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Biting her lip, she looks down and her body is still like she doesn’t know what to do or say.
“You always wanted to be everybody else’s doll except for mine.”
I remember how whenever visitors would come, she would tug at their clothes and cry, “Please let me come with you. I’ll be your doll, I’ll sit in a corner and I won’t be troublesome. Please choose me.”
Nobody would ever choose her and I would always comfort her and dry her tears and tell her that she had me. But she wanted more, she wanted a family and I wasn’t enough. And the day that she got chosen, she was so happy that I hated her for it.
I didn’t want her to smile and jump and up and down with joy. I wanted her to stay. I still want her to stay.
Looking at me with her wide eyes, she murmurs, “I need a moment...” She turns and I tense but I follow, walk so close behind her down the staircase that I’m practically breathing down her neck.
“Where? Where are you going?” I ask and she reaches for the doorknob.
“Out.” She tugs at the door and it’s locked and she clenches her jaw. “Open it, please.”
I don’t move and I look down at her with eyes that I know have turned cold. They don’t make her flinch. Not one bit.
“No.”
“Yes!”
Without a word, I pick up the key from my pocket and I open the door and she gives me a long look before stepping out.
“Daphne, if you leave me...” I grind but she just glances at me over her shoulder and flips her hair back.
“What? What will you do?” she says in a surefire tone that goes straight to my dick. “Kidnap me? Again?”
“Keep testing me and I’ll do whatever I have to,” I reply and her eyes flare in my direction and she’s not in the least afraid of my threats.
“You were right when you said that I’m not your doll. It’s because I don’t want to be.” She walks down the steps of the porch. “I want to be more.”
Thirteen
Daphne
My spine tingles from the look that I know he’s giving me but I don’t turn around. I meant what I said. I don’t want to be his doll, the doll version of me was always terrified of never being chosen, always desperate to act the way people wanted me to act. Anything to not be rejected.
But Thane never rejected me. He always chooses me. And I want to be myself with him. I want to be more with him. He allows me to be more. He used to at least and I know that deep down, he’s still the same boy who would hold my hand.
Same boy whose eyes came with a promise of a better future. They promised warmth and safety back then and I loved him for it with all of my heart. I love him still. Even deeper than I used to, so much deeper but I’m conflicted.
Thane can’t just snap with his fingers and make me forget about the abduction just like that. If only he had told me his name there and then, then...things would have turned out differently. But instead he wanted to toy with me a little and I know why.
He was angry that I’d forgotten about him. And the day that I left, I told him that I would never forget him.
I broke our childhood vows. He never did.
With a lump in my throat, I walk over to the roses and drag my hand over them and their smell spreads in the air. The frozen wind makes me shudder and I lift my head when I hear Thane coming.
“You’ll get cold,” he says with a cautious look in his eyes and he puts his coat over my shoulders. “You should go inside.”
I shake my head and his eyes blaze with suppressed emotions. I don’t even need the coat, he heats me up just fine.
“Are you defying me because you know it’s driving me insane and you want to punish me or do you actually not want to go inside?”
“The former,” I answer unscrupulously, “and you can’t blame me for still being upset that you abducted me.”
His face strains but he seems to understand my point of view. “I’ll make it up to you. What do you want?”
