All Chapters of Daddy's Little Secret : Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

Melissa's POVThe world was heavy like i was stuck beneath loads of water, sound and motion trickling through to me in fragmented moans.Jamal's voice was overhead, crazy, hoarse and pleading. I wanted to reach out, to make him understand that i was still there but my body was refusing. Even breathing felt like trying to lift weights i couldn't see.Then the crash.The shots rattled my skeleton even through the mist. My heart caught me off guard with a shiver of fear drawing me half the way back to now.I tried to open my eyes. It was as though to open a rusty gate as Hazy figures hovered above me and Jamal's broad shoulders blocked me from something and behind him was another figure, one whose face iced my blood. My father.I tried to scream, to push Jamal away from me before he was killed but all that came out of my mouth was a muffled gasp as Jamal's grip tightened into my ribcage, hot and unyielding, holding me still "Melissa" he breathed with his voice low and panicky "I have you

Melissa's POVAt first, there was nothing but a seamless, suffocating dark that pressed in on me, thick and total and i couldn't feel my body, couldn't feel whether i was breathing and terror pushed against the edge of my mind.Then, incrementally, a voice broke in."Melissa! Stay with me!"Jamal.Not just sound, it was anchor, pulling me back from the edge and i clawed toward it, into the fog, into the weight that was suffocating me and my chest burned, my throat throbbed, but i forced my eyelids to snap open.Blurred shapes hovered above me. A ceiling shadows and a body hovering close, Jamal eyes was wild and his face twisted in fear. His fingers gripped tightly onto my side, and then it hit me… the warm stickiness wasn't only his grip. It was blood.My blood.I tried to speak, but all that came out was a weak wheeze "Don't you dare let me go," Jamal screamed, his voice trembling "You hear me? You promised not to let go and i'm not going to let go either."God, the pain was burning

Jamal’s POVThe world waited with bated breath as Melissa's father moaned on the floor, blood spreading into his sleeve but his eyes never wavered from mine as they locked onto me with venom, daring me to make the choice. He was weak but the hatred that radiated from him was strong enough to choke the air.The woman's voice still lingered, freezing cold "You must choose, Jamal. Her father lives or dies."Melissa stirred feebly in my arms, her lips brushing against my chest as she whispered something i couldn't hear and her skin was icy, her breath shallow and every second she slipped further away from me was another second i wished to scream at the world.I looked at her, then at the man who'd chained her in bonds she never should have seen and my mind roared with fury."Why me?" My voice broke, disrupting the silence as i scowled at the woman, my scowl at her calm, unnerving composure "Why the hell do i get to decide whether he lives or dies?" i askedShe didn't blink "Because you lo

Melissa's POVI arrived to the beat of my own heart thumping inside my head and for an instant, i wasn't sure if i was still dreaming or if it had finally let me go. My chest hurt and Jamal's warmth pressed against me, anchoring me to something solid but even after i blinked, forcing my eyes to oblige, i could have sworn i felt the sting of that figure's eye still burning into my skin.He was gone and the room was empty now but the fear hadn’t left as it lingered in the air, thick, suffocating and whispering in corners “Breathe baby” Jamal murmured, his voice close to my ear and his hand stroked the back of my head gently, like he knew if he let go I’d unravel completely “It’s just us now and you’re safe”Safe, the word tasted foreign.I shifted, wincing as my body demanded i remember each bruise and every hurt. My father growled from the far side of the room and the sound curled in my belly and i didn't want to look at him, not after what the figure had told me, not after the way Jam

Melissa's POVThe tone lingered in the air long after the words themselves had dissipated like smoke that was reluctant to scatter.Open the door or i come down myself.I trembled where i stood, huddled against Jamal's side but i couldn't move my legs as my mind was shouting at me to get out, to run, to fight but i was immobilized and bound by the power of that voice.Jamal's arm went around me, protective. His body was stiff and his eyes fixed on the ceiling "He wants to scare you" he rumbled, hard and frightening and his breath against my hair "That's all this is, a scare tactic."But i didn't think so."It didn't sound like a scare tactic" I whispered "It sounded like a promise"Jamal's hold on my arm tightened "Melissa, look at me".I pushed my eyes up to his and his gaze immobilized me there, dark and relentless, although i knew beneath my skin that he was as disturbed as i was."He's not going anywhere near you" he said, every word steel "I won't let him. Do you hear me?"My thr