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My Bestie’s Dad Likes Me 73
CHAPTER SEVENTY-THREENALA POVI stared at the screen until my eyes started burning.*If you want to know why Mom and Dad actually disappeared, send the money before midnight.*My hands were shaking slightly on the edge of the desk. Mom and Dad didn’t disappear. They died in a car crash when I was too young to remember much of anything besides blurry faces and the smell of vanilla perfume. At least, that was the story Ethan had fed me my entire life while he raised me in cramped apartments and diner booths.He was a liar. I knew he was a liar. He had sold me out twice without blinking, and yet here he was, dangling the one thing I had never been able to stop wondering about right in front of my face.“Damn you, Ethan,” I muttered under my breath.Before I could talk myself out of it, I opened my banking tab, clicked into the massive six-figure balance Ivin had been quietly feeding every month, and wired a thousand dollars straight to the routing details hidden in Ethan’s burner email
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CHAPTER SEVENTY- TWONALA POV“Keep your elbow tucked in, carrot top. If you swing wide like that, anyone with half a brain will take your arm right off.”“I’m trying,” I huffed, wiping a bead of sweat off my forehead with the back of my wrist. “Maybe if you stopped moving like a brick wall, I could actually land a hit.”“A real attacker isn’t going to stand still and let you hit him.”I rolled my eyes, shifting my feet in the warm sand just like he had shown me twenty minutes ago. Four days on this island had done wonders for my body. The purple bruises on my wrists had faded down to faint yellow marks, and my ribs barely ached anymore when I twisted or took a deep breath.Life out here had settled into a strange, quiet routine. Ivin cooked most mornings, I spent afternoons reading or messing around on my new laptop, and at night we shared the same big bed doing loud spicy activities.Nobody brought up the locked keypad door at the end of the hall, and nobody talked about the past.
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CHAPTER SEVENTY ONE NALA POV“All of that is bullshit, Ivin, and you know it,” I said, staring right at him even with my heart beating fast in my throat. “You don’t get to talk to me like I’m some dog you peed on to mark your territory. It’s disgusting.”He didn't move right away, he stood there over the bed, those mismatched eyes locked onto mine like he was deciding whether to argue with me or shut me up another way.“Watch your mouth,” he said quietly.“Or what?” I asked, folding my arms over my chest and ignoring the dull ache in my ribs. “You’ll lock me in another room? Buy me more shiny things until I stop asking questions? I’m not stupid, Ivin. I know what you’re doing.”“Enlighten me.”“This whole nice guy routine. Cooking, buying jewelry, acting like you care. You’re just trying to get me to drop my guard so you can turn around and hurt me when I least expect it.” I shook my head, looking away from him toward the window. “I don’t trust you. Honestly, I don’t trust anybody
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CHAPTER SEVENTYIVIN POVHer hand was still resting on the handle of that door.One wrong push of the numbers, one glance inside, and every single thing I spent years burying would blow up in my face before I even got a chance to fix it.I stood there in the shadow of the hallway, watching the stubborn tilt of her chin, and felt the anger spike straight through my temples. The anger was not at her, but at the fact that she couldn't just sit still.This island was supposed to be a clean slate. A quiet place for her to heal, put some meat back on her ribs, sleep without screaming from warehouse nightmares, and give me room to figure out how to talk to her like a normal man without sounding forced. I went through all this stress just for her. I stocked the kitchen for her and I actually wanted to really give her a few damn days where nobody was pointing a gun at her head and she didn't have to look at me like I was her warden.Instead, she was digging. Always fucking digging.My back p
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CHAPTER SIXTY NINE NALA POV I raised an eyebrow, letting him pull me along the stone path toward the house. “You cook?”“For you, Nalayna, I can do anything.”The casual confidence in his voice did dangerous things to my stomach. He kept his fingers laced tightly through mine as we walked back into the modern, open-concept kitchen. On the counter sat a skillet of creamy garlic pasta he had pulled together while I was showering.It wasn't Michelin-star dining, maybe a little heavy on the cream and slightly low on salt, but it was hot, rich, and made with hands that usually only held weapons. Eating it felt intimate in a way then afterward, he pulled me onto the wide leather couch facing the terrace, and his hands never really left me.First it was my shoulders, working out the residual stiffness from being tied up in that warehouse. Then his thumbs moved into the hollow of my throat, tracing the line of my jaw, before he shifted my legs into his lap. He began working on my calves,
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CHAPTER SIXTY-EIGHTNALA POV“What do you mean by that?”The words came out harsher than I intended. A minute ago, we were tangled up in sheets, breathing each other’s air, but now the skin at the back of my neck prickled.It was starting to feel unnerving, maybe because I knew I was looking directly at a side of Ivin that rarely saw the light of day. A version of him stripped of armor, admitting things that didn't fit into the neat, brutal muscled bodyguard he presents himself as.He held my gaze for three seconds, his mismatched eyes completely unreadable, before the shutter snapped shut.“Nothing,” he said, his tone leveling out until it was smooth and impenetrable again. “I have a surprise waiting for you. Something you’ll like.”“Okay,” I dragged the word out slowly, not buying the retreat for a single second.He sat up, the muscles in his back bunching under his ink, and swung his legs over the side of the bed. “Freshen up and meet me outside.”“Alright.”Surprisingly, the fight
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