Forbidden Temptation My Mafia Fiance's Alpha Father (Brooklyn and Aden) novel Chapter 39

Chapter 39
Brooklyn

I gasp and push the door shut and then bolt—bolt—from the hallway.

I’ve always been fast, but now, panic moves me faster than I thought I could go.

I scramble up the stairs, sprint across the kitchen, pull open the kitchen door and then use the banister to propel myself up the main stairs two steps at a time.

Aden is a monster! He’s an actual psychopath!

Of course, I had already made this assessment—in jail when I’d interviewed him. Then again when he kidnapped me. But now?

Seeing it play out like that right in front of my face, the truth feels like it has hit home inside of me.

I reach the top of the stairs and throw myself towards my room, my fingers inches from my doorknob, when something grabs me around my waist, hauling me back against a solid body—

“Please! No!”

I scramble, shrieking, trying to get free, but Aden holds me fast. He grabs me by the hair at the base of my neck, forcing my head back, my face turned up towards his.

I pant in his arms, pinned against him, finally still.

“What did I tell you to do, Brooklyn?” he asks, his voice low, dangerous.

“My phone!” I gasp, remembering my rationale for being there. “I forgot my phone!”

“You deliberately disobeyed me,” he says. He doesn’t care about my reason anyway.

He walks me forward a few steps, pressing me backwards, my feet working to keep up as I feel the door to my bedroom press into my back.

It swings opens, and then we’re in my room. I work hard to align this beautiful, safe space with the horror I just witnessed below us.

I’ve brought the monster inside with me.

Aden kicks the door shut and pushes me up against the wall. My breath comes fast then. I almost hyperventilate—

“Calm down, Brooklyn,” he says, his body pressed against mine. I blink up at him, realizing that he’s completely calm. That he’s been completely calm this entire time.

His eyes, as they stare down into mine, start to have a calming effect. The Mafia King may have rejected his Alpha roots long ago, but the power is ever present in him.

I can feel it so strongly I could almost reach out and touch it.