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If only he knew, this was just the beginning.
My attention wavered back to Dominic who was now stepping closer until we were toe to toe. “My patience is wearing thin. I know exactly what you’ve been doing, Zachary, or did you think your masturbation sessions with my slave wouldn’t be noticed?”
I stared directly at him as I refused to comment, anger heating up my insides.
“I have eyes everywhere,Doctor. And the little birdies like to talk to me.”
Fucking orderlies.
I managed to keep a straight face as he spoke, his own scarred visage a mere few inches from mine.Disgusting fucker.
“Be careful, Zachary. We wouldn’t want what happened to your pretty wife to happen to Alice. Because it will. If you don’t keep her in Wonderland, I’ll ground her spirit here forever.”
My fists clenched at my sides as I met his stare head on. He was instigating me, forcing my acceptance. The son of a bitch lived for the day that I’d throw the first punch so that he could go run and tell his precious Queen. Our hatred for one another was mutual, and it was clashing tonight in dark, unpredictable waves.
“Get out of my facility.”
He smirked, knowing he’d pushed my buttons and succeeded in making his point. “This place may be where you work, Doctor. But I own it, just like I own everything in it, including you and my sweet, sweet Alice.”
Clamping his hand down on my shoulder, he squeezed just enough for me to flinch inwardly. “Tread carefully, Doctor, wouldn’t want the madness to consume you too.”
If he only understood where the true madness originated . . .
With his task complete, Dominic walked out, leaving me staring out at a lost raven-haired girl who looked like her world had just been destroyed yet again.
* * *
Dominic’s visit was unexpected,and his threat was real which meant I needed to act fast. Alice was finally coming to her senses. It had been a brutal awakening for her, but one she needed to see for herself, the reality of the place she once loved. I couldn’t help her separate fact from fiction or make out the truth of the things she had witnessed because I was never there to experience what she did.
My nightmares were a different breed altogether. Both of us were lost in the past. Two souls connected to one place, led by completely different circumstances but we found each other here in the midst of chaos. In this desolate world, seeking what we could find in another dark soul, we found a place to escape, even for a moment from our torment.
I was humbled that she trusted me and let me glimpse the beautiful soul she buried deep inside.
Alice wasn’t a person who confided her feelings. Many years of pain and trauma assured her protective nature and withdrawal. She was numb and troubled. There was no room to open her heart and love just yet, but she would learn quickly that my love for her was enough for the both of us.
Until she was ready, I would carry us both.
Soon she would understand that the ability to love came with time. And the fact that she would only love me, well, that would come easy. Perhaps that was arrogant, but I knew I possessed her heart in a way no other had. All I had to do was convince her that she already knew what she wanted.Me.
My thoughts were interrupted by a loud commotion outside in the hallway.
I flung the door open as it landed with a crack against the wall and plaster fell to the floor. My panic was real as I looked around for the source of the chaos. Screams echoed down the hall as I rushed down the empty corridors. I’d dismissed everyone earlier, claiming it was orders from our Dominic Chartreaux who had paid us a visit. The damn orderlies seemed happy enough and left right away, leaving me alone with my girl. My heart beat quickly as I ran through one dark, abandoned hallway and down another, needing to reach her, to see my beloved Alice.
There was no plan in my head. Nothing was premeditated. I wasn’t sure what was going to happen tonight, but it was time we had a heart to heart.
Her scream startled me as it was followed by a low painful howl that was unmistakable in its gut-wrenching pain. That noise emanated from my pretty, wounded patient.
So broken.
Don’t worry, Alice, it will all be over soon.
I froze for a moment at her door, my hand shaking on the doorknob. Adrenaline spiked in my veins as I instinctively knew opening this door would forever change me. Taking a calming breath, I hesitated, knowing that what was to come meant I might never see her again. It was a risk I had to take.
Yanking the door open, I sucked in another breath as she was silhouetted by the full moon’s pale violet light. Her hair was strewn all over the white bed pillows, her frame shaking and fighting another unsaid monster from her nightmares as her hands shook the chains, rattling against the metal railing of her bed. I hated seeing her like this, it ate away the remnants of my sanity when I watched her suffer. Yet, somewhere deep within the recesses of my brain, the thought that she’d view me as her savior made my cock hard with longing. Sometimes I wondered if I was truly mad or if my dark desires ruled over my moral and professional obligations.
I crawled onto the bed, my hand gently covering her screams as she shook beneath me and the wildness in her eyes began to recede. It was the first time I’d felt her body pressed up against mine without any barrier of professional restraint and my own came alive. If I was to do what I had to tonight, then I’d make sure she’d never forget me. I’d leave her with the stain of our passion and our mutual suffering, our raw and agonizing need to find fulfillment in one another. I wanted her to scream, cry, moan, and chant my name until it was etched so deeply into her heart that no other could ever take my place.
“Alice. Wake up, Alice,” I hissed against my hand, feeling her soft puffs of breath against my fingers. The power that radiated from the ability to snuff out her life or allow her to continue breathing was both alarming and intoxicating. I had no desire to harm her but having that control was like an aphrodisiac. My body tensed with need.
