Chapter 43: You Belong to Him Now
*Mia*
My breath hitched when Lucia stepped out of the shadows.
I had thought that my nightmare had shown up when Alphonse walked into the room. He had been in multiple of them since he came to the club and tried to get me alone. I could just tell something was twisted about him with the way he looked at me. I remembered that first night in the parking lot behind the club, how insistent and creepy he'd been before Jack saved me. His eyes weren't just those of a man that wanted to get in a woman's pants. He clearly wanted something more than that.
And I wanted nothing of that.
But now, as my stepmother stood above me with the sinister grin that I'd gotten to know so well, I realized that she was the true main character in my nightmares. I had been so
