Highest Bidder Collection by Lauren Landish & Willow Winters

Author:Lauren Landish & Willow Winters [Landish, Lauren & Winters, Willow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

Isaac

She thinks I’m in pain.

I’m the one needing help?

She’s wrong.

I pace my office, hearing her words over and over. A rage building inside of me. I’m not broken. I’m not in pain. I have a scarred past, I know that. But I’m fucking fine.

I breathe in, ragged and trying to calm myself. She shouldn’t be trying to fix me. Or heal me.

That’s not her place.

And it’s not mine to require that from her.

I knew I should have sent her away.

Selfish! It was selfish of me, and now I’m paying the price.

She’s paying the price.

I run my hand down my face, clenching my jaw and trying to calm down, but as the anger wanes, a sadness replaces it. My body trembles as I sink into the leather chair at my desk, my breathing erratic.

I don’t deserve her. Not at all.

She shouldn’t have to bear my pain. It’s not her burden. I can’t ask her to live with a man like me.

I lean forward, rubbing my forehead with my hand and closing my eyes tightly, wanting to deny it, but I can’t. I’m not worthy of her.

She needs to get out. Now.

I’ve already been thinking of reasons to keep her.

There are two days left, but I can’t continue. My Katia is full of happiness; a purity has survived in her that I will taint. I can’t do that to her.

I won’t.

I rise from my desk, feeling a surge of conviction and hating it. I fucking hate who I am. I hate that I’m only capable of breaking and scarring and causing pain.

Feeling the rage coming back, I swipe at the clutter on my desk as I scream in fury, spewing it over the floor, the papers fluttering in the air as if taunting me.

She needs to leave. She needs to go now.

I can’t have her here. I’ll hurt her. I know I will.

“Katia!” I scream her name so loudly it makes my throat feel raw. “Katia!” I yell even louder, anger apparent in my tone. I’ve never called her for like this. I stare at the open door, and when she doesn’t instantly appear, I stomp over the papers and folders now scattered on the floor and grip the door as I swing it open harder, slamming it against the wall and storming toward her room.

It’s not like her not to come when I call. It’s my anger, I nod my head at the thought as I approach her doorway.

For a moment, I think maybe she’s already gone.

Maybe I scared her away. She knew she needed to leave a monster like me.

My heart stops and I nearly topple forward, bracing myself against the wall.

No.

I take in a breath, torn between the pain that just the thought caused me, and the necessity to save her.

I feel torn into two, and I don’t know which side will win. I want to keep her forever. I don’t want to deny these feelings I have for her any longer. But I want to save her beautiful light from my darkness.

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