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“Maybe it’s why I’m fascinated,” he muttered, confusing her. “You don’t know integrity, loyalty—”
“Would you stop?” she snapped, smacking both hands on his chest to shove, though he didn’t move. She caught the sheet before it fell from her breasts. “You say that like it’s no big deal—”
“Loyalty is everything. Not having it… That’s foreign to me.”
“But it’s not true,” she said. “I love my family. I kept them out of the Manzani mess to protect them. I did this. I agreed to be yours to protect their livelihoods, their reputations.”
“I send my soldiers out there to defend you and your reaction is shame? My family is everything, my people, my name, it’s my birthright, my responsibility—”
“You think I’m ashamed? Of your family? Shit, Conn, I’m a complete fucking idiot around you! I’m ashamed of me! What kind of woman falls into bed with a guy as dangerous and powerful as you without expecting it to be a play? You record me, threaten to ruin me, and what do I do? Have a foursome with you!” Her throat narrowed; she couldn’t breathe and talk at the same time and had to gasp for air.“I lose all sense around you. I lose every ounce of sanity, every inhibition… Every second we’re together, all I want to do is drag you to bed… Fuck, I don’t even care about bed, I’d probably do you anywhere!I’m so desperate to please you, to just be near you, and it doesn’t make any fucking sense!” Gulping in another breath, all of her tingled with weakness that culminated in the sickness of butterflies dancing in her stomach. She couldn’t look at him and face her humiliation so walked a dozen paces toward the window. “When I think about Evander touching me, from the second we met, it revolted me. He revolted me… I promised I’d never share myself with him. With you, I can’t… I can’t stop sharing… I can’t stop wanting you…” Her head went back as she appealed to the heavens. “There’s something wrong with me. I’m supposed to be smarter than this.”
The glide of his fingertips down her upper arms was the first hint of his proximity.
“There are cameras in every room up here.” Those fingertips sizzled against her, drawing lazy lines on her sensitive flesh. “I control them from my phone. They’ll be on live feed… for my eyes only.”
“Because Dasha is coming over?” she asked.
Was he asking her to put on a show?
“Whenever I’m not here, I’ll be watching.” The low rumble of that brogue obliterated whatever was left of her weak defenses. “No one touches you unless I’m in the room, no one without my express permission.” As he spoke, he took control of the sheet, dropping it to the floor to cradle her breasts. “And we’re gonna forget everything you just said. You give a guy like me that kind of power over you, he’ll exploit it. I’ll exploit it. I’m dangerous, remember?”
Her head fell back against him. “It tastes so good…” she breathed, her hand snaking around to his thigh. “If you were evil, you wouldn’t warn me, you’d just exploit me.” Cupping the bulge in his slacks, she squeezed and rubbed him through the frustrating material. “Conn…”
“Not that voice… Now you know what it does to me, you’re exploiting it,” he said, grabbing her shoulders to spin her around and scrutinize her face. “You know what happens if you play me.”
If he got himself killed for pride, they wouldn’t get that far.
“Stay here. With me,” she said, sliding the leather from his belt buckle. “It’s safe here.”
“He doesn’t get to touch you and come for my guys without consequences. No one does.”
“If there’s security, you could get hurt before you see him.”
“We create a distraction,” he said. “Get his guys out so we can break in.”
Okay, that was a little reassuring.
“We could have sex,” she said. “Somewhere he’ll see. That would send a message.” And he was safer in bed with her than anywhere near Evander. “Conn.”
“I thought you didn’t want him to know I’m your guy.”
“Because I don’t want him to hurt you,” she said. “But I thought I lost that argument.”
“You did.”
“He’s been watching me for years,” she said. “Off and on. I don’t think he’ll react well to learning you were inside me less than twenty-four hours after we met.” Which put a thought in her head. “You’re not going to show him the footage, are you?”
“Because of our deal?”
“Because I don’t want him to see me like that, to know me like that.” When she tried to push away, he caught her in his embrace. “I don’t want him to see me naked or to know—”
“You scream when you come?” he asked. “Or hear that sharp little inhale that escapes when I kiss you… or the satisfaction I get in the surrender when you sink against me?”
She didn’t know she did any of that. Obviously, he did.
“I have to leave with Strat,” she said.
“Why?”
