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It can't be...
I pull away from Blake and gasp as my suspicions are confirmed.
It's my stepdad.
CHAPTERFIVE
Blake
All my sensesgo on high alert as Alicia goes completely still in my arms. Her face pales, and she begins to shake.
My eyes zero in on the asshole who interrupted us, and I instantly know who he is.
Of course, I did my homework and found out who Alicia's stepdad was.
I don't know what the fucker is doing here, and I don't care. If he so much as breathes in my Alicia's direction, he's a dead man. Hell, he might be anyway.
Alicia went from happy and sated to on edge in seconds, and it is taking all of my self-control to keep my shit together. One look at the expression on her face, and I know that she's scared.
That infuriates me. I hate the source of anything—and most especially anyone—that makes my girl feel this way.
I pull her closer to me, and when I run my hand up her back to comfort her, my fingers feel the goosebumps.
"Alicia?" Her stepdad blinks in surprise before his eyes flick to me and narrow.
"Where have you been, baby girl? Do you know this man?"
Her stepfather has this calm, collected voice, but I can hear the undertone of anger.
Well, his anger can't match my own at hearing another man callmygirl, baby girl or any other endearment.
"Yeah, she does," I answer for her as I splay my hand against her back and rub soothingly. "Who the fuck are you?"
I can tell he doesn't like being questioned, but I don't give two fucks. I'm about to kill the fucker, and if I have to die too, then I will happily meet an early death. No one talks to, looks at, or touches my girl.
My hand tightens around Alicia's waist, and she settles in my arms. I don't let go of her. She relaxes slightly, no doubt sensing my righteous anger.
The man straightens in an effort to look authoritative. "I'm her stepfather. I've been worried sick about her."
His gaze flicks over to her, and I step in front of her to block his view, my anger boiling just below the surface now.
"There's no need to worry about her. She's being well taken care of."
I see the man's eyes flare as he takes me in. His gaze slides over me slowly, and he swallows hard.
You'd think the idiot would have enough sense to simply walk away now.
But no.
He pushes the envelope.
Like I knew he fucking would.
"Oh yeah? By who?"
"Me." I widen my stance and square my shoulders.
The man's gaze flicks back and forth between Alicia and me, his face turning redder and redder by the second until he finally bursts out, "You ungrateful little brat. I've played daddy to you ever since your piece of shit mother left, and this is how you repay me? By running off with the first dick you find and letting him keep you like some common whore?"
