Forbidden Temptation My Mafia Fiance's Alpha Father

Chapter 38

Chapter 38

Brooklyn

My heart is pounding out of my chest as I press the stop button on the remote as fast as I can.

I return my gaze to the doorway where Aden is standing, his, dark eyes boring into me.

Please, please, please. Goddess, let him not have seen me watching his sex tape.

"What are you doing in here?" he asks, furious.

"Um..." I swallow, terrified, hoping he doesn't pick up on the tremor in my voice. "Jayde brought me here. Said I could look through some..." My eyes dart around the room for an answer that is not porn. "Some family photo albums. And home videos."

He narrows his eyes, his gaze flicking to the pile of vintage Playboys on the floor.

"Family photo albums?"

I nod. He knows I'm lying, but I can't bring myself to admit the truth.

"She shouldn't have brought you down here," he says, moving aside so that I can leave the room. I

quickly get to my feet, flicking the power button on the remote so that the TV goes blank.

the room, praying with all my might that Aden does not go back in

behind us as I head for the steps. "Don't come down here again. Do you understand?" Believe me, I won't, I think as I nod, then hurry up and out into the kitchen, heaving a sigh of relief. My knees are weak,

looking forward to going to my room so I can bury my nose into a very different kind of book, my hand sliding to the back pocket

hand slides

dead in my tracks, panicked, and pat all over my body looking for it. Then, slowly, I turn back towards the little door. I definitely felt it in my

phone must have fallen

back. If my dad or Jolie ever called and I missed it... I'd never

it open a crack to listen. I don't hear a sound. Tentatively, I put a foot on the step, waiting

hurry down the stairs and through

the little room and grab

measure, I pop the VHS out of the VCR and put it back in its case, which I slide back on the

the vision from washing over me. Aden, naked and hard, pushing into the

No, Brooklyn. Stop it.

out of the memory and leave the room, quiet as a mouse,

back along the hallway when I hear something to my

dead, terrified

one comes

left. A kind of snap, and then

from which the sound is coming. It's thick, made of iron, with no window. It has a bolt on the outside, like

can also see that the bolt is not

it's a mistake.

at the

metal handle and then, my inner voice still screaming at me to stop, I pull it