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Her eyes twinkle at that and I ready myself for her smart-arsed reply. There’s a lot that I like about Kate, and that starts with her fiery nature and continues with her smart mouth, everything else is just gravy. She makes me smile like no one else. She’s like a medicine to my grumpy arse, moody-as-fuck nature. I shouldn’t like that but fuck, I do.
“Tomayto, Tomahto,” she replies with a huge grin.
“Pretty sure you’re getting on my last fucking nerve,” I grumble, unscrewing the cap of the iodine solution and soaking the cotton wool, refusing to acknowledge how she’s affecting me, but secretly loving it.
“Ditto,” she replies, eyes dropping to my crotch and rising back upwards. She’s smirking now, and if she were anyone else, I’d lay her over my lap and smack her arse for being so damned infuriating.
“Hand,” I demand.
Rolling her eyes, she rests her palm in mine. “Fine.”
I do my damndest not to react to the way her touch makes my dick jerk and my balls tingle. Instead, I concentrate on blotting her skin and clearing up the blood. When I’m happy she’s cleaned up, I gently press against each knuckle, and the bones in her hand and fingers to make sure she’s not got a fracture.
“I think you’re good,” I say, and grabbing the bandages, wrap her knuckles, tying them off. My fingers linger on her skin longer than they should and, of course, she takes this as a perfect opportunity to push the boundaries between us some more.
“Don’t I get a kiss better too?” she asks, a small smile tugging up her perfect cupid’s bow lips.
Damn her.
If she were mine for the night, the things I’d do to her. I imagine sliding my hands into her hair, fucking her mouth with my tongue and dry-humping her on this gurney until she comes, just to show her that she shouldn’t ask for something she can’t fucking handle. Then I’d give her all those things, until she was so turned on that she’d be begging me to make her come again and again and again.
“Beast?”
“We should head over to the shooting range now,” I reply, blinking away those dangerous thoughts. I chuck the bloody cotton pads in the bin and put the iodine solution and cotton wool back in the medicine cabinet.
She sighs, standing. “Yeah, I guess we should.”
With my back still turned to her, I take a moment to clear my head and will my dick to deflate. Every time I’m alone with her things get intense, and it’s a sucker punch to the gut every damn time. I don’t like the feeling of wanting something I can’t have. It’s fucking with my head.
“Look, I’m sorry if I was out of order tonight,” she says, sensing my change of mood. It’s a genuine apology and I take it as one.
“No need to apologise to me, Princess,” I reply, giving her a tight smile as I turn around to face her.
Her returning look is one that I can’t interpret, and one that makes me a little uncomfortable if truth be told. I take pride in being able to read people well, or at least get a handle on their motivations for doing something, but with Kate it’s not so easy. Sometimes she’s an open book, other times she’s so closed off it’s hard to know what she’s feeling, let alone take a punt at what she might be thinking. Either way, right now she’s shutting down in a way that I don’t particularly like but have no business trying to prevent her from doing.
“Shall we go?” I ask her as she chews on the inside of her lip.
“I don’t suppose I have a choice.”
“No,” I agree.
“And yet the other night you tried to convince me that I did, that I could walk away from this life. Only we both know that’s impossible.Youthink it’s because of Carter and his hold over me, but I know the truth.”
“And what’s that?”
“Despite my frustration today, despite the fact I hate Carter curbing my fun and controlling my actions, Iwantto be Queen of Tales, and I will do whatever it takes to get there.”
I frown. “Even killing someone?”
“Yeah, even that.”
