Forbidden Temptation My Mafia Fiance's Alpha Father

Chapter 65

Chapter 65 Brooklyn

After all the effort I went through to find some dinner, I end up picking at it all night, the food not tasting quite right ever since I realized what was going on in the basement.

This world is so confusing to me. On one hand, there's so much beauty to it-the two days spent at the stables were some of the happiest moments of my life.

But everything that happened last night-and now, knowing what happened downstairs-what still might be going on...

I'm so uncomfortable, knowing that I'm living in a world where the happy parts are bought with violence and pain.

Eventually, I drift into an uncomfortable sleep. I had hoped that Hudson might come by, talk to me, maybe put my mind at east. But he never showed up.

I'm restless all night, waking up at every perceived noise.

I must have fallen into some sort of deep slumber, though, because when someone shakes my shoulder, I'm suddenly awake, gasping, shocked.

How the hell did they get into my room without me waking up?

I spin in my sheets, terrified, my eyes adjusting to see a dark figure crouched there.

I cringe back, but stop when I hear a soft, familiar shushing sound.

"Shh, shh, Baby Brooklyn, it's all right," Jayde says, putting her hands on my shoulders.

"Jayde!" I cry, sitting straight up in bed, instantly awake.

She turns her head towards the door at my noise, worried, and puts a finger to her lips, shushing me.

As her face is turned, the light from the window falls on her face, revealing a deep bruise starting along her cheekbone, under her eye. Her lip is swollen, too, a little cut down its left side.

say more softly, reaching out

me but then works to put on a smile. I can see that it

to you," I ask, but in the pit of

says, giving me a truer smile now.

off, "we don't have a lot of time. Tell

says, putting a hand on my

while," she continues, glancing back at the door over

my stomach and my chest as I study

of here," she says, working again to keep the fear off of her face, but I can tell by her quickening words that

"Jayde, did he "

smile again, though there

his good side, okay? He won't do anything to you if you do what he says.

she hesitates now, "do what you need to do to survive. But at every turn, let

in my eyes now. I open my mouth to speak but she

she says,

at the cut on her lip. "I'm all right. Just

I'm getting out of

tears from beneath

on my cheek. "I knew you the instant I saw you in that kitchen downstairs knew you

against my emotions, struggling to

here all this time, taking care of me and I didn't

didn't know?" I

shakes her head

were you

questions, Brooklyn," she says seriously, "that you don't want to know the answer

not really knowing, now, whether or not I want to

the pocket of her jeans. "I

it into my

get this to your