Ella's POVI left the car I had driven into the cave, slipping into another one that was parked along the gravel path. My fingers gripped the steering wheel firmly, and the engine purred to life. But a hand pressed against the window. "Spend the night here," father said, his face grim and a bit troubled. I shook my head. "I can't. I have to get back to Jayden and begin..." I let my lips curl in a smile as I looked away from him, "... fucking him." I saw him crack for the first time that night, his eyes flashing with something raw, a sort of displeasure that was far from fatherly. I had seen it before and I knew that face perfectly. It wasn't the fact that his daughter was about to fuck her way to power that troubled him, no. It was the thought that I was to deny him sex. To give it to Jayden, albeit for the goal of snatching power from him.This realization of his selfishness, as always, twisted my gut. And for just a fleeting moment, I wished that somehow I had known my mother.
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