Viken Command (Interstellar Brides Book 18) by Grace Goodwin

Author:Grace Goodwin [Goodwin, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-27T18:30:00+00:00

7

Whitney

I had to know the truth. The disk had revealed plenty. On Earth, I’d been the stupid ostrich and stuck my head in the sand, not believing what had been right in front of me. I’d heard the stories, the news reports, even the police. I’d been questioned within an inch of my life to see if I’d had any knowledge of what my father and brother had done. Yet, I’d still doubted the cops, the FBI. I had been in hardcore denial because I hadn’t wanted to know the truth.

How could the people I loved be so bad? How could they have no empathy, no feeling for others? How did they live with themselves? How could I even be in the same family with heartless criminals who’d stolen so much from so many?

It had taken me a while to come to terms with reality. The truth, which was that people lied. That people I cared about—and who I’d thought cared about me—lied. People were devious, uncaring. They’d had an agenda that involved me, that used me. Many, many times, my father had used me as a pawn, a front. When the FBI had shown up with a list of names, I’d cried for days after I realized that my father had used my friends from school to gain access to their families’ fortunes. Every birthday party and special occasion had been about getting my friends to invite their parents so my father and brother could scam them out of more money.

I’d been popular at school. I was always charming. I smiled when I didn’t feel like it. I put on an excellent show no matter how bad I felt. My mother had taught me that. Hell, she’d insisted. No daughter of hers was going to be perceived as weak. My eighteenth birthday I’d had the flu, had to run up to my room to vomit too many times to count. She’d frowned, handed me mouthwash, and told me to get my ass back to the party so my family, little did I know, could bilk the guests.

I’d thought those days were over. I’d thought I finally had people—mates—who cared about me. Me. Not the Mason name, or making more money, or using me to lure my rich friends into investing in companies that didn’t even exist.

I’d been the dupe once.

I wouldn’t do it again.

All the signs were there. Even light-years away, it was the same fucking MO.

Lies. Secrets. One of them was always off doing something. Alarr, Oran, and Teig had all been attentive. Protective. Thoughtful. Generous. But that didn’t mean they were genuinely kind. It didn’t mean they cared. It meant they had something to hide. Their cocks didn’t need to be in love with me to get hard. They’d fucked me into submission. Literally. It had never been a formal claiming like Leah had told me about. No wonder they’d made excuses not to take me together. It had all been just fucking. Pleasure for them, distraction for me.

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