All Chapters of Captive To The Ruthless Heirs: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Liora’s POVThe rain came down in freezing sheets, soaking right through my thrift-store sweater in a matter of seconds but I kept my head down, my chin tucked hard against my chest and practically forced my boots to keep moving across the flooded pavement.My legs felt like lead after a brutal twelve-hour shift at the diner but tonight felt especially miserable. I wiped rainwater from my forehead, exhaling a long breath that instantly turned to white mist in the cold.All I wanted was my bed. Just a flat surface, a dry blanket and maybe a solid eight hours of unconsciousness. Was that really too much to ask the universe? Apparently, it was. Because I was completely lost!I had taken a shortcut to avoid the frat row on the main Kingsborough University campus. I hated walking past those massive mansions with their blaring bass and drunk entitled rich kids spilling out onto the lawns.I just wanted a quiet walk to my dorm room but this stupid shortcut had led me straight into the labyri

Liora’s POVEvery single shadow on campus looked exactly like a billionaire with a god complex. I flinched violently when a squirrel dropped a small acorn onto a trash can and leaped backward into a row of hedges when a cyclist zipped past me on the narrow sidewalk.My heart was constantly pounding and my eyes darting into every alcove, every hallway and every dark corner of the university as I kept expecting Declan Kensington to step out of the morning fog and shatter my jaw.The violence from last night played on a loop continuously inside my head. I knew the Kensingtons were bad news. Everyone at Kingsborough University knew that. I just thought they were spoiled, arrogant rich kids who threw wild parties and broke hearts for fun but I genuinely didn’t think they dragged people into back alleys and snapped their bones for sport.By the time I reached my morning chemistry class, my nerves were completely fried. Professor Higgins who treated an introductory science course like a mili