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She looks so damn beautiful like this. Even against the wrecked backdrop of her apartment closet, with her curls wet and not a stitch of make up on, the most beautiful and sexiest woman I’ve ever laid eyes on.
The woman I’m infatuated with, and have been for almost half my life.
“We did,” I say, stepping closer. I pick up the first dry sweater in the pile of her clothes and slide it over her.
“This doesn’t change that you spied on me. That you followed me.”
“The security’s still not up for debate, Phi. But you’re right about why you’re doing what you’re doing.” I pause long enough to stare in amusement as she frowns up at me. She wasn’t expecting me to agree with her. “You want revenge? You want to make the guy who hurt you pay for what he did?”
Slowly, hesitantly, she nods. “I want him to suffer. I want himdead. I’ve... I’ve never wanted anything more.”
I cup her cheek and peer into her eyes. The atmosphere around us darkens, leaden with bloodlust that for once isn’t mine alone. She’s serious—she needs closure for what happened to her, and she needs it by causing the same pain and suffering done to her.
I get it more than you know.
“We’re going to get him, Phi,” I say. “Together. That’s the rule. Alright? We do this together.”
The gleam in her eye is one I’ve seen in rare moments from her; the same gleam I’m not sure anyone else has ever noticed. Nobody’s ever seen it in her like I have.
Her bad side.
She nods and whispers, “Together.”
17. delphine
“We needto figure out how we’re going to do this,” I say the next morning. I’m perched on one of Salvatore’s kitchen stools. Two mugs of coffee sit on the island counter. One for me. The other for him.
He scratches his head, still half asleep as he pads into the kitchen shirtless, in only his sweatpants. “Phi, I’ve been up for five seconds. I’ve no clue what the fuck you’re talking about.”
“This…” I gesture between us. “You said we’d handle it as a team.”
“I might’ve been speaking out of my ass.”
My right brow ticks up. “As in?”
“Phi, I had just got done getting laid. I wasn’t in the right frame of mind.”
“Is that your way of saying you were telling me what I wanted to hear?”
“It means I probably would’ve agreed to chopping one of my ears off if it meant getting to be inside you.”
Heat flames over my skin, though I hold my ground. “Some things really never do change. I can always count on you to be crass.”
“You call it crass. I call it honesty.” He shrugs and picks up the mug I’ve set out for him. He swallows a couple greedy mouthfuls, his fingers finding his hair. Normally so sleek and slicked back, the cowlick has returned with a vengeance after a night’s sleep. “Look, Phi, you want to make this guy suffer. You want revenge. I told you, I get it.”
“Then why do you treat me like I’m made of glass? I can handle myself.”
“That’s not what I’m doing—”
“I’m going to get revenge regardless of your attempt to stop me.”
A scowl fixes itself onto his face. “It’d be a lot easier if you’d listen.”
“You should know nothing about me is easy... or ever has been.” I abandon my coffee mug on the kitchen island and spin toward the hall leading to my room.
On my way past, Salvatore catches my arm and holds me back. Even after last night, his touch elicits a fresh current of desire through my body. I can still feel him inside me; I can still hear the sounds of our breathless moans to the backdrop of the rain.
This morning I woke up sore, and I couldn’t be more grateful.
