Page 81 of Ashes of Sin

Abuse comes in different forms, and Kyra Fox has been controlled and taught she must obey her father.

Well fuck that, if anyone is going to control her, it’s me.

I wish I could turn back time and not kidnap her. I wish I could have known how I’d feel about her and sweep her off her feet. Date her. Make her fucking fall in love with me.

Instead, I let my hatred for my father dominate everything.

“Come with me Kyra,” I tell her, and she bites her bottom lip as tears fill her eyes.

“She isn’t going anywhere with you, Sterling. Stay the fuck away from my daughter,” Fox grinds out.

I will deal with him one day.

Not today.

Right now, I need her to know she can walk back over to me of her own free will.

“Kyra is a grown woman. She can decide for herself who she wants to go with.”

“Maddox,” she almost whispers, but I feel her slipping away from me.

No.

I can’t lose her.

I don’t care about my father. I don’t care about revenge.

I cannot let her go.

I tug against the hold the blond cop has on me but it’s too late. Kyra turns her back on me and ice fills my heart. From the tips of my toes to the tips of my ears I feel the cold pull me under.

She chose him.

I should’ve known she would.

Fox leads her around the corner and then out of my life forever.

I let out a roar, picking up my glass and smashing it across the room.

“Okay, big guy, let’s go,” the cop says.

“Out the back,” Travis tells them. “You’re not walking through my club with him.”

“You should listen to him,” Zayne warns.

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TEN MINUTES LATER, I’m in the back of the cop car seething when my phone rings.

“Hello Maddox,” my father’s voice says. “Have you finished playing with my bride?”

The motherfucker.

I almost crush my phone, but I dig deep for the familiar control of my fury which I’ve long since learned to channel.

“No,” I reply. “And you should know I’ve taken every inch of her innocence, so you may as well toss her away. You will never pleasure her.”

He laughs. The same revolting dry laugh I heard every time my small ass was penetrated by one of his friends’ cocks. Or as their come leaked from my mouth.

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