Chapter Nine

Alaric's POV

She's engaged.

A foreign feeling shoots through me at the thought that she has someone back home. Suddenly, I want her for myself. I want her to stay with me. To never leave my side.

I shook my head, in hopes to clear my head. She can't be with me. She's just my captive. 

My willing captive. 

I marched to my room before closing it with so much force I could hear the hinges rattled. ‘Why am I so pissed? I just knew the girl and my gut is telling me that she's not who she says she is.’ I thought, mentally berating myself.  

I sat at my computer, opening my laptop but my mind was somewhere else, nowhere near the task at hand. I felt powerful but with the woman outside my door, I felt helpless. Though, it's a different kind of helpless.

The kind of helplessness that doesn't make you weak but makes you stronger.

Sarah Brewer, what are doing to me? 

After I hacked thro