Bound: Highgate Preparatory Academy, Book 2 by Rosa Lee

Author:Rosa Lee
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2021-12-31T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

LILLY

I stare at the unusual glittering diamond and ruby ring, nestled in deep crimson silk, dumfounded. The sound of a chair crashing to the floor behind me registers, along with a growled curse, but it’s as if it’s all far away, in some other place.

“Marry you?” I whisper, finally looking up into Ash’s face. His steel eyes are swirling, a myriad of emotions running through them, but the overarching one is a plea, begging me to trust him. My brows draw down, my head shaking slightly. “Why?” I ask, but this time I look at Julian. After all, he’s the one behind this, the puppetmaster. “Why do you want me to marry Ash?”

He smirks at me, and I want to fucking punch his perfectly straight teeth out of his devil’s mouth.

“How was your little trip to London, Darling?” he asks instead, tipping his head to one side like a snake contemplating its prey. I hate that he uses my surname like a term of endearment. Shivers cascade over me as I’m trapped in his predator’s leer, and in my peripheral vision, I see Ash stiffen further until he’s become the Ice Knight everyone knows him to be. “You didn’t think we wouldn’t know about your jaunt, did you?” And then Julian tsks at me like a naughty wayward child, and my blood boils at the fucking audacity of this man. “That somehow, we wouldn’t know about those bonds and shares in our company your mother had hidden away.”

I can feel my face go cold, the blood draining from it, and no doubt leaving me pale and terrified looking. And I am. I’m fucking scared shitless at what this means.

“Now,” he starts, stepping out from his space and coming slowly, menacingly, towards me, leering eyes holding mine. “We can’t have a slip of a girl like you, who knows nothing about the work that has gone into Black Knight Corporation to make it the great enterprise that it is today, holding us to ransom. At first, I thought that we could just...dispose of you, like we usually do to things that get in our way,” A growl sounds behind me—Jax, no doubt—but my eyes are full of the crazed grey of Julian’s, unable to look away. “But then, everything goes to your uncle, as your next of kin, and that doesn’t help us much either.”

He steps fully behind me, and my relief at no longer being under his scrutiny is short-lived as his hands come down on my shoulders, gently like a lover's caress, his thumbs stroking the base of my neck. Bile fills my mouth, and it takes everything in me not to throw up all over the glistening silverware.

“Father,” Ash grits out, jerking as if he wants to stand up and rip the older man’s hands off me. Please, Ash.

“I’m not done, boy,” Julian snarls, his grip tightening to the point of bruising, and a sharp gasp falls from my painted lips. “Where was I? Ah, yes. I had a better idea, so here is what will happen.

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