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He was on top of me. I could feel the heat of his body and the weight of his thighs as she straddled me, and he leaned forward.
“If you want that in the contract, then I can make that happen. You marry me. Then you give me a few kids that protect my interests. I need something for insurance, and should any harm come to me, you will never see them again. Then you give me exclusive rights to all product lines that aren’t on the books, and I can ensure they will remain safe. They, your cousin, and whatever Roman is to your family, can keep the sinking ship that is Rossi Holdings.”
I tried to push myself up, but the weight of him on me was too much. I cried out in frustration.
“Now, little Emilee. How should I punish you for trying to run from me?”
His hands slid down my back to my ass, where he squeezed hard. I could feel every damn thing. I just couldn’t fight him off.
“Get the contract now, please.”
It was the only thing I could think of. The only thing that might give me time to think of anything. What, I didn’t know. Maybe it would just diffuse his temper.
“I need a lawyer to witness it, including the marriage contract. I still plan to make you walk down the aisle to me. Give the world a show.”
Another tear slid down my cheek.
“You don’t have to do that. No one cares.”
Roman would care. It would hurt him. I already did that though, didn’t I? He was probably trying to call me now. Trying to reach me and find out when I was going to come back. Parks was probably going out of his mind. Maybe he already told Roman, and they were scouring a city that I wasn’t even in.
“Everyone in our circle cares. Everyone wants to know what the last remaining Rossi daughter will do. The Lords will respect me and do as they’re told. I am their god. I single-handedly built this new empire, and all I was missing was you, my princess. The ultimate revenge. Take everything your family treasured. Their wealth. Their power. Their family.”
The pain radiating in my chest wasn’t the kind of pain you got from falling or being hit. It was so much deeper. It was like every dream I’d ever had was dying. My heart was mourning. This was what it was like to feel. This was truly what it was like to love.
I’d let Roman love me even when I always knew that maybe it wasn’t a choice I could even give him. I always thought it would be my father who stole my happiness, and I wasn’t wrong. Even in his death, he seemed to have somehow trapped me in his games.
“Now we can deal with business tomorrow. Tonight I’m pissed off and in a mood. I tried to let you fall in love with me. Given you space. Showed you my charming side. But don’t think me too much of a human, Emilee. I’ve never been a good boy and prison didn’t help that.”
His lips were close to my ear, and I cringed as his slimy tongue coated my ear with his saliva.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve had a woman warming my bed properly. I’d forgotten how sweet an innocent little morsel like you smelled. I love the scent of fear, little princess. You’re spoiled and have never really known pain. Have you?”
I refused to let his words get to me. I tried to steel up my emotions. Tried to get back to the dead space inside me.
“A life without love is pain, Uncle. I’ve already had that. What’s new?”
I felt this hand sliding over my skin before I felt the sting of pain as he spanked me.
“Do not call me that. I am not your uncle. I am your future, and this?”
He spanked me again, this time harder. “This is pain.”
He wasn’t wrong, but this pain didn’t bother me. Not really. It was the pain inside me that I couldn’t shake. I was doing my best to lock it away, but then Roman’s face would surface and the hurt in his eyes became like a damn beacon that I couldn’t unsee.”
How had I missed it? How had I ignored the pain I was causing him? I’d been selfish, just like Vinny had said. I was spoiled. Not because I always had gotten what I wanted, but because I’d been so tired of serving my family, I’d forgotten what it was like to let someone truly in.
Gertie had been healing me for years, and now? Now even she was going to lose her mom. Anger started to burn away at the fear and hurt.
“Fuck you, Vinny. It won’t matter what you think or want or do. You can’t destroy my heart or my mind. Not without killing me. I won’t ever love you. I won’t ever be able to be controlled. Maybe you will have my body and my money, but you can’t stop me from hating you.”
Something hard pressed against my backside as he shifted. I choked down vomit at what I was thinking it was.
Knew it was. He was predictable.
He would probably lock me away, and that part I was fine with. Really giving him my body, the one that Roman has worshipped, and used to show me pleasure that I didn’t know existed, was a bit harder to push aside. I was Roman’s. I always had been.
“Are you on birth control, my little bitch?”
