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“You’re mine, my submissive, my woman, mine to protect, to keep safe. So it has everything to do with being your Dom.”
“Ask your question.”
He grasped my jaw, and his green eyes bore into mine, making my heartbeat accelerate at an abnormal speed. “I want to know if you left your apartment the night Randolph died.”
“My building security verified that I stayed in my apartment all night.”
“That’s not what I’m asking you, and you know it.”
He had to have found out some discrepancy about my alibi. Oh God, I couldn’t tell him the truth. I’d made a vow, which was the only way to keep those women and children safe.
Wait. I’d worn a disguise. I always wore disguises when I left my building and took the back exit, never the main one used by the tenants.
Was he having me watched?
“Do you have people spying on me?”
“I wish that was something I thought of sooner.”
His answer made me frown.
“It would also put you in the category of stalker since we weren’t together then.”
“Assholes like Randolph wouldn’t be able to get to you, so I don’t see a problem with it.”
“But ones like you could.”
He shrugged. “You’d deal with it. Now answer the damn question. Where were you between the hours of five and eleven the night Randolph died?”
Swelling down the bile that rose in my throat, I looked him in the eyes and gave him the truth, but in a way, he wouldn’t believe me, “I can’t tell you what I was doing, but it wasn’t killing Randolph.”
“Dammit, Sophia. Where were you that night?”
“According to building security, I was in my apartment.”
Guilt settled heavily in my gut.
I could evade and let lies spill from my lips without remorse with anyone else, even Lucian, but with Damon, it felt so wrong.
He’d shared so many truths with me, and here I was, playing this game and skirting around the truth.
“And according to you?”
“I can’t tell you.”
His face grew hard. “Sophia, two separate camera feeds on two different buildings caught a woman in a red wig with a remarkable resemblance to you leaving and returning to your building at those precise times.”
“It could be a coincidence.”
“Sophia, I know it was you.” His face was a hairsbreadth from mine. “I saw the images. I am intimately familiar with your body and know every curve.”
“Perhaps you’re mistaken.”
“No, I’m not. And the way you’re having the hardest time holding my gaze says I’m not.”
“It says nothing.”
“I can’t protect you if you don’t give me all the information. Where did you go, and what did you do?” He pushed me against the island with his large body. “And before you lie to me, don’t think I haven’t noticed how you have skirted doing just that with evasions. I’m not one of those idiots at the station. Just like your brother, I’m a breed of my own. You’ve only seen certain parts of me. Lying to me is a mistake.”
