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 to control, but…

God damn it.

her that he

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chain of an anchor wrapped around his

the earth.

scaring her, the need to break her, to make her

moon’s sway over the tides. He can crash all he wants, but Fay is the

he

himself whispers. Just swim

it, he can’t. He

one thing, the rest will fall –

a loose string on a sweater. It will all fall apart.

hours on that floor, trapped, stuck

a board, torn between opposing forces. The first

let it all collapse as he takes her in his

twin, however, still whispers

just pushes a little harder…he

her in

can make

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

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