Cherished by Elizabeth Knox & Iris Sweetwater

Author:Elizabeth Knox & Iris Sweetwater [Knox, Elizabeth & Sweetwater, Iris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knox Publishing
Published: 2018-12-14T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Willow

I am sitting in my room, one ankle crossed over the other, and reading a book. It is the most normalcy I have had in a while, but it isn’t doing a lot to make me feel like my old self or like I am at home. Part of me wants to insist we take whatever money is left for me and buy a new place, but that would be accepting that I am stuck in this life. I can't give up and accept that just yet.

The door suddenly opens, and I look up, startled to find none other than my cocky asshole babysitter right in front of me, throwing a garment bag down on my bed.

"Hasn't anyone ever taught you the common decency of knocking? You don't know what I was doing I here or what state of undress I could have been in," I told him, annoyed as I stared down at the garment bag with curiosity.

"Sorry, TOOTS," he says, emphasizing that word, and I want to choke him out right here. I have never pegged myself for a woman with violent tendencies, but this

American character could certainly bring the worst out in me. "But there is no privacy from your bodyguard, or any privacy for the clan leader, either.

Not really." I roll my eyes and put my book down.

"What's up with the bag. Do I not have enough pretty, expensive dresses in my closet?" I ask, pointing to the whole wardrobe that had been pre-arranged for my arrival. "I am sure whatever you think I should be doing doesn't require anything else."

"That’s where you're wrong. You have a date tonight, and you need to look worthy of your title when you meet this Romanian man, Willow," he tells me, almost like a scolding father.

I look up at him, incredulously. Not only is it completely insulting that he has made a date for me with basically a stranger, is telling me I have to go, and ordering me to wear something specific, but his behavior lately has me reeling. I opened up to him a bit, in a way I had no to anyone. I thought it would help us get along better if he understood why I felt the way I did about my father, especially with the bond that I saw that they had. I thought he just didn’t get me, didn’t get why I hated that man and his lifestyle since he had no issue with it. But he has gone completely cold, and I don’t get it. I don’t know what this is with the change of heart.

I shouldn’t really care. I am not supposed to like him or want him to like me. I am supposed to be planning my big escape from here, in which case, I would never see Duncan again. Yet, something is bothering me about the way he has taken any of his feelings back, even if they were only lustful, to begin with.

"You know I don't like this," I practically growled.

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