Chapter 48

“Fuck’s sake, Lorey!” he snaps at me, losing his shit entirely, and stops as we hit the foot of the stairs. He turns me on snappily, hauls me towards him by the waist, bends, and hoists me over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Seriously emanating all kinds of rage at my refusal to be controlled and glares at me, hitting me with a full-on furious frown and sneer. He is not playing anymore; his anger radiates hotter than the sun, but it only heightens my own. Carrying me as I squirm and wriggle and kick out, using my nails on his back to make him drop me. He grips me tight and does the worst thing he can do at this moment. He uses his gift again to get me to do as he wants, against my will. Be still. Be quiet. Obey me! I freeze, motionless, voiceless, all without choice and downright furious that he renders me immobile. My internal bubbling pot of ‘how the fuck dare you’ intensified to volcanic levels in the blink of an eye. Internally seething that twice, in the space of a minute,