The Enforcer: A Steamy Daddy Dom Romantic Suspense by Delta James

Author:Delta James [James, Delta]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-21T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

BROCK

“You’re married?” he asked, a bit stunned.

He was trying not to feel betrayed, but it was hard not to. He was pretty sure he’d been falling for Alicia. He’d begun to imagine a future with her. She was married, though, and hadn’t said a word. He was glad they hadn’t had sex. Even what they’d done last night was out of line for him if the woman was married.

“Not as far as I’m concerned. What happened to the guy who wanted to kill whoever gave me the scar on my side?”

He didn’t respond. She laughed bitterly and continued, “The first time I had to apply extra makeup to cover the bruises he left from using me as a punching bag, he quit being my husband. When he beat me up so badly after I spoke with an attorney that I ended up in the hospital, I decided if I was going to live, I had to get away from him. And if I was going to do that, I needed to fake my own death.”

There was a pause where no one said anything, and the silence between them was painful.

“Alicia, honey,” said Seth. “You did the right thing. I know that may sound weird from a guy who gets off on using a flogger on women or binding them in elaborate rope patterns, but any man who inflicts any kind of damage on a woman she doesn’t want is no man at all. He ought to have his balls cut off with a dull spoon and have them shoved down his throat so that he chokes on them.”

That at least made her smile, but where did Seth get off comforting his woman? The answer was clear: because he hadn’t done it himself. Okay, so maybe she should have told them. Maybe she should have learned during her time with Cerberus that they could be trusted and would protect her. But in all honesty, she’d only begun to understand the lifestyle in the past six months or so. Before that, she may have grasped that it was consensual, but still didn’t understand what either side of the slash got from it.

But still, she should have known he would never touch a married woman sexually without her husband’s consent. In fact, he wasn’t even inclined to play with or discipline married women without coming to an understanding with her husband.

“We need to put a plan together to have Alicia’s husband arrested,” said Brock.

“Do we know for certain he was behind the attack this afternoon?” asked Seth.

“We know he was at the Majestic—that was him, wasn’t it?”

“It was,” she said quietly.

“The problem is, the California police don’t have jurisdiction in Illinois. The only thing he’s done here—that we can prove—is call to her from the back of the Majestic.”

Alicia stood up and walked away from the couch. “You don’t get it. Neither of you. I faked my death. I had a friend who worked at the county hospital. He was a good guy the firm I worked for used as an expert witness a couple of times.

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