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rich people like my stepfather considered important. I wondered how Annika had come to be at Wayne’s mercy, since she came from money. Perhaps with her background and family’s reputation, she would have had a better chance of getting her rape report taken seriously, but I could certainly understand why she was afraid to risk the exposure and had decided not to go to the police.
    I’d never even met her, but I shared Mykael’s desire for revenge. I would have felt the same for any woman who had been raped by four men, but personally knowing the four men involved, and having been subjected to the undisguised lust of three of them over the years, made my skin crawl. I would love to see Wayne and his cohorts suffer.
    That reminded me I had wanted to share the information about the tape, so I told Mykael amid giggles about having edited it down to a surprisingly tasteful soft-core porn that still made it obvious I was getting fucked by a black guy for the first time—and my first time.
    I had expected him to laugh, but he looked concerned instead. “Did he hurt you when he found out?”
    Aww, he was sweet when he wanted to be. I shook my head. “I didn’t give him the chance. It was a bit on the cowardly side, I guess, but I didn’t mail the package until after I’d moved out. He never talked to me or tried to get hold of me, but he did cancel my credit card and my phone service.”
    “I’ll arrange for you to have a bank account set up at my bank.”
    I frowned him. “I wasn’t trying to get money out of you. I can take care of myself. I was just telling you what he did.”
    Mykael held up a hand. “Calm down, Gabriella. I’m not trying to buy you off or step on your independence. I simply want to make sure you have everything you need for you and my child. There will be a bank account established for you, and it’s my hope you’ll actually use it. Whether you spend it all in one shopping trip or just use it as needed, please consider it another resource at your disposal.”
    When he put it like that, I couldn’t object too much, so I nodded and tried to appear a little grateful. In all honesty, it would be nice to have an emergency fund upon which to fall back, since my own savings account was pretty low. It was an expensive city, and I probably would have done better if I had moved away, but I hadn’t been able to leave.
    Part of it was just because New York was part of my blood, having been born here and grown up here. Other than being sent away for the last two years of high school to a boarding school, followed by the Swiss university less than one hundred miles from my boarding school, I hadn’t really been outside of the city aside from an occasional vacation.
    Wayne, of course, had sent me away less than two weeks after my mother had died, so perhaps that was part of why I had grieved and ached so hard to come back to New York. Otherwise, I had no family left here, so it hadn’t been that. Maybe it had just been being torn away from her and everything I had known within two weeks of losing my mother that had left me longing for the city of my birth.
    Whatever the reason, I was determined to stick it out here in New York, and Mykael had only been a small part of that decision. Even when I had learned I was pregnant, and it had seemed like a good idea to stick around in case I could find him, it hadn’t have been my primary reason for staying. At that point, I hadn’t been very optimistic about ever seeing him again, since I’d had no idea how to contact him. “Thank you. I do appreciate it.”
    He sighed heavily, but then gave me a big smile as he stretched forward and took my feet from the coffee table, settling them on his lap as he started to rub the arches. “You’re going to make me work for everything, aren’t you, Gabriella?”
    I moaned in place of answering, not wanting to confirm his supposition. I didn’t plan to be difficult deliberately, but from what little I knew of Mykael,