Page 99 of Always Mine

She started upstairs, only Luke Senior captured her.He grabbed her ankle, and his strength took her by surprise.She fell down and just attacked, jabbing her other foot into his gut, and it made him grunt, freeing her as it did.

There was no time to get free as he grabbed both her feet and pulled her downstairs.Daisy cried out as he dragged her, and she tried to gain leverage and attempt to become a dead weight.The ground cut her, and her dress fell down.There would be marks from where the glass embedded into her flesh.

He dragged her back to the kitchen and then spun her over, hitting her in the face.It was an open-palm slap.Once, twice, he did this.

She felt a ringing in her ears, but she ignored it.With him focused on hitting her, he had let go of her feet, and she pulled her foot back and jammed it into his crotch.

He cried out and she was able to get to her feet, but then he recovered quickly.He threw her across the room, and she fell into the only fucking glass kitchen cabinet that hadn’t already been broken.

Even as pain shot through her body from the impact as he grabbed her again, she picked up a piece of glass.This time, she lashed out, slashing him across the face.In her desperation, she didn’t wait for him to recover, she kept hitting out at him, but Luke Senior shoved her hard, and she crashed to the floor again, dropping the glass.

All too soon, he picked her up, and she couldn’t believe it as he shoved her across the table.The same table her father sat at all those years ago, counting the money, when she walked in carrying that shovel.She had killed him, and had felt nothing.

The skirt of her dress was pulled up.

“Dad, fucking stop it.Let her go.”

Luke Senior pushed her head to one side, and she looked toward his son, who was bolted to the chair and floor.This was not good.He tore at her panties.She felt like she was going to vomit.

She had failed.Those girls were still upstairs, locked up, and she was about to be raped, then killed.Daisy didn’t know what to do.The panic started to rise within her.

“Dad, fucking leave her alone!”

Luke didn’t let up as she watched him while also coming to terms with what was happening.It appeared as if he was trying to pull his hands off the nails that had been thrust into him.Even using his feet.

She wanted Anthony.With each passing second, she remembered all the time she spent with him.The love she felt.Even, at times, the annoyance.She hated when the girls at school would flirt with him, because she knew exactly what they were after.She fucking hated them all.At the time, she didn’t realize she had been jealous.Just like she had been jealous of Tabitha, thinking he was in love with her best friend.The fear of not belonging, of him suddenly realizing she wasn’t good enough for him.She was terrified of losing him.

And then, it was like her thoughts conjured him up.She heard the unmistakable sound of Luke Senior’s zipper, which made her nearly throw up.Then, the door to her father’s old home swung open.She didn’t have time to see who arrived.Daisy heard him.

The growl that emitted, like an enraged monster, echoed through the room.One moment Luke Senior was preparing to rape her, in the next, he was across the room as Anthony appeared.

She didn’t move, just stayed in that position as she watched the love of her life.The quiet one.The one people feared and yet teased.He unleashed the beast he kept at bay.She watched him pound Luke Senior.The older man didn’t get a single punch in.He was now at the mercy of what he had created.Taking Daisy was the biggest mistake he ever made.

Anthony was calm, didn’t overreact, didn’t punish, unless they hurt Daisy.

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Anthony knew his fatherand the guys had already started to find the girls, and they took care of the other goons that had stuck by this disgusting motherfucker.

He’d heard Daisy’s screams.They had been making their way through the thick overgrowth when he heard her screams.They hadn’t been soft or subtle.This scream had been one filled with fear, one that sent chills down his spine as he knew his woman was in danger.All he could do was run and get to her as fast as he could.

Kicking open that door, he would never forget the scene of this piece of shit reaching into his pants as he was about to rape his woman.Killing him was the only option.

Luke Senior stopped responding, and as he pulled back, he felt someone grip his arm and turned to see Lash, his father.

There was nothing left of Luke Senior.

“You’ve done good, son,” he said.“It’s over.It’s over.”

Anthony took a deep breath, then another, and he glanced down to see the mess he had made on the floor.His hands were covered in blood.His clothing was covered in blood.

Stepping back from his father, he glanced across the room, and there she was, wrapped in the Skulls leather cut.Her face cut and bleeding.He saw the bruises already starting to appear.

Her gaze was on him.Anthony stepped over the body and advanced toward her.No one stopped him.

Daisy didn’t flinch as he reached out and cupped her face, staring into her brown eyes.They were the same eyes he’d fallen in love with all those years ago.His feelings had not changed.They had only gotten stronger.

She put her hands on his and looked him in the eyes.

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