Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
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Started reading October 6, 2025
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Several realizations hit all at once. My arms are above me, tied to the headboard with thick ropes. I tug against the binds, desperately trying to slide my wrists out of the loops to no avail.
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little mouse?”
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little mouse,”
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little mouse,”
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little mouse?”
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my little mouse
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my little mouse
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little mouse.
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my little mouse
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“Addie, baby,
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little mouse.
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My girl
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little mouse.
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my girl
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Addie won’t ever have to worry about that shit when I marry her, that’s for damn sure.
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“Little mouse,
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“Zade,” he whispers against my lips. “That’s the only name that will ever leave your lips from now on, especially when you’re making that little pussy feel good. And when I’m making that pussy feel good, then you can call me God.”
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little mouse. Now.”
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little mouse.”
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little mouse, I am not a nice man.”
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my girl.
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my little mouse,
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That’s my girl.”
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“My girl
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Namely, the urge to fucking kiss her for going along with something she doesn’t understand. She’s definitely getting rewarded later.
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my girl
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when I say my girl. I subtly quirk a brow, daring her to defy me. She knows I’m not saying it for Mark’s benefit. She’s going to hear me call her my girl for a long fucking time. Next, we’ll graduate to my wife and then the mother of my children. One day she’ll get it in her head that she’s mine.
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little mouse.
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What she doesn’t realize is I did lose my fucking mind the second I laid eyes on her, and I haven’t gotten it back yet.
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my girl
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my girl
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“You taste like heaven. I could feast on that sweet little pussy for hours and still die a starving man. It’ll be the closest I will ever get to God before they inject me with that needle, don’t you agree?”
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little mouse.
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want to slap him. But the asshole would probably like it, and then turn around and slap me back. And my dumbass self would probably like it, too.
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little mouse.
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baby girl,”
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little mouse,
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my good little girl,”
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little mouse.
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little mouse,
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little mouse,
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little mouse?
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If I wasn’t here, of course.
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have a daughter, I hope she has some goddamn sense and prefers black. It feels like
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my little mouse,
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laugh silently, my
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The four men’s heads snap towards me, and bleed dry of whatever color was left in their faces. The four of them are sweaty and look like they have watched their worst nightmares come to life. They’ll soon realize that I sit on the fucking throne, and their nightmares bow to me. I’m far worse than any monster they could ever imagine. I walk into the room, the grin on my face widening when they flinch away. “Za—”
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“You know how old these scars are, Mark? Very old. My opponent was a formidable one, but do you want to know who ended up on the floor with their throat slashed and holes where their eyeballs used to be? Certainly wasn’t me, fucker.”
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the House of Mirrors real quick.”
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“Little mouse.”