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I snap out of my porn trance and rush out. Closing the door to my bedroom, I lock it and sink down on my butt, pressing my hand to my thumping heart. I don’t even know why I did it. He can break the lock easily. Like every part of him, he’s made to subdue, to take, to possess.
That woman drives me crazy.
I pride myself on my control, but she pushes my buttons. Storming down the stairs, I grab my jacket and head to the door, but something hits the side of my head. I come to a full stop and watch the object, a book, hitting the floor.
Snapping my head in the direction it came from, I catch a defiant look on Aurora’s face. That angelic face hides a little daredevil in her. Her aim is impeccable, and I barely suppress a laugh.
“Next time, it will be a knife.”
So my lamb is not a lamb, but a wolf in disguise. In all this fucked-up mess, I give in and smile. My eyes find hers, and my damn heart twitches. Her blue orbs could drown me.
“Behave or else...” I itch to back her into another wall, to have her at my mercy.
“Where are you going? To destroy another poor person’s life?”
A fire blares inside of her eyes, and I sigh. “Have dinner with me tonight and I’ll consider not doing that.”
I’m losing it. Did I ever negotiate? Not when I got nothingin return. There is nothing I can gain, but I don’t want her to feel like a prisoner, even though it would definitely make things easier for me.
“No,” she says and backs up.
I leave for my office with a weight pressing against my ribs.
After spending the better part of the day at the bank, I head to the compound. Sawyer informs me about some new surveillance and says, “This Carrera guy. Something doesn’t fit.”
I nod. He’s too clean. I usually have endless blackmail possibilities, but not with him. There is nothing. No family ties. And a man that is that good at hiding his past is dangerous.
“Dig deeper.”
“If it’s a trap, I will find out.”
I doubt some magical information will pop up, so I need to switch tactics.
“Invite him over.”
He tips his head and I go downstairs to the basement, cleaning my knives and my guns. This is how Cato finds me.
“Who pissed you off?”
He shuts the door and opens his gun cabinet. We stare at each other, then at the wall plastered with targets as we empty our bullets in the center.
My ears ring, and when I approach the target, I say, “I win.”
“Fuck you. That was just luck.”
I smirk and he slumps in the chair in the corner, grabbing two glasses and a bottle from the bar.
“I hope when it’s Cam’s time, his wife will be the fucking ruin of him.”
“Problems in paradise?”
“You’re one to talk. I haven’t seen you this tense in... never.”
We clink to our misery.
“It’s nothing. And Cam will pay for this mess.”
“So, this is about Aurora. I haven’t seen her. When can I meet her?”
