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.

softly, reaching out towards

works to put on a smile. I

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

about it, baby," she says, giving me a truer smile now. "How are you, are you okay?"

seriously, cutting me off, "we don't have a lot of time. Tell me are

she says, putting a hand on my

a while," she continues, glancing back at the door over her shoulder. "But

collects in my stomach and my chest as

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

"Jayde, did he "

to smile again,

do anything to you if you do

"do what you need to do to survive. But at every turn, let him think he has the

eyes now. I open my mouth to speak but she

do that, little cousin," she

when it pulls at the cut on her lip.

I'm getting out

it's true?" I ask, wiping the tears from beneath

instant I saw you in that kitchen downstairs knew you

against my emotions, struggling

cousin, here all this time, taking care of me

he...he didn't know?"

shakes her

you were

she says seriously, "that you don't want to

knowing, now, whether or not I

says, reaching into the pocket of her jeans. "I

pushing it into my hand. I stare

need you to get this to your dad," she says