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

a woman he seeks to control, but…

God damn it.

pull towards her that he hasn’t felt since he

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chain of an anchor wrapped

the

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

the moon’s sway over the tides. He can crash all he wants, but Fay is the force that calls the still waters within him to her. Makes them rise

he

himself

it, he

one thing, the

loose string on a

on that floor, trapped, stuck like

to a board, torn between opposing

stronger one, is to let it all collapse as he takes

however, still

pushes a little harder…he can break her. Make

her in his world, just as he likes her –

he can make

that these are the only

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