Twisted in Obsession (Destructive Devastation Book 1) by Aly Beck

Author:Aly Beck [Beck, Aly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-27T00:00:00+00:00

Journey West will be the only woman in history to bring me to my knees. Not that I mind. There are a lot of things I can do in that position with my tongue and hands. I’m finally getting the girl I’ve been obsessed with for years. Since that fateful day when I saw her punch a boy. Then, much to my dismay, I had to walk away from her altogether. I’ll never forgive my bodyguard at the time for squealing to my father. Thankfully, I got him fired a few months later, but the order still stood: Journey West was off-limits.

It only made me want her more.

I rub my temple, standing above her as she restlessly sleeps. She’ll be the death of me one day, driving me into the arms of my final resting place. But, in the same breath, her fighting spirit is the oxygen to my lungs.

Everyone around me bows their heads, scuttling off to do my bidding. I may not be the king of the city, but I am the dutiful prince in waiting.

Dutiful.

I scoff. I haven’t been dutiful for years. Not when the memories of his torture live behind my eyes. At any given moment, they prepare to show me what I lived through.

Alcohol wafts off my father’s breath when he finally ceases his movements. No light resides in his eyes when I look up at him from the floor, shivering from the cold cement.

“One day, you’ll thank me for this, boy,” he slurs, shoving me into a tiny closet near the back of the open basement. “One day, you’ll say thank you, Father, for preparing me. You’re my heir. My only boy. One day, my kingdom will be yours. You’ll rule it like me. I’ll make sure of it.”

I blink rapidly, calling out to my father when he shuts the closet door and locks it from the outside. Like he’s planned this torture all along. I swallow hard, pulling my knees into my chest, whimpering when his footsteps retreat upstairs. Then… Nothing but static fills my ears, and the silence beats down on me.

I’m his heir—his only child. I’m the one who will carry on his name and the family. At least, that’s his excuse. He probably got off on watching me suffer alone in the darkness, chuckling as I begged for him to let me go. But begging never stands a chance against Gabriel Viotto. He’ll gladly throw you to the wolves.

My father may not have laid a hand on me physically. Not like Shepp’s father. Psychological torture was his game. Locking me in closets, leaving me in the damn dark. He didn't care what he did to me as long as it made me stronger in his eyes. Sure, he got the results he wanted after years of mental and emotional torture. But not fully. I'm still me. Only a slightly bent and broken version. One I'm improving on every day.

“Watch as I make him squeal, Jericho. He’ll tell us anything he knows.

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