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ChapterEight
TATI
“A tour?”I asked, crossing my arms as I stepped back into the kitchen. “Your ass isnotan invited guest that I’m about to show around.”
His full lips spread into a wicked sort of smirk as he approached me, his height easily dwarfing mine, forcing me to look up.
“I’m looking around either way,” he informed me, stepping around me into the hall. “You can either be in control of that or not. Choice is yours.”
“Do they train you to be annoying at whatever black site you came from?” I asked, quickly moving to get in front of him. I couldn’t have him roaming my house alone.
“Nah, that was charm school!” he called after me, and then he was right up on me, lingering way too close.
“What did you do to my security system?” I asked as we approached the front door. I was at least going to do the tour properly, from the front of the house and working back. “How did you make it sound like you were knocking, but there was nothing on the camera feed?”
Now that it had been pulled on me once, I’d never fall for the same trick again, but I still needed to know. Teo was likely somewhere doing the same thing as Brandon and hadn’t yet responded to my text. He was going to have some explaining to do though.
Onyx shrugged. “You’ve got a good system, but it isn’t infallible like you seem to think it is. I clocked all your cameras, and avoided triggering any on the way in. You didn’t look at the inside door camera, ’cause you assumed your locks had kept me out. I knocked on the door frominside. Your system recognized the sound and still picked it up as an event.”
I let out a huff. “That is terrifying.”
“The world is a terrifying place,” he said. “At least now you know.”
I sighed, taking a mental list of shit to address with Teo. “So my system is bullshit. What kind of locks do I need?”
He chuckled. “It’snota bullshit system; it’s pretty damn good, actually. Hardly anybody could get in here unnoticed like I did.”
“Okay, so what kind of locks do I need to keep niggas likeyouout?” I asked, sucking my teeth when he grinned in response.
“You got a spare bunker somewhere?”
“Whatever, I’ll just talk to my guy about it,” I declared, and then moved on, walking him through a very quick, very annoyed, tour of my home.
“We’ll skip this one,” I said, bypassing the door to my workroom to continue on.
“Nah, nah. nah,that’sgot to be the most interesting room in the house if you don’t want me in there,” he said, grabbing the doorknob and pushing into the room anyway before I could catch him.
“Seriously?!” I screeched, launching into the room right behind him to hopefully get some quick control over the situation, and maybe steer him out before it turned awkward.
”Daaamn, Tatiana.” He chuckled from in front of my wall of lighted display cases, where I kept the things that where the most… intricate. “You… are a naughty girl, aren’t you?”
I crossed my arms over my chest, hoping to camouflage my hard nipples through the thin fabric of my shirt.“Shut up!” I huffed. “I’m not even into most of this stuff.”
This stuffbeing a whole collection of items adorned with rose quartz embellishments, items of an adult nature.
Onyx pointed to a gorgeous, soft white, leather flogger in the middle of the display case—clearly a notable piece. I hadn’t made that one, but I’d done the customizations—intricate rose quartz adornments inlaid on the handle.
It had taken weeks, and I loved it.
“So you’re telling me you just look at it?” he asked, giving me skeptical eyebrows before his attention returned to the case. “You’re a collector or something?”
“No, I make it,” I explained. “Kinda. I didn’t make that one, I customized it. Not that it’s really any of your business; you’re not even supposed to be in here.”
“I amwaytoo interested in this revelation for you to tell me it’s not my business,” Onyx said, turning to me. “Tell the truth—are you waiting on someone special to use it on you?”
“What makes you think I would want it used onme?”
His eyebrows shot up. “I should have guessed.”
