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“Kidnapped. Right. So, they just handed you back? I hope you kept your legs together as I instructed.”
My face heats.
He lifts his brow slowly.
“Hmm, just as I thought. Tomorrow you will come over, and my physician will inspect that little cunt. You know the rules. I am not marrying some damaged woman.”
“Don’t speak to me like that. I’m not letting some doctor inspect me because you think you have a right. Youdon’t.”
Todd barks out a laugh, then tugs me into the dining room.
“Ahh, Peter. Belle was just telling me a funny story. Shall I tell him, babe?”
I glare at him. He does this every time I start to rebel. It’s his clever way of threatening to tell my father our engagement is over and all the repercussions that will come with it.
I’m starting not to care.
Not about my trust fund. Perhaps not even about what it will do to our family’s reputation. But I do care about my father, who is waiting for the punchline with his fork in the air and love in his eyes.
He’s not the perfect man, but he does love me.
“Private joke.” I smile and take the plate from my mother after sitting down. Todd’s hand slides across my thigh under the table and a finger slips between my legs.
When he presses it against my clit, I bite my lip.
Not from arousal, from disgust.
I don’t belong to him.
I belong to Decker.
“Six months. Make sure you keep being a good girl,” he purrs into my hair.
I yank his hand away, which surprises him.
Good.
Things will be different now, and if I have to spend my life with him, I need to show him who I am. But not tonight. Tonight, I need to go to bed, cry, and dream of what my life could have been like with Decker.
Under different circumstances.
In a different life.
One where he never chose to put my life at risk, and I was taken. Again.
“We should go wedding dress shopping next week, Isabelle. You’ve been putting it off, but now Mia is married so you have no more excuses,” Mom says.
No, I don’t.
