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I watch her as we await our turn. Susa’s beautiful, nervous.

Scared, but determined, because she wants this, is as hungry for our future as I am.

Looking even more beautiful because of it, in my mind. It makes my cock throb, to see how anxious she is standing in line at the clerk’s office while waiting to file for our marriage license.

That sheletsme see her vulnerable like this. The way I get to see Owen vulnerable.

That’s so fucking sexy I don’t even have the words for it.

This is therealwoman, with all her barriers to the rest of the world stripped away.

This is the woman only Owen and I will ever get to see. Not even her precious daddy gets to see this side of Susa.

Everyone else will get Susannah Evans, attorney, or politician.

We gether.

Or, in Owen’s case,Her.

But I mean every word—I’m only doing this once in my life. Once she’s mine, Owen’s mine. I know this with complete certainty or we wouldn’t be standing here right now.

For this plan to work, I can’t have Benchley Evans storming in and stopping things.

I need time.

I need her married to me, and then I can bring Owen in, and he’smine.

She’s a woman of her word. Once we’re married, I’m certain she won’t back out. Especially once Sir’s completely in charge. Once she’s mine, I’m not letting her go.

She’s my key to Owen.

Don’t judge me. I’ve never lied about being a bastard extraordinaire. I learned at the feet of one of the best mindfuckers there is and, somehow, survived the experience.

Barely.

I was used and discarded, with no thoughts for my future, or Eddie’s.

This is totally different. I not only plan on keeping Susa and Owen for life, I plan on dedicating my life totheirhappiness,theirdreams. Because of them, I once again feel…alive.

Meeting Owen and Susa have restored a tiny bit of my faith in the human race. It’s restored my ability to love, tofeel.

To trust.

Unlikeher, I do have empathy and plan on loving my two pets forever. I’m not in this for some sick game, getting my thrills solely from the manipulation aspect.

I’m in this forlife.

When I marry Susa, I plan to uphold my vows, and I know she will, too. She’s young in calendar age only. Susa is far more mature and knowledgeable about life than many women twice her age. We’re going to be a marriage of three, even if the most silent partner is the one who will gain fame first.

Susa knows the plan and wants to enact it, stick with it, carry it through.

Once Owen is mine, life will be perfect. No one—not Benchley, not Elandra—will split us apart.

I won’t let them.

It doesn’t take long. We get our license, we buy rings…

And then an overweight Elvis marries us.