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I pulled away from her when I noticed that she was gasping for air again. ”Are you okay?” I asked her.
”Yes,” she said. ”Yeah, I just…I didn’t expect that to happen.”
”Did you like it?”
”Yes, Teo, I liked it,” she said, and she sounded annoyed. I moved away from her. She breathed out a shaky breath from her mouth. ”I really liked it, it was just, you know, confusing. I mean, what happens after this? Do you drop me back at HQ? Do you…”
”No,” I said, suddenly realizing that this had probably been a mistake. Fuck. She was right. ”No, you just stay here, okay? I’ll sleep on the sofa. You can take my bed.”
”Why would you do that?”
”Because I don’t want you to be uncomfortable,” I replied. ”And I should’ve never made you do this.”
She opened her mouth to say something, but then she unbuckled her seatbelt and climbed out of the car to go inside. She stood by the side of the car. ”I don’t have keys.”
”It’s a keycode. It’s 1987. Just wait for me.”
She didn’t say anything before she disappeared into my house as I stayed outside, watching the closed door like an idiot.
What the fuck was I doing? It was hard enough being around her, without fucking her. And now I had totally screwed up. I put my hands through my hair, then pinched the bridge of my nose. Why was I even thinking of a relationship? It wasn’t possible, not for me, not now. I took a few deep breaths.
She opened the door slightly, as if she was thinking about something. I stood there, watching, waiting. She broke the silence by walking up to me. She was inches away from me and I could still smell her sweet scent. ”Teo.”
”What?” I asked.
”Maybe it was a mistake,” she said. ”But by now, you should know, I don’t do anything I don’t want.”
Chapter Twenty: Sofia
IwantedTeotosling his arm around my waist, pull me close and kiss me right then and there, but he did nothing of the sort. He flashed me a sad smile, then shook his head. ”We should probably talk about this tomorrow,” he said. ”After we’ve had some sleep.”
”But why?” I asked him.
”Because you’re still my prisoner, Sofia, and I don’t want you to think that you’re forced to do something you don’t want,” he replied.
”You’re the most interesting thing that has happened to me in years,” I said.
He smiled. ”If you’re trying to seduce me, it’s working,” he said. ”But it’s not going to help, you know that, right? It’s going to make me want to be around you more. I want to see you all the time. Know everything you’re doing. The idea of someone hurting you, it fills me with rage. And the reason…”
”The reason?” I asked when he trailed off.
”The reason I’m not often at HQ when you are is because I see the way you interact with my men,” he continued. ”I see the way they look at you, the way you look at them. Every time one of them makes you laugh, I want to ram my fist into their face until they’re bloody.”
”Nothing is going on with any of them,” I said softly.
”I know. I know everything that happens in that apartment,” he replied, tucking a strand of loose hair behind my ear. ”And you should know that, because if I thought there was anything going on with you and one of them, I would’ve already killed him.”
I bit the inside of my lower lip, my heart racing. ”You would, huh?”
”I would,” he said. ”And I would make it hurt.”
I believed every word coming out of his mouth. From the way he was looking at me, from the intensity in his gaze, I could tell that he meant it.
”Well, nothing has happened,” I said. ”With any of them. Only with you.”
”I know,” he replied. ”And it was stupid. I told you I would protect you and I meant every word. But you…you’re the most dangerous person I’ve ever known.”
I laughed, shaking my head. ”How’s that?” I asked. ”You live in this world of gangs and drug deals and murders. I’m just a journalist.”
