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Dominic didn’t confront the people in our lives alone. We were a team.
Or at least, we used to be. My heart ached with the thought.
I was about to instruct my phone to dial Dominic when I spotted him getting out of his parked car. My insides burned with rage as I neared him. Pressing down on the gas, I thought for a second about running him over. That would teach him to abandon me. My car squealed to a stop instead. Dominic whirled around, his dark eyes wide with surprise and shock and then murder once he realized it was me behind the wheel.
Dove.I watched him mouth my name before he stormed over to the driver’s side of my car.
I rolled down the window, not caring that people were watching our interaction. I didn’t care about anything anymore. “I hate you.” The words tumbled out of my mouth as my heart laughed. Hatred was the furthest thing in the world I could ever feel for this man.
“Get out of the car,” he growled, and I narrowed my eyes, wishing they’d spear him with darts or something equally as painful. “Park the car and get out. Now.”
He knew exactly what he was doing to me, and no matter how strong I wanted to be in his presence, I relented because he had demanded it of me. This man knew how to push my buttons and make me want to drop my panties and sit on his lap, all while yelling at him.
When I parked in the space next to his, shut the car off, and stepped out, Dominic was instantly at my side, towering over me, his shoulders large, his presence looming, my back pressed against the door. I had nowhere else to go. I couldn’t move. He grabbed my arm and pulled me toward a building and then around the side, where no one could see or hear us. He made sure we weren’t followed before he fell apart in front of me.
“Why the hell are you so mad at me? I’m mad at you, Dove. I’m fucking broken, baby. So fucking broken. I don’t know how to breathe without you.”
That admission killed me. I hadn’t expected it. I couldn’t hold it together anymore. Every emotion from the past few months came pouring out, and I completely lost it, tears spilling down my face. Dominic pulled me against him and held me tight, his chest moving in and out with his ragged breaths. It felt like years since I’d been in his arms. I would have been okay with dying right then and there.
“How could you do this to us, baby?” he asked, his breath hot against my head as he held me tight.
Does he not know? Is it possible that he doesn’t know?
He moved away and looked down at me, his lips so close to mine that I couldn’t think about anything other than having them. They were my lips. Pressing up on my tiptoes, I moved toward him slowly, giving him a chance to deny me even though I knew he never would. Or hoped he wouldn’t. I wasn’t so sure anymore.
His mouth was all over mine in an instant, claiming, nipping, owning. “Tell me you belong to me, baby. Tell me you’re mine,” he said desperately between kisses, and the feel of his tongue almost made my knees give out entirely.
This was where I belonged.
“Always and only yours.” It had been too long since I’d felt him, and I never wanted it to stop.
But Dominic came to his senses, or something had triggered him because he pulled away abruptly, leaving me kissing nothing but the air.
“No,” he said, wiping at his mouth. “Dammit.”
“What’s the matter? Dominic, what’s wrong?”
“What’s wrong? What’s wrong?” he asked in a shout before pulling at his dark strands. I’d never seen him so worked up before. “I need to know everything that happened right fucking now, Dove,” he said, and my entire body started shaking.
It was time to tell him the truth.
“Okay,” I said softly, the tears still rolling down my cheeks.
“Okay?” he repeated, like he couldn’t believe I was being so agreeable.
“Yes. Of course I’ll tell you anything you want to know.”
He started pacing back and forth in quick movements, like I’d caught him off guard, and now, he wasn’t sure where to start or what to ask exactly.
“Okay”—he stopped moving and faced me—“why did you say yes to Trevor?”
Easy.“He threatened my dad.” I was as matter-of-fact as I could be.
“I knew it,” he blew out. “I fucking knew it. What does he have on your dad?”
“He threatened to turn him in. Said he had information on my dad accepting bribes. He wanted to send my dad to prison.” I stared at the ground instead of at him. I hated telling him this. I didn’t want Dominic to look at my dad differently or think less of him.
He shook his head like he refused to believe it. “I don’t think so, Dove. Your dad and I talked. Multiple times. Did Trevor show you any proof?”
