The Years Between Signing and Seeing novel Chapter 235

Suzie struggled, but she was completely powerless against him.

Jamie’s eyes were bloodshot from the alcohol. In the warm glow of the bedside lamp, they glittered with a raw, primal desire, like a burning flame that could scorch the soul.

Suzie’s heart trembled. Even if she was inexperienced, she knew what that look in a man’s eyes meant.

She began to struggle and beat against him in earnest, but he suddenly grabbed her wrists, lifted them above her head, and pinned them there.

A gasp was just forming in her throat when his lips crashed down on hers.

He roughly, almost clumsily, forced her lips apart, kissing her with a frantic hunger. Suzie panicked. Resistance was futile, so she prepared to bite down.

But just like the last time he’d forced a kiss on her at the hospital, he quickly controlled her jaw, rendering her unable to bite or escape.

His kiss grew more intense, carrying an undeniable dominance, as if he wanted to devour her whole. Soon, his lips moved to her pale cheeks, her neck, her shoulders…

“Jamie, let me go! Are you insane?!” Suzie cried out in fear. Even the time they had slept together, he had never kissed her like this.

“Yes! I am insane! You’re driving me insane!” he answered in a muffled voice. “Suzie! Why did you betray me? In what way am I inferior to other men?”

His words were followed by an even more fervent assault. Suzie was no match for his strength, and all her struggles seemed utterly useless. Tonight… was there no escape?

Just as her heart pounded with terror, he gently bit her earlobe and whispered in a hoarse voice, “Don’t worry, I won’t hurt them. Just be a good girl…”

He kissed her tear-streaked face again and again, his touch now infinitely tender. When he had kissed away the last of her tears from her cheeks and neck, he lay down beside her, once again pulling her into his embrace.

His large hand stroked her hair and her smooth back as he murmured into her ear, his voice raspy, “That was impulsive of me. I was a bastard.”

Suzie, still trembling, curled into a tight ball and buried her face in the bedding.

Her reaction, her look of pure terror, pierced Jamie’s heart with a pang of grief. Did she feel nothing for him at all? With other men, she was… but with him, she was…

His mind was instantly flooded with the images from those photos. He was willing to overlook it, so what more did she want from him?

He sighed in silent resignation. His long fingers tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear as he whispered, “Suzie, let’s start over, okay?”