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CHAPTERTWELVE
TANNER
Run.
That is what I should do.
Riff just told this woman that he had been sleeping naked beside just moments ago, that she could be a hooker or a stripper, but that he was done with her. What happens when he does that to me too? And why am I considering staying?
“That…” I whisper. “That wasn’t nice.”
He moves his head, looking down at me again, his eyes searching mine, and I can see the humor in them. He clears his throat, trying to stifle a chuckle before he speaks.
“Probably not, but it’s the world, buttercup. My world anyway.”
“But she’s your girlfriend. We aren’t together. You guys are, and that just… it wasn’t nice.”
He doesn’t even try to hide the humor this time. “She wasn’t my girlfriend, Tanner. She was a girl I was fucking the past couple of weeks. Nothing more. I made her zero promises—none.”
“Wesley,” I breathe, trying to take a step back from him again.
And again, he doesn’t let me go anywhere.
I’m completely frustrated with him. I want to turn and run and he’s fucking not letting me. I open my mouth to tell him that, but I don’t get the opportunity. Instead, his mouth slams down against mine and his tongue fills me.
All fight leaves my body immediately.
It’s as if he knows how to drain it from me with a simplistic, hard kiss. It’s perfection and hell all at the same time. He’s the bad, seeping into my body, and making that wild part of me grow, suppressing the angel and harvesting the devil.
“What, Tanner? What, buttercup?” he asks, his voice soft and sweet as his lips move against mine.
I’ve forgotten what.
It’s slipped my mind because he’s kissed it right out of me.
I have no doubt whatsoever that he’s done it on purpose too. He knows exactly what he can do, what he’s capable of, especially when it comes to me. After only one night together, he knows more about my body than I do myself.
“I’m scared,” I confess.
His arms wrap around my back, and he holds me against him, against his chest, resting his chin against the top of my head. I let out a slow breath, trying to calm myself, but it doesn’t work. I’m terrified, beyond terrified really. And not just for myself, but for this life inside of me too. I feel as if I’m not old enough to do this, but at the same time, Iknowthat Iamold enough.
“I know you are, Tanner, but there’s no need to be. I got you, buttercup. I got you.”
My phone rings in the car. It’s in my purse that I threw on the passenger seat. Turning my head, I look over to the car, as if Brent is going to jump out of that phone and snatch me up. I know it’s him calling too, I’m usually home by now and he has made it his mission to know where I am every minute of every day for the past three weeks.
“I should answer that,” I whisper.
“What will you tell him?” Riff asks, knowing exactly who is calling.
Shifting my attention back to him, I press my lips together and tilt my head backward to look up at him. “I don’t know,” I admit.
Riff leans forward, touching his mouth to mine again. “Tell him you’re mine.”
A shiver runs throughout my entire body. A shiver of complete and total desire. I want him, I want every part of him. I don’t know how this has happened. I’ve never felt this way before, and this man looks at me and I’m ready to ruin everything for him.
Maybe I shouldn’t think so negative, maybe I should be thinking… I’m ready to shake up my entire life for him, because once Brent knows. Everything will change.Everything. I’ve already lost my parents. I don’t think that I could lose him too.
As much as he pisses me off, as controlling as he is, my brother is all that I have in this world. He’s everything to me… until this baby makes its debut.
