Total pages in book: 40
Estimated words: 38610 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 193(@200wpm)___ 154(@250wpm)___ 129(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 38610 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 193(@200wpm)___ 154(@250wpm)___ 129(@300wpm)
“I know what I said. Are you fucking thick? I’m dying. I don’t want to do this shit. Get it out of my way. Marrying you was a waste of time. I should have just died alone.”
Rain came into view of the camera, and Wolf’s gut clenched. Before she turned the camera off, she wiped at the tears that had escaped down her face. No sound came out of her mouth.
The pain in her eyes was so clear to see.
He’d hurt her.
That son of a bitch had hurt her, and he’d gotten away with it because he was fucking dying, and it pissed him off.
Hands clenched into fists, Wolf watched several more videos. There were some dated around the time Evelyn was born.
The Daniel he saw then was a much better man. Always happy. Always smiling. Slowly, and bitterly, his death sentence finally ate away at him until he’d become this horrible putrid, dead weight.
He turned off the laptop and glanced around the room.
Wolf had a feeling that the problem with Rain was guilt. She felt guilty for falling out of love with her husband. He understood Evelyn’s attachment as well. Dropping down to the bed, he saw it all, and what was worse, he didn’t fucking care.
Evelyn wanted him to be her dad, and rather than recoil and hate the thought of it, he didn’t mind, not one bit.
That girl was a sweetheart.
Rain was one hell of a woman. He’d never known anyone like her. She had given up everything for that man. No college, no future. Just a wife, mother, and then a caretaker. That was what she had become, and she’d done it willingly and for her husband.
Daniel didn’t deserve her, and Wolf had a feeling, neither did he.
****
Evelyn was fast asleep.
Rain stroked her daughter’s hair and wished for sweet dreams for her little girl. As usual, though, the door opened, and the guard was there to take her back to her own room, which she hated.
She hated leaving her daughter to anyone else.
Getting to her feet, she pulled the blanket up a little higher around her daughter’s shoulders, not wanting her to get cold.
This was the hardest part. Leaving her.
Wolf hadn’t been at home all day.
He had gone after breakfast, and Evelyn missed him. She’d asked after him at dinner, then during bath time, then as she read her a story.
Rain didn’t know what she was going to do. Her little girl was getting attached to a man who could kill them and make them disappear.
The guard stood at her door, and Rain stepped inside, coming to a stop when she saw the maid putting some nightclothes on her bed.
“I’m so sorry,” the maid said.
She’d already closed the door.
“Wait, please,” Rain said. She hadn’t spoken to any of the maids who came in and out of her room. There was never any time. They worked so fast and never made eye contact.
“Can you … is there any way you can help me escape with my daughter?” Rain asked. The only way to protect Evelyn from him was to get her far away.
The maid’s head jerked up. “Leave?”
“Yes. You know, freedom. Getting out and being safe.”
The maid’s brow furrowed. “Why would you want to do that?”
Rain frowned. “What?”
Why was she being questioned about wanting to break free from Wolf? He was a monster.
“Why would you want to escape?” the maid asked.
“Why would you want to stay?” Rain didn’t understand this. “You do know there is a whole life out there waiting for you. A chance and an opportunity to live … freely.
The maid laughed.
“I’m not joking.”
“I know you’re not joking, but the fact you think there is a chance to live … freely, that’s what I find funny.”
“You’re a slave here.”
“No, I am here because I want to be here.”
“Wolf is a monster.”
“Wolf is not a bad man.”
This was one strange conversation. Rain ran fingers through her hair and tried to figure out what she should say to make this woman understand what she was trying to explain.
The maid stood, hands at her sides, and Rain really looked at her. There was no fear.
“Wolf kills people. He takes women and sells them.”
“So?” the maid asked.
“You don’t think this is a bad thing?”
The maid shrugged. “There are all bad people in the world. Wolf is a good man. He saved me from a life of pain and misery. He is a bad man that is good. I have no reason to leave him. I have a roof over my head. Good food. Money. A place to live. I am safe here. I have never been safe in my whole life.”
“How?” Rain asked.
The maid smiled. “I was put into the care system as a baby. I was a pretty child and ended up being sold on the black market. From a young age, I was sent to anyone who wanted to bed a pretty child until I was nothing more than a teenage problem. That is how Wolf found me. Chained up like an animal. Forced to fuck whoever I was told. I was fifteen. You talk of freedom. The moment he picked me up and brought me here, I knew true freedom.”