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“No. I’m not that easy to scare off.” The silence stretches between us and I have to escape it. We got everything we needed out in the open and I need to be clothed again. My soul is as bare as my body now, leaving me vulnerable. “You’re turning me into a prune.”
“A prune?”
I lift my hands up so he can see my wrinkled fingertips. “I’m becoming a prune.”
Knox tightens his arm around me and lifts me so quickly out of the water that I’m left gasping. “Don’t want you to be a prune.” He wraps a soft fluffy towel around me as he steps out himself. “I don’t know what a prune is, but I don’t want you to be one.” His fingers tuck the end of the towel under itself at the top so it will stay up. “I’m glad you’re back.”
Back. Shit.Am I back? Seeing him with that woman trying to fuck him in the middle of the living room drove me crazy. I wore my sluttiest dress to get his attention, and it was working, until she showed up and decided to jump in his lap and try to steal the attention I was getting.
I started going nuts in my head thinkinggo ahead, bitch, half that boner would be for me. But at the same time I couldn’t stand the idea of him giving that to someone else. It belongs tome. He hasn’t touched anyone since Layla exceptme, and I wasn’t going to let some whore change that. No, Knox is mine, even if I’m not sure I want him to be. Even if I don’t know how any of that would work out.
Knox tips my chin up with his forefinger. “Nell-”
“You don’t touchanyonebut me, you got that?”
His eyebrows raise in shock and his mouth tilts into a smirk. “Whoa. Feisty.”
“Do you hear me, Knox Berry?” I can’t stand the idea of someone else getting to see him the way I just did.
“Yes I do. Same goes for you, Nellie. I’ll kill any man that puts their hands on you.”
“Good. So we’re agreed then.” I leave quickly, not sure what to make of everything that has just transpired. I have to cross the hall in my towel to get to my room, and I do it as quickly as possible. The door shuts behind me and I lock it so I can have a few minutes of peace while I get dressed.
We went from not speaking to fucking in seconds flat, and I’m still a little thrown by what happened. I’m feeling a little shaken and mixed up. I’d felt so confident pushing him, but now the reality of what just transpired is settling around me like ashes falling to the ground. I just fucked my dead sister’s husband. I had his blood in my mouth!
Oh my god. Shame drips over me like hot rain. The worst part is that I don’t regret it. I don’t feel guilty. I wanted to sleep with him and I did. Layla can’t do it anymore. She wouldn’t want him to be alone forever, but I’m not sure she would want him to be with me. He was my savior too, even when he was hers.
“Nell, get in the car,” Knox shouts through the window as the wheels roll slowly past me on the sidewalk.
“Fuck you!” I will absolutely not be getting in a car with this asshole. Fuck him, fuck my sister, fuck my parents, fuck the world. Everyone sucks!
“Nell, please. It’s not safe out here at night.”
“What do you care? Nobody gives a shit about me! I’m just a kid, right? That’s why you and Layla are just leaving me behind!”
The car slams to a halt, but I don’t stop. Knox rushes up behind me and grabs me. He pins my arms against my sides and spins me around while I scream. He deposits me in the passenger seat of the car and doesn’t even seem to notice my palms and fists flying at him. Knox clicks the seat belt around me and points directly at my face with one of his thick fingers. “You sit here or I will tie you up and throw you in the trunk. You need to see something.”
“Fuck you!”
“Yeah, whatever.” He throws the door closed and runs to the other side to get into the driver’s seat. He ignores my fighting and shouting, even when I get right next to his ear. The dark hides a lot of the streets, but then we pass the clubhouse and fear douses the flames of my fire.
“Where are we going?”
“Not far.” He takes a right off the main drag and pulls into a vacant lot with sparse vegetation in the sand.
“What is this? What are we doing?” I've never doubted that Knox would keep me safe, but after my attitude today I’m not sure he’s still got the patience he normally has for me.
“You are so ignorant,” he spits. “Get out of the car.” Knox reaches behind my seat and grabs something from the back. He gets out and rounds to the front of the car, smoothing something out over the hood. “Out, Nell. Now.”
This bossy motherfucker. I take a deep breath and meet him at the front of the car. “What? What is so-”
He claps a hand over my mouth and clicks on a flashlight. “Please, respectfully, shut the fuck up. You’re standing in the living room right now.” He removes his hand from my mouth to point to the living room on the floor plan he’s spread across the hood of the car. “The kitchen.” He points into the darkness behind the car and then back down to where ‘kitchen’ is written on the paper.
“Andthis.” He pulls out another paper and lays it across the first. “This is the spare bedroom Layla insisted we include for you, so that if you ever need a place to stay you can come to us. We aren’tleavingyou, Nellie. You’re only seventeen. We can’t move you into the clubhouse with us right now. When you’re eighteen, maybe. But when the house is finished you’ll always have a place with us.”
Knox’s arm goes over my shoulder and tugs me against him. “We would never leave you all alone, Nellie. We aren’t forgetting about you. I prom-”
My arms around his waist squishing him to me cut off his words, but that’s okay. I get the idea. He holds me until my tears pass, and then releases me.
