She went into town with Aiden.We thought you said you’d be here late afternoon.They went in to get stuff for dinner for all of us.We hope you can stay.”

Malik bit back a smile as the man cringed.

“Absolutely not.We won't have time for a meal,” Edward said.“How long have they been gone?”

“Not long at all, so it could be a few hours.”

“I can’t wait for her for hours, and we certainly can’t stay for dinner here,” he said, and looked around like he was in a slum.“I just want my daughter so we can go home.She’s not well.”

Malik scowled.“Oh, what’s wrong with her?”

“She has mental problems that need attention, and I am determined to get her the help she desperately needs.”

“Oh, you don’t have to worry about that.She’s staying with us.If she needs help, we’ll get it for her.”

“What?Absolutely not!She belongs to me.She’s mine, and you can’t take her.”

“What if she wants to stay?”

“I already told you, she is emotionally unstable, so anything she says is most likely a lie or a delusional fantasy.”

Malik was getting the picture, and it was making him sick to know he and Aiden had put her in this type of danger.As her legal guardian, he had the right to take her and put her in an institution, and there was nothing they could do about it.If she were married to them, then the father couldn’t do anything to her.That was the only thing he could think of that would protect her.