Chapter 126

This was already Summer Knight’s biggest compromise. She got why Alexander Barron had this crazy need to possess her, but her mom was still waiting for her back at the Knight family in Capital. Once she found her mom, she wouldn’t care if Alexander locked her up or kept her chained—really. As long as they were together, that’s all that mattered. But the minute he heard her say no, the anger Alexander had been holding back finally snapped. He grabbed her chin hard, lifting her up and pushing her down on the bed, his tone all dominance and steel. “Let you go? Not a chance.” Then he reached into the nightstand and pulled out a chain, moving with the ease of someone who’d done this before. Only if she was tightly chained could he feel at ease. He hadn’t used it since that day, thinking this thing was long gone from their lives… yet now, here it was again, locking Summer down. Not that he wanted this. He didn’t. But he couldn’t help it. He was just too terrified she’d leave him. Alexander s