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I shook my head from side to side, unable to believe what I was hearing.
He was being so open, all pretense gone. It both terrified and thrilled me.
“Why are you doing this? What the hell do you want from me?” My brain screamed the words while my voice came out monotone and flat.
“You know exactly what I want Nova. Do I really need to break it down and spell it out for you?”
That damned flash-drive. I curled my fingers into fists. “That’s really what all this is about?” I spat. “I’ll never give it you.”
“I know you’re not going to give it to me, because you don’t have it. After you tell me where it is, we can move past this.”
“Or, you can let me go and forget this ever happened.”
“Let you go?” He rocked back on his heels with an amused smile pressed to his lips. “Do you know what would happen to you if I lifted my protection?”
“You think you know what’s going on. You haven’t the slightest idea what your piece of shit father has involved you in.” He walked over to his nightstand and sat down the glass of water. “You’re a reckless little girl who’s going to get caught by someone ten times worse than me, or killed, trying to navigate a world you don’t understand.”
I swallowed the bitter taste his words left in my mouth. Everything he said was true, and now I knew why I’d been left alone as long as I had since my parents’ deaths. Still, I was not giving up the flash-drive.
“I won’t give it to you.” I repeated stubbornly. Chalk it up to wounded pride or feeble strings of hope, I couldn’t give him the location of the flash-drive. I wouldn’t.
He destroyed all illusion of personal space and positioned himself in front of me, gripping either side of the chair, the wolf shaded on the back of his hand gazed up at me.
I looked from it to him. A cruel smirk giving tilt to one corner of his mouth. “Do we really have to do this the hard way?”
I quirked a brow as if to say, try me.
With an exaggerated sigh he stood to full height and reached behind his back, removing something from his waistband.
“Remember this? You should. You tried to use it on me just yesterday morning.”
Had it really been a full twenty-four hours? The sight of the gun had unease blossoming in my chest. He’d been in my house since I’d left. What else had he discovered?
Dread moved like a spider down my spine. I clung to a fearless façade, refusing to give him the satisfaction of seeing me afraid. He held the piece a little lower, as if I couldn’t see it just fine from the previous vantage point.
“There’s still two shells left,” he stated, running the cool muzzle along the swell of my left breast.
“It’d be a shame to have to use one of them on my own wife.”
His wife? What kind of twisted game was he playing at? “Fuck you,” I grit out.
“Fuck me? Why does it always have to be about sex with you?” He clucked his tongue in mock disappointment and continued to trail the gun along my heated flesh.
“You don’t have to do this.” I tried a new approach.
“I don’t do anything I don’t want to do. You ran from me, twice. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed that you’ve regressed.”
Regressed? I was in no way prepared to keep up with his purposely confusing dialect. I’d almost forgotten what it was like with him.
He was adroit when it came to thoroughly fucking my mind and leaving me a mess.
“I haven’t regressed, I’ve regained my common sense.”
He tamed what would have been a beautiful smile. “It’s almost cute, this act you’re putting on. You don’t have to lie anymore, princess. We both know you’re out of your depth. We both know your heads in terrible state. And you know what else? We both know that you need me.”
“What makes you think this is an act?”
He gripped my jaw and applied pressure until my lips parted. My protest became muffled as solid metal slipped between them, gliding against the roof of my mouth, grazing my upper and lower teeth. I could taste the barrel on my tongue.
