Unwillingly His (GILDED DECADENCE #5) by Zoe Blake EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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STELLA
Istormed across the courtroom and slapped Lucian Manwarring
across the face.
Unlike in the movies, there were no shocked gasps, no outraged
cries, no laughter.
Definitely no laughter.
There wasn’t even the repeated frenzied slam of a gavel as a red-faced
judge screamed, ‘Order! Order in the court!’.
There was only silence.
Tense, repressive, ominous… silence.
After all, I had just slapped a vengeful god.
At least that was what everyone was thinking around me. I could
literally feel their mortal terror. It radiated off the assembled courtroom like
a wave of heat after a bomb blast.
Lucian Manwarring was the foreboding patriarch of the powerful and
rich Manwarring family. His exploits in business were famous… or rather
infamous. There were few people in New York who weren’t terrified of this
man.
When crossed, he didn’t get angry, he got even. Scorched earth even.
His billion-dollar whiskey empire was built on the charred remains of
countless other businesses and men.
He was feared, respected, reviled, and envied.
My father had hated him with a burning, white-hot passion.
Which was why it made no sense. Why would he name Lucian
Manwarring the trustee over my inheritance in the event of his death?
A sharp pain pierced my chest.
They were gone. Both of them. My parents had been taken from me in
an instant.
A vision of twisted car metal, the smell of blood, and my mother’s
moans as snowflakes gently drifted down on me from the opening in the
torn roof floated across my inner eye. I shook the disturbing image away.
I needed to focus.
If I didn’t do something, Lucian would succeed in not only stealing my
entire inheritance, but in having complete control over my life until I turned
twenty-nine. That was three years from now!
The very idea of being under this man’s thumb for that long was
untenable.
My right palm stung, but I resisted the urge to rub it against my thigh.
I didn’t want to give the bastard the satisfaction of knowing he had hurt
me.
Trying to match his glare, my eyes watered as I refused to blink.
Or were they tears?
Through clenched teeth, I threatened, “You won’t get away with this.”
The corner of his mouth lifted. “Little one, I already have.”
LUCIAN
How amusing.
Stella Deiderich had struck me.
In public, no less.
Of course, now I would need to teach her a lesson.
She’d need to learn what happened to bad little girls the hard way.
The easy way never seemed to stick.
Rising slowly, I raised my hand to the judge to signal he was not to
interfere.
I circled the plaintiff’s desk as I buttoned my suit jacket before stepping
up to her.
In business, I used every advantage, no matter how trivial, to get the
upper hand.
One such advantage was my superior height.
Usually taller than the average man in the room, I completely towered
over Stella’s slight frame.
She really was uncommonly beautiful, despite her age. With more
maturity and life experience,
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