Lahat ng Kabanata ng Daddy's Pet.: Kabanata 31 - Kabanata 40

[Rue’s POV]I stare at the man in front of me. Taking him in like he is some foreign thing that I never would have imagined I would be able to see. But here he was, my first love, my obsession, he was standing here naked in front of me watching me like a man who was starving.“Are you just going to stare?” Leo asks, moving forward and then pinning me beneath him. “Or is this your way of asking me to undress you?”At his words, my heart gives a squeeze and I find myself once again wondering if this was really because he wanted me, or because he was so lonely he was willing to take the next best thing to my mother.I could ask him.I knew that I could ask him, but I feared what he would say to me.That’s why, instead of asking the question that sits on the tip of my tongue, I grab the hem of my shirt and I start lifting.As the fabric slides up my body, Leo’s dark, hungry eyes follows it. Watching, waiting while he licks his lips in anticipation and when my shirt is finally gone his bre

[Rue’s POV]Sobs rack my body as all the painful emotions I’ve been carrying for so long come rushing out.It hurts.It hurts to be allowed to hope only to have that hope dashed out.Of course, I had a feeling that this was the way it would end, but to have it confirmed like that hurt like hell.Play with fire and you will get burned.That was what they said and it was exactly what I just felt.I was burned.I was burned so deeply that my heart felt like it was being ripped from my chest.If I knew that it would hurt this bad for things to end I wouldn’t have even tried something so selfish, but I just wanted to do it once, just once so that I could finally let go.But was I really letting go now?How many times had I told myself that I was going to let go only to turn around and continue holding on?Too many, that was how many and now here I was, half dressed, alone, and feeling like hell.“Fuck him,” I whisper, swiping at the tears on my cheeks. “Fuck him and his playing me like tha

[Rue’s POV]For the next few hours, I go through the motions of helping Leo with lessons while ignoring the slight unease I feel when he is near me.When it starts to become too much, I remind myself that this is purely business and that helps me get through the awkwardness until we reach breaktime.I’m going to the teacher’s lounge.” I announce, collecting my things. “I’ll be back for third period.”“Wait,” Leo hisses, reaching out and then stopping. “Could we please talk.”“Talk,” I repeat, hating how just being near him still made my heart flutter. “What exactly is it that we need to talk about?”Did he want to apologize again for using me in place of my mother?Did he want to try to claim that it was an accident and it wouldn’t happen again?“We’ve talked all we need to.” I tell him, hating the hope I was feeling. “So, please, let’s just move on.”“Move on to where exactly?” Leo asks. “It isn’t like I can forget that we…”“Forget it,” I hiss. “I’ve already forgotten it.”I didn’t.

[Rue’s POV]I stare in disbelief, my anger getting the better of me.Who the hell was this man to tell me what I could or couldn’t do?Now that my mother was no longer around and he completely fucked me over, we were nothing, so why was he acting like he controlled me?“You have no right to say what I can and can not do.” I say through gritted teeth. “You aren’t my teacher anymore and you sure as hell aren’t my family.”As I speak, Leo’s expression shifts and when it settles in a look of hurt I almost want to laugh.“You did this,” I whisper, pulling my wrist free of his hold. “You’re the one who ruined everything, so stop acting like you’re the one who was hurt.”Finished speaking, I turn and begin to head toward Leo’s classroom while wondering if I should just go ahead and count my losses and just leave.I knew that I came back to this place because I wasn’t left with any other options, but now that I was here and Leo was clearly complicating things, I didn’t think that I could cont

[Bernard’s POV]I stare in disbelief as Leo once again ruins my plans for the evening, but if he thought I was going to let him do it just like that, he had another think coming.“Hey,” I hiss, reaching out and grabbing Rue’s free wrist. “What do you think you’re doing?”“I think it is clear,” Leo responds, his eyes flashing with warning. “I’m stopping my stepdaughter from making a mistake.”A mistake.Was he really going to sit here and call me a mistake to my face?I clench and unclench my free hand, doing my damndest to not let what the bastard was saying and doing get to me, but fuck it was hard.“Rue,” I say slowly, turning my attention to the woman in question. “You want to stay with me, don’t you?”Growing quiet, I wait while she watches me, clear desperation and unease over the whole situation.It’s clear that she is uncomfortable with what Leo is doing and yet…Why the hell is she going along with it?Was all this really just because they were stepfamily or was there somethin