Please Be Gentle With Me Mr Grant novel Chapter 32

She had no idea how long it had been, but suddenly, Blanca heard a clang. The door flung open, and a slender shadow fell in with the light.

Footsteps approached. A strong arm took her up. Blanca opened her eyes drowsily and saw the clear angles of the man’s face, profiled from the side.

“Matthew…”

She didn’t have the strength to hold on any longer. Blanca leant against his broad, warm chest, and fainted.

The small woman in his arms was chilled through, with only a wisp of breath. Matthew felt his heart wrench.

If he hadn’t just happened to call Blanca to ask her what she was planning to do that night, he wouldn’t have known she’d had an incident, and nobody knew how long she’d have been kept locked in there.

Even if it had just been two hours, Matthew wasn’t sure if she could get hypothermia from such a thing. At that thought, a deep rage ignited in him.

He glared at Louise beside him. “If anything happens to her, I won’t let you go.”

“Listen to me, Matthew, I … I don’t know what went on; I thought she’d finished and had gone away! Who could’ve thought she was locked down there, anyway!” Louise’s forehead was beading with sweat.

She’d wanted to lock her up for a while longer, then Matthew had come around.

Matthew locked at her coldly. “We’ll discuss this after I get back.” With that, Matthew carried Blanca upstairs. He’d asked a family doctor here already, and carried Blanca straight into his own bedroom.

Louise froze to the stop, then ran up in a panic to the garden, where her mother was tending her plants.

“Mom…” The moment she spoke, tears came spilling down. “You’ve got to help me…”

Right now, Blanca was going through a nightmare. She dreamt of that harsh winter when she was eight.