Total pages in book: 82
Estimated words: 76041 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 380(@200wpm)___ 304(@250wpm)___ 253(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 76041 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 380(@200wpm)___ 304(@250wpm)___ 253(@300wpm)
“What were you doing before I called?” she looked back into the room where I could see a puzzle of some sort laid out across the table. “I was playing with the puzzle.”
“Fine, I’ll stay with you for a little while before I leave. Now that I know the basics Kadyn one day soon I want you to tell me everything.” She swallowed deeply and nodded her head. “Aren’t you going to yell at me for going behind your back to find out the truth?” She was suddenly very shy and unsure of herself, which was understandable. I hope one day soon to break her out of that shell. For some reason I wanted to see her like my sisters are, care free and full of life.
“How did you find out?”
“I looked it up online. Don’t panic I was very careful there’s no way for him to trace anything back to you. Tell me again why you’re so sure that he would even know if someone went looking?”
“There were things that he knew, things that he had no way of knowing unless he had our phones tapped or my internet hacked. He used to contact me using different user names, even when I changed my ID and password he’d still find me. Then he started sending things to my friends using my handles so we figured he’d hacked me. It got to the point where no matter what we did he would still find me.”
“Ssh, it’s okay he’s not here now.” I hugged her close when her body started to shake. Standing there in her father’s living room I asked myself what strange twist of fate was at work here. My ex had turned out to be a monster who had set out to terrorize someone else and had almost got her killed. And now my future was running from a monster set on destroying her. Was she my redemption for the horror I’d unwittingly brought into my family? Was this inexplicable rush of love that I was beginning to feel for her somehow part of some master plan? Whatever it was it was now mine to deal with.
I lifted her chin so I could reach her mouth for a long overdue kiss, one that was meant to erase all the darkness of this day. I only meant to share some of me with her, didn’t mean for it to become anything else but when she collapsed into me, her body becoming pliant and soft I took it deeper feeding her my tongue as my hands roamed her back down to her ass.
Careful Matthew. I pulled back slightly and kissed her nose before setting her away from me. “I know you’re not ready for anything heavy right now so I’ll take my time, but know that in the meantime there’s going to be a lot of heavy petting and make out sessions in your future.” I tried to make a joke of it to lighten up the heavy mood that we were in. Again she hid her face in my chest and I kissed her flushed cheek before leading her to the table with her puzzle.
I sat with her for the rest of the afternoon keeping the conversation light so as not to spook her any farther. I drew more information out of her without being too obvious and the more she told me the angrier I became. It wouldn’t do to show her my anger though, she’d been traumatized enough from what I could tell. It was a wonder she wasn’t more fucked up than she was after the shit she’d endured. No wonder she’d reacted the way she had that day on the sidewalk when I walked up on her.
My only purpose now was seeing that she was safe, that meant no more looking over her shoulder, no more hiding out like a criminal. There’s no way I could live with that. Now I see why Josh was as crazy as he was over his wife, why he had that attitude of kill or die where she was concerned. Kadyn wasn’t going to have any less from me, no matter how long it took I was going to make sure she had everything a Steele woman deserved and no asshole pedophile was going to rob her of it.
She seemed to relax more as the day went on and I kept my touches to a minimum to get her comfortable with me being that close. I couldn’t help touching her though. If my hand wasn’t playing in her hair my finger was trailing down her cheek. I stole two or three more light kisses as we sat there, each time holding my breath that I wouldn’t do something that would set her off. I had no idea what I was dealing with here.