Monsters Are Hidden: A Dark Billionaire Grumpy Sunshine Romance (Gods Among Men Book 2) by Alta Hensley

Author:Alta Hensley [Hensley, Alta]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-04-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Twenty-Two

Ani

I’m so lost in my misery I don’t hear the door to my room open. It’s Phoenix’s dark clothing that catches the corner of my eye that notifies me that he has heard my repeated pleas into the camera and can’t take it anymore—granting me mercy even if it’s to shut me up.

Thank God. He is here. I won’t be alone any longer with my dark thoughts. The mental game this man is playing is just as bad as the plug rooted in my ass.

Looking up at him with tears streaming down my face, I beg, “Please, Phoenix. I know I messed up. I know I did. But I can’t be tortured like this.”

“Torture?” He smirks. “You have no idea what torture really is.”

“Call it what you want,” I choke out. “I beg you to take out the plug. It’s too big. And the handcuffs. I don’t need these.” I push my confined wrists toward him to emphasize my appeal.

“You don’t get to be a brat and act out and not expect there to be consequences.”

“I wasn’t thinking.” I try to control the hysteria that makes my voice sound so high-pitched that I don’t even recognize it. “I was just so angry.”

“You don’t get the luxury of being angry while you’re here. You lost that right the minute you brought my brother into your mess,” he says with little sympathy or care present on his face. So cold and stoic. “The minute you put the Godwin family in danger.”

“I can’t do this. I can’t do this.” I sob. If I had any dignity left, it’s gone. Vanished. Melted away in the tears falling down my face. “There is no way I can survive this. I can’t. I’m not strong enough. I wanted to earn your trust and forgiveness, but not like this.”

He kneels down beside me and looks me straight in the eyes. Humanity flickers in the depths. It’s brief, but I see it, and it gives me hope. “You need to take a deep breath and calm down. You’ve gotten yourself so worked up that you’re going to have a panic attack.” He places his fingertip on my cheek and strokes softly. “Calm down. You’re going to be just fine.”

I shake my head. “I don’t deserve this.”

“What do you deserve then?” Phoenix asks. “Do you think I should just ignore what you did? Trust that you won’t destroy my family’s lives? Trust you like my brother foolishly did with your sister?”

“No, but—”

“Would you rather I just had you killed so you are no longer a problem for us? Kill your sister? I’m sure that’s what Athena and my father want.”

“No,” I answer as I look down toward the floor, breathing as calmly as I can.

He gently runs his fingertip along the handcuffs then dips his finger between the metal and flesh. “There’s plenty of room. It’s all in your head. And the plug is small.”

“I know you have a good heart. I know that there is a part of you locked inside that is good,” I say, continuing to cry.

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