Elena's eyes opened to a white ceiling that wouldn't hold still. There was a needle taped to the back of her hand and a tube running up to a bag hanging on a metal pole beside the bed, and when she tried to lift her head the whole room tilted sideways and her stomach rolled."You're awake."Rodrigo was sitting in a chair by the bed, leaning forward with his elbows on his knees, watching her with an expression she couldn't quite place through the fog pressing down on her thoughts."Where am I?" Her voice came out thick, like her tongue was too heavy for her mouth."Somewhere safe.""Why does it feel like the room is moving?""You've had a lot of medication." He reached out and brushed her hair off her forehead and the touch felt far away, like it was happening to someone else. "You should rest."Elena tried to sit up and her arm throbbed where the bullet had gone in, and underneath the throb was a heaviness that sat in her chest and made her thoughts slide past each other before she co

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Dante stared at Rodrigo from the bottom of the staircase and Rodrigo stared back from the center of the entrance hall with six of his men fanned out behind him, and for a few long seconds neither of them said anything."I asked you a question," Rodrigo said. "Where is Elena?""You came to my house to ask me that?" Dante walked toward him slowly. "She was shot in a park earlier today and taken in a car I couldn't reach in time, and now you show up at my door acting like you don't know anything about it.""Because I don't." Rodrigo stepped closer. "My men told me she left the gallery without her guards. I tracked her phone to that park and by the time I got there the street was empty and there was blood on the pavement. So I came here because you were the last person she was going to see.""How do you know she was coming to see me?""Because she ditched two of my best men to do it, Dante. Two trained guards, and she slipped them like they were nothing." Rodrigo stepped closer, his voice

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The hand that closed around Elena's arm was hard and rough, and it yanked her backward before she could scream. She hit the wall of the corridor, and the man holding her cursed under his breath and reached for her other arm to pin her still. Elena's vision swam from the drugs still working through her body, but the pain in her shoulder and the burning in her bandaged arm cut through the fog enough to make her fight.She still had the broken chair leg in her hand, the metal edge jagged where it had torn free of the hinge, and she swung it back without thinking and drove it into the man's forearm. He grunted and his grip loosened, just long enough for her to twist free and stumble away from him. He came after her fast, but she turned and swung again, catching him across the side of his head, and he staggered into the wall and did not get up right away.She ran. Her bare feet slapped against the cold floor, one hand pressed to the wound in her arm, the other still clutching the metal. Sh

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Elena ran without knowing where the corridor led. She only knew it had to end somewhere other than another locked room. Her feet left wet prints on the tile behind her, blood from the wound dripping down her arm, and she pressed it against her side to slow the bleeding without stopping her legs. Behind her she heard shouting, more than one voice now, doors slamming, feet on the stairs. Rodrigo would be back on his feet soon, and when he was, every man in the house would be looking for her.She hit a junction and had to choose, left toward a set of double doors with light coming under them, and right toward a narrow stairwell that smelled of bleach and standing water. She took the stairs, two at a time despite her shaking legs, one hand gripping the rail hard enough to hurt her palm.The stairs led her into a service corridor, low and narrow, lined with crates and folded sheets and a cart stacked with empty bottles. Voices came from somewhere above her, muffled through the floor, and s

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Elena woke to a soft light and the smell of clean linen, so different from the smell of the trash bin that for a moment she thought she was still dreaming. She was lying in a real bed, an IV taped to the back of her hand, her arm wrapped in fresh white gauze instead of the blood soaked bandage from before. She turned her head and saw a woman sitting in a chair beside the bed, older, maybe sixty, with grey streaked hair pulled back and kind lines around her eyes."You are safe," the woman said, her voice low and steady. "You are in my home. My driver found you on the road last night."Elena tried to sit up and winced, and the woman leaned forward at once to help her, adjusting the pillow behind her back without being asked."Who are you," Elena said, her throat dry and rough."My name is Rosa," the woman said. "You do not need to worry about anything right now. You need to rest."But rest was not something Elena's body would allow. Rosa leaned in and asked gently how a young woman ende

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All Chapters of Obsessed (Forbidden Desire): Chapter 41 - Chapter 45

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