Condemn by Kathy Coopmans

Author:Kathy Coopmans
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kathy Coopmans
Published: 2022-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Paige

My nerves frazzle as John secures a blindfold over my eyes, causing them to tumble in my stomach for an entirely different reason than last week at Reign. They’re filled with anticipation this time. Then they were weighed down with heaviness, zapping with uneasiness.

Threadbare.

Lucas showing only made them shredded and tatter even more.

Everything inside me was pinching so tight when I woke the next morning. I felt like I was starting right back at square one.

Ready to run.

I wondered how much more I could take before that hole would become bottomless. How far into it I would fall before Lucas came after me again. My lines were all blurred and crossed. I tried clearing my mind of it because I deserved a future.

I deserved to be happy.

I deserved to fulfill my dreams.

What I didn’t deserve was his cruelty, his viciousness to cross me back over the unstable line. To wolf me down and swallow me whole. Not when I was steadying myself, trying to walk on stable ground.

Then my head started to throb so bad that I wanted to go back to sleep, but when I opened my eyes, John was sleeping next to me. The man so intoxicatingly beautiful, so wonderful and kind, I knew there was no way I could walk away from him. No way he would ever be able to escape my mind. I’d be condemning myself to hell again if I left.

A brutal, unrelenting place I’d never be able to crawl out of.

No matter what John said about not letting me go, he would if that’s what I really wanted. I was a fool living inside a shell full of fear for five years. I wasn’t about to be one again. You don’t get over a man like John Bexley. I knew that the night I met him. I’ve known it all along.

So, I waited for him to wake, and when he came strolling into the kitchen, I told him I was going to be okay, and I wasn’t leaving. He told me I was.

My brows furrowed, but then he laughed and asked if I wanted to go on a trip to his family’s home in Key West. I was reluctant at first. Afraid to be surrounded by so much water, and terrified of what Lucas would do while we were gone.

How John talked me into it, I’ll never know. How he’s remained calm after Dray called to say the cameras couldn’t make out the face of the person driving the SUV, I’ll never know that, either, because I’ve hammered away at my brain until I’ve exhausted it trying to figure out who it could be.

Although I feel John is hiding something from me regarding Lucas, I haven’t brought it up because I trust he’ll tell me.

Apart from that, and a horrible headache for the first few days where John waited on me hand and foot, I’m glad we came. Being here has been the best kind of medicine for both of us. I’ve accepted everything he’s done for me while trying not to dwell too much on Lucas.

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