“It’s none of your business how I fuck my old lady,” I seethe.I can’t believe I have to explain this to someone.“She’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me.I don’t need to get her to dress up and pretend to be someone for me to want to fuck her.”
“I’m sorry, Ghost.She’s just…” She trails off, her shoulders slumping.“You’re the deadliest man here, we all know it.And you chose this sweet little teacher.I’m never going to be an old lady, am I?”
“Did you want to?”I ask, my brow furrowing.She’s played it off as if she just liked having plenty of sex this whole time.“You know what we respect more than anything is loyalty, right?”
She nods, looking away.
“You know what happened to the last person who hurt my woman’s feelings?”
She shakes her head.
“You just said I’m the deadliest man here, and you still decided to go for my fucking heart?That woman there is my conscience, my heart, and my soul.When you hurt her, I lose all those things, and then I’m just… Ghost.”
“You don’t hurt women,” she says, eyes narrowing.“None of the men here do.”
She’s underestimating me.
Immensely.
“What’s going on here?”Bones asks as he steps inside.He fucks Brandy regularly.In fact, he might be the one who is closest to her.
“Just saw Brandy here telling my old lady she doesn’t know how to handle a man like me,” I explain, and his blue eyes widen.
He quickly moves in between us, because he, unlike Brandy, knows that I can be unpredictable in general.But when it comes to my woman, I’ll kill first and not give a fuck later.“I’ll handle her.”
“You better, because the next time I’m not going to be so nice.One warning, Brandy.The next time you come at Xanthe with anything but kindness, you won’t survive the night.”
XANTHE
“That fucking bitch,” Ora growls, setting a slice of chocolate cake in front of me.“She doesn’t get to talk to you like that.”
I guess the thing that hurts the most is that she’s not wrong.Ghost used to be into all of these different things in the bedroom, but he hasn’t done them with me.
Does he think I’m such a prude that I wouldn’t be into them?I told him that I’d try anything once, and that was me hinting that I’d be open to it.I love him, all of him, and if there’s something he needs, I’m going to be the one to give it to him.
On top of all of that, when I stepped into the kitchen, I found Ora reading a book—one ofmybooks.I stare at it but don’t say anything.I can’t process that little bit of information right now.
Ghost steps into the room, his eyes finding me instantly.He walks over and kisses the top of my head.“You want me to kick Brandy out?”
Wow.
Okay, I guess we’re doing this right now, then.“You heard?”
“I was just coming down the bottom of the stairs,” he explains, pulling out the chair next to me and sitting down.“I don’t want to see her face anymore, so if you say the word, I’ll get her ass kicked out of here.”
I shake my head.“No, I don’t want to do that.The other men like her, and…” I glance up to find Ora has already left the room.
“And what, little one?”he asks, tucking my hair back behind my ear.
“And she’s not wrong.You haven’t done any of that stuff with me, Ghost.I don’t want to bring Daisy back up, but she told me you like to use your knife in the bedroom, and that you cut her.And that’s what your ‘thing’ was.And you haven’t done that with me.”
He seems taken aback.“You’re different, Xanthe.You’re the first woman I’ve ever loved and ever will love.I’m not going to hurt you.I didn’t give a fuck about any of those women.It was all a game to keep me amused.I don’t need any of that with you.”
“You hold yourself back with me.And I don’t want you to.”
“Xanthe…” His jaw clenches.“You don’t know what you’re asking for.”
His eyes flicker with something I’ve never seen in them before.
