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My fists curl and uncurl at my sides.
The fucking bastard laughs at my face.
Cameron steps inside and stops, taking us both in, the bullets laying scattered around and Cato’s cat-that-ate-the-canary grin.
“What the fuck happened here?”
Cato jerks his chin to me. “Our friend here is a bit overwhelmed with the task you gave him.”
I lunge at him, but Cameron comes between us.
“Calm the fuck down. If this is about my sister, then deal with it. And you fucking try to make this work because...” And he points at the tattoo. “You know what marriage will be for us.”
He shuts us up quickly.
I came to the compound to calm myself, only to drive back home more tense than before.
I look for Aurora in her room, but she’s not there. I run down the stairs, and my erratic nerves only calm down when I don’t find her lying dead under her balcony. I storm toward the surveillance room, rationalizing over the fact that my men would have informed me about her trying to escape decimated by sheer panic. But the sound of splashing water stops me in my tracks.
I take the path to the back of the house and relax when I see her in the pool, glistening under the moon like a siren. She’s exquisite, a goddess appearing in front of a sinner. I take in every perfect inch of her.
She’s going to be mine. No one else will ever have her. I might not be the monster Delaney is, because I do want my women willing, but I am still a monster. And I will touch her, have her, and ruin her for all others but me. I will make her enjoy every second of it. Her surrender will be my greatest win.
My dick hardens.
Soon.
Aurora freezes in the water when she senses me. She tilts her head, and instead of fury or fear, I see relief. Something eases in me.
She gulps, her slender neck taunting me. Her presence is a bullet ripping through my bulletproof façade. An image of a little ray of sunshine running around fills my head.
Now, that sunshine has turned into the queen of temptation.
I have always been protective of her, but I never thought she would heat the blood in my veins like she’s doing now. She’s not a little sunshine anymore. Now, she’s a devilish temptress coming to test my restraint. I take off my shoes and roll my pants over my calves. I take a seat at the side of the pool and dip my feet into the water.
“Checking on me? The big, bad Kieran is afraid the little lamb will escape?”
My hand shoots to her neck, dragging her to me. Her back arches, her nails biting into my thighs.
Her challenges are the biggest turn-on.
“I’d turn the world to dust to find you.”
I release her, satisfied that I shut her up. She recovers quickly, and I peel my jacket off, then my shirt. Her eyes skim down my skin, heating every layer. I’m burning to have her, make her mine, tear through her walls, and bathe her in my sins. I thought her innocence would bother me. Now it only makes me want to take it.
She swims to the end of the pool by the time I get undressed. Before she can get out, I grab her leg and pull her under.
She spurts water and hits my chest.
“You . . . you . . .”
Her neck turns pink, and she pushes me off while my hands tighten around her. For a few divine moments, the fight in her vanishes, and she lets me hold her. My insides reverberate with something I can’t pinpoint as she lays her head on my shoulder.To hold her in my arms is so potent. So calming. I want to hold on to this so fucking much it burns me from within.
“Where were you?”
Jealousy. I hear it clearly this time. She holds her breath as my lips graze her shoulder and I say, “In the office.”
“Just in the office?”
