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.

her that he hasn’t felt

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the chain of an

the

this, all of this? The scaring her, the need to break her, to make her submit – it was all a

crash all he wants, but Fay is the force that calls the still waters within him to her. Makes them rise

he might drown.

inside himself whispers.

god damn it, he

just this one thing, the rest will

a loose string on a sweater. It

Kent lays for hours on that floor, trapped, stuck like a bug

to a board, torn between opposing forces. The first

one, is to let it all collapse as he takes her in his

still whispers into

just pushes a little harder…he can

he can have her in his world,

he can make her fit.

take, because he knows that these are the

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