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“I’ve had worse,” she says, staring down the long street toward the city.
Fucking hell. The Zappia family isn’t exactly known for their honesty and integrity, but I sure as hell didn’t expect Enzo to refuse to pay up. Now, what the hell am I supposed to do with her?
I eye the handcuffs lying in the dirt at our feet. “Come on,” I say, gesturing to the trailer. “We should get out of here.”
She hesitates, glaring at me as she takes several long, uneasy breaths. Finally, she nods and steps up into the trailer it while I bend over to grab the handcuffs.
As soon as I’m close enough, I grab her wrist and twist it behind her.
“Hey—” she bites, wincing as the pistol drops from her grip. “What the hell are you doing?”
I pin her against the counter from behind. “I caught you,” I say, grabbing the open cuff, “and I’m going to get paid for it.”
She shoves me backward and slips free, twisting around the face me. “I saved your fucking ass just now!”
I ignore it, forcing my conscience away as I grab for her hands again. “There are plenty of people out there willing to pay good money for a Snake Eyes agent—”
“Oh, fuck this.”
Lilah lashes out, connecting a solid punch against my jaw. I move to wrap my arms around her, trapping her hands against her sides. She kicks the wall as hard as she can. The walls crack from the impact as I tumble backward into the window above the bench. Broken glass scratches my back. She slams her heeled foot down on mine and I cry out in pain.
“That’s enough!” I shout, trying to get a better grip on her.
“Let me go!”
“No!”
Lilah growls with frustration, squirming and kicking at everything she can. “I’m going to kill you so badly!”
I raise her up a little higher and chuckle in her ear. “And if I fancied wearing boots, love, you can rest assured I’d be shaking in them right now.”
“Stop calling me love!”
“I’ll call you whatever I damn well please!”
Lilah slams her head back against my nose, smashing it for the third damn time in two days. Spots cover my vision and my strength slips. She slides one arm free and she throws her elbow back to connect with my eye.
“Stop that!” I snatch her wrist before she can pull off another hit.
Lilah spins away and shoves me, but I maintain my footing. I pull her back in, refusing to let go of her wrist as I pin her against the refrigerator.
Her head smacks against it. “Ow!”
She raises her other fist to strike me again. I grab it before it connects with my face.
“I said, that’s enough!”
I slam both of her hands against the freezer door above her head, leaning in as far as I can to press our bodies together. Her chest heaves with intense anger and she glares up at me in the dark with fire in her eyes.
“Let go of me,” she says, “or else I’ll—”
“Or else you’ll what?” I challenge. “Is this really all you’ve got? If you ask me, you’re not even trying—”
She crushes her lips on mine. Heat spreads from her mouth, flourishing up my cheeks and down my neck like a shock wave. I act on impulse alone, feeling our lips twist together until I release her hands to touch her body instead.
I lift her onto the counter and she tugs my belt loose. My pulse pounds in my ears, overwhelming every other instinct except the urge to fuck.
This damned woman. Just one taste of her and I’m bewitched to the core. I’m a dead man walking and part of me doesn’t even care as long as I finally get to take my frustrations out on that perfect body she’s been teasing me with this whole time.
