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“You don’t idiolise other men in front of me and expect me to do nothing about it,” he grunts, biting my lip. “You’re lucky I didn’t fuck you in front of them.”
His phone vibrates and since he has his hands filled with books, I sigh and retrieve it from his back pocket for him. “I can carry my own books, you know.”
“If you do, you won’t touch me inappropriately at school like now.”
“There’s nothing I wouldn’t do to have you, sweetheart.”
I’m giggling as I run down the hall. My head collides against a torso. I fall on my arse and pain explodes in my hipbone. Ow.
One look at me and his playful expression disappears. “What’s wrong?” “Nothing.” If Aiden knows, he’ll do something unpredictable and I really don’t want any trouble now.
I suppress a nervous smile and nod. Today, we’re watching the Champions League game in his house with the guys.
Kim agreed to join us, and I hugged her until she called me a creep.
What’s so hard about going to his palace-like house and meeting his father, the mighty Jonathan King? Nothing… right?
“I’m not blaming you, Dr Khan. I know you have two thesis, one in psychotherapy and the other in hypnotherapy so it’s not like you’re doing anything illegal. I also know that Aunt and Uncle probably made you do it, but I need to know why.”
“Soho Miller,”
“He’s the reason why you don’t practice hypnotherapy anymore. After you helped him restore his memories, he committed suicide.”
“When your guardians first contacted me, you had violent episodes of screaming and falling in and out of consciousness.”
manifestation of your subconscious. When you were a child, your consciousness was filled with nightmares. You were traumatised and in severe shock due to the fire.”
“Are you saying that Aunt and Uncle asked you to erase all my memories up to the fire?”
“Your aunt and uncle only called me to reduce the anxiety because they heard hypnosis helps.”
“They were desperate, especially your aunt. She looked ready to do anything to chase away your pain.”
“No, Elsa.” Dr Khan gives me a quizzical stare. “I didn’t erase your memories. You did.”
I only put you in a stance to resolve your traumatic experience, but when you woke up, your memories were gone.
when things are too much, the brain can resort to skipping over the traumatic parts. Suppressing memories becomes a vital need, not an option.
“Make a noise, would you?” Silver cuts me a glare over her shoulder. “Creep.”
“I don’t answer to you, bitch.”
“Watch it, Queens,” Aiden warns.
Aiden steps forward, but I act first.
The expression on my face must be scarier than the tug because Silver’s lips clamp shut and her face contorts.
“If you throw one more snide remark my way, I’ll fucking kill you. I’ll cut you from limb to limb and bury you in the back garden.” I smile. “And stay away from Aiden.”
Steel blood runs through your veins, Princess. You’re my masterpiece. My legacy.
“So you just fucked her?” He grits his teeth but doesn’t say anything. “Oh my God, you did.” I think I’m going to throw up.
“Yes, we did. I fucked her and I loved it so much that I dumped her.” He rolls his eyes. “What’s wrong with you today?”
“Piss me off. And by your attitude, she succeeded.”
A loud bang hits the roof of the car and Ronan sticks his head inside from Aiden’s open windows. “Come on, bitches, the game starts soon.”
“Tell her to take all the time she needs.” He waggles his eyebrows. “I’m available if she needs a hand.” “Eww.”
Shit! ORGANISING, not ORGASMING. Stupid autocorrect.
“No.” He genuinely appears disappointed and I laugh harder.
“Not really. We usually go to the Meet Up.” “The Meet Up?” “Yeah. Our secret hideout.”
“We come over when Uncle Jonathan isn’t around.” “Do you bring girls, too?” “Just Astrid and Silver.”
“Shit.” Ronan lifts his head from his phone. “Silver doesn’t come anymore, so forget I mentioned her, okay?”
“We all grew up together. It sticks, you know.”
Aiden discarded his childhood friend, what’s stopping him from throwing me out when he only knew me yesterday?
like the princess in Frozen.” I elbow him and he winces. “Ouch. What was that for?”
“She’s the one that got King all worked up.” I elbow him again and this time, he lets me go. “And will break my ribs. Damn, Ellie. I didn’t know you were so strong. Are you open for threesomes?”
“On second thought, don’t tell King I mentioned that.” He looks around before whispering to Margot. “Are there listening devices here?”
“You’re the best, Margo!” Ronan slaps a noisy kiss on her cheek. “Don’t you have your own cook?” She sounds resigned as if she asked this a thousand times.
“My offer to come over still stands. We’ll pay you double what King does.” “Stop trying to take Margo away.”
Aiden changed into black trousers and a plain grey T-shirt that brings out the smouldering colour of his eyes. It doesn’t help that the cloth tightens around his chest muscles highlighting his agile, sculpted physique.
“No balls in my kitchen. You broke the dishes the other time.” Margo scolds.
“You have no right to talk. You almost burnt my kitchen over the weekend. I can’t believe I take one day off and all hell breaks loose.”
“And no one is taking Margot away.” He gives pointed glares to Xander and Ronan. The latter huffs. “I won’t stop trying.” Xander lifts a shoulder. “Me neither.”
“Don’t fight in front of Elsa. It’s not every day Aiden brings his girlfriend.”
“She was my girlfriend first, weren’t you, love?”
