All Chapters of HIS DOE, HIS DAMNATION(An Erotic Billionaire Romance): Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Meadow’s POV: The flight back to Seattle was quiet. The silence was unsettling. Infuriating.Alaric hadn’t so much as glanced at me ever since we got in the jet. We were seated across from each other, but he was just focused on his laptop in front of him. Work, I suppose, but how could he act like he hadn’t just made me cum with his fingers while maintaining eye contact all the way?Because I couldn’t.It was all I could think about.I’d never been touched that way by anyone before, which was completely absurd. Yes, I was a twenty-three year old woman who was in a relationship with a man for two entire years and we never did anything except kiss.I did give Tyler a blow job once though, but he’d stopped me halfway and said I was really bad at it.And yeah, he never touched me. And I didn't think anything of it because he said that he wanted to wait until we were married.Now that I thought of it, there had been so many red flags but I didn’t pay heed. I was so stupidly in love that—

Meadow’s POV: Alaric’s house—or rather, mansion—was tucked away behind tall iron gates and hedges. The drive up to it alone was long enough for me to have separate panic attacks and still have time to rehearse my ‘I’ve made a very huge mistake’ speech.But when the SUV stopped and the door opened, I stepped out like I belonged. Like I wasn’t about to sign my life away to a man I barely knew.‘You live where I live. Because you’re my wife.’That wasn’t supposed to sound hot, but it did.Alaric already considered me his wife, but until I made the decision to sign the contract, I was his guest. His guest who was wearing his insanely expensive diamond ring.The driver, West—I’d asked him his name in the car—bowed slightly, gesturing toward the front door, where a woman already stood, a soft, kind grin on her face as I approached her.This had to be Mel. She was older, probably in her late forties or early fifties, wearing a crisp navy blouse and slacks that screamed efficiency.“Welcome

Meadow’s POV: It all happened so fast. Juniper lunged at me, her fingers twisting into my hair so hard I cried out.“You fucking bitch!” she screamed, dragging me backward by the roots of my scalp. “You think you can fucking touch me? Slap me like you’re better than me?”“Let me go!” I yelled in return, twisting under her grip. I tried as much as possible to pry her hands off, but with the way her nails dug into my scalp like claws, it was practically impossible. She was already drawing blood.And I never actually stood a chance against her.Juniper slammed me head-first into the wall.My head hit the dry hard surface with a sickening thud and an intense pain shot through my skull, white and hot and unbearable.I gasped, stunned. The room tilted for a second.“You were always the mistake,” she spat in my ear, pushing my head hard against the wall again. “Mum should’ve killed you when she had the chance.”A hateful look crossed her face, and my knees buckled as the realization hit me

Meadow’s POV: Pain.That was the first thing that I felt. It started at the base of my skull, slowly climbing up the sides of my head and my forehead. I blinked my eyes open slowly, feeling groggy as I tried to adjust to the soft white lights that surrounded me. I knew where I was the moment the smell of antiseptic hit my nostrils.I was in the hospital.My own sister, Juniper, had beat me up and I was almost raped by my ex-fiance. But someone had burst in through the doors and stopped them. Alaric.My heart rate picked up and I shifted, wincing as pain flared in my head and thighs.And then I heard a voice. Not the one I was expecting to hear, but familiar all the same. Way too familiar.“Meadow?”I turned my head slowly, and there she was.My best friend. Nova, sitting in a chair beside the bed.Her blond curls were a mess, eyeliner smudged like she hadn’t slept, and her hands trembled as they reached for mine.How was she here? Had I contacted her without realizing it?“Nova?” M

Meadow’s POV: “What the hell does that even mean?”Nova’s voice was sharp as a blade, her eyes wide as they were when I told her that Alaric might’ve had Juniper committed.I sat upright in bed, nothing less than stunned at the last thing he’d said to me before he left. I glanced at the door like he might come back anytime soon and say he was joking. That he didn’t really have my sister locked away somewhere in a padded room.I wasn’t sure how I felt about that. “He had her evaluated?” Nova scoffed, arms crossed and eyes narrowed like she was ready to burn the entire city down. “Tailored the test so she would fail? That’s…” she trailed off, and to my surprise, let out a short laugh. “That is fucking brilliant.”I blinked. “What?”“Think about it,” she said, amusement lacing her voice as she ran a hand through her hair. “He could’ve had her arrested and had you press charges. But that’s more public. Messy. There’s always a loophole around that. A loony bin however…”Nova laughed agai