Queen Her by Laine Terri E

Author:Laine, Terri E.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

Natalie

Chaos invaded my life, and it was more out of control than ever. Surreal didn’t even cover it as I was hustled into the limo. My father on my heels.

The door had barely shut before I laid into him. “You bastard, and I mean that quite literally. How could you?” He only rolled his eyes. “You know what it’s like to be the product of an extramarital affair, yet you treated me like dirt?”

“I treated you better than I’d ever been.” Disgusted, I turned my face away. “I loved your mother,” he added, sounding wistful.

“Save me the bullshit,” I spat.

He didn’t seem to hear me, or he chose not to. “Remarkably, she had no idea who I was. I was free to be me in a way I never had. She showed me love unconditionally.”

So he was finally admitting that she hadn’t been using him. “Then, why did you shit on her life?”

His sneer matched my own. “She left me.”

“You were married.”

Our gazes were locked together like bull horns.

“She found out about the parts of my life I had no control over, and she left.”

I’d save that little bit of knowledge. Had he been forced into marriage the same way he was forcing me into one? “No. She left because you lied about being married. She would have stood by you in that court room, but you choose to take your wife.”

“A wife my father chose for me.”

He looked away as shock set in. I was right. For a second, I might have felt sorry for him. “And yet, you are doing it to me?”

“The fate of many before you from kings and queens to common people of all walks of life. Those pairings have lasted longer than some claiming it in the name of love.”

It wasn’t the Middle Ages, but I didn’t tell him that. “I love Liam.” The words tumbled off my tongue easily, despite this being my first time saying it or even admitting it to myself.

“And you’ll see the foolishness of that statement.”

I whipped my head around to face him. “You gave him two days.”

“A generous amount considering he’ll never accomplish any of it. Then, you’ll marry David as planned.”

“You never intended on giving him a fair chance,” I accused.

“I wanted you to see.”

“See what? That you ruined my life?”

“Ruined. I’ve only ever tried to protect you.”

“You call manipulating me through someone I thought was my best friend and stopping any relationship I ever had, protecting me?”

The ache ran deep when I thought about Jody, which was why I hadn’t. She’d been the one person in the world I’d trusted with all my secrets outside of my mother. It had been a sham all along.

“I call hiring a man with skills and relationships to keep his daughter safe from potential enemies a good thing. You mother didn’t seem to understand the risk she put you in by taking you away. If anyone had found out I had an unprotected daughter, they could have used you in ways you don’t want to consider in order to hurt or try and control me.

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