She sucks in a breath. “So Orion wasn’t lying …”
I frown. “That fucker can’t be trusted.”
She snarls, “You don’t decide that for me.”
“I only wanted to—”
She plants a finger on my lips, shushing me. “No. You don’twant. You do as you’re told.”
A blush creeps on my cheeks.
Fuck. My cock hardens from the sheer aggression in her tone.
I love it when she talks to me like that even though she just literally tried to kill me.
She leans sideways and snatches my bag off the muddy ground, inverting it so all the contents spill out.
“A rope, cuffs, knives, drugs. You sure came prepared.” She snorts.
Is that a question? It didn’t sound like one, so I opt to remain quiet instead of stirring the beast.
She steals the rope and wraps it around my wrist, then forces both of my hands together above my head.
“You don’t have to do this,” I mutter.
“I don’t fucking trust you not to run away from me again.”
“I won’t, I promise,” I say as she wraps the rope around and around both my wrists.
She ties the knot hard, and I mewl from the pain.
“I’ve been looking all over for you. No wonder I couldn’t find you. You were too busy snooping in my room, searching through my things. Did you find what you were looking for? Hmm?”
She leans in so close, I can feel her breath on my skin, and fuck me … it is the best thing ever.
Contain yourself, Xavier. You can handle this. Just talk your way out of it.
“Does snooping through a girl’s private phone give you a hard-on?”
I’d be lying if I told her no.
I swallow when she pushes the knife farther into my throat. “I only checked your list so I could bring you the men you wanted to kill.”
She narrows her eyes. “What, like a gift?”
I nod even though it sounds weird and very stalkerish when she says it like that.
“How did you even manage to open my phone? Tell me now, or I swear to God, I will cut off your balls for inviting yourself to filter through my stuff like a goddamn trash panda.”
“I printed out a photo of you.”
“What photo?”
“I had one …” I gulp. “On my phone.”
Not just one. Thousands.
Suddenly, she brings her hand down between my legs and squeezes my balls so tightly, I nearly come right there and then. “F-fuck…”
