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Christian is there, hands on me, turning me, his grip hard and biting, harder than when he had me by the throat.
His eyes blaze with an angry fire. Hazel-amber flame. They change when he’s this angry, back and forth between the two. What are his eyes like when he’s having sex? When he’s losing himself?
No, I don’t want to know. That was a one-off.
“Let go, asshole.”
“I love it when you get spicy with my cum running down your thigh. Marks you even more as mine.”
“I’m not your anything, Christian. Everyone else on this planet gets a ride on you, so I decided to have a go. I’ve had better.”
He laughs. He actually laughs. “You loved every second of it. And yeah, I’m gonna call you out on that lie.”
“Does your ego need every woman to fall over themselves in awe of you?”
Christian moves in, his mouth against my ear, and a shiver of pleasure I don’t want rushes through me. “Just you, sweetness.”
“Then you’re out of luck. Because awe is the last thing I feel when it comes to you.”
“So,” he says, his tongue sliding over my lobe, “just adoration, then?”
I shake him off, and he lets me go, stepping back a little, the anger still there, but also a smugness I hate.
Glaring, I say, “You got what you wanted.”
“No, I want you safe, believe it or not.”
“I am safe, you asshole. Look where I am.”
“The note?” he asks.
“Something stupid, which is why I threw it out.”
“Yeah?” He crosses his arms. “I’ll be the judge of that since I’m now part of your life.”
“You’re not. At all. Not even in pretend world.”
“You’re wrong.”
This is what I didn’t want. I can handle Reaper and Angel. Even Leo and my father. Theo too. But this man? He refuses to be handled. I let him in, and he takes over my life, simple as that.
I don’t want anyone doing that. It’s why I sent him packing before. Why I went to battle with my family. The last thing I need is the cage that is Christian. The fact he can make me burn with desire makes it all worse.
Because he’s going to want to take over. Not even with whatever bullshit business he claims is his reason for being here. Even if that’s true—and I really have my doubts—the deeper he delves, the longer he stays, the more my hard work for autonomy will crumble like dust.
Because the moment he finds out or discovers anything more than what is here, he’s going to bring in Leo. He’ll bring in the whole family.
I can’t.
All of that smacks me hard in the face over the kidnapping, the rapes, the shooting, everything. I’m a mess, but I’m my mess. He’ll swallow me whole.
“No, Christian,” I say. “I can’t have you here. Not with me. If you have De Luca business, then do it elsewhere.”
“I told you—”
“You’re back for two days, and already you’re trying to take over.”
“Only,” he says, his voice low and dangerous, “because you don’t listen, because you’re happy to put yourself in danger. And like it or not, this really is De Luca business.”
