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“Make her trust you, make her want to stay.”
“How the fuck did you do that?” I ask, my voice vibrating with curiosity.
“Put some work in. I had to figure this shit out on my own as well.”
“What are best friends for, huh?”
We both chuckle. “So it doesn’t bother you?”
“I was informed that she left, and I made this happen.”
“Why?”
“Because she’s mine, that’s why.”
I jerk my chin in their direction, stating the obvious, “They’re drinking.”
Maybe he trusts his wife, but my future wife is a spitfire and would do something deliberately to push me over the edge.
Fuck this. My best friend stops me with a hand on my shoulder.
“Cato, let them have half an hour.”
Why does he have to sound so damn rational?
“I thought Aurora was going to go to college?”
“She will, but to study. She won’t stay in the dorms; she will always have guards around her. The least I can fucking do is allow her and her friend the pretense of normality once in a while.”
With every minute that ticks by, I feel like I’m going to erupt. I study the girls. I get why Kieran trusts Aurora, although the fucker also has an ego to match all the gods of Olympus put together. She stopped drinking after one shot, while my fiancée downs another. The hangover she will get will be her penance for sneaking out tonight.
My smile is wiped away when the bartender sends her a ‘come fuck me’ look, and she doesn’t seem to mind with the way she leans into the counter.
“Half an hour is up.”
Kieran’s upper body shakes with laughter. He has reasons to. I, on the other hand, am one second away from pulling my gun out and shooting the bastard.
I rush downstairs and place my hand on Chiara’s back. She stiffens.Surprise,cara. My fingers glide down her bare skin, leaving goose bumps in their wake. She sucks in a breath, tilting her head a bit to the side, and our eyes lock.
Her expression transforms from one of recognition to annoyance in a nanosecond. Fuck this. I lift her and throw her over my shoulder, placing my hand on her ass to cover her. No one gets to see that but me. I notice Kieran trying to calm Aurora down as she watches me drag Chiara away.
My ears are still pounding, even after I close the door to my office. Breathing in and out, I try to calm this need to claim her, to punish her, to show her she’s fucking mine.
She pounds at my back. “Put me down.”
I slide her down my front. Fuck, she has me all riled up, both extremely hard and angry. I debate just fucking her right here against this wall. She would surely deserve that after the stunt she pulled.
“You asshole.”
Her eyes are glassy but focused, and she doesn’t sway on her feet, which means she can hold her liquor.
“What was that shit back there?”
She crosses her arms, defiance oozing from her every pore.
“Bachelorette party. You’re doing the same thing.”
“Yes, but I am not flirting with other women.”
