Chapter 108
“You are not serious about it, right?” Ralph asked his brother when he told him about his plan to catch the masked man.
Liam arched a brow, “And why do you think that?”
Ralph straightened in his chair, “He is your best friend, he stood by you in every thick and thin. Liam is getting married in five days. You have to be kidding me if you are thinking about Striking Alexandrio to hurt Dmitry. For God’s sake, he asked you to be his best man two days ago.”
Liam sighed. “And I will be his best man. I care about him, Ralph. I do or why do you think I am not executing my plan yet. Let him enjoy a few days of happiness. My heart is not made of stone.”
Ralph couldn’t digest it. His brother was talking as if it didn’t matter to him if Alexandrio remained alive or not!
“You know Liam, I never said this but you are as twisted as our father. Can’t you see anything more than business? That man stood against his brother for you!”
Liam put the whiskey glass on the table and raised a finger at him. “His brother is the reason behind all this. He didn’t support me when I asked him. He knows everything I want to know about that son of a bitch but he is playing with me. I can’t risk my dream or the life of my family for a so-called friendship. Look at dad, he became Ethan’s puppet. I am playing this loverboy role because of dad. I felt like a caged animal. I am bearing that idiotic girl every day just because of dad’s so-called friendship with Ethan. That bitch made my cabin a flower shop yesterday. I have to control my urges with her and not to mention her irritating habits. She loves hearing some crap music. She eats in my car, a freaking vanilla ice cream. I want her body, yes. I want her to do as I say but what am I doing instead?”
“I am doing what she is asking me to do? Do you want to know what I want to do, I want to point a gun on Ethan’s head and shoot him. I want Aurora to behave like a submissive!”
Ralph was stunned. He was a monster too but Liam was not only a monster, but he was also an enraged monster.
“You know the more I see this side of you the more I hate him. I used to think Ryan Knight was the ugliest filth but you trumped him in this category as well. You are the ugliest man I have ever met, Liam. Ryan Knight’s hand didn’t shake when he killed our mother and you want to do the same with Aurora. That girl loves you, Liam. It’s written all over her face!”
Liam chuckled. “Nah! She loves an illusion, Ralph. She loves what I am pretending to be, as you said I am the ugliest monster and nobody has the guts to love an ugly monster and let’s be true, do you think I care about her so-called love, Ralph? I wanted to get married to her, fuck her and have a child. That’s it!”
Ralph’s nose flared. He recalled his childhood when he watched his father every day with a new woman. He hated him for giving his mother’s place to someone else. Every day there was a new woman on the dining table with them. “And what will happen to that child? Is he going to have the same childhood we had?”
Liam fisted his hand, “No, Ralph, I would not allow my offspring to have the same childhood we had because unlike dad I will kill her if she ever gets ideas of running away, na! I will make her live with me, forced to smile every day even though she is bearing all the pain of the world.”
He turned to his brother and rested a hand on his shoulder. “We are not some normal couple, Ralph. I wanted her and now I made her mine but the moment she stopped being useful to me, things will change and the same goes for Alexandrios.”
Ralph nodded. “You don’t deserve Alexandrios friendship, Liam. One day, you will regret losing him.”
Liam chuckled. “He himself said he could die for me, I am just testing his words. Shall we discuss the topic of concern now? Any information on Juan?”
“No…” before Ralph could finish Liam’s cell phone beeped. A message from Mike.
It read: A stripper is here for the bachelorette party.
Liam was enraged. Keep an eye on her.
He typed back and stood up. “We will talk about it later.” Saying that he left to bring her back home with him. The girl was testing his patience with a new stunt every day. She was Liam Knight’s property and she dared to hire a stripper.
Meanwhile, Emily’s eyes widened seeing the handsome stripper taking off his shirt. “Wow! It’s getting hot in here!”
Aurora made a face, he was nowhere near Liam in comparison to looks or body. Her Liam has a perfect body, with muscles and his looks are to die for. She wished it was him who would have been stripping in front of her instead of this stripper. She could give anything to have him here at this moment.
Meanwhile, Susan recalled Ralph’s warning and tried hard not to gaze at the man. The only person who was enjoying the stripper was Emily but that too because she was on her tenth shot of Vodka.
Aurora said no to alcohol, she had done many blunders in the past due to it that now she is off to Alcohol or so she told herself. Susan drank too but she was sober because of Ralph’s upcoming visit tonight.
The stripper called the girls on the stage for the dancing and they went but none of them paid any attention to him.
“Are you ladies not interested in my moves?” He drawled while pulling down his pants.
Emily laughed and went near him. “You are not as hot as my fiance! I think I will stick to him.”
