Chapter 77

Meadow’s POV

My face had gotten flushed to the point where I could practically feel the heat radiating from my pores.

“I came here because I want to watch you pleasure yourself, Meadow. It’s barely enough watching through a damn blurry screen.”

“That’s an invasion of my privacy!” I gasped, and this time he let me turn around to face him. I pushed hard against his chest. “How dare you? How dare you watch me without my permission like a fucking creep?!”

Fury spread across my chest like wildfire. Alaric had been watching me. He ignored me, treated me like I didn’t exist, controlled me, and then had the audacity to watch me in the pool.

The tips of my ears grew hot—I wasn’t sure if it was just the anger or something else.

Yes, I was coming up here to take my mind off things. But sometimes, I just let myself feel. Let myself think about him and the things he could be doing to me, and then I came to the thoughts of him.

But he was