thecutedara

Kidnapped, Taken to a private island. I never thought this could happen to me. I never imagined one chance meeting on the eve of my eighteenth birthday could change my life so completely.

Now I belong to him. To Julian. To a man who is as ruthless as he is beautiful - a man whose touch makes me burn. A man whose tenderness I find more devastating than his cruelty.

My captor is an enigma. I don't know who he is or why he took me. There is a darkness inside him - a darkness that scares me even as it draws me in.

My name is Nora Leston, and this is my story.

Two Heart

"Yes," he says, and I see a reflection of my rage and pain in the hard glitter of his eyes. "The men who hurt her are dead, and I'm taking steps to wipe out their entire organization. By the time I'm done, Al-Quadar will be nothing more than a file in government archives."


I hold his gaze without blinking. "Good." I want them all destroyed. I want Julian to tear them apart and make them feel Beth's agony.


In this moment, we understand each other perfectly. He's a killer, and that's exactly what I need him to be. I don't want a sweet, gentle man with a conscience—I want a monster who will brutally avenge Beth's death.


A faint smile lifts the corners of his lips. Bending down, he kisses me lightly on the forehead, then releases me to walk over to the bed, where the rest of his clothes are.


Frowning, I watch as he pulls on a long-sleeved T-shirt, socks, and a pair of boots. "Are you leaving?" I ask, feeling like a cold fist is squeezing my heart at the thought.


"No," he replies, putting on his leather jacket and walking over to my closet. "We are leaving." Opening the closet door, he pulls out my winter coat and warm boots and tosses them to me.


I catch the coat on auto-pilot and put it on. "Are you kidnapping me again?" I ask, pulling on the boots.


"I don't know." Coming up to me, he cups my face in his hand, his thumb rubbing lightly against my lower lip. "Am I?"


I don't know either. For the first time in months, I feel alive. I feel emotions again, sharp and bright. Fear, excitement, exhilaration.


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Chapter 68