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Signed to Suffer, Destined to Love Chapter 82
The flight back to New York took less than three hours, and Silvia slept throughout the journey. Ralph thought she had been exaggerating when she said he had drained her out, but obviously, she had not.She clung to him like cellophane, making it difficult for him to get up without stirring her awake. But he enjoyed holding her, knowing that she was his forever. She was so fragile and small compared to him, but she had a strong spirit, and he admired that quality a lot in her.Unlike her, he was finding it hard to close his eyes because every time he did, he saw her being held against her will by Laurent. He saw the gun pressed to the side of her head all over again, and he could not get the image out of his head.It was why he had gotten up earlier that morning to prepare something for her to eat. He thought the cooking would distract him, and the lovemaking afterwards would tire him out. Unfortunately, none of that had worked, but he didn't want to worry Silvia by telling her. She h
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“What happened?” Silvia pushed her food aside, standing up behind the counter. Ralph rushed to her, lifting her by the waist and settling her back in the chair like she weighed nothing.“I've got it under control. Don't worry your pretty head about it.” He kissed her pout, but she shook her head, refusing to be swayed from her enquiry.“You are hiding something. Tell me what happened.”“Okay,” Ralph relented and pulled away from her when she would not listen to reason. “Fine, I'll tell you, but eat, please. Please,” he insisted and stared at her pointedly until she picked up her spoon and resumed eating.He dug his hands into his mussed hair, doing more damage to it, but somehow, it still looked good. His bottoms rode low on his narrow hips no matter how many times he lifted it and Silvia felt like poking out an eye when she kept ogling that happy trail.“My father moved back into the house and started making changes immediately. He retained the old housekeeper, but the drivers and k
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The next time Silvia woke up, she was alone on the king-sized bed. The space beside her was cold, meaning Ralph had been gone for a long time."Goodness gracious, what time is it?" she breathed softly, gazing out the open windows. Her hand instinctively reached for the nightstand for her phone, but found nothing.It took her foggy mind a few seconds to register that she wasn't in their sleek New York mansion, but in the heart of the Laurent family’s ancient country estate. Her phone was not on the bedside table but in a basket close to the door. Groaning, Silvia reluctantly pulled herself upright, unwilling to leave the warmth of the soft, comfortable bed. She hugged the featherlight pillows. Ralph's musk still clung to it—clean, masculine, and warm—and a soft smile curved her lips as the memories flooded back on how the morning had started. Ralph had brought her to two powerful orgasms before she had drifted into a peaceful sleep, forgetting the scary events of the night. He had w
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By the time they finally broke from their hug, morning had already arrived. Morning light's gentle glow quietly cast soft glows through the windowsHand in hand, they made their way back to the bedroom, the magic of their second honeymoon ruined. Silvia stood by the door while watching Ralph change the sheets to fresh ones. She felt bad as she watched him struggling to ensure that she was comfortable. Working silently, he changed the sheets, redoing the bed with intense concentration. He said nothing, his expression unreadable as he removed the bedding and rummaged in the closet for fresh linen. It struck her just how practiced his movements were, like muscle memory, as though he hadn’t just signed away his birthright to the father who betrayed him.He eventually produced a pile of sheets, soft pale pink with delicate flower prints. Ralph glanced at them for a moment, frowning, obviously not used to seeing them."Did you pack this? It doesn't look like your style, though," he mused,
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Silvia froze in Laurent's hold, her eyes wide open in obvious fright. She clenched and unclenched her fists, sweat beading on her forehead in tiny dots. Then, just as suddenly as it had died, the light flared back on with a harsh, yellowish-white glare, illuminating the nightmare once more.Laurent’s grip remained iron-tight. The gun was still there, pressed against Silvia’s temple like a threat carved from steel.The tears she had been holding back broke loose when she saw the defeated look on Ralph's face."Time is ticking, boy or maybe you need more incentive, huh?" Laurent Laurent growled, the gun shifting slightly as he toyed with the trigger.Ralph subconsciously took a step forward, a hand stretched out—not in surrender, but in silent desperation. "Not another step closer, Ralphie unless you want to see what the inside of her head looks like."Silvia whimpered again, her teary eyes seeking reassurance from Ralph. Their eyes met and his lips pressed together into a thin line.
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Ralph pinched the bridge of his nose, careful not to make any sudden movements that would give his father any crazy ideas. His father...who knew that they would have such an unexpected reunion and in such an aggressive manner?His father, waving a gun at him and his daughter-in-law as if they were not his family because he wanted the rights of a company he abandoned? Nothing made any sense but all he knew was that he could not put Silvia's life in danger for something she knew nothing about."Let her go," Ralph croaked, scratching his suddenly itchy beard. The room was stuffy and hot because the windows were locked. But for the flashlights on, the room would have been pitch black."What?" Both his father and Silvia asked simultaneously, whipping their heads around to look at him with a mix of confusion and disbelief. Silvia gulped down the rest of her courage and shrank into her husband's side when her crazy father-in-law glared at her with so much piercing intensity."She has nothing
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"Did you hear that?" Silvia's hold on Ralph's arm tightened as she stared down at the dark hallway in their country house. The lights had flickered a moment, leaving the old house with an eerie half-darkness lit only by the dim brightness of backup lights.Ralph's voice faded away, his senses immediately on high alert. The tranquility of their weekend escape had been abruptly disrupted. "Listen to what, sweetheart? Just the wind, I guess. The old house creaks with every breeze." He tried to sound soothing, but a trickle of nervousness had started at the back of his neck."No, it wasn't the wind," Silvia insisted, her voice little more than a whisper. "It sounded. nearer. A footfall on the landing."He listened attentively, the only noise the constant ticking of an old grandfather clock in the distance. "I don't hear anything now." He gave her hand a gentle squeeze. "Most likely just the house settling. It's an old house, keep in mind?""But I'm sure of it," Silvia insisted, her gaze f
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Time became a salve, soothing the rough edges of their shared trauma. The trial was over, Rebecca's sentencing a brutal ending to that dismal episode. The mansion shed its final trappings of ominous presence, supplanted by a warmth that radiated from Ralph and Silvia's remade existence.Ralph's memory kept its gradual, inexorable return, here and there by way of the most unexpected sensory details – rain on dry ground evoked by a covert mid-day walk, a whiff of a particular spice evoking a recalled taste at an impromptu, laugh-soaked community meal. Each fragment regained was precious, laboriously interwoven into the tapestry of their past.Their bodies approached one another, unguarded now but filled with tender depth and revived passion. Whatever pretenses still existed were erased by reciprocal exposure, and an unmixed, unvarnished connection was all that was left. There was a raw chemical reaction to every touch, an unspoken vocabulary of yearning and remembrance. Every touch h
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The initial days with Rebecca's detention were a blur of legal hearings, police interrogation, and the agonizing, painstaking process of attempting to reconstruct Ralph's fractured recall. The mansion, once the background against which Rebecca's lies were enacted, felt stifling in its quiet, its immensity filled with the unwilling reappearance of Ralph and Silvia's collective past.Overjoyed to have Silvia back, Ralph was plagued by the deafening silence of the empty areas in his mind. Months of unfulfilled days stretched like a chasm between the man he once had been and the one he still sought to reclaim. With each passing moment of bliss spent with Silvia, however, came nagging reminders of the man he had become when he was under Rebecca's control and his attempt to bridge the soul gap that had formed during her absence.The memories didn't return in a rush of recall, only disjointed flashbacks – a witticism spoken, his burning palm where her palm had rested, her perfume in his no
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