Total pages in book: 115
Estimated words: 107402 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 537(@200wpm)___ 430(@250wpm)___ 358(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 107402 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 537(@200wpm)___ 430(@250wpm)___ 358(@300wpm)
“Good. I will have the doctor come tomorrow to remove that fucking birth control.”
“You're crazy. If it's another boy, you owe me.”
“Yeah, I will owe you another baby.”
She slaps my chest.“You're insane, seriously. You kill people for a living, and this tops that on the scale of insanity.”
“Yeah, and…?” I suck on her neck.
Ten years and three sons later and she’s still under my skin and in my soul. Emelia wasn’t supposed to mean anything. She was an arrangement. But then she changed something in me with her deceptive ways. She cast a fucking spell on me. No one sees me in the same light she gets to when we shut that door. But for Emelia, I am at her mercy. She was my redemption. And I was her salvation.
My parents' love was something I looked at with admiration but thought of as a horrifying thing if it ever happened to me. Then Emelia happened. The idea of me falling in love fast and with a softness I didn’t know I could possess took me years to fully be comfortable with, but in time and with Emelia, I did.
I stay hardened outside the walls of our home, but when I see her at the end of each night, my armor falls to the ground, and I feel a weakness for her that I used to ridicule myself over. But now, I honor what she can do to me. I see my father in me. He was the strongest man, the most ruthless man, but with my mother, you’d think he was a dad in the suburbs, obsessed with the ground his wife walked on.
Emelia gave me that. Emelia gave this madman with no remorse a soul. And I never want to lose it again.
The End