Aurora and Susan burst into laughter seeing the look on that stripper’s face. Aurora touched Susan’s hand, for a moment forgetting that she was not talking to her but withdrawing it immediately when recalled.
Susan looked away, it hurts seeing her behave like this. Suddenly, Aurora’s mind popped up with a naughty plan.
She clicked some pictures of Emily dancing with the stripper and sent them to Alexandrio. “Now the fun begins!” She mumbled.
Exactly, after twenty minutes the doorbell of her home rang down, Aurora went to open the door excitedly, thinking about surprising Emily but she was shocked to see Liam standing at her doorway.
Liam was raging in fury. He was about to tell her what he felt about her stunt but before he could speak, Aurora shrieked with a happy look on her face and threw her arms around his neck.
“I can’t believe you are here!” She kissed his face many times. “I was thinking about you and here you are.”
“Come inside, let’s have fun.” She said before they could move a car stopped by and Alexandrio stepped out of it.
He looked at his friend, “your girlfriend is better than you, she at least asked me to come here while you didn’t even bother telling me about the damn stripper.”
Liam frowned. “You called him here?”
Aurora nodded. “Yes, Em is drunk and I know she will enjoy the party more with Alexandrio rather than that stripper.”
Alexandrio groaned and moved inside while Aurora giggled seeing him walking impatiently.
“Stripper? You dared to call a stripper?” He asked teasingly. Aurora stepped closer to him and kissed his nose. “I didn’t call him, Susan did and all the while I was thinking about you. You have more skills than him, I think you should try your hand in this business.”
Liam raised his brows. “Will you be able to handle that, Aurora? Me getting naked in front of other girls.”
Aurora pushed his tie and pulled his face down to her level. “You can be a stripper but who says you will strip for other girls, I am advanced booking all your schedules, Mr Knight.”
A feeling so strong engulfed his body that he couldn’t describe it in words. He only knew one thing that he wanted to have her soon or he didn’t know what he would do? He has been suffering from blue balls for a while now and didn’t know for how long he would be able to take it anymore.
“Let’s go!” He said taking her hand and moving towards his car.
“Liam, I can’t leave like this, I didn’t even tell anybody inside.”
“They message anyone you want but we are leaving. I didn’t like you seeing another man getting naked in front of you.”
“I didn’t watch another man getting naked, I was thinking about you all the while.”
“Good, now we both will get naked together.”
Aurora gasped and halted in her steps. “What?”
Liam lost all his patience and picked her in his arms, “Liam, what are you doing, leave me. People are watching!”
“Let them watch for all I care. I am taking what belongs to me.”
He set her on the foot and opened the door of his car. “Liam!” He didn’t give any heed to her words and forced her inside, closer to the door, and settled on the driving seat. Aurora didn’t like the way he manhandled her.
She crossed her arms and looked outside the window. Angry as hell!
“Don’t touch me!” She said, slapping his hand away when he grabbed her hand to get her out of the car. Liam’s nose flared when she got out of the car and walked ahead leaving him standing. She was about to enter the elevator when he pushed her inside with a little force and attacked her lips, hungry for her body. “I can’t wait any longer, little one!”
He grabbed her neck from behind and moved to her collarbone, Aurora would have agreed. She wanted to be with him in every way possible but not today, not after how he treated her.
Aurora pushed him away from herself. “But I am not ready yet, Liam,” She told him.
An uncontrolled fury ran through his body. He kept staring at her, infuriated with her mood swings. “You manhandled me, Liam.”
Should I show her what manhandling feels like?
“I was angry at you!”
“For what?”
“For that stripper, Aurora.”
Aurora inhaled sharply. “I didn’t call him, I already told you, it was Susan who did that.”
The elevator pinged. He once again scooped her in his arms and took her to his bedroom. “Liam, I don’t appreciate this behaviour.”
He put her on her feet back and held her face between his hands. “You are making me lose control, little one. Don’t torture me like this, please,” he whispered and placed his lips on hers.
Aurora tried to resist, she even pushed him with her hand but today Liam was not listening to the reason. He was a hungry beast, he held her hand down and pulled her even closer. “Don’t torment me anymore, little one. Become mine, completely. Marry me, Aurora!”
Aurora, who was lost in the world of physical pleasure, snapped her eyes open. Marriage! Was she even ready for this?
She didn’t know, seeing Emily marrying Alexandrio after only a month of dating him gave her hope that she could do the same but her experience with Gabriel stopped her from hurrying into marriage.
Only she knew how heavy the weight of Gabriel’s ring became when she stopped feeling anything for him. His words still roam in her mind sometimes even though she was completely free from him now.
She knew Liam was not like Gaberial, the way he treats her reflects how truly he cared for her. This time she was genuinely happy but she was not sure she wanted to marry him.
