Please Me Daddy (Gracie) novel Chapter 229

Don’t seduce your uncle’s woman kid

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Don’t seduce your uncle’s woman, kid

Grace

I had never seen Apollo this angry in all the months I had known him, because most of the time he carried himself with an almost calmness that made it impossible to read what he was truly feeling, but right now there was no mistaking the emotion burning in his eyes.

He was angry.

No, he was furious. The kind of furious that destroyed everything in its path.

It was understandable. Anyone would lose control in his position. I had been kidnapped, dragged away, nearly killed, and the person responsible was the woman who had once stood beside him as his ex wife. Wait… she was not even his ex–wife. Legally speaking, she was still his wife, because she had never been confirmed dead. The woman who had shattered him in the past, the woman whose memory had haunted him for years, was now standing in front of him with a gun in her hand and blood on the

floor because of me.

I looked at Apollo as he stood a few feet away, his arm extended steadily, his gun aimed directly at her. His expression was so cold that it almost frightened me, but what shocked me more was that he was not even looking at her.

His gaze was locked on me. As if I were the only thing in that room that mattered, and he could not afford to blink in case I disappeared again.

I had been stalling her the entire time before he arrived, forcing her to keep talking, provoking her just enough to keep her focus on me instead of doing something reckless, because I knew Apollo would find me. I knew him well enough to understand that once he realized I was gone, nothing in this world would stop him from tearing it apart piece by piece until he found me. I had to survive long enough for him to get here.

Now he was here. And he looked like a man ready to burn the world down.

I wanted nothing more than to run into his arms and tell him I was fine, that I was alive, that our child was safe inside me, but there was no time for that. I gave him a small smile instead, a silent reassurance that I was okay, even though my hands were shaking, and then I forced myself to turn away from him and ran toward River.

River was lying on the floor in a pool of his own blood, the red spreading far too quickly beneath him, and the sight made my chest tighten painfully.

I dropped to my knees beside him and immediately pressed my hands against the gunshot wound, applying as much pressure as I could to slow the bleeding.

“River, stay with me,” I whispered urgently, my voice trembling despite my attempt to stay calm.

The blood was warm against my palms, seeping through my fingers, and when pressing harder did not seem to help, I began to pull at my shirt, ready to tear it off to use as a makeshift bandage,

Before I could, a hand weakly grabbed my wrist.

“Are you trying to seduce me while I’m bleeding to death, Grace?” His playful voice, though strained, echoed in my ears.

I froze. Slowly, I looked up at him.

River’s eyes were open. He was looking at me with that same mischievous smile he always wore, as if he wore lying comfortably on a couch instead of on a cold warehouse floor covered in blood.

My eyes widened in disbelief and relief as tears instantly filled them. I pressed harder against his wound without thinking.

“River!”

“Ouch,” he groaned dramatically. “Are you eager to send me to meet God sooner?”

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Don’t seduce your uncle’s woman, kid

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I looked down at the wound, horrified at myself, and shook my head quickly, tears spilling over despite my effort to hold them back. “Of course not. I’m sorry. This is my fault. I didn’t think she would shoot you.”

He frowned slightly, though his eyes remained gentle. “Then did you want her to shoot you instead? I’d rather die than let that happen.”

My lips trembled as I bit down on them to stop myself from crying harder. “I’m sorry,” I whispered again, because I did not know what else to say.

He tightened his grip on my hand weakly and said, “You know, I used to think my uncle didn’t deserve you. I wanted to be selfish about it.”

“River-”

“But after seeing how he treats you,” River continued, glancing briefly in Apollo’s direction before looking back at me, “I still think he doesn’t deserve you.”

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