I Mistook The Billionaire For A Stripper

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imals, like you're nothing more than a ghost haunting the walls of your own home. Shameless is the way they laugh, touch, and linger aro

er, something so disgusting it made shameless seem like a complime

ce sharper than I intended. I wasn't sur

with its prey. Her lips curved into a cruel smirk as her eyes swept over me, cold and conde

head slightly, mocking me. "Logan and I need our privacy. You know how we get in bed. We need a bigger bed anyway. Since

f my silly dreams where someone would annoy me and say things out of context. It w

a moment. My fingers tightened around the knife, and for one fleeting, forbidden second, I imagined how

d like a cruel mantra: If you lay a

ed in my chest, but I swallowed it down like a bitter pill. Dropping the knife

ue. "Why would I leave my room just because you and my husband want to have..." I swallowed hard, hating the taste of the word on my tongue.

ven though he hates you and your family, even though he humiliates you every chance he gets, you're still here like a fool. No, Chloe, you can tolerate it. In fact, you can tolerate a lot of things because y

lia. Better w

you going to do about it? Tell me to watch

igging into my palms so ha

ct like you're better than me, like you're so superior. But you're

t pounding so loudly I cou

all you've ever been, isn't it? To Logan, to your precious family. Everyone uses you

sold you to Logan like you were nothing more than a piece of property. And you-" she laughed bitterly,"you let it happen. You let everyone walk all over y

The worst part was, she wasn't wrong. I'd always known it, deep down. Known that I was nothing more than a pawn to my father. Known

stopped. "Maybe that's why you lost your baby....beca

palm cracked against her cheek. Amelia staggered,

ild into this!" I shouted, my voice breaking. Fury surged through me. I had tolerated so m

, her face twisting in o

nd raised, ready to slap her again. "Sa

hl

h sinking as I saw Logan standing in the doorway, his eyes blazing w

e a lifeline. "Logan! She hit me! She just... she hit me out of nowhere! Look at my face!" She pointed to the red ma

clenched, "A

bbing at her cheeks. "No,

eyes darkened, cold and furi

myself to meet his gaz

Wh

s I held my ground. "I don't regr

rd me. "What di

it her again if I had to

to show some shred of understanding. To show me th

nd

sbelief. "And?" I echoed, my

our fault you lost the child anyway,"

ard him. "You caused it! You! If you weren't cheating on me that day, if you hadn't destroyed my life, I wouldn't have lost my baby! You did this to me, Loga

was some sort of inconvenience to him. "If you're so s

ha

heard me, Chloe" he said, dragging me to

ng to pull free, but his gri

I stumbled, hitting my head on the headboard.

" he commanded. "Let's