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As if he knows exactly what I’m thinking, he tenses. Looking ready to pounce on me the moment I make a break for it.
I can’t run, not again.
I can’t give him that satisfaction.
Feeling as if I pushing through waves of water, I make myself walk towards him.
Attention riveted to me, the intensity in his eyes only grows as I approach.
Gripping the arms of his chair, his knuckles go white.
When I’m finally standing in front of him, we just stare at each other.
Locked in a strange dance no one else can see.
We’re just looking at each other, but the tension becomes so heavy I can’t fucking breathe.
Fuck… what is this man doing to me?
Wanting to be free, needing relief, I lick my dry lips and start to ask, “What can I—”
Before I can finish, Jude strikes.
Moving as fast as a viper, he grabs me and pulls me into his lap.
“What?!” I squeak as he wraps his arms around me.
His lap is the last place I want to be and I immediately try to push myself back up.
Only to be yanked into his chest.
The arms wrapped around me tighten.
Something touches my head then I hear him breathing in deep.
“Fuck…” he groans like a man in pain. “You have no idea how bad I need this.”
What the fuck is he talking about?
Twisting in his hold, I crane my neck back to look at him.
With his bone structure and the way the lights are flashing behind him, the look on his face is downright demonic.
“Letting you go last night was the biggest mistake of my life. I was up all night, regretting it.”
Fear spikes through me. Is he intending to go back on our deal?
“But I kept my end of the bargain. I came back!” I argue.
Jude smiles at me. “That you did.”
He looks pleased. So pleased dread fills me.
My throat tightening, I hiss, “It was just a game to you, wasn’t it?”
He’s just fucking with me for his own amusement, and my dumbass thought there was hope.
Arm loosening, he lifts his right hand and brushes his thumb against my cheek.
