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CHAPTER
3
Archer
This fucking guy standinghere, talking to me as if he owned Sloane, had no idea how close he was to getting his ass beat right now. The only thing that held my fists in check right now was the fact that I didn't want to make a scene where Sloane had to work every day and probably see most of these people again. Even as I tried not to cause a scene, I ended up doing just that, making Sloane tell us both off as she retreated to the back out of sight, leaving only Reyna to glare at us both.
"You two should do as she says and just go." Reyna told us.
"Yeah, you’re right, I need some fresh air anyways." Jared huffed and walked out the door.
Taking my stare off Jared’s retreating back, I turned my attention back to Reyna. "You know I just can't leave here without talking to her. Can you watch the counter so that I can go have a talk with her?"
Letting out a sigh, she gave me a warning look. "Be honest with her Archer, and no more games."
I put my hands up in surrender. "I'm really trying here Reyna, that's all I can do right now."
"All right, I guess that's good enough for now."
"Thank you," I smiled at her as I walked into the back room to find Sloane.
Spotting her sitting at Haiden's desk, she looked up at me with tears filling her eyes and my heart cracked wide open at the sight of her pain. "Why, Archer? Why did you have to come back into my life now? Just as I was finally getting over you and learning how to move on, you come back and unravel all the work I've done to push you out of my mind and my heart the last two months."
Kneeling down in front of her, I placed my hands on her knees to try and soothe her. "I tried, I really did try to stay out of your life Sloane, tried to let you move on with someone else. But when Dalton told me about you and this Jared guy this morning... I just couldn't control myself. I had to see if it were true, that you'd found someone else and were really over us now, because I'm not. I still have hope that one day you and I will be together. And it's clear to me that you’re not over me either."
"Then what is holding you back, Archer? You never really tell me what's going on with you and why you can't be with me. All you ever say is that I'm too innocent for you and that I'm better off without you.”
Lowering my head down, I realized the torture I was putting this poor woman through, and the fucked-up part was that I couldn't help it. As hard as I tried, I couldn't stop from wanting her for myself and wanting to protect her from me at the same time. "Look, I know that I probably don't deserve it, but all I'm asking for here is time. I need time to sort everything out before I show you the things I need to."
Getting up, she walked around me, brushing her hands over her cheeks to wipe the tears away. "It's just more of the same thing with you, you need more time, why? What is it that is so bad you think it will make me not want you anymore?"
"I-I can't tell you right now. Only that I hope it won't be much longer."
Letting out a sigh, she turned away from me, seeming to take a moment to think, then turned back around to face me. "Well, let me put it to you like this, Archer. I'm not promising you that I'm going to wait for you. I'm going to continue to see Jared until you can convince me otherwise by coming clean."
Anger and jealousy began to rise up inside of me, causing my need to prove to her that his touch would never undo her the way mine did. Stalking towards her, she retreated backwards into the wall and I pinned her up against it. I leaned in close to her ear. "Why do you try and fight it, angel? You know you will always want my hands on your body. Stroking your breasts," I said as I ran my hands over them, giving them a light squeeze. "And touching you here," I said, continuing my descent down her stomach to remind her of what she was missing in me and could never find in him. "And when I touch you here," I said, drawing a moan from her as I slid my hand between her legs, grazing her pussy while I nibbled on her neck, rendering her senseless under the spell of seduction that I was weaving through her mind right now. I could feel her body relaxing and fall into mine, submitting to me. "You know no one will ever be able to give you what I can. No one." Looking up at her face, her eyes were closed, and I could see that only her body listened and responded to the words I was speaking as I watched her nipples turn to pebbles before me. "Tell me Sloane, tell me he makes your body feel the way I do?” Kissing my way up her neck. I straightened up to tower over her, cup her face and look into her eyes as they began to flutter open as she takes me in. I could see all the desire, swimming around in that heated gaze, she held only for me. “You know I’m right, so just give me the time I need and then I’ll give you what you need.” I stroked my fingers over her cheeks.
“You don’t play fair, Archer,” She whispered.
I placed a light kiss on her lips. “No, I don’t. I want you Sloane, and I don’t want anyone else touching you. Tell me you aren’t sleeping with that guy." When she dropped her eyes from mine, I knew what the ugly truth was, that he'd touched what was mine, and I couldn't hide the jealousy I felt any longer. "Sloane? Are you fucking him?"
Grabbing my hand and pulling it from her face, she tried to push past me to escape the hold I had on her, but I didn't budge.
"Archer, let. Me. Go." She seethed through clenched teeth.
I shook my head in answer. "No, not until you answer me. Are you fucking him?"
"Why do you have to say it with such vulgarity, like I'm cheating on you or something?"
Grabbing her chin, I forced her eyes to mine. "Because you are."
"That's a bunch of crap and you know it." She snapped back at me. "I'm sure you've had sex with a ton of women since we've been apart."
Shaking my head, I enlightened her on the truth. "No, I haven’t. Not once. It’s only you that I want, and until I can make that happen, I'll wait." Seeing the hurt in her eyes, I knew that she believed that what I was telling her was the truth, because it was. No woman would ever matter to me the way she did. Or make the perfect sub for me like she would. So open and responsive to my touch that it got me hard every time. I just had to find the best way to introduce her to my world and hope she didn't run the other way the second I told her what I was really about. Looking into her watery eyes again, I leaned down and kissed her on the forehead. "Will you do something for me, Sloane? Will you not allow him to touch you again and save yourself for me?"
