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“You’re staying right here,” he snarled.
“Ah, yes,” she murmured. “Right here. While Vadim Zhoglo and Daddy Novak with their testicle tongs comb the globe for my prickly hostess. Really safe, Sean.”
His muscles jerked under her hand. “It’s the best place I know of.”
“If you don’t want me to participate, I’ll just take my chances with the police. I’m sure they’ll be interested to know what we’ve been doing.”
He rounded on her with violent swiftness. “You can’t tell them what we did today. Not unless you want to read about Ivers and the Trung family in the obit pages. I promised them.”
“OK,” she said quietly. “I won’t tell anyone. Just let me go with you. I helped you today. And I could help again.”
“Oh, you helped. You fulfilled one of my fantasies. The Endicotts’ perfect china doll daughter, on her knees. Sucking my dick.”
She flinched, hurt clouding her mind, but something behind it whispered to her in a constant, steadying stream. Reminding her of the look in his eyes when he made love to her. The diamond in her ear. Intimacy like she’d never imagined it. He could throw up all the smoke screens he wanted, and she would see right through them.
“You can be as nasty and ugly as you like.” Her voice was small, but steady. “I won’t fall for it. Not a second time.”
“Oh no?”
“No. You’re in my head. You can’t lie to me. I know you, Sean.”
“You think so?” He backed her up to the wall. She stumbled as her high heels caught in the weave of the rug. Her back hit the wall.
“You think you know me?” His voice was a hiss of menace. “You have no idea of the shit I’ve done, the men I’ve killed, the women I’ve screwed, the things I’ve been paid to do. I fucked your brains out, so you think that means you know me? I’ve fucked a lot of girls’ brains out. They’d run screaming if they knew me.”
She shook her head. “It’s not working. All I hear is blah di dah. Sean’s having a tantrum. Freaking out because he can’t get his way.”
He shook his head, unbelieving. “Can’t get my way,” he repeated. “What are you going to do, Liv? Give me a lollipop to shut me up?”
“That’s what Tam suggested,” she said.
“The day you take Tam’s advice will be a scary day for you, babe.”
“I’m getting used to scary days. They’re the new norm.” She grabbed her skirt, and tugged it up, high enough to see her nakedness. The puff of hair between her thighs. “Want a lollipop, Sean?”
Sean stared at her body. His hand reached out, as if of its own volition, cupping her. His finger pressed against the damp, hot seam hidden in the silky curls. “Might work,” he said hoarsely, fingers curling to grip her mound. “But don’t jerk me around. My sense of humor’s gone AWOL.”
“Then don’t set yourself up for it,” she retorted. “Silly jerk.”
The liquid rush of her arousal moistened his hand. His growl vibrated through her body as he thrust his fingers inside her. “Fine, babe.” His breath was hot against her throat as he wrenched open his jeans and hoisted her against the wall. “Don’t come crying to me if you don’t like it. You begged for it. You drove me to it.”
“I’ll beg. I’ll do what I have to do. Take what I have to take.”
He drove inside. She knew that some part of him wanted to punish her, but his body wouldn’t let him. They were too attuned to each other, every clutch and stroke, every thrill of pleasure. He couldn’t make good on his foolish threats. He could do nothing but pleasure her. She wrapped her arms around him.
Hell and heaven broke loose together.
She clung to him, digging her nails into his shoulders. The jolting rhythm might have seemed violent if it hadn’t been precisely what her body craved, to drive her to that magic place where boundaries melted, where lies became meaningless. She felt his need, his desperation, his fear. She wanted to soothe him, heal him, but all she could do was cling to him, offer up all her yielding sweetness.
His climax wrenched through him. She could not distinguish his pleasure from her own. It melted her down. She knew the second Sean registered her weeping, and the next second, when he misinterpreted it.
He pulled out, stepped away. She slid down the wall and thudded onto her bottom, stockinged legs splayed wide. She curled her legs up.
It shattered her, how huge this feeling was. How small she felt in its grip. How completely her happiness hung on the thinnest of threads.
He tilted her face up. “When I get these guys, and rip their guts out, you’ll be free to leave. Until then, you stay where I put you. Nod if you understand me.”
She nodded. He got to his feet, and headed for the door.
