But how does one persevere when in the clutches of a Monster? Stupidly I follow him down the blinding darkness of his euphoric hell.”Ĭircumstance forced Eden Mercer to sell herself to Dominic Armstrong for half a million dollars and in return she is to play the dutiful wife in public and submit to him completely behind closed doors.ĭominic is Ruthless, manipulative and sadistic but Eden is determined not to break under his cruelty. “He lays a path of pleasure laced agony for me to follow and I do. But escape is something she finds that she no longer wants. In doing so he allows her into his world, a world she quickly realizes is void of any light and hope for escape is utterly elusive. She goes to Knox willingly offering him the only valuable thing she has. But a family member’s careless mistake derails her plans and now she must pay a price in order to save him.
Medical school is the end game and she is determined to get there by any means necessary. It is an unrelenting cycle that he constantly craves and can never quite satisfy.Įighteen year old Lacey Barnes distributes her assets to fund her dreams. So he goes where he is needed and does what he is told.
Allegiance to the man who saved his life when he was a child. Knox Bishop has done a lot of horrible things, all at the command of the man who holds his leash. That’s the only memory he carries from a childhood he does not remember. d little boy and for the man who carried his scars, scars that were so deeply entrenched they were now permanently rooted in his core.“You are this beautiful thing I want to destroy.” How could a mother treat her own child in such a way? In her turbulent state, Eden tried to imagine the horror he went through, the crippling fear, and the unmitigated cruelty he’d endured, and it made her heart burn. Sitting up, she drew her legs to her chest and rested her chin on her knees. Even now, she shuddered, horrified by the tale he’d recounted in that bleak, detached voice that had seemed too far away for her to reach him. She’d had her suspicions about his childhood, especially after the little bit Lucas had revealed, but Eden could not have imagined the extent of the abuse he’d suffered. Her mind replayed Dominic’s confession on an endless loop.
The culprit of her sleep deprivation was the chaotic state of her mind, and it was wreaking havoc on the rest of her body. But then it really wasn’t from a lumpy pillow or how she couldn’t stay cool despite the centralized air conditioning. “No matter how hard she tried, sleep wouldn’t come.
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