Connor's Claim (Body Count, #2)

by Jolie Vines

Hero tampers with the heroine's birth control to trap her

Oh no. Not a good start 🤢

She wrenched at me so I stumbled, correcting my balance to set her down at the base of the huge oak tree that temporarily concealed us. She hobbled, her injured foot held up from the earth. “Thank you. This is a misunderstanding, that’s all.” Blood pounded in my ears. With my back to her, I pulled my kit from my pocket. In easy, well-practiced motions, I had a needle in my hand and ready to go. “…no clue what that man meant,” Everly was saying, her hands moving with her words. “If we just⁠—” I embraced her and stabbed her arse in a fluid movement.

Lol I like that he didn't give her a chance to try and go back

I ran my hands down my thighs, regretting what he would’ve seen. If only it had been one of my better weeks, when I’d been to the gym and eaten well. Then again, he’d always told me he loved my body exactly how it was. It was his words I played over in my mind when hearing my father’s jibes, or if I went into a boutique to enquire about a cute dress only to be told they didn’t stock my size. Connor had liked me, then. Made me feel better about myself. I didn’t want to know his judgement now.

Girl is extremely self conscious

It hurt a little that he wasn’t here watching over me while I slept, but at the same point, why would he? After what I’d done to him, he hated me.

After all I’d sacrificed. After I’d lost him for the purpose of keeping him safe and earned his hatred in reply. After everything I’d done to set him free, he’d still wound up in my father’s clutches, and that was unbearable.

forced myself to walk away, ignoring the fact it was a twisted fantasy come to life. Except with a version of her who hadn’t lied. Or rejected me.

but we’ve already established hos before bros.”

I don't think 19 year olds are using this saying anymore

Cassie gave a small and sympathetic laugh. “I only exist because my da bought prostitutes and deliberately got a handful of them pregnant to make an heir. Because I was a girl, he barely acknowledged my existence.” My heart panged. “That’s awful.” Her shoulder rose in an easy shrug. “He’s dead, and I wipe away my tears on handfuls of his cash while living in his stately home, so who’s laughing now?”

“Ugh, men are so dramatic.” Cassie rolled her eyes

She’d lied about feeling the same. I took the vibrator and tossed it in the bag. Everly could go fuck herself with it.

LOL

“I need to talk to Genevieve. I want to go downstairs,” I told him.

Why don't they go across the hall? Where Genevieve and Arron live?!?

Midnight blue and milkmaid-style, it was ankle-length, with little capped sleeves and a square, ruched, lowcut neckline, cut tight under the bust.

Doesn't sound like club wear. Sounds like she’s going to a picnic

Cassie sighed, some of the brightness leaving her. “Maybe it’s the fact I’m stuck searching for a purpose in life so trying on everyone else’s for size.” There was a moment of silence, just the muffled music of the nightclub filtering through. I broke it. “Want to talk about that?” She shook her head once. “Not now. Let’s stick to the agenda.”

Like to point out. Shes only 19 and has barely lived. girl needs to chill. You’ve got time

Everly peeked at me. “Connor claimed you worked for the Four Milers. Is that true?” Genevieve swung around in outrage. “He would never take a job for them. I can’t believe you were told that.”

Genevieve is such a naïve bitch. You don’t have a clue what your brother is doing.

Genevieve’s mouth dropped open. “I’m sorry, what? Dad isn’t your dad? Since when?” He gave an unfunny laugh. “Conception.”

😂

all I thought about was Connor. He’d asked me to stay. I’d refused him. Again.

She hung her head. “He’s important to my father.” Aye, well, that was no longer a priority for either of us. I was taking control. I’d come with that very intention. A day of being without her had me losing my mind, waiting on updates from the crew watching her and checking her tracker like a man possessed. It had driven me to an edge I hadn’t realised I was near. It broke something in me.

The turning point of them being together

While he tracked me and got me pregnant. I must be messed up in the head that those things kindled such strong happiness in me.

My killer ex-stepbrother had got me pregnant.

Lol