He laughed at me, cold and humourless. “Do you think you’ll just be able to lie back and pretend nothing is happening while I thrust into you?”
My cheeks burned again. “I...I don’t know what I think.”
“Take your most perverse thoughts and multiply them by a thousand.” He smirked. “After one week with me, you’ll be begging to go back to your father.” His tone was filled with scorn.
“You’re wrong. I will do whatever it takes to keep our two families together. Family is everything.”
He curled his lip and shook his head at me. “You will never be my family.”
“If we’re married, I will be.”
He snorted. “A few words on a piece of paper. They don’t mean anything compared to shared blood flowing through your veins.”
“Not in the eyes of the law.”
“The law? Since when do people like us care anything about the law?” He caught my chin in his fingers. “So innocent. So naïve. I will destroy you within days.”
His touch seemed to burn my skin. “You underestimate me.”
“We’ll see. The moment you tell me you want to go home to your daddy, that’s exactly what will happen. I’ll send you home, and our alliance will be broken. Our families will remain enemies.”
“And if I never say those words?”
He gave a small laugh. “Then I guess I’ll have to marry you.”
Chapter Six
Tam
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ILEFT HALLIE UNPACKINGher belongings. The last thing I wanted was makeup and shit all over my bathroom, and her cute little picture frames and blankets cluttering up my room, but I wasn’t going to give her the breathing space of a room of her own. Besides, despite the intense hatred I had for her family, at least she was good to look at. I held back a chuckle at the knowledge Harvey hadn’t fucked her. What had he been thinking? Clearly too busy with other birds to lay claim to what should have been his.
I wouldn’t make the same mistake. I was doing this shit for everyone else, so I planned to at least get some pleasure out of it. While she was in my house, she would do as she was told, and if that included sucking my dick, then so be it.
I’d have been perfectly happy to stay alone forever. I couldn’t even picture being married, the thought of it repelled me. It didn’t matter—this wedding wouldn’t happen.