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6
XAVIER
She keeps glancing at my knuckles, but she doesn’t ask the question I can feel lingering on the tip of her tongue.
“Yes, they’re sore. No, it doesn’t bother me. Don’t worry about it.” I flex my hands on the steering wheel as we speed toward my estate in The Ridges.
She swallows hard and keeps lacing and unlacing her fingers.
I know she has questions, but she probably won’t like my answers, so maybe it’s better if we keep the silence goin—
“Why were you there? What’s going on? Is this some sort of human trafficking thing?” Her questions all run together into a mosh, but I catch them.
I glance at her. She looks away. But then I feel her gaze return as she studies my profile.
“Fat Tommy is a popular bookie. I do some business with him.” All true. Vaguely. “I was there on business.”
“You carry $20,000 on business?” She winces back, as if thinking I might strike her for the skepticism in her tone.
“Don’t be afraid of me.” I take a hairpin turn on the edge of the sharp ridge that leads to my home.
She gapes. “How can Inotbe? You just bought me! Like a damn pony! Are you going to sell me into sex slavery or make me be your little Cinderella maid or, or …or …?” Her eyes widen and she pinches her lips together as her eyes water.
“I won’t hurt you.” I want to reach for her hand, but she’s busy doing the lace-unlace-lace-unlace.
“Then let me go!”
“No. Don’t ask that of me. Ask for anything else, and there’s a good chance you’ll get it. But don’t ask me to let you go.”
“Why?” She throws her hands up, and I catch her left one in my right.
“Because you’re mine.”
“You’re crazy!” She doesn’t pull her hand away.
I don’t care if it’s out of fear or surprise, I’m just glad to finally touch her like this. “Not at all. You’re the one who offered the deal. I’m the one who took it. Doesn’t that makeyouthe crazy one?”
“I would do anything to save my brother. You took advantage of a bad situation and—”
“That jigsaw would’ve definitely left a mark.” I smirk as we roll up to the gate to my property. Slowing, I wait for it to open completely.
That’s when she makes her move. With a jolt she yanks her hand from mine, throws her door open, and runs.
Fuck, this is going to be fun. I throw the car into park and jump out, racing after her over the scrub sage and rocky dirt. She doesn’t get far.
When I tackle her, I pull her tight into my arms and turn so my body absorbs the impact from the fall. Then I roll her onto her back and pin her. My cock is already harder than the desert bedrock beneath us when we come to a stop.
Pinning her to the ground, I steal another kiss, her mouth perfect for plundering even as she struggles and bucks beneath me. When she opens her mouth to scream, I dart my tongue inside, caressing her and tasting her more fully.
I pull back, both of us breathless.
“Let me go!”
“No.” I can feel the heat between her legs, and my cock demands I explore more, taste her in every way. But not yet. Not until she wants everything I have to offer.
“I’ll scream.” She sucks in a big breath.
“I own the land out here for miles. It’s the biggest estate in The Ridges. I’m afraid no one can hear you.”
