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My Bluetooth chimes with an incoming call. I hit answer, hiding the swelling dread in my gut as one of the investors for project Vex connects through.
“Mr. Rich?”
“Mr. Drayton, what can I do for you?”
My voice remains smooth and calm throughout our conversation. And for the investor who calls right after him. And the one after that.
It stays smooth and calm the entire time, masking the inferno raging inside me as I speed toward my destination in the hammering rain.
“I’m not leaving until you talk to me,” I yell at the panel, growing more soaked by the second.
There’s a click from the intercom and Maddy’s voice breaks through the dark night air.
“What are you doing?” she hisses.
She sounds more like herself than she did in the restaurant. Fired up. Ready to fight.
“Do you have company?” I grit.
“What?”
“Are you fucking alone?” I tighten my hand into a fist where it’s resting up against the wall, to prevent me from punching the door in.
I can’t believe how stupid I’ve been. She’s been listening to his books. I even bought her an advanced copy of his fucking audio to listen to. Does she listen to him in the bath still? In bed? Does she even need to anymore? Now that she has the real thing. Does she ask him to say the things to her he says in the books?
Does she come harder for him hearing his voice in her ear than she does for me?
“I swear to God, Mads.”
I thought I was fine seeing her there with him. I acted fine. I didn’t want to cause a scene for her, upset her. But then his hands were on her.His hands. On her.
“What do you think?” she snaps. “Of course I’m alone.”
The door unlocks and I barge through, slamming it back against the wall as I rush straight to her apartment door. She’s flung it open in readiness for me, her eyes blazing as she glares at my dripping form on her doorstep.
“What is it? You want white picket fences and missionary sex for the rest of your life? Because he sure looks the type.”
“What?” Confusion clouds her face as I step inside, throwing the door shut behind me and backing her up against the hallway wall, panting with barely contained anger.
“With him?Nate.” I spit out his name like it’s burning my tongue.
“He—”
“He can’t give you what you need, what you want.”
I’m so close that I’m dripping water onto her thin cotton tank top and the shorts she’s wearing. One drop lands and makes the material darken so the tight, light brown bud of her nipple shows through. I clench my jaw to stop from biting it. To show her she’s mine. I’d mark her all over her perfect body to show her if I could. She is mine. As much as she fights it.
“You don’t know what I want.” She looks into my eyes.
“I know you better than you think.” I plant my palms against the wall either side of her head, caging her in as I press against her, my heart hammering against my ribs.
“It doesn’t matter.” Her eyes tighten at the corners. “We need to be serious. This… Us… It can’t happen anymore. You know that, right? You must know that!”
“We need to beserious?” I hiss, inching closer until my lips are almost grazing hers. My wet thumb drops to her face, tracing over her cheeks.
“Yes,” she breathes.
“I am serious. I am seriously fucking wrecked because of you.”
