All My Life by C J Marie

Author:C J Marie [Marie, C J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Victorious Publishing
Published: 2019-09-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Olive couldn’t stop her hands from trembling as she slipped out of her dress and pulled on a T-shirt and yoga leggings. Her eyes were wet, and a bit of her makeup smeared underneath her eyelids. Tom had shouted awful things before Rafe had come. The loss of his control over her life seemed to unleash a buried power-complex she hadn’t seen before. Her arms ached from his grip on her skin, but it was the agonizing beat of her heart that caused her the most trouble.

Taking a deep breath, she opened her door and drifted into her front room. Rafe was pacing menacingly. His eyes dark and dangerous when he glanced in her direction. Olive swallowed when he stopped his mad steps and crossed the space between them. Rafe tugged her tight against his chest. Olive buried her face in the folds of his dress shirt, her arms slipping around his waist as silent tears fell.

His gentle fingers traced the raised welts on her biceps. Rafe’s jaw tightened and his shadowed eyes locked on her. “I’m going to kill him.”

“I’m fine, Rafe.”

“No, there’s nothing fine about this,” he seethed, releasing her and returning to his furious steps. “You’re going to tell your daddy about this, or I will. I have half a mind to go and finish that jackass off right now.”

Olive wiped her cheeks. “Why?”

Rafe stopped and faced her. “Why? Why wouldn’t I want him to pay for what he did? He could have really hurt you, Olive.”

She swiped at her eyes and turned her back on him. “That’s not what I meant. You’re like a madman, Rafe. You care so much, but why? Is it like some strange big brother thing you’ve got with me, or—” her voice faded when she turned and he was towering over her.

Rafe’s body pinned her against the wall, both his palms resting next to her head. “There is no reality where I view you like a sister.”

She narrowed her gaze and shoved out of his hold. “You feel so strongly, but you won’t do anything,” she cried. “You stand there letting others dictate what we do. It’s cowardly. If you don’t want me, then just be a man and say so. But don’t come in here in a huff, making me believe you feel as deep as me.”

A sob burst from her throat when he listened intently, his eyes flashing with something else, something that thrilled and frightened her in the same breath. Rafe crossed the room in two strides, his strong palms trapping the sides of her face.

“You don’t think I want you? I want you so much I can’t see straight. When I was fourteen, I knew I’d do just about anything to kiss you, Ollie.” His mouth brushed across her jawline, until she shuddered in his hold. “Then when I was sixteen, I’d get crazy jealous whenever some guy took you out.” Olive closed her eyes when his lips sealed around the shell of her ear. “You’ve always been the one I want, but couldn’t have.

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