Free Broken Illusions (His Agenda Volume 3) by Dori Lavelle Page A

kitchen towel I’d dropped earlier and stuffed it into my mouth so deep I gagged as it scratched my throat. He shifted and removed something from his pocket. Something that let out a metallic sound. The handcuffs flashed before my eyes for a moment before he pulled my arms above my head, and then I felt the metal cool against my skin. My heart almost burst when I heard them click shut.
    “That’s better.” He kissed my cheek. “I brought those in case you chose to disobey me.”
    He reached for his crotch again and I trembled as tears slid down my cheeks and pooled into my ears. I jerked my head from side to side, unable to believe I had come full circle. That he was going to do this to me again, when I’d thought it was all over.
    He shoved my legs apart and pressed his lips hard against mine—too hard, his teeth hurting me. Then he pushed into me.
    Just like that, the new world and life I had created for myself, the future I had hoped for, collapsed.
     

PART II

Chapter Twenty
    Jude
     
    It was all worth it. Everything he'd endured the last two years boiled down to this one moment of watching the fear swirling like a hurricane in her green eyes.
    She’d fucked with him; now he was fucking her. She had to know, had to know that no one messed with Jude Macknight and got away with it. Not even love stood in the way of revenge.
    It had brought him both pleasure and pain to watch her for the past months. He’d been studying her every move. He knew when she ate, when she slept, when she took a shit. He'd punched walls when he'd seen her inside Dustin Brannon's arms. The fury of betrayal had almost caused him to reveal himself sooner. But he was a patient man. He planned everything to the last detail. He had planned to walk into her life, not rush in like a moron. He was Jude Macknight, a powerful man. He took what he wanted when he wanted it.
    He drove deeper into her, traveling the familiar tunnel of her pussy, the pussy he had made love to even from a distance. He had fucked a lot of women in the last few months, women who looked a lot like Haley. Fucking and killing had become an art he had mastered.
    But the bitches had never touched him the way Haley had; they never reached into his soul. They had been mere pawns in his game, stepping stones to his ultimate destination.
    Now he was here with his wife once again. She should have known she would never outrun him and his love for her. He was a man of his word. He had meant it when he’d promised her forever. Now the time had come. They had a few hours together in this life, and then it would all be over.
    Till death do us part.
    He didn’t really agree with that phrase, not anymore. He no longer believed death would part him and Haley. There was another world waiting for them on the other side. They would be together for eternity. Death would only be the beginning.
 
     

Chapter Twenty-One
    Haley
     
    As he tore me apart, every inch of my body screamed.
    I tried to kick, but he was too strong for me. He always had been. I tried to bite his lip, but his mouth was too firmly pressed against mine. I screamed inside my throat, jerked my hands above my head. As usual, my pain only turned him on.
    Exhausted and out of breath, I stopped moving and lay helpless, praying he would stop soon. That I would still be alive when he did.
    As he pushed harder into me, I felt as if I was fading away, merging with the air around me, transforming into nothing but particles, and then into nothing at all.
    I thought I had reclaimed my life. But Jude was showing me now that my life had never, ever belonged to me. It was his to take whenever he wanted.
    I closed my eyes and cried so hard I almost couldn’t breathe. The kitchen towel inside my mouth didn’t help.
    He shuddered and collapsed on top of me, breathing hard and sweating all over me. Bile rose in my throat but I swallowed it down again. When he rolled off me, I lay there lifeless, like a doll.
    “Damn,” he said under his