She needed time to think about it. She couldn’t say yes! Not today. Her heart didn’t allow her to say yes.
She touched his chest where his heart was and looked into his eyes and sighed deeply before giving him her answer.
“I can’t, I am sorry but I can’t marry you, Liam.”
Chapter 96.
Liam Knight was furious. His hands twitched to torture, someone, her. His eyes turned dark but he somehow turned around to not let her see the reflection of his thoughts on his face.
“I want to know you before taking such a big step in my life. Please be patient with me.”
Liam squeezed his eyes shut. “Only thirty more days left, little one. I won’t give you more than that, little one.”
Aurora shook her head. “Love and acceptance take time, but let’s see if you can convince me to marry you in a month, Mr Knight,” saying that she turned to leave but Liam grabbed her hand and yanked her back to him.
“I am sure you will be crying while accepting my proposal, Mrs Knight.”
Aurora raised her brows, “such confidence you have, Mr Knight!”
“Your husband is a very confident man.”
Aurora nodded with a chuckle. He had been calling himself her husband for a long time and she started to like it. That you are,” she said in a teasing manner but then in a completely serious tone. “Don’t treat me like that again. I love you but I didn’t like the way you manhandled me.”
Liam nodded. “I won’t treat you like this, I promise,” He said.
I will treat you worse than this once your father’s neck gets in my hands, daddy’s girl!
Aurora kissed his nose. “I love you.”
The left corner of his lip lifted upward. “I love you too, little one. Come here, you might not be ready to get naked but we can fool around.”
Aurora poked her tongue out like a child. “Nope, I want my beauty to sleep, tomorrow is the rehearsal dinner and the day after that my friend is getting married so we are going to sleep like normal people.”
Liam made a gruntled sound and went to change into nightwear after using his hand to state his physical need. He lost count of how many times he had used his hand in the past week. When he returned Aurora was already in bed, sleeping hugging his pillow.
He took the pillow from her and laid down beside her. Aurora put her head on his chest just like every day. “Are you not sleeping?” He asked.
Aurora chuckled. “Can’t sleep without you. I was imagining your pillow and your alternate but you are more comfortable,” she answered without opening her eyes and kissing his chest.
“Don’t make me talk, I need to sleep.”
“You need to sleep but are you sleepy?”
Aurora thinned her lips.” No! But I want to sleep, now such!”
Liam chuckled and started caressing her hair making her moan and the sound of it made him horny once again and he ended up having a tent in his briefs. He took a sharp breath to control his urges.
Aurora frowned when she heard his sharp intake of breathing. She fluttered her eyes open only to find him looking at the ceiling with eyes squeezed shut.
Is he alright?
She pretended to close her eyes a little when she watched him open his eyes. His hand went under the quilt and he adjusted his reaction with a hiss!
Aurora’s heart thumped wildly. Is he horny? Oh my god!
She heard him curse under his breath and just to torture him more she hugged him even more tightly.
Liam gritted his jaw when his body reacted violently to her closeness. He wanted to turn her around and fuck her hard and fast, just the way he wanted but couldn’t, not without her permission. He was a monster but he was not that kind of monster. Not for Aurora at least, he was not.
So he tolerated her innocent gestures and showed his magnificent tolerance. Aurora couldn’t help but feel pity for him.
He made me realize the truth about my body, helped me regain confidence in my body, the least I could do was give him a handjob to release his torture.
Thinking that she moved her hand from his chest to his proud manhood to ease the discomfort of his body. But when she was about to touch it, Liam’s hand grabbed her hand and stopped her movement.
She opened her eyes and looked at him confusingly, “What are you doing?” He asked.
Aurora swallowed. “Trying to help you. I know you want a release, Liam. I can help…”
“No!” He said sharply, stopping her before she could finish the sentence. “I do not want you to do something you are not comfortable about, this is my problem, my body is reacting to your closeness, I will handle it. You don’t have to worry about it. Now close your eyes and sleep,” saying that he pulled her hand to his chest where his heart was and kissed her head, gently before closing his eyes.
Aurora closed her eyes but sleep was far away from them. She opened them back when felt him breathing rhythmically. Her heart was beating an uneven rhythm, the words he just said to her made her fall in love with him all over again.
She knew then that she was ready for whatever intimacy he wanted. A small smile appeared on her lips imagining his face when she would tell him that she was ready to move on in their relationship.
Every day she spent with Liam, a new face of his appeared in front of her eyes. She had seen his anger, his care, his sweetness and most of all his friendship. Sometimes she thinks how can a person be this beautiful in and out. Aurora sighed and moved closer to his body. “Tomorrow will be our special night, Mr Knight. I promise to tease you a lot before giving you the best night of your life,” she whispered before closing her eyes because she needed that beauty sleep.
