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“Da, with me.” I am hauled over a massive shoulder and plucked into the back of an SUV a few seconds later clad in only my panties and bra. The motor roars to life and we speed into the darkness.
He gives instructions I assume to the man in the front seat and then silence.
“Gray,” I call up to the front seat. “Sonotgood to see you again.”
“Ma’am,” is all he says. There’s no missing the humor in his tone though. Mafia fuckers. All these men are the same. It’s their way or nothing and they are as arrogant as the sun is hot day in and day out.
“And you…what happened to the other three minutes I had?” I demand from Maxim, looking for something to cover myself with. Maxim strips off his shirt and feeds my arms into the long sleeves of his pullover. It’s freaking soft and drapes past my thighs when I pull it down to cover my intimate parts.
I would hate him if this didn’t feel so good and he didn’t look so damn lickable. Then there’s the fact we both turn when a set of headlights pull up outside my father’s house as we drive off.
I swallow the sudden fear when my eyes connect with his in the darkness.
He plucks me off the seat to sit on his lap and kisses the top of my head. “I changed my mind, my siren. And just in time, it seems.”
Ten
Vannah
Thirty-ish minutes later I’m back on Maxim’s yacht. Only this time I’m tied up.
I don’t know what is worse. Being hunted by the East Syndicate or being a prisoner to Caveman Novak. In his defense at least Maxim isn’t trying to throw me overboard.
Maxim plops me down on a bench toward the back of the yacht. It’s night time so the only source of light is from the full moon and a few spotted lights dotting the pier. I tug at my bindings but it’s no use. “What do they do? Send mafia men to knot tying school?”
Maxim turns from saying something to his right-hand man and flashes me a devilish grin. “The more you struggle the tighter the knots. Settle down. I’ll untie youafterwe cast off and I can give you my full attention.”
“Is this necessary? I thought we were all good. I didn’t exactly try to jump out of your SUV.”
“I can’t have you running off with a precious package on board.” He looks pointedly at my abdomen.
I smirk, quietly biting at my lip. “You’re really sure of your swimmers, huh, cowboy?”
He prowls over to me and taps the end of my nose driving my irritation through the freaking roof. “If I was a foot taller and a couple of hundred pounds heavier, I would slap that smirk off your face.”
He huffs. “That would be fun. And then I would take my revenge out on your pussy.”
I want to stomp my foot but I take the higher road and stab him with my hardest glare.
He taps my nose again and it makes me want to slap him. It only makes the arrogant ass smile more. “Novaks are known to be potent lovers. It’s why I have twelve brothers all vying for my spot as head of the Novak family. Then there are my sisters.” There’s a haunted look in his eyes that has my eyebrows climbing in curiosity. I file that away for later. Apparently, we will be spending a lot of time together.
At least now I understand why he is all about the baby talk. He needs to solidify his place at the head of the family and the only way to do that is an heir.
Insert the drowned rat—me—and bata bang…problem solved.
“Is that all I am good for? A breeder for your bloodline? Is that why you hunted me down?” Hurt slips into anger and morphs into a beast of pain I don’t recognize.
Maxim passes a clipboard of something or another to Gray and comes to kneel beside me. Alone with nothing but the moon as our witness his expression turns purely serious.
“You’re the siren who showed up like magic. The woman I can’t get out of my head. I don’t fucking know what you are but I’m not letting you go until I get answers to a lot of things. And I didn’t have to hunt you down. I spent the last week conducting my business as I watched over you.”
That closes my mouth. “You watched over me?”
“Do you think you actually got away from me?”
Kinda.
He laughs warmly and takes my tied hands in his. He leads me upstairs to the second level where there’s a large leather-covered couch rounding the edge of the sunken pool I’m familiar with. He draws me to his side and I let him. His words roll over in my head and for the first time in my life, I question the meaning of destiny and fate.
