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.

more softly,

to put on a smile. I can see

ask, but in the

smile now. "How are you, are you okay?" "Me," I

Tell me are you alright?" Surprised by the question, I nod. "Sure, Jayde.

says, putting a hand on my

the door

in my stomach and my chest as I study her face. "Where are

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

"Jayde, did he "

trying to smile again, though there

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

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

I open my

do that, little cousin," she says, giving me a broad

the cut on her lip.

I'm getting

I ask, wiping the tears from beneath my eyes. "You're really

"I knew you the instant I saw you in that kitchen downstairs knew

against my emotions, struggling to keep from

here all this time, taking care of

didn't

her head

were you

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

knowing, now,

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

little note, pushing it into

need you to get this to your