King of Masters: O'Shea Spin-Off (The Four Families Book 4) by Brynn Ford

Author:Brynn Ford [Ford, Brynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-04T18:30:00+00:00

I spent the better part of an hour showing Stella around the estate, giving her a tour of her new home. She’s been far more resistant than I’d anticipated, but I fault myself for that. I knew how feisty she was from the day I met her. It’s what drew me to her. It’s what makes her different.

Yet it’s also what keeps her fighting me. I have to find a way to be patient with her through her fighting. I’ve only just uprooted her from her entire existence, and though I don’t think it was such a great existence, it was the life she knew. I understand that. I just wonder how long it will take for her to understand how much better her life will be now.

It’s a beautiful summer day, perfect weather to show her the beauty of our castle grounds. The front of the estate is stunning with a lovely patch of green garden surrounding an ornate fountain just on the opposite side of the gravel driveway. As beautiful as it is, it’s nothing compared to the back.

Our castle sits atop a grassy green hill that slopes downward into a rolling meadow. Gently sloping land of varying angles form the landscape, grassy hills sprinkled with the pink buds of bog-rosemary flowers and periwinkle spring squill dotting the way to the pond beneath the willow tree in the distance.

The breeze picks up at the top of the largest slope where I stand beside Stella. I watch as the warm air blows her hair back over her shoulder, the brightly dyed streak of red peeking out and skating along the breeze. Her arms are tightly folded over her chest, and the black of her painted fingernails peeks out from beneath her biceps.

“You can come outside whenever you want. Explore the grounds as much as you like.”

She doesn’t look at me. “And what if I try to escape?”

“You can’t.”

She slowly turns her head to look at me. The initial shock of her situation seems to have worn off a bit, but judgment is still ripe behind her deep brown eyes. It would be a lie to say it didn’t affect me.

“I’ll find a way to escape you,” she says quietly, but with confident determination. “You won’t be able to stop me.”

“You underestimate my reach, the security measures I’ve already put in place here.” I point far out beyond the sloping hills, down across the meadow that fades into a dense tree line. “You would get lost in those woods. It’s dense and it surrounds the land we own. But do you know what’s beyond it?”

“What?”

“Nothing.”

She scoffs, “The rest of Ireland is beyond it. You don’t own this world, Murphy.”

“Not alone, I don’t. But me and the four families? We own it all.”

She rolls her eyes, turning her head to look out at the grounds, away from me.

“You don’t believe me?”

“Of course not.”

“I’m surprised by that. As aware as you are of how men control you, how much influence men have over your freedom as a woman.

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