Total pages in book: 149
Estimated words: 140604 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 703(@200wpm)___ 562(@250wpm)___ 469(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 140604 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 703(@200wpm)___ 562(@250wpm)___ 469(@300wpm)
Olivia went still and closed her eyes.
“What was that?” Martin’s voice could be heard along with the floors squeaking under his feet.
“I told you it wouldn’t take too long.” Jessica sounded like she was right behind him.
She prayed Scott was smart enough to pretend to be unconscious.
“Jessica, I’m so sorry. I made a terrible mistake.”
Asshole.
“Sure you did, Scott. I mean, you did make a mistake because I’m a million times better than that nepo baby with all the freckles. I don’t know what you ever saw in her,” Jessica said.
An hourglass figure. A willingness to have a lot of fun with kink. That was probably what her guys would say. What Scott saw in her was dollar signs.
“She’s nothing compared to you,” Scott insisted. “Baby, I was looking for you today. I was ready to throw myself at your feet.”
She was going to let her father ruin this asshole. She would let him work with her men. Bonding. They needed that time. And she would know his body was forever buried here for her children to run across. Yeah, that was a comforting feeling.
“She’s awake.” Scott offered her up with a quickness that took her breath away.
Fucker. She kept her eyes closed. She had to buy her family as much time as possible.
She felt someone poke her and she didn’t move.
“She seems out to me,” Martin said.
Then she felt a hard tug on her hair, her scalp burning, and then she was falling.
She couldn’t help it. Her eyes came open as she hit the floor hard, her head banging on the nightstand in a way that made her groan.
“She’s awake now.” Jessica leaned over. “Guess you’re not so tough, bitch. Did you hear him? He’s still in love with me.”
“Good. You two belong together,” Olivia managed to say. “Except he was telling me he loved me right up until that door opened. You should do it. You should totally pin all of this on him. I might even go along with you. Martin, I get it. You’re going to lose everything, and you think if you hide the information I haven’t sent to my father yet, you’ll be safe. You won’t, but it’s a plan. Jess, you are one of the worst human beings I’ve ever met, and I know billionaires. Even then you’re doing it all for some screwed-up sense of love. Have you considered therapy?”
A hard kick to her gut forced the air out of her lungs.
“I don’t need therapy. I need the world to be rid of people like you,” Jessica snarled. “Everyone knows you’re a stuck-up bitch.”
She was so sick of this. She managed to get to her knees. Thanks, BDSM training. She didn’t sit back because she could feel her phone threatening to fall out of her pocket. That was the last thing she needed. If they figured out there was a way to track her, they would likely shove her back into the car and take her away again. “If you spent your whole life with half the town looking down on you because you had an odd family, would you walk around wide open, hoping to make friends with everyone? I’m not stuck up. I’m protective of myself and my family. You are one of the people who used to talk about my parents, but when you got back from college, I thought you had changed. You didn’t. You’re still a small-minded bigot who can’t keep a man.”
Another smack. The girl knew how to slap. She was soap opera perfection.
Olivia tasted blood, but she wasn’t backing down. “You think he’s going to let you live? You’ll be the only one who could send him to jail.” She looked to Martin. “You think she’ll be loyal to you? You’ve handed her a massive weapon to use against you. If you think she won’t use it, then you don’t know her at all. Are you ready for her to blackmail you?”
She could see the words hit their marks and the beginnings of paranoia. That was good. She could use that.
Then a hard hand sank into her hair and she was pulled up, pain flaring through her. She had to scramble.
Martin looked at her with narrowed eyes. “Where are the pictures? I know you have them.”
This was going to get painful.
“Of course I have them, and I’m not going to tell you where they are.” She looked at Scott and let her lip tremble. “Just don’t hurt him. I couldn’t stand it if you hurt him.”
No one in their right mind would believe her given what she’d recently said, but Jessica wasn’t completely stable.
Her face screwed up. “I knew it. I knew you were having an affair.”
The slap came again. Even harder this time.
“Bring her in here, and bring him, too,” Jessica ordered.
Olivia spat blood, but she wasn’t one to waste an opening. She looked to Martin. “Is she in charge? Or are you?”