Total pages in book: 78
Estimated words: 74670 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 373(@200wpm)___ 299(@250wpm)___ 249(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 74670 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 373(@200wpm)___ 299(@250wpm)___ 249(@300wpm)
I had taken care of that. Just like I would take care of any problem in her life.
“I’m ready,” she said, straightening her shoulders with a determined look on her face.
I stepped forward and opened the door, then followed her into the room. Dalia sat in a wheelchair in front of the window with a blank expression, her head lying against the brace that kept it from hanging forward. She’d been dressed in a blue gown with long sleeves, and a pair of beige slippers were on her feet.
“Hello, Dalia,” Lace said as she walked closer to her sister. “You look pretty. Blue has always been your color.”
My gaze stayed on Lace as she spoke to Dalia as if her sister heard and understood her when, in reality, she was in a vegetative state. Lace talked about the lovely view she had and how nice her room was decorated. My thoughts went to the days, weeks, years she’d spent doing this every day. Taking care of her sister. Having no other life except what Halsten required of her.
I intended to make sure she lived the fullest goddamn life imaginable. I might not be able to give her back the years she’d lost, but I’d make the ones to come a fucking fairy tale.
Her demons had been slayed. The son of a bitch who had beaten her had disappeared shortly after Alpheus was arrested. They’d probably search for him for years, but they’d never find him. Seemed our hogs had a keen liking for the taste of a wealthy, spoiled bastard.
Lace turned to me, and a smile spread across her face.
I’d always believed I couldn’t love a woman. That one cunt wasn’t enough for me. And until Lace, it had been true.
She was all I could see, all I wanted, and she filled a void I hadn’t known was there.
She mouthed the words I love you from across the room. It didn’t matter how many times she told me she loved me it made me feel like a god. I’d never wanted love from a woman, but that was all before her. The one who would change everything for me.
My good girl had become my salvation.