Leah's POV
I raised my head and saw Lucas standing in front of me.
"Why are you here?" I wiped my mouth and turned my head away from him. "You're supposed to rest in bed."
"My wife is abducted by an old motherfucker in a sex dungeon and I am supposed to be lying in bed and hoping for the best?" Lucas pulled me closer to him and checked me from head to toe.
"I'm fine, totally unharmed," I said. "I'm just horrified by what that man has done to other disprivileged girls. I mean, the level of crime is appalling. I mean, all those girls... They were alone at the darkest moments of their lives..."
I couldn't finish my words because of the bitterness in my mouth.
Lucas held me tightly against his chest and wrapped his arms around my head.
"There's a big wild bad world out there, Leah. People were born inherently vice." He said while kissing my hair gently.
I knew he was trying to use his body to shield the big bad outside world from me. The next thing I knew was that I was choking on my own tears.
Lucas sighed and carried me up by holding my waist and legs.
"You're not alone, Leah. That's the only thing that matters, for I will always be with you, my love," Lucas whispered and lowered his head.
Before I could say anything, my mouth had already been sealed by his lips.
"Don't..." I tried to turn my head away from Lucas. "I have just vomited and I taste bitter..."
"So I'll share the bitterness with you," Lucas said in a soft, tender voice before pressing his lips to mine again.
It was the tenderest, yet the most affectionate kiss that I had ever had in my life.
Just when I was head over heels for my husband, I heard the sound of footsteps.
I opened my eyes and saw Finn standing behind Lucas' back.
He intentionally kept a distance away from us.
There was no expression on his face. No anger. No jealousy. Not even a single hint of upset.
He was just standing there, looking at Lucas holding me in his arms and kissing me, as if he was looking at something totally irrelevant.
I struggled to break away from Lucas, running toward Finn.
"Why are you here?" I asked.
"Mr. Cleary asked me to follow Alpha Lucas," Finn said.
"He asked you... What?!" I was shocked.
"He works for me now," Lucas walked toward me and said. "Jorah's on annual leave, so your little boyfriend is working for me now."
"Working... Working for you?! What do you mean?!" I stuttered.
"He fetches me drinks, does my laundry, things like that. It's his new assignment," Lucas said with a grin.
I couldn't believe what I had heard, and I was literally speechless in front of Lucas. So I turned to Finn and said, "Finn, listen, you don't have to do anything Jalin told you to do. He's totally insane."
"I have to do whatever Mr. Cleary asks me to do," Finn said in a monotonic voice as if he was reciting a line from a script.
"But..." As I was about to say something else, Lucas held me in his arms and said, "Your new boyfriend needs a working permit to stay in this Kingdom, so I offered him a job."
"I can offer him a job!" I argued.
"No, you can't, because he's already working for me. Now..." Lucas rubbed his hands together and lifted me up on his shoulder like a sack.
"What are you doing?! Put me down!" I kicked my legs and waved my arms, feeling totally useless and embarrassed at the same time. I thought Lucas was getting weak, but he lifted me up with one hand. He didn't come across as being weak at all.
I almost felt a bit relieved, because it meant as long as I stayed with him, he would be in good condition.
"Where are you taking me?!" I struggled and asked. "I've got work to do!"
"Stop struggling like a little carp. I want to take you home so that I can fuck you. You know it's advised by the good doctor as part of my rehabilitation program," Lucas took a pause and looked back at Finn. "And Finn will drive for us, will you?"
I turned back and saw Finn standing there with clenched fists.
"I'm talking to you, Finn," Lucas said.
"Yes, Alpha," he replied. Then, he walked past us without looking back.
Feeling furious, I punched Lucas' back and said, "You're such an asshole! Stop treating me like your possession! I'm not a human-shaped pill to cure all of your ailments! Stop treating Finn like your subject! He's my boyfriend!"
Lucas pulled me down his shoulder and stared into my eyes.
Then, he said in a stubborn voice, "You're my wife, Leah. And as my wife, you have your duties. One of them is to have sex with me. I hired your little boyfriend instead of killing him. You should thank me for my benevolence. Now, if you struggle one more time, I will call border control and they will send your stripper boyfriend away faster than you can ever imagine. So stay put and do not let me remind you of who's your husband again."
As Lucas threw me into the backseat of his Rolls-Royce Phantom, he got in and pressed his body on top of mine.
At that moment, a frightening thought came across my mind -
Is he going to... fuck me in the car... with Finn's presence?!
This thought was so terrifying that I became terrified.
As Lucas moved forward, our eyes met with a fiery passion that couldn't be contained.
The air was thick with desire and the tension between us was palpable.
Lucas took me into his strong arms and pulled me close. He moaned as he felt the softness of my body against his.
I lifted up my head and struggled to see Finn, who was driving the car as if nothing had happened in the backseat.
The rhythm of my breaths started to get more rapid.