Chapter 162: One Teeny Tiny Thing
Doctor Beau Landry froze the second the girl in front of him finally turned her attention to him. It was like he had been struck by lightning and plunged into a lake of ice all at the same time.
He wanted to take out the gun carefully hidden in his lab coat and shoot both the Governor and the woman curled up on the floor for simply breathing the same air as the girl on the couch.
Even with the tails of blood flowing down both sides of her face, she was the most mesmerizing creature he had ever seen. She wasn’t a typical beauty, and he had seen a lot of those, but there was something about her that seemed to simply suck him in and refused to let him go.
Honestly, Beau had no idea how old she was. She looked young, that was for sure, be he knew that wasn’t always the best way to judge her age. But whether she was legal or not, he simply couldn’t let her go.
Wait until she was good and ready for him? 100%. He would much rather slit his own throat than harm her in any way. But that didn’t mean he couldn’t be by her side, protecting her until then.
He was the first one to admit that he had a problem. Ever since he was a kid, he did everything to excess. He studied to excess, played to excess, ate to excess, and drank to excess. After he got into medical school, he worked to excess, saved money to excess, spent money to excess, and even fucked to excess.
But no matter what he did, it was never enough. No matter how many women he fucked, he was never satisfied. No matter the meal, he was never full. No matter how much bourbon he drank, he was never drunk.
It wasn’t until he looked into the eyes of this girl that he saw everything he had spent the past 28 years searching for. She was everything to excess... and he would never let her go.
"Hi," she whispered to him, her voice soft and innocent. However, he could practically taste the lies behind her words.