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“Uncomplicate it.”
“I’m not showing you the necklace—”
The doorbell rings, and I get up. “Did you order dinner?”
I don’t wait for him as I move through the apartment and buzz the person in.
I open the door and my breath leaves my lungs. My body goes into wild overdrive.
Jac Miller.
Oh. God.
EIGHTEEN
HENDRICK
“Go away, Jac,” she says. “I don’t want to see you.”
I turn off the lamp and go to the door, not sure if she wants me to remain unseen or come out.
I want to rip him apart, beat him within an inch of his life for what he did to Cat, the fuck. But I don’t. Not yet.
The door’s partially open, and I stand there, about to head out to face him, when Jac speaks.
“Sure you do, sweet fuck of mine. Unless you want me to blindfold you. That it?” he asks, all provocation.
She says, “No.”
“Tried it with Mr. Vanilla-Pants, did you?”
I’m Mr. Vanilla-Pants? He’s such an asshole.
“Go away.” But she doesn’t shove him. Magdalena doesn’t move.
“Not on your life. He gets you, only fair I do, too. Show you the better fuck.” He laughs. “But I think you know the answer to that. Me.”
Anger buzzes through me. I’m about ready to fly out the bedroom door and beat the shit out of Jac for showing up and being an arrogant, self-entitled asswipe. For doing what he’s doing.
Making a play.
I know the fuck.
For years he’s been trying to screw women I’m sleeping with. Sometimes he succeeds, mostly he doesn’t. He brags about the ones he bangs.
Normally it doesn’t bother me.
With Magdalena? Yeah.
And that’s knowing they’ve fucked.
Beyond that, though, I want him to feel pain for hurting her. It rips shreds from me, feeds a fire inside me. I want to fucking make the little shit bleed.
I’ve never felt rage like this before, besides when I discovered what was happening with Lili.
But something stops me storming out. The stiffness in her stance? The fact I probably shouldn’t actually fucking kill Jac Miller, and not just because of the Quinate law.
That and she won’t appreciate me coming to any kind of rescue, no matter how badly I want to. Damsel in distress isn’t a mode I’ve found on Magdalena, and I’ve found plenty of them.
