Total pages in book: 30
Estimated words: 27460 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 137(@200wpm)___ 110(@250wpm)___ 92(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 27460 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 137(@200wpm)___ 110(@250wpm)___ 92(@300wpm)
That territorial streak of his doesn’t lean towards rationality. I should know; my ass has been heated up more than once on account of it.
Just the thought made my butt hurt and my legs tremble. Though I enjoy pushing his buttons every once in a while to get him to go all caveman, this was not one of those times. This was serious.
So serious that my real fear wasn’t that he’d beat my ass with his belt like he did last time I got out of hand, but that he’d walk away. I couldn’t stand it if he left me.
I had no idea my dad was planning anything like this. We aren’t living in the stone ages after all, and I have no intentions of marrying the man he’d picked out for me.
But he’d cornered me in his office and just dropped the news in my lap out of the blue, and before I’d had a chance to say yea or nay, he was already making plans.
I know that his heart is in the right place, even though Hunter wouldn’t care about that either. Ever since mom died daddy has been like an over protective bear. I wonder how surprised he’d be to know that Hunter treats me pretty much the same.
I know daddy thinks this Ian guy is the right fit because he comes from the right family, has the perfect background and attended an Ivy League school on par with the one I’d gone to.
But how can he not know me at all? How can he not know that I need way more than that in the man I choose for a husband? Or even that I’d already chosen.
I wasn’t as worried about being forced down the aisle as I was about Hunter’s reaction if the news reached his ears, as it inevitably will if I don’t get out in front of this thing before the gossip mill gets started.
It’s a safe bet that one of the servants will start talking to someone and that that someone would start spreading the happy news until it’s all over town by the end of the week.
I could almost feel the sting in my ass from one of Hunter’s spankings, which I haven’t had for a while since we’d been in two different places for the past few months.
I should just go tell daddy right now that I wasn’t going to marry this guy that I didn’t even know. That I had no interest in him, but I knew it wouldn’t be as easy as that. Nothing ever is.
Now I regret not telling him of my true feelings for Hunter from the get to. But I knew all along that he wouldn’t approve. Not because he himself was married to Hunter’s mom, but because daddy has these old world ideals about the kind of man his daughter should marry.
For him it wouldn’t matter that I’ve been in love with Hunter since the first moment we met, or that I knew Hunter loved me too. What would matter to him is how much money, which he equates with security, Hunter has in the bank.
He doesn’t really know Hunter like I do. I’m not afraid of starving if I spend my life with him. Hunter’s a very hard worker, and he’s good at what he does. So good in fact, that he’s already been commissioned by some of the top names in the racecar industry.
But daddy would see that as labor, since he won’t be sitting in an office behind a desk, ordering other people around. I like the fact that he’d trained himself to do it all. To know every aspect of his business, from top to bottom.
I like that he’d not squandered the money his mom had saved from his dad’s insurance, but had had a goal and stuck to it all these years. It was just one more thing to add to his magnetic character.
I’ve been in love with him for the past five years, and his woman for the past four. He’d taken my virginity at eighteen and neither of us have ever looked back.
This past year when he came back home to get his shop up and running, leaving me behind to finish up my last year of school, which I’d accelerated, I thought I would die from missing him.
But I should’ve known better. He can’t stay away from me any more than I could him, and it was only a couple weeks later that he came back to campus to be with me for a few days before heading back again.
I’d stayed focused only because I knew the sooner I finished my classes, the sooner I could get back to him. We are that inseparable. And now my daddy wants me to marry someone else, like that’s even a possibility.