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Chapter Forty Four

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Jamal's POV

The storm had been gathering all night, thick clouds rolling in over the estate like bruises on the sky. I'd been in my study for hours but i hadn't so much as touched the paperwork spread across my desk. Contracts, numbers and strategic initiatives all blurred together because my mind was in one place "Melissa"

The earlier fight still lingered with me. Eleanor's barbs had been poisonous but it was not her poison that kept me up, it was Melissa's silence.

She had simply stood there frozen, her mouth opening but nothing coming out and her eyes was a mess of guilt and pain and silence that burned me more than any confession could have.

Melissa wasn't a quiet woman. She spoke her mind even when it landed her in trouble, spoke up for herself even when she was scared but tonight, she'd been quiet and i couldn't tell if it was because she was protecting me or hiding from me.

The whiskey glass on my desk went untasted, the amber liquid mirroring the lamplight as i pressed my palm
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  • Daddy's Little Secret    Chapter Fifty Seven

    Melissa's POVI never knew that silence could cut like a knife but the look in Jamal's eyes when i did not answer him hurt more than any wound that my father ever inflicted.His words kept echoing in my head "If you do not tell me the truth right now, we're through"I wanted to shout, to tear the words out of my mouth, to tell him all and beg him to believe me but terror gagged me. Terror of my father's fury, terror of Jamal's revulsion and terror of a truth too ridiculous to ever come together and so i was silent and that silence destroyed us.Jamal's chest convulsed, his fists bunched at his sides like he was fighting the urge to break something, maybe me the man standing over me, smiling triumphantly then my father's smirk burned at the base of my skull. He was relishing it, sustaining himself on it. He had a talent for breaking people without laying a finger on them and tonight, i was the instrument he was employing to break Jamal."Jamal" I reached for him, helpless but he pulled

  • Daddy's Little Secret    Chapter Fifty Six

    Jamal’s POVThe words echoed long after he said them, ricocheting through my skull with brutal precision.“I am her father”The monster I’d hunted in shadows, the enemy I’d sworn to destroy and the ghost who’d been manipulating everything from behind the curtain.Her father.Melissa's crying occupied the room with noise for several seconds and each of them cut into me, bare and splintery, so that anger and grief were indistinguishable and i wanted to seize her shoulders, shake her, demand of her why she never spoke but i couldn't—not with him there, standing watching me with that self-satisfied calm like a man who had already won before the contest even began.I glared him down "You've got five seconds to explain the devil you're in my house" i saidHis lips curled, a ghost smile "Still ordering, still crazy and i can see why she loves you."Melissa choked on a sob, her hands clapped over her mouth.My anger roared "Don't you ever" i roared"Dare what?" he cut in suavely, moving forwa

  • Daddy's Little Secret    Chapter Fifty Five

    Jamal's POVThe knock was not casual, not polite and not someone walking by.It was deliberate measured. The kind of knock that tells you power before you have even seen the face behind it.Melissa went rigid and i saw her grip her fingers around the silk border of her dress as though she were holding onto a rope over an abyss and she opened her mouth but she did not say anything. Her eyes were wide open, drowning with fear and i had never seen her like that.A second knock was Louder still. Slower and whoever had stood behind that door wasn't rushing. They knew exactly what they were doing, drawing out the silence, inserting themselves into our nerves, goading us into cracking before they even opened the door."Melissa" I said my voice a low, even sound despite every muscle in me was sizzling with heat "Who the hell is it?" i askedShe shook her head walking to me with the hands trembling as they clamped on my arm "Don't, Jamal. Please don't open it."I twitched my face towards her,

  • Daddy's Little Secret    Chapter Fifty Four

    Jamal's POVThe room was a battlefield of echoes and silence. Melissa's screams, Dante's chuckles. That lady's smooth, calculated voice: Then make your choice.The gun shook in my hand so hard i thought I'd lose my hold and sweat stung my eyes but i wouldn't blink and i was staring at her once again at the woman who had battled her way out of my fantasies and stood between me and everything i loved."Who are you?" I got through in a croaked voice, seething with rage and disbelief.Her chin rose a small increment "You already know" she saidThe power of her words suffocated me. Memories i had walled up in coffins burst forth with laughter by the sea, the smell of jasmine in her hair, the touch that once undone me. My chest was in a vice."No," I snarled, shoving the past aside "I buried you and i buried you with my own hands."Her lips twisted nearly a smile but shattered at the edges "And yet here i am"Melissa's cry shattered the tension like shattering glass "Jamal, no! Don't listen

  • Daddy's Little Secret    Chapter Fifty Three

    Melissa's POVI don't even know how long i yelled his name. My throat was dry, my lungs burned but i couldn't remain silent. The walls closing in upon me crept closer and closer with each second, the cold stone creeping into my flesh like the room itself had to consume me alive."Jamal!" My voice broke again, the noise bouncing back off of me in twisted echoes.I tugged at the cuffs around my wrists until metal grazed deep, tearing the skin. Pain from blood only drove me to fight harder and panic pounded in my chest but underneath it was anger. Why did Dante ensnare me like this? Why did he utilize me as a lure to catch Jamal?" i asked myself.But the fear won every time Jamal failed to answer.Then a voices muffled like whispers through cracks. One of them made my heart leap—Jamal's but another halted me. A woman.Who was she?The words were unclear but the tones were not. Jamal was broken, irate, torn asunder and the woman voice was eerie. She had gravity, an intimacy but i couldn't

  • Daddy's Little Secret    Chapter Fifty Two

    Jamal's POVThe quiet was heavy as a storm about to break and my hand locked around the gun hard enough my knuckles whitened but the strength in my arm was not stable, it shook, quivering under the weight of something i couldn't pin down. Fear? Anger? or the ghost's shadow i didn't want to face?Her voice came back soft but strong, slicing through the darkness."Jamal, you can't save her like this."That voice could not be. It burrowed deep inside me like a hook dragging me back through time.I moved one step forward, my chest laboring and falling in ragged gasps "Repeat that" I demanded with a closing throat closing almost choking on the words."Repeat what?" she asked, the touch of irony in her voice barely perceptible."My name. The way you just said it. Say it again." I saidShe was in the dark, the faint illumination bending around her form. She did not move and did not flinch "You're not ready for this" she whispered.A guffaw had erupted from me, one without laughter "Not ready

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