Chapter 34

Augustus

The moment I stopped her from going out of the house and exposed her with the bottle of sleeping pills, I saw fear in her eyes. When I blackmailed her that I could destroy her father if she ever tried to terminate her life her demeanor changed to an incensed wight. She ran away from me like I was some kind of forbidden fruit which desolated me to shreds. I could stand anything in my life but not hatred for me in her orbs. Using ‘a father card’ every time to get her to agree to my terms proved me less of a man but I had no other option. By whatever means I need to protect her before she could think of the unthinkable.

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Five days later…..

It was finally the day of my marriage with the queen of my dreams. I couldn’t sleep the whole night. The anticipation of seeing ‘her’ and making her mine forever was bringing heebie-jeebies in my system. Entire cells in my body were in riot, unable to function engulfed in the moments of blissfulness. Last fe