Insatiable by Daniele Lanzarotta

Author:Daniele Lanzarotta
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Rocket Science Productions, LLC
Published: 2013-03-22T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

As soon as he left, Owen actually turned around and kicked the nearest tree. “Fuck!” he said. “Well, this complicates things.”

I turned around and left him talking to himself as I went up to the tree house. I wrapped myself with the blanket that smelled like Blake, sat down, and started to cry even more.

After a while, Owen came up. He looked around at the rose petals scattered all over the place, and sat across from me.

“I’m sorry your plans got messed up,” I said.

“I’ll work something out. I’m just afraid of what will happen to you while I do.”

“What do you mean?” I asked. “What are you that gave you the power to change me?”

“Oh, I’m human. One hundred percent human.”

“But you have powers that are not.”

He shrugged.

“What’s going to happen to me?”

“Hopefully, nothing. Look around. He’ll find a way to see you and I’ll do what I can to help. The merger gets signed soon anyway. My father will relax after that.”

“And if he doesn’t?” I asked.

“We’ll have to wait and see.”

I was afraid, but it wasn’t fear of what would happen to me. I was afraid for Blake. There was no good in his father, or brother for that matter. If his father acted like this toward me, I couldn’t even imagine what he would do and say to Blake.

I could feel Owen’s gaze on me and I knew this would be the longest night of my life.

As if reading my mind, he said, “You know—Blake will be fine. What you saw tonight was nothing compared to how our dad treated us growing up.”

I met his gaze and he looked as if what he said didn’t bother him at all.

“Why?” I asked.

“Control. He feels this need to control everyone who surrounds him.”

“And it doesn’t bother you?”

He shrugged. “Being raised like that, you become immune to it. That’s what happened in Blake’s case anyway. It’s like he was programmed into behaving a certain way and he doesn’t know how to break from that.”

I shivered at the thought of him growing up like that.

“What about you?” I asked Owen.

He grinned. “I didn’t get it as bad as Blake. He’s the oldest and the attention was always on him. Let’s just say that I got lucky. It also helped that I was interested in whatever my dad told me to do. Blake never wanted his life. He never wanted to go to the school he went to, or play the sports that he did. Even though he excelled in everything, he hated all of it.

I turned to my side, leaned my arm on the windowsill and looked at the stars.

“For how long exactly have you been in love with my brother?” he asked.

I didn’t even turn to look at him. I didn’t even stop to think about how my answer would give him even more power over me. All I said was, “For as long as I can remember.”

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