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“I suppose,” I mused quietly before muttering, “I bet it seems like a lot of trouble from just a kiss, eh?”
“Hey…” he said softly, and I felt his bent finger lift my chin before he told me, “The only thing I regret is you getting hurt from it and nothing more.”
I nodded a little, again feeling the blush rise from his words. But then I reminded him on a quite breath,
“I killed a man.” Which was when he completely shocked me when he lowered his head and told me,
“No, you didn’t…” I gasped before he quickly stole the last of my held breaths when he added…
“But I did.”
3
CHAPS AND CHAINS
The moment he said this, everything in my body just froze. In fact, I had to spend the next few moments trying to convince myself that I had actually heard him correctly. Hence why I started stammering out,
“Ex-excuse me?”
“I think we should sit down,” he suggested, nodding to the seating area.
“Okay, so now you sound like a doctor about to tell me some bad news.”
At this his lips quirked as he took my hand and led me to his sofa, one this time he joined me on. Of course, with the great big tear in my skirt, it became a lot more obvious when stretched tight over my legs and, therefore, ended up showing most of my thigh, if not all of it.
Meaning, I got a bad boy smirk when he didn’t miss the way I was now tugging down on it. Well, at least I wasn’t flashing him anything more than leg, because spinning my skirt had been my only option after he had nearly ripped it from me in that heated, hot as fuck kiss of his.
Jesus, how did it just keep getting better and better?
“Well, doctorate or not, it is news I would have liked to have had the chance to tell you, that is, if you hadn’t been…”
“Running every five minutes, yeah, yeah, I get it,” I said, beating him to it with a roll of my hand in the air for emphasis.
“After the phone call, I went to your apartment,” he told me, making me gasp as my hands flew to my mouth. Shame was what came next, knowing he had seen what I had done. His gaze instantly softened, and he grabbed my hands to pull them from my lips.
“No, Evelyn, you don’t need to react this way, I was extremely proud of you for defending yourself the way you did.” I swallowed the thick lump of emotions down and nodded.
“I hit him with a TV… well, that was after first hitting him with a DVD player.” At this Ryker didn’t seem quite as horrified as any sane person would. But then I was soon to find out why.
“Yes, well it was a shame you didn’t have the whole fucking electrical store at your disposal. He deserved far worse for hitting you,” he practically growled, clenching his fists, and because the sight of him struggling with the knowledge of this affected me, I reached out and covered his fisted hand with my own.
“Well, I was tempted to grab an old boom box radio I had lying around to hit him with next, if that helps,” I joked, making him scoff a laugh and relax his hand in mine instantly.
“Then you also must know that the asshole who hurt you wasn’t quite as dead as you thought,” he told me, stunning me enough that my hand tightened over his before flinching off it.
“He… he wasn’t!?” I hesitated to ask.
“No, of course, after I discovered what he had done to you… let’s just say he wasn’t breathing for long after that.” My shock at hearing this was understandable, considering he was talking about murder like it was some mundane thing he did as often as brushing his perfectly straight white teeth or his thick, perfectly styled black hair.
“But why… why take that risk? Why commit such a crime for me?” At this he released a heavy, weighted sigh before whispering my name,
“Evelyn.” This was said almost like the answer was obvious. “I know this might be hard to understand right now, what with everything that has transpired between us so far and the turbulent start to our relationship…”
“Relationship?” I questioned in a slightly high-pitched tone, something I should mention, he chose to ignore.
“…But I would never allow anyone to harm you and live another day to speak of it.”
At this I tensed all over, and he saw it before he heard the panic in my tone,
