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Clearly he doesn’t want to go there, bring up his dead lover, and tell me how he felt. And keeping the ring tells me he’s still holding her up to everyone else.
I can’t compete with a dead girl.
Jesus, that’s one I didn’t see coming. Two men, one dead girl that they both still love. The brother and the lover who hate each other over her.
I don’t do complications for good reasons. And this is a doozy.
Besides, staying is dangerous.
I pull back.
“Complications?” he asks quietly.
“Complications. But…” I kiss him.
It’s just meant to be goodbye, but it’s pure gasoline, and we go from zero to burning passion in seconds. The kiss is wild, hungry, deep. I can’t get enough of him, and he slams me into the door, like he can’t get enough of me, either. Hendrick Agnossio is all the magic. His tongue dances with mine and if there’s some desperation, some bittersweet in the molasses of the kiss, the heated sex that lies beneath and no one even acknowledges it.
He has me up, in his arms, my legs around his waist and his fingers digging into me with a bruising grip.
I want to fuck him now. I want—
“Hendrick.” I rip my mouth from his.
He slowly pulls back from me, and I’m already missing the heavy press of his erection.
I get my bag, rip open the door, and run, forcing myself to not look back.
Because if I do, I’m never leaving him