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With the pressure on my jaw, I couldn’t protest.
“Remember that kid Ben Hur? He used to be my little distraction but the fucker made the mistake of biting me.”
My heart was already racing too fast, but it sped up when I remembered Ben. He had been one of the oldest kids when I started at the school and he too had died in an accident. My nostrils were working overtime trying to breathe and I was screaming with only muffled sounds coming out.
With his chest weighing down on my back, Johnson used his hands to unfasten his own pants. Something hard was poking at my ass.
“No,” I shouted and started crying in panic. “You can cut me, but not that.”
“Oh, I’ll fucking cut you alright, I always brand my little bitches.”
Spreading my cheeks with his hands, Johnson groaned and panted. But I squeezed my ass together as tight as I could, screaming my lungs out.
CHAPTER 18
Compromises
Athena
It was Finn’s third night at my house and he was being difficult again.
“I’m not sleeping next to Hans,” he said and crossed his arms. We were in my upstairs bedroom and Finn had just come out of the bathroom. “Why can’t I sleep next to you like I did the other nights?” he asked.
“It’s not really up to you, and you’re hurting Hans’ feelings.”
Hans looked down, shifting his balance.
“Hans, I’m sorry to hurt your fragile feelings, but I’m sleeping with Athena, so you might as well go downstairs,” Finn ordered.
“Okay,” Hans said and hurried down the staircase as if he’d just been waiting for an excuse all along.
I turned to Finn, giving him the stink eye. “You don’t make the rules here.”
“Look, honey.” He held up both hands. “Enough is enough. You go out to dinner without me, and you make me sit down and write thirty things that I’m grateful for. Then you bring me back a salad that I wouldn’t even feed to my goat.”
I sighed. “You don’t have a goat, and that was a really nice buckwheat salad.”
“The point is,” Finn said and lowered his brow, “you can only push a man so far, and with the way you clung to me last night, I’m not taking any chances with Hans.”
“He won’t touch you,” I said in a low voice and walked over to close the door, hoping to spare Hans’ feelings.
“You don’t know that for sure,” Finn said. “All you Motlander people are so touchy-feely, and I don’t want to sleep with one eye open.”
“What exactly are you afraid of?” I asked.
“Nothing, I’m just not interested in sharing a bed with another man, that’s it.”
At first I had thought Finn was saying it because he was hoping to be physical with me. But there was something about the tone of his voice that set off my nurturing instincts. “Did something bad happen to you?” I asked.
“No,” Finn said and gave me a hard stare. “And I’m done discussing this. Either I sleep next to you in the bed or I sleep on the floor.”
“Are you willing to let me tie you up?” My voice was soft.
“That’s a definite no!”
“But…”
Finn shook his head. “Come on, Athena, if I was going to take you by force, I would have done it back home, and I didn’t, did I?”
