Turning and pressing her into the wall with my body. I can feel the slight bump pressing against my torso.
“You don’t understand. I want you to look at me when I say this so you know just how fucking serious I am.” I reach down, holding her face in place so she can’t look away from me. Her breath escalates. “I don’t give a damn who you’re married to.” Reaching down, I lift her hand up, bringing it up to where the waistband of my jeans sits. Her pupils wide with desire. I know she’s thinking I’m going to pull her clothes off right there and fuck her, or maybe she’s just hoping I do that. But moving her hand to the side, pushing it under my shirt and running her fingertips across the raised skin that sits on my hip. Leaning into her more, I stare down at her. “You will always own me.”
I don’t even realize that we’ve come to a stop until it dings and the doors open. Pushing off of the wall and making my way to the doors. It pains me too much to look back at her as I walk away from her, leaving her breathless in the elevator.
Pulling up to the drop, I move out of the passenger side of the van and over to where Axe and the rest of the brothers are standing.
“What was so important?” Axe snaps at me as we continue to wait for new buyers. Meeting them first, with no product, no exchange of anything. Testing it to make sure.
“Not a what,” Linc starts, “But a who, who was so important.”
“Fuck off.” I snap at him again.
“Really brother.” He gasps.
“Look, if you would have seen the look on her face when she was walking into her appointment to find out the sex of the baby, you probably would have gone in as well.”
Axe just shakes his head as we hear the sounds of the engines approach from behind. Turning around, I can’t help but finger the paper in my pocket, the image of her face as it lit up earlier bringing light into my life.
“Incoming.” comes in through the comms as I watch the unmarked car pull up, not the van which we were expecting. “Z, I think someone’s here to pay you a visit. I’m calling Jag to tell them to hang back.”
For a moment, I think that he may have seen me leaving earlier, but I know I was careful, that there’s no way.
My phone pings, glancing at it quickly. Seeing a text makes me tilt my head as I pick it up
It’s Eli. Watch your back. He’s on your ass.
Well, that’s good to know.
Looking up, I’m almost surprised that it’s not Darren as the car rolls to a stop.
“I thought you said he was watching Z?” Axe asks through the comms as I just continue to stand, waiting for whoever is inside to get out.
The perpetual game of criminal chicken brings me too much thrill.
“He is. He just isn’t rolling in…” Linc pauses. “My guess is that he doesn’t want her to know he’s watching Z cause she’ll get pissed, so him and his partner are sitting back.”
“He doesn’t give a fuck what she thinks.” I mumble into my own comms. “Spyder, do me a favor, get some intel on him. There’s something I’m missing.”
“Well, well, well…” the officer says as he pushes himself out of the car and looks at me. “If it isn’t the infamous Z.”
“Glad to know my reputation continues to precede me.”
“Nah.” He laughs slightly as he steps forward before leaning on to the hood of the car. “Your father’s reputation preceded him. Yours, well, you only have yours because of your father.”
He’s trying to get a rise out of me, but I only laugh. “I mean, by proxy mine would too.”
“As a footnote.”
“Nah.” I laugh again, shaking my head. Maybe at one point in time this was true, but I know without a fucking doubt that I’ve made my own name. “Only to an idiot, because anyone with any clue would know that just means he taught me. He molded me, fuck I’m his fucking protégé, don’t you know?”
“Now, Z, that’s not necessarily true.” Linc says from behind me. “More people were afraid of Caroline than your dad.”
“Yeah,” I laugh again. “I think most forget about that.”
Walking forward, I look down at the officer, using my 6 inches on him to make him feel even smaller. “You see, people seem to forget that my mother was more ruthless than anyone else. Not only would she do something, but then Ash would too.”
He slowly takes a step backwards.
