Semua Bab Please me, Stepdaddy: Bab 81 - Bab 90

HERMES' POV I looked at her sharp features, the pain on her face now was the same pain I had seen that first night in the basement, it was the reason I couldn’t bring myself to torture her, it was the reason I had carried her out instead of leaving her chained to that chair. She suddenly grabbed my hand, the one still wrapped around the gun, tears streaking freely down her face. "Come on. Shoot me." Her voice cracked, raw and furious. "Let me go. Let me leave you, let me stop being some liability you have to worry about, some spy who's going to get your precious family killed or your princess daughter ...." "Alexia…" "Do it!" She was screaming now, pure anguish tangled through the anger. "You don't get to keep deciding what happens to me!" I lowered the gun. Before I could even process what was happening, she suddenly yanked it from my hand and pointed it at her own head, the barrel was already against her temple when I knocked the gun out of her hand. “Are you stupid?? D

LIANA'S POVWho would have thought that so many tense moments could happen over a single breakfast? My heart was still racing, and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t fall asleep.Hermes had grabbed Alexia so roughly as to the reason we were even attacked in the first place.I came down at midnight, hoping, more like waiting to see if it was that one person I had been waiting for.Hermes. I have got so many unanswered questions.My body still vibrated uncontrollably, the moment I got down, the sitting was dim lit.My throat suddenly felt dry.Water.I went to the kitchen in slow steps and the sound of someone in there resounded. I grabbed a vase with shaking hands and legs. I didn't even want to suspect it was the maids…definitely a burglar…“Who's there?" I yelled and turned the lights on at the same time just to see Celeste holding a knife and pointing it at me.“Fuck, it's you Liana…why aren't asleep yet?" “I'm fucking scared..Hermes isn't at home…”I confessed sitting at t

LIANA'S POV I rolled my suitcase down the stairs, phone still pressed to my ear as the butler confirmed my flight details on the other line. "Liana, are you leaving?" Celeste appeared in the hallway, arms crossed, brow raised in surprise. "I need to see my best friend. She just opened her own bakery, and I haven't seen her properly since summer camp." "This is sudden." "I know. I just… I need this right now." I hesitated, not entirely sure how to explain the hollow feeling that had chased me out of my own room that morning. Something softened in her expression, and to my surprise, she crossed the hall and pulled me into a hug. "Be safe. Call me the second you land, and text me the hotel you're staying at." "I will." "I mean it, Liana." "I know." I hugged her back tighter than I expected to, some strange, unexpected emotion rising in my throat. Whatever complicated mess sat between us, in that moment she just felt like a mother, worried and present, and I let myself ha

LIANA'S POV I broke the kiss but didn’t break contact, still hovering there, my breath caught between us, waiting for something to shift in his expression. It didn't. His face stayed extremely cold, jaw tight, eyes dark in a way that made my stomach twist with something closer to fear than desire. He hadn't kissed me back. Not once. "You shouldn't have been there." His voice was low, clipped, barely controlled. "A club. In Italy. Alone." "I wasn't alone, Rei was with me…" "That's not the point, Liana." "Hermes…" I reached for his hand, trying to close the distance he'd suddenly put between us. He pulled away before I could. “How much did you drink?” He wasn’t asking. It came out flat, an interrogation dressed up as a question. “How many glasses?” “I don’t know… a few.” “A few.” His jaw ticked. “Did you count them? Did you watch someone actually pour every single one?” "Hermes, it wasn't like that, we were just having fun." “Anyone in that room could have touched your

LIANA'S POVI stared into his eyes for a few moments before asking again, “Do you… do you want Hermes?”He suddenly rolled onto his side and looked at me. His gaze was so focused that embarrassment washed over me, I just wanted to dig a hole and bury myself in it.But what if I want it? What if I say what I want?Something inside me finally worked up the courage to ask the question that had been weighing on my chest for weeks.“Hermes… do you actually want me? I mean, my body. Like that?”I watched hesitation flicker across his face immediately, and something in my chest sank before he'd even said a word."Liana…""You don't have to explain it gently." My voice wavered despite myself. "I can tell you don't really want to.""That's not what this is.""Then what is it?" Tears pricked at my eyes, embarrassment burning hot up my neck. "Because every time it feels like we're close to something real, I mean your dick Hermes, you pull back. And I don't understand why, if you actually want m