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“Everything is handled.” I heard a baritone voice reply and couldn’t stop myself from trying to hear more.
What did that mean?
“Send the routing information, and I’ll wire a deposit,” Pierce finally said after a few blunt back and forth sentences. I tried to follow his conversation but it didn’t really make any sense. It sounded sketchy.
He ended his phone call and pressed a gentle kiss on my neck. Exhaling a small breath, I leaned back into him. If I could erase that phone call, ignore the fact Jason had just been shot execution style, and forget Pierce kidnapped me, this would be a normal morning.
He forced me down to my back and covered my body with his. We stared at one another, searching each other’s eyes for our own reasons.
“Who was that?”
I didn’t really care who he was talking to unless it directly involved me, but I couldn’t take him staring down at me like he could see all my secrets.
“Someone with a personal company I invest in. I don’t hide everything from you,” he added when he saw my expression.
“What kind of personal company?”
“One that has connections,” he vaguely answered.
Chewing my lower lip, I wrapped my arms around his neck. This gorgeous asshole was mine—at least for a few precious seconds. As if he could read my mind, he gave me a roguish smile.
“After breakfast, we need to leave. Where we’re going is a long drive.” He dropped his mouth to my chest and began kissing downwards.
“So what are you doing then?”
“I said after breakfast.” He gave me a smoldering look before moving his mouth between my legs.
Every time I moved, my clit tingled and I ached for him all over again. He’d licked, sucked, and fingered me until I begged him to stop. Then he fucked me hard enough to leave a bruise on my cervix. We hadn’t really spoken beyond that. He was back in his three-piece suit and I was back to feeling out of place.
“Your thoughts are much louder than the silence,” he commented ten minutes into our drive. “Talk to me.”
“Why? You aren’t going to tell me anything.”
“In two weeks,” he began, “my aunt, grandmother, and cousin will be taking you dress shopping. If you don’t piss me off, I’ll let Abbi come with you.”
I opened my mouth to respond and quickly snapped it back shut, seconds away from doing the very thing he just told me not to. Just like that, the night we spent together was crushed into nothing. I’d never be okay with the control he had over my life.
“Open this.” He dropped a black wallet onto my lap, pulling me from my inner ramblings. I lifted it up and flipped it open. He had a limitless credit card and a debit to match, which wasn’t surprising.
What was surprising, however, was the picture on the left side of his wallet. I stared at her round face, olive shaped indigo eyes, and took note of the striped bow in her hair.
“You…you have a daughter.” Not a question. A statement. There was no denying her resemblance to him.
“I had a little sister. Her name was Chloe.”
He referred to her in past tense. I wasn’t sure what to say so I kept quiet. When people spoke of the Serbans, not once had it surfaced that there had been a little girl.
“Pretty,” I said after a few minutes, dropping his wallet back into his lap. From my tone, he could tell I was already a million miles away, lost back in my thoughts. He didn’t elaborate any further and I wasn’t ready to ask, unsure if the answers were something I could handle. I had a gut feeling I wasn’t going to like whatever they were, and that was the ironic gist of all this.
He purposely danced around my questions because he knew I wasn’t ready for the truth. It was even more blatantly obvious that Pierce didn’t hate me, because in his own twisted way, he always protected me.
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
“I need you to listen carefully,” he began, taking the next exit and coasting off the highway, “The place we’re going…Rebel, these men are far worse than I am. And that should tell you everything you need to know.”
A feeling of dread bloomed in my stomach. The fact he was warning me was a clear indicator that we weren’t going for a simple afternoon tea.
“So, why did you bring me? How screwed up are we talking, because you’re a bit of a basket case.”
He shot me an annoyed look. I bit my lip to stifle a laugh.
“I’m sorry, I’ll be serious.”
“Rebel, I promise nothing will ever hurt you as long as you’re with me, but it would be beneficial to both of us if you kept your smart ass mouth shut and didn’t provoke anyone. Don’t comment on anything you see, and for fuck’s sake, act like a lady.”
