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“Darius, you can’t just… Did you hurt him?” Mia demanded.
“His dignity, mainly,” he dismissed uninterestedly. “Mia, you and your housemates really do need to move out of here for at least a week.”
“Then I can go to the hotel with them—”
“It would be safer for them if you didn’t.”
Darius instantly felt the fight leave Mia at this reminder. He really hated having to use the fact of her presence possibly putting her housemates in danger too. But having Mia stay at his apartment with him, for her own safety, was no less true now than it had been earlier this evening. Possibly more so, now that Casper had identified the gang responsible for Fletcher’s murder.
The Hart gang were known for being vicious and acting without mercy.
Whatever Fletcher’s involvement with them had been, it had cost him his life.
The thought of any of those vicious bastards getting their hands on Mia was enough for Darius to tighten his hold around the backs of her legs. “We’re leaving now,” he stated in a voice that brooked absolutely no argument.
“Emma!” Mia made another appeal to her housemate.
“Hey, I don’t judge.” The other girl held up her hands. “I’ve always assumed you were a bit conservative in the sex department, so I think it’s really cool that you and the sexy caveman are into erotic game playing,” she dismissed with a chuckle.
“We aren’t…” Mia broke off her impatient protest when Darius the caveman gave her arse a smack.
His hand lingered on her bare flesh the moment he became aware that Mia wasn’t wearing panties beneath his overlarge T-shirt.
She also smelled delicious, he realized. Of his bodywash, which meant she’d used it in the bath at his apartment earlier, with an underlying woman’s heat and musk that made his mouth water for a taste of the latter. In fact, if he moved his hand even an inch or so lower, he would be able to touch the moist heat between her legs.
The sooner he got her back to the privacy of his apartment, the better!
“Come, Honey,” he instructed the Labrador.
“Traitor,” Mia accused when the dog immediately came to heel. “I need to take some of my clothes with me,” she wailed as Darius stepped out onto the landing.
“No time.”
“What do you mean, no time?” she demanded, head lifted enough to glare at him over her shoulder.
No time, not because Darius thought members of the Hart gang were already hot on her trail—he’d asked Casper to leave a trail of breadcrumbs online leading the Hart gangawayfrom Mia—but because the hard pulsing of Darius’s cock was in danger of bursting through his jeans if they didn’t leave now.
But, breadcrumbs or not, Darius daren’t take the risk of any of Hart’s men breaking through the firewall Casper had put in place. Casper was good, but he wasn’t infallible, and criminals nowadays weren’t the uneducated lead-with-their-fists louts as they used to be portrayed in the movies. The foot soldiers, maybe, but not the men at the top or the inner circle of people they surrounded themselves with.
He knew for a fact that Gregori Markovic, the head of the city’s Russian bratva, had one of the best hackers in the world working for him. He and Casper had often gone head-to-head, with the win tally currently standing at fifty-fifty.
Darius had no idea if Hart had someone like that working for him, but he wasn’t willing to take that risk when it came to Mia’s safety.
“You were the one who left my apartment without telling me and brought your clothes away too,” he dismissed. “I don’t feel inclined to wait while you pack for the second time today.”
“You don’t feelinclined—”
“No, I don’t.” He cut across her incredulity. “I prefer you naked anyway,” he added for the benefit of the avidly watching and listening Emma.
But he also spoke the truth.
Mia wearing only his T-shirt had to be the sexiest thing Darius had ever seen. It definitely brought out that caveman in him. It was far sexier than the adagebarefoot and pregnant. Although a pregnant Mia would probably look beautiful. She was so tiny in height and build that a baby bump would look—
No!
Absolutely not going there.
Knowing he was in love with Mia was one thing. But imagining a future with her, one that included babies that were as cute as she was, was not going to happen. He’d be fucking terrified night and day that something was going to happen to take them away from him.
