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His hands went to my forearms to steady me, tightening when I tried to push them off. His dark brows narrowed the tiniest bit.
“Where in the fuck did you think you were going?”
“I was just walking.”
A small gasp fell from my mouth as he pulled me forward and turned me, planting my back against the side of the compound.
He let go of my arms and brought a hand to rest beside my head. My eyes dipped to his chest. Seeing he still had on the shirt that was covered in blood, I glanced to my left. Beyond a small fleet of vehicles, all donning the Savage insignia, I spotted Bella, Ice, and Cam watching us from near the front of the building.
I had no idea their cars were kept over here. There were acolytes crawling all over this place, so it wasn’t as if I could hop in one and take it for a spin, but I could see how it would look to catch me heading in their general direction.
“I wasn’t going to run,” I vowed.
“No shit.” He gripped my chin, forcing my attention back to him. “That’s the last thing you’d do.”
He said that with absolute confidence. And he was right. For now. I stared up at him, wondering what would happen next. His eyes delved inside me and prodded at something that’d always been there but had become quiescent.
There was a befuddling static that crackled between us and a progressively magnetic pull that made me want to lean into him. I hoped it was one sided, even if the idea of that was upsetting for reasons I couldn’t yet understand.
After a solid two minutes or so rolled by, I swore I felt him physically withdraw from me, but he hadn’t moved his body an inch.
“You know, you’ve got a lot of people wanting you back. Something tells me you’re not too excited about that.”
“Your something would be right.”
A faint smirk lingered at the corner of his mouth. “Then you’ll like the proposition I have for you.”
“I think that would largely depend on what it is.”
“Fair enough,” he retorted. “You can walk through my front gates and see how long you last out there on your own. Or…”
As I waited for him to continue, the pad of his thumb began tracing the outline of my lips.
“You stay here and become one of us.”
Us.
As in, a Savage.
Was he serious? I waited for a punchline, but one never came. “Why would you offer that?”
“I have a few reasons.”
“I don’t understand. What would you expect in return?”
His thumb stopped tracing.
“You.”
That one word was spoken with such clarity there was no way I could have misheard him or missed its deeper meaning. I didn’t know what to say. Words failed me.
“I want you to think long and hard about it, because once you make a deal with me, there’s no going back.”
“And if I agree?” I queried, finding my voice.
“Simple. You’ll be mine.”
There wasn’t anything simple about that.
