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“I do know this isn’t right. You can’t?—”

“No, the court says I can do whatever I deem appropriate. I am the trustee of your estate, such as it is. I am the one that controls everything you own, and I have decided the appropriate thing to do with you is to keep you here under my roof and give you a generous allowance of two hundred a month.”

“You won’t get away with this,” she said, getting to her feet.

“I already have,” I said, standing as well. “As your trustee, I decide what’s good for you. I decide what you deserve, and if you were smart, you would learn how to make the best of that.”

“Fuck you,” she spat at me.

“Your father really didn’t teach you any fucking manners, did he?” I moved around the desk, as she backed away from me.

CHAPTER 14

LUCIAN

She pressed against one of the built-in bookcases that lined my office.

When her back hit the wooden bookcase, I wrapped my hands around her throat and squeezed.

Not hard enough to restrict her breathing but hard enough that she would know I could.

“This is your life now, and if you’re going to be a little brat, I’ll treat you like one.”

“You wouldn’t,” she sneered.

I tightened my hand and ran the other one down her body to her plump little behind.

“There is no bailiff here who’s going to knock on the door.”

“I don’t care.” Anger burned behind her eyes, and I grabbed a handful of her ass, watching as her face crumpled in a wince of pain.

I knew my marks were still there.

“Are you going to be my good little girl?”

“Never,” she said, and I raised my hand and spanked her, pressing her mouth into my shoulder to muffle her screams.

I spanked her over her clothes three or four more times, feeling the thick fabric of the skirt and the leggings no doubt padding my strikes. But that didn’t matter. With the bruises I had left with the belt, she would feel every single one.

When I pulled her away from my shoulder, she was breathing heavily, tears leaked down her cheeks, and a flush of red went from her almost angelic face down her neck and disappeared under the low V-neck of her sweater.

I didn’t know what about that made her so fucking appealing.

The next thing I knew, my lips were pressed to hers, my tongue pushing between her teeth, exploring her mouth.

She could say she hated me all she wanted, but that didn’t change the fact that I could feel her body press into mine. Her hands rested on my shoulders while her fingers dug into my suit and held me closer.

Fuck, I had never been so hard so quickly in my life.

She pushed me back, and I let her. I wasn’t done with this fight any more than she was.

“I won’t be treated like this.”

I kept my hand wrapped around her throat and moved my thumb to tilt her chin up, making her face me. “You will be treated exactly how I decide you will be treated.”

“I don’t want to live here. I don’t want to be around you.”

“Fine,” I said, taking a step back and motioning towards the door. “Then leave. But you leave without a single cent. The only thing you will have are the clothes on your back.”

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