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“So you’re admitting it now.” Anna folds her arms over her chest and gives a look of jubilation.
“Yes.”
“Bast,” I murmur.
“And I’m not having you come here and upset Bree. You may not like this, but I’m in love with her. I tried to stop my feelings for her, but I can’t,” Bast blurts. “And if she’ll have me and my children in her life forever, we...”
“You love me?” I respond, shocked.
Mom’s mouth falls open, but she stays quiet.
Dad roars. “Forever! She’s too young for you.”
All I can think is, he wants me.
This man I’ve secretly been in love with loves me.
My heart is beating so wildly as I stroll to Bast’s side and link my fingers in his. “And he’s my forever. I love him and his daughters, and you’ll have to live with it or live without me.”
Bast squeezes my hand so tightly.
Silence all around. Marie glances at me and Bast with wide eyes.
Mom laughs, breaking the silence that has beckoned, “If you stay here, you really are disinherited.”
“I’m sure there is are plenty deserving causes that would love your money,” I say.
Dad will hate that, but not as much as her. She’s used their money against me too many times, and the reason I was so happy when I got a paid job.
“Stop talking about disinheriting her,” Dad says, twisting to Mom before his eyes land on Bast again. “Talk. Tell me the moment a man in his mid-thirties set his sights on my twenty-two-year-old daughter.”
Bast squeezes my hand. “It crept up on me.” He shrugs his shoulders. “One day she was your daughter and the next she was all I thought about.”
I suck back a ragged breath.
“And from that moment, I couldn’t unsee her, despite trying.”
I bite down on my bottom lip to stop myself from crying.
Dad’s eyes shut tight. “But not hard enough.”
“Are you pregnant?” Mom asks.
I laugh. “No.”
I don’t want to tell her last night was our first time together and we still haven’t had sex or a proper date. It really is none of her business.
“Do you really have to ask that?” Dad mutters.
“I never wanted to hurt you. And I promise I tried to stop my feelings for Bree, but I couldn’t and I’m not going to put them back in the box. They are out now.” Bast turns to me and smiles before he says, “Because you’re mine aren’t you?”
I smile. “I am.”
“If you hurt her, I’ll cut off your balls.” Dad stands from his chair and paces the floor.
“Dad!”
Bast strokes his thumb over the back of my hand. “I won’t hurt her.”
