Chapter 12 - Novak
I DRESSED WHILE MADDIE still slept. She was exhausted, as she should be. I’d put her body through quite a workout, for which I was rather pleased with myself. But it wasn’t enough to completely erase the other emotions I was feeling.
I was angry with her. More than that, I was hurt. How could she be engaged to another man? Didn’t she know she belonged to me, body and soul? There was no one else for her – I was certain of that much, at least.
Maybe I wasn’t the sort of man who could have a wife, children, a family, but that didn’t mean I didn’t understand what it meant to havesomething. And I did. I knew what was mine, and Maddie was. There was no question of that. And I would claim her as many times as it took until she understood that in the very core of her being.
