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Maddoc is reserving judgment, but Logan definitely doesn’t trust her. “Well?” she demands when I don’t respond.
“Well, what?” I ask, planting my hands on the wall on either side of her head and dropping my eyes to that lush mouth of hers.
“Doyouthink I’m working for them too?” she presses.
I lift one shoulder. “Not sure, princess. Are you? Kinda curious, you showing up like this.”
She huffs out an angry breath. “I didn’t know who you were last night. This wasn’t about that. It was just…”
I raise an eyebrow when she doesn’t finish.
Pretty sure it was one of the hottest fucks of my life, is what it was. I’m still curious whatshewas gonna say, though.
“I wasn’t trying to use you,” she says a little stiffly, a hint of pink coloring her cheeks. “This isn’t a setup or anything.”
“Okay.” I nod. My cock is throbbing and, if I’m being honest, my attention is only half on what she’s saying.
She goes still, blinking up at me. “Okay… you believe me?”
“Okay, Ihearyou,” I shoot back, smirking. “But it’s the same thing you’d say if West Point really had sent you here, so…” I shrug again.
“You’re a fucking asshole.” Riley smacks my chest again, just as uselessly as the first time. Not that she doesn’t have some power in her, but she’s got no room to swing here.
I lift her hands to the wall above her head and crowd in even closer, crushing her breasts against my chest as I stare down at her. “Either way, we’ll figure it out.”
She doesn’t fight me at all this time. She just stares back at me.
Then her breath hitches, her eyes turning glassy.
She blinks fast, looking away. “Why the hell would I work with them when they stole my sister?” she asks, her voice breaking. “Why… why would I do anything for that fucking animal? He took Chloe.”
“That’s why. You’re the one who said it. If he took her, you’d do anything to get her back.”
“Not forhim,” she spits out, cold fury on her face.
Fuck. I believe her.
I’m damn good at reading people, and Riley seems genuinely broken up over this shit with her sister. And that hatred she’s got for Austin McKenna? It may come from a different place, but it looks a hell of a lot like the same hatred Maddoc carries around. The kind of hate that will stop at nothing to bring West Point down.
I appreciate that she didn’t let her tears fall, though. That shit serves no purpose. The world is a fucked up place, there’s just no getting around that fact. I’ve got no idea why McKenna took Riley’s sister, and I’ve got no doubt that when we do get her back, whatever he’s used her for will have left its scars. But it is what it is. I stopped feeling pity for the cruel turns of fate a long-ass time ago, and no amount of tears—genuine or not—are gonna revive a useless emotion like that. It would only get in the way.
But Riley is a tantalizing mix of soft, hard, and hot as fucking hell.
Even if I don’t pity her, I’m definitely… curious.
“Why the hell would you do something as reckless as askingusfor help?” I ask, lacing our fingers together where I’ve still got her hands pressed against the wall over her head. “Since you tracked us down, you’ve gotta know what it means to be a Reaper.”
“I know the Reapers’ reputation,” she whispers, fear flickering through her dark brown eyes. She tilts her chin up, a hint of something vicious underlying her tone as she adds, “And I hope it’s true.”
That startles a laugh out of me. “Do you now? Why is that? You get off on danger?”
“No,” she straight-up lies. I can feel the way her body is responding to me, proving how false her words are. “But the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
“Is that what you wanna be?” I ask, releasing one of her hands and running my fingers over her jaw. “Friends?”
“No,” she repeats, her chest heaving against mine as I press in even closer. I shouldn’t, not with Maddoc’s law laid down. But I can’t seem to stop myself.
“Good. Because my brothers and I aren’t your friends,” I murmur, my blood on fire with the same unquenchable desire she sparked in me last night. I grip her jaw and tilt her head up, dropping mine down until our lips are so close I can taste her on the air I’m breathing. “Don’t ever forget it, princess.”
