Chapter 105

Lake POV

The implications of his words hit me like a physical blow. He was going to force me back into sex work. Back into the life I’d barely escaped. But this time it would be worse because he had Ollie too. He could use Ollie against me, threaten him, hurt him—

“And speaking of picking up where we left off,” Samuel continued, his hand moving lower, down my neck, across my collarbone,

“I was thinking we should work on giving Ollie a little brother or sister. You’re twenty now, right? Prime breeding age. And you’ve already proven you can carry to term, even if the circumstances were... complicated.”

My blood ran cold. He couldn’t mean—he wouldn’t—

But the look in his eyes said he absolutely would

“No,” I said, trying to put every ounce of strength I had into that single word. “No, Samuel. I won’t—you can’t—”

“Can’t I?” Samuel asked, and his hand was on my chest now, fingers splaying across my shirt, teasing my nipple. “Lake, I can do