Chapter 174

Because that’s what it’s all about, after all, Kent thinks ruefully.

Control. Everything is about control – controlling his life, his world,

the underworld, his business ventures, the threats to his power

and everything he and his family have built. He has to keep a tight

fist around all of it – absolutely all of it – or it will fall apart.

And Fay-

Somehow, fucking Fay-

This wisp of a girl, this tiny, naïve, coltish thing who knows absolutely nothing about this world –

Somehow, she is the thing that threatened to undo it all. Because

she makes him absolutely lose control. With her, he has no idea

what he will do next.

And the intensity of how he feels towards her – how much he wants her… Yes, on one level it’s a physical desire – but Kent is forced to admit, now, laying on the floor staring at his ceiling that it goes beyond that. That the magnitude of what he feels is not just

woman he seeks

God damn it.

pull towards her that

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of an anchor wrapped around his feet.

of the

of this? The scaring her, the need to break her, to make her submit –

sway over the tides. He can crash all he

thinks he might

the voice inside himself

god damn it, he

to just this one thing, the rest will fall

or a loose string on a sweater. It will

lays for hours on that

board, torn between

it all collapse as he

however, still whispers into his

little

have her in his world, just

make her fit.

the question of which path to take, because he knows that these are the only two paths in his

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