Liam heard everything she whispered and chuckled inwardly. Everything Liam does has a motive behind it. Aurora was an emotional fool and he used her emotions to take what he wanted from her. She would submit her body to him tomorrow but he wouldn’t stop just there, no, Liam was going to own her soul, soon and she would submit it to him just like she submitted her body. On the bloody silver platter, willingly.
Meanwhile, Susan didn’t know what to feel when Ralph kept holding her in his arms. He was drunk when he came to her house and asked her to get out of her clothes, just like that, there was no foreplay, no warning and he entered inside without caring about her being ready. Today, he was taking her frustration out on her, Susan could feel that she was being used by him in her own home.
Tears of frustration perked in her eyes, she didn’t know why she was letting him treat her like this. Susan Kelly would never let anyone treat her in this degrading manner the way she was letting him do, her mind was playing tricks on her and she didn’t know how to handle it.
After watching her father marry countless times and her mother dying alone in hope that one day he would ask her to come back in his life made she miserable. Susan watched her mother crying every night. When Susan questioned her father about this he slapped her, telling Susan to not interfere in his life.Property of Nô)(velDr(a)ma.Org.
Susan had lived her childhood in an environment she wanted to run away from. Her mother was never happy except for the time she spent with her but even then she used to hide her pain, she tried to be brave for Susan but that was not in her character. Susan’s mother was a weak woman and Susan still couldn’t forgive her for that. She cried and wasted her life for a man who was not worthy of her love or attention. That was the only reason she made sure that she would never be like her mother.
Unlike her mother, Susan was practical and bold. She thinks about sex as it was, a physical need not some stupid romantic theory like the joining of two souls and she was proud of her way of thinking but for the first time in her life, Susan was hating herself for behaving like her mother.
Her mother let her father use her, physically, mentally and emotionally. Even when he was married to her third wife he used to visit their home saying he came to meet Susan but he never cared about her, he used to hand her a few toys and then her parents went to her mother’s bedroom. Susan’s ten-year-old mind was not mature enough to understand what was going on behind closed doors but when she grew up she understood everything too well.
The hatred she felt for her father increased after that.
She promised herself that she would never let any man use her like that but today she broke that promise to herself.
She let Ralph Knight use her, he didn’t give anything, today, only took and she allowed it to happen and what hurts the most is that after using her body he scooped her in his arms, took her to her bed and held her in his arms only to sleep without a word spoken to her.
Susan asked herself, what was she hoping for, a declaration of love? If she would have been the old Susan she would have ceased her thighs the moment the word Love entered her mind but she changed. Susan Kelly was changed the moment she allowed Ralph Knight to take her and today she wanted exactly what she always hated.
His love, yes Susan wanted Ralph to say that he loves her. she didn’t need sex only, she didn’t want to be in a Dom-Sub relationship with him, she wanted what her friends have.
A girlfriend-boyfriend relationship. She gave a lecture to Aurora about testing the water before swimming into it and here she had fallen for a man whom she knew only for a week.
“You are doomed, Susan. You are doomed to fall for a man like him,” she whispered as she closed her eyes and waited for the morning.
Ralph opened his eyes sometimes at night. He frowned when he felt a warm body attached to him. He turned his head and found Susan in his arms. Her face was in his neck while their legs were tangled together.
He scowled thinking, when did he come here? Suddenly, the memories of the previous night ran through his memory as he recalled mercilessly he used her body. The images of her opening the door for her and him taking her against the wall snapped into his mind.
He recalled how he didn’t even give her the time to adjust to himself and fucked her raw! Blood drained from his face, his body wanted to jerk away from her, self-loathing filled his mind. He facepalmed himself over what he did.
He tried to create a little distance between them but she moved closer to him and money in sleep. Ralph ceased all his movement and remained in that position so that her sleep would not be disturbed while the pain and guilt over these actions were eating him raw.
The whole night, Ralph was staring at the ceiling of her room thinking how similar he was to his father. The man hated his whole life over what he did to Ralph’s mother.
In the morning, he didn’t know how to behave with Susan, she was silent so was he, there was nothing they could talk about, he wanted to talk to her, apologise for what he did but he didn’t know how to do it.
Susan wanted to break the ice between them, she pushed her hair behind her ear and cleared her throat. “Do you want breakfast?”
“Did I hurt you, last night? Was I too rough for you?” He asked.
Susan’s heart dropped. What if she said yes to his Questions, what would he do then? Punish himself? She needed to know because she knew she couldn’t be his stress beating toy.
“Yes, you did! I don’t want you to be this rough with me, again!” There she started her boundaries.
Ralph nodded. “I am freeing you from this relationship,” saying that he walked out of her bedroom leaving a heartbroken Susan behind him.