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.

I say more softly, reaching out towards

put on a smile. I can see

in the pit of my

a truer smile now. "How are you, are

have a lot of time. Tell me are you alright?" Surprised by

sweetheart," she says, putting a hand

a while," she continues, glancing back at the door over her shoulder. "But I couldn't leave without saying goodbye

as I study her face. "Where are you

says, working again to keep the fear off of her face, but I can

"Jayde, did he "

she says, trying to smile

stay on his good side, okay? He won't do anything to you

every turn, let him think he has the upper hand. His

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

she

it pulls at the cut on her lip. "I'm all

I'm getting out of

wiping the tears from beneath

"I knew you the instant

lip against my emotions, struggling to

this time, taking care of me and I

he...he didn't know?"

her head at

were you

ask questions, Brooklyn," she says seriously, "that you

really knowing, now, whether or not I want to

of her jeans. "I need you

it into my hand. I

get this to your