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Weird, sure.
But not completely out of character for me.
I’d always been more of a recluse, someone on the fringes of the family, rather than smack-dab in the center of it.
She’d been so damn convincing that I really doubted Lorenzo and Giana would have a reason not to believe her.
Which left me with another uncomfortable feeling.
Because it wasn’t exactly a good thing that she was such a damn good liar.
Could she lie that well to my face?
When I finally got around to seriously asking her about what was going on, what and who she was running from?
Those were questions and concerns for another day, though.
Right now, I had to worry about the woman fucking missing in an unfamiliar city.
Sure, I’d given her enough cash to pay for anything she could possibly need for the night. But still. I wanted my eyes on her.
Hell, I wanted a fuckuva lot more than my eyes on her, I thought as I climbed in the elevator of my building, feeling my cock start to stir at just the memory of the taste of her, the sound of her as she moaned, the feel of her walls tightening around my fingers like they would around my cock when I slid inside of her…
No.
Christ.
What the fuck was wrong with me?
I never had this little control over myself.
I heard the tap-tap of Storm’s nails coming to the door as I slid the key in the lock.
He hadn’t been barking or crying as I made my way down the hall. And it looked like he hadn’t stubbornly destroyed anything while we were gone either.
“Sorry, man, she didn’t come with me,” I said, grabbing his leash, and attaching it. “She’ll be back later,” I added as I walked him down the hall. “She’d never leave you.”
She wouldn’t.
She loved this puppy too damn much.
If it weren’t for him, I’d be sweating fucking bullets, worried she wasn’t coming back.
Because under all that anger back on the sidewalk was a healthy dose of something else. Something a helluva lot more vulnerable.
Like hurt.
She’d been hurt at the idea that I was embarrassed to be seen with her.
“Your mom is crazy, you know that?” I asked Storm as we made a final lap around the block before heading home to wait her out.
Storm rushed inside to look for her before landing with a huff in her spot on the couch.
“She’ll be back,” I promised him.
I didn’t relax myself, though, until I heard the slow steps of someone down the hall, pausing for a ridiculous amount of time outside the door, like she was trying to build up her resolve to come inside. Or maybe she was listening, hoping I’d gone to bed or some shit.
Eventually, the knob turned, and in she walked.
