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“Arabella, get back here now!” he yells after h a haze of tears and… hurt

“Piccolina, don’t you dare slaht up to o to do just that—slam the door—and luckily, I shut it just before he can make it inside

I lock it and scream, “I hope my father finds you! I would rather be in the ar, and it does soret Pain

He must feel it too, because he falls silent I let the tears fall andfor him to break it down But it doesn’t co steps does I fall to the ground then and cry nothing but painful sobs

What now?

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Her words enragedbroke , but with her, I snap, crumble, and dissolve at her feet How dare she say she would rather be back with Ferro, or any man for that matter?

Doesn’t she knoho I am?

Doesn’t she knohat those words do to me?

But then I re on or who the hell I am aside from the man who kidnapped her

I slam my office door and walk to e boils over, and I swipe everything offin amy fist down, I curse “Fuck!”

I’ cards here, yet she’s playing with a full hand I’ ht I could have anyone, and anyone would be easy to tame and control but Arabella No, she can’t be And truth be told, I don’t want to control her outside of what she wants I know she desires for me to control her in the bedroom and obsess over her outside of it, but when it coive of her own free will So why don’t I just fucking give her that?