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Running, my heels click fast across the parquet floors, my grip searching desperately for my keys at the bottom of my clutch. But the song chases me; the driving beat and heart-breaking lyrics follow as the sweetest memories slam the heavy front door open.
Tears blur my vision. I need to get out of here. My red Cruiser beckons me from the shadows under the Spanish moss dripping from the trees above. My car? Redix was there when I bought it.
Fuck, I can’t escape him.
I’m in my front seat in a blur, hands trembling, fumbling to start the engine.
A bang hits my window. “Open the fucking door, Cade!”
The shout startles my frayed nerves, dropping my keys on the floorboard. I turn and look up at the last person I want to see through crying eyes.
CHAPTER THREE
Redix looms like an alluring nightmare.
“Fuck you!” I shout.
“You already have. Many times. Now open the fucking door!”
Goddamnit, where are my keys?
My shaking hand searches, trying to pick them, and my heart up from the floorboard.
“You’re many things but not a coward, Cade. Get out here and talk to me now.” The thunder of my pulse, it only pisses me off more. “Talk to me before I break this fucking window.”
“Break my fucking window, and I’ll break your fucking face.”
“I wish you would.” He’s laughing. “That would save me a lotta trouble.” That grin? I want to punch it off his sexy lips. “Are you afraid of me, Candy Cade, after all this time?”
The taunt works. I’m a sucker for it.
Dare me not to die, and I will just out of spite.
This asshole knows me too well.
I yank the door handle, kicking the door open to make him jump back from its swinging punch.
“Call me ‘Candy Cade’ again, and I’ll choke you on a piece of it.”
Amusement smears across his face as he mocks, “Wellll helloooo, darlinn’.”
“Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.”
“Didn’t know you were into threesomes.” I want to kill him. “But okay.” But that hair? I want to fuck him first. “Ride me and my big horse, Candy Cade, just like our first time.”
“Whip it out, and I’ll rein it in.” I sneer. “I dare you.”
“Damn, woman.” His grin cocks up so high; even I can’t smack it away. “How’s it possible you’re even finer after ten years? You’re givin’ me a boner just watchin’ you fuss n’ fight.”
“Is that what you want to talk about, Redix? You wanna talk about hard dicks after ten years?” I stand as tall as I can, my lips still inches below his but close enough to fight back. “You’re such a coward. Jerk your dick around, but not me. I’m not playing your fucking game.”
“Oh, Candy Cade…”
He leans closer, his heat steaming inches from my flesh.
“I do jerk around every morning, remembering you and every fucking game we played.”
He isn’t lying. I see it in his eyes.
