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Finally having had enough, I sigh. “Not to change the subject but could we get back to simply watching the movie?” I murmur, changing the subject.

“Yes, of course. I’m sure you’re nervous about tomorrow, and I promise you that everything will be okay,” Bridget says with a nod.

Giving her a small smile, I turn my attention back to the TV and attempt to get into the movie. Once it’s finished, Da had yet to come back into the room, I give Bridget my excuse of being tired and head to my room. Inside, I lock the door and go shower before getting into bed. I’m weird like this. I don’t like to climb into bed until I’ve showered and braided my hair, whether it’s dry or not. This way it keeps my hair from becoming a knotty mess.

Soon as I finish with my shower and prepping for bed, I crawl in between my soft sheets and pull the comforter up to my chest. I roll to my side and stare out into the night sky. I’ve never been one for closing curtains at the end of the day, preferring to be able to see out into the world even if it’s pitch dark. It’s soothing to see it, in my opinion, because if you think about it, there’s always someone else that is doing the same thing. Whether it be their looking up from the ground or up near the heavens. The sky is always the same, only rotating the light and dark. Same as our life, light rotates around the darkness which causes it all to even out.

I’m not stupid by any means. I know what my father does and what he’s done in the past. This is the very same world Mitch and Dean are from. Dean being head of the Alliance on the East Coast, I’m sure it’s no different than Da and Mitch being his right-hand man, he’s most definitely ruthless at his job and carries blood on his hands.

No man in this life is clean, it’s only a matter of how they react to those around them that are not meaning to cause them any harm.

Sighing, I roll to my back deciding to face the fact that I won’t be able to get any sort of sleep tonight, if any at all. My mind is reeling with all thoughts of Mitch and what tomorrow brings. Not only do I become his wife tomorrow, but there’s the very good chance I’ll end up having sex and someone will finally learn a secret I’ve held on to for a very long time. One that I’m afraid might cause Mitch to look at me differently. Especially if he were to find out the full truth about the reasons. I’m not a virgin and haven’t been for years.

I didn’t give it away as I’ve always intended to give it to the man I married as virtue has been drilled into our heads.

Unfortunately, that horrifying night my da had been out dealing with business when it happened. The man who caused me pain did it that night when he was supposed to be protecting Bridget and me at our vacation home. Instead, while Bridget slept, he’d taken me into one of the bathrooms and taken what should have been my husband’s. He’d threatened to kill me if I ever spoke a word of what he did.

After that night, I never went back to the vacation home and became even more of a recluse than I already had been at the time. I feared he would come after me again if I were visible to him or that he’d find out if I told my da about what happened to me. However, it doesn’t matter now if I said anything or not. The man who hurt me is no longer breathing.

And come tomorrow night, Mitch will possibly find out I’m not the virgin he thinks I am. That is if he makes me have sex with him at that time. I suppose there’s nothing I can do about it. They say the truth always comes out, and this is one thing I can no longer hide.

Not from Mitch.

Chapter Seven

Mitch

The girls had needed time with their dad after dinner, and we’d decided to meet up with Marc in town at the pub. He’d come with us, but he’d preferred not coming to dinner with us. Instead, he’d stayed in town for the time being, checking the layout of the church and reception hall. Unlike last time with Dean and Bridget, this one is going to be a much smaller gathering.

One because this was my request. Two safety is the number one thing right now. And last, I’m not going to have something happen like it did with Dean when he’d been stabbed by Kean. Security in a hotel isn’t the best it can be, and I’ve decided that since we’re to be here a few extra days after the wedding that it would be at an undisclosed location that only a few of us know about. Dean and Bridget were staying at Tomás’ home since there was plenty of room.

I’m taking Alison somewhere else for at least the evening. My cock thickens at the thought of being alone with my soon-to-be wife. She’s a beauty I never thought I’d want, but I guess Michelle is right. It’s time for me to move on.

Even as I think this, the tightness in my chest aches more. I may move on, but I refuse to go further than marriage to a woman I don’t know but will allow myself to get to. As for family, that will never happen. She’ll have to understand I won’t be having any of it. Or at least none that are mine. If she wishes, we could adopt but that’s it. I will not take the chance with her life and lose both