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Axl had sat beside me in one of the black chairs with plush red seats. Grayson had pulled out a chair, opposite. I’d chosen the window seat that looked down over the river. Clouds showed in the sky, the moon was making an early, pale appearance, and I was sitting with two men who thought it okay to kidnap a woman, tie her up, and make her have sex with them.
Yet here I was questioning my judgment not theirs.
They were discussing the football, the weather, computer virus detection—anything except what I wanted to hear.
Carefully, I folded my hands in my lap and waited for a break and until they both turned to look at me because my stillness had finally sunk in.
“Tell me what you did to Mr. Wharton. Tell me again that you did not deliberately make this happen. I’m sorry but with our past, you know?”
“Sure. We understand.” As he spoke, Axl had rested his forearm on the table and twisted to look at me.
I kept my eyes wide, my expression attentive, and tried to forget what he’d done to me only a few hours ago.
I couldn’t, not really. He’d shoved an orc dildo inside me while— Yes, that. I swallowed.
From his silence, and how he studied my face, he had an idea as to where my mind had gone.
He began again. “We saw the email. I had already checked out your squeaky-clean Christian school.”
I cocked my head. “Why?”
“A school run by a bunch of puritanical people and you, my pretty ex-nun, working for them? It was obvious I’d look into it.”
Not to me, it wasn’t, and I was never a nun, but I let it slide.
“He did.” Grayson nodded, his eyes lifting heavenward for a second. Clearly, he wasn’t agreeing with it being necessary.
“While looking into the board that was judging you and also the principal, we found out who was accusing you. The firewalls at the school are amateurish. I got into Wharton’s PC next and scanned it for naughtiness. His history goes back years. He’s dirty as fuck. Some of it would get him thrown off the board. Some would be illegal.” Axl smiled. “So we texted him and threatened to reveal that and fixed your problem, as much as we could.”
“And you’ve been listening to me through my phone.” I grimaced. How could they? How intrusive. How wrong. How fucking thrilling. Oh, I knew myself fairly well, but not that being stalked like this could be a kink.
They waited.
The waiter arrived and laid out our food. We were sharing the platters. Once again, we behaved like normal people and offered each other plates, and only took what was polite to do. Not beasts, not animals, not whatever these two could be when provoked. Sex demons? A smile twitched at my mouth.
After picking at the food and eating little, I sighed. What was I going to do? Did I have to say it?
“Do you not think that bugging my phone, after everything else you did to me, might be wrong?”
“Hmmm.” Grayson waggled his head and ate a piece of sushi. “Illegal, but…” He held up a finger. “A good strategy for keeping an eye on a woman we let go far too soon.”
Shit. Go away kinky fetish thing. Was I that eager to be stalked?
I sat back. For the first time since the board grilled me, I’d felt something good creep over me. What if we did this? What if it panned out? This was a future that was too interesting to ignore.
“You let me go too soon. Okay. We all know why you did that.” Pretending vague disassociation from my questioning, I picked up my chopsticks and poked the food. I wasn’t really seeing it much.
What else should I be asking them?
What would a rational person ask?
They had been watching me. If I ever wanted to excise them from my life, it would take extreme measures and determination. Both of which they were better at than me.
I leaned back into my seat and swallowed something, nigiri perhaps. The food was less fascinating than these two.
“What do you want with me?”
“Everything.” Wrinkles of amusement came and went about Axl’s eyes. “I just want to eat you all up, little Emme. And maybe spit out your bones, after.”
