Good girl.
Things might have been shit tonight, but I found contentment with her in my arms.
It wasn’t long after that she finally succumbed to sleep.
Then I disentangled from her and climbed off the bed.
I walked to the closet, grabbed the ropes I had stored there, and tied one of her hands to the bed frame.
Once satisfied, I left for the bathroom and grabbed a clean cloth. I spread her legs and cleaned her pussy.
She didn’t even stir.
What a sweet little innocent, making me feel like the monster she had accused me of being, set out to devour her whole.
And I would do just that.
I would take everything that belonged to her and make it mine. Just because she’d found out the truth about me didn’t change that.
I licked my lips and pushed my fingers between her slick folds.
Fuck, but I could smell her, the scent of her arousal drawing me a little deeper into her.
She murmured, and I regretfully pulled my fingers away and went back to cleaning her.
I stayed where I was and watched her for a beat before I put on my clothes and walked out the door. I would not be going to sleep until every single one of the fuckers that came to my wedding left my house and security had done a thorough sweep.
I would not be taking any chances with Bianca’s safety.
I headed to my office, toggling the security cameras to the screen that showed the master bedroom and the sleeping girl tied to my bed.
I would keep watch over her like a fucking fallen angel thirsty for blood.
18
BIANCA
I wokeup tied to the bed.
I examined my surroundings, trying to make sense of why I was feeling so crappy, only for the memories to come back to me.
Gabriel was the head of the cartel.
The rumors were wrong.
They’d said a man named Luis—the same man who had met with Lucinda that night—was in charge, but that wasn’t the case. It was rumored that Gabriel had ties. A possible relation, perhaps, but no one had said hewasthe cartel.
I should have never gotten mixed up with him.
But I got caught up in the illusion that he provided, and I’d somehow convinced myself that perhaps the rumors were just that… rumors.
Until he forced me to marry him.
But to know that he didn’t just havetieswith the cartel…
I took in a stuttering breath and tried to break away from the bindings.
I was still naked from last night.