Total pages in book: 331
Estimated words: 315585 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1578(@200wpm)___ 1262(@250wpm)___ 1052(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 315585 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1578(@200wpm)___ 1262(@250wpm)___ 1052(@300wpm)
“This picture was taken six years ago. This is at the end of her year at Dollhouse,” Bill answers.
“Evan said she would sell for a record-breaking price…are you saying she wasn’t sold?” Saint questions.
“I bought her,” Bill states.
I take a step forward to punch him in the face when Haidyn’s hand slaps my chest. “I’ll handle it.”
Adam steps in front of Bill to protect him. “He bought her to save her.”
“Bullshit,” I snap.
“It’s true,” Adam assures us.
“How much?” Haidyn asks skeptically.
Bill steps out from behind Adam and fixes his suit jacket. “Three million.”
My blood fucking boils. “Let me get this straight. You paid three million to fuck her? You bought her to be her daddy?”
“No.” He shakes his head with disgust. “I’ve never slept with her.”
I snort, not believing that. “You took advantage of her,” I grind out. “You knew she was at Dollhouse and what she had been trained for. Why else would you spend that much money on her?”
“I loved her mother,” he snaps and then lowers his voice. “My wife failed her assignment and was forced to become a breeder. Garrett paid a lot of money to get what he wanted from my wife. I knew Everett existed, but I couldn’t get my hands on her. After Garrett took Everett to Carnage, I couldn’t get close to her. I offered him money. I tried everything to convince him to give her to me. He wanted sons, not a daughter, but he refused. Said he found a use for her. At the time, I didn’t know what he meant. After he sent her to Dollhouse, it took me a year to get her out of it. But I promise I spent all that time trying.”
“All this time,” Haidyn whispers. “You told me about the breeders that night at the cathedral when you informed me of what Charlotte’s future was if she failed, but you didn’t mention Eve or your wife to me.”
“I didn’t…” Bill trails off, glancing away.
“Didn’t what?” Haidyn demands.
“I didn’t want you to know about her,” he answers softly, as if ashamed.
“That wasn’t your decision to make,” Haidyn shouts.
“Look at what she’s been through,” Bill tries to reason with him. “What your father put her through. Do you really think she wants to know you?” He steps up to Haidyn, and I brace myself to take Bill down if they start swinging. I need to knock the fuck out of someone right now. I can barely handle the rage I feel after what I just found out Eve has been through. “She’s known about you all her life. Everett was raised at Carnage. She’s also aware you’ve been living there since your father was killed, and she has chosen to not want you in her life.”
Haidyn shakes his head, not wanting to accept that she didn’t want to know him. “And you?” He glares at Adam. “You knew she was my sister and didn’t tell me?”
Adam swallows and glances away from us.
I understand why no one told me. They didn’t know I’d fallen in love with the gorgeous blonde the night of our initiation on the yacht. But to keep something like this from Haidyn is pretty fucking shitty. Even for Adam.
“How long have you fucking known?” Haidyn demands.
“Four years,” Adam admits softly.
Haidyn steps forward, but I grab his upper arm. He spins around to face me. “How are you not as pissed as I am? They kept her from us.” He points at Gavin. “Even him.”
“I am. But not at them. I’m pissed about what she’s been through. That she’s known she had a brother and has chosen not to come to you.” She must feel so alone. I know what it feels like to have no one, even when you know they are there. I never want her to feel that way again.
The conversation that Eve and Adam had while I hid in her closet comes to mind. “No. Bill knows I want nothing to do with them.” She didn’t want to be around me because it would lead to her being around Haidyn. And Carnage? It must have taken a lot for her to finally step inside that place to be there with me. To feel safe there after Garrett hid her there.
“Are you blaming me?” Haidyn snaps at me.
“No,” I say through gritted teeth and look at Bill. “You said that Garrett had found use for her. What the fuck does that mean?”
He peers at Haidyn and then Saint. My pulse picks up for a different reason when he clears his throat. “She was to be their personal breeder.”
I fucking knew it. Motherfucker. “You’re saying Garrett…her own father…raped her?” He said their, which can only lead me to believe all of our fathers.
“Surely Garrett wouldn’t—”
“He was a disgusting son of a bitch,” Haidyn interrupts Saint but keeps his attention on Bill, waiting for him to answer my question. “I put nothing past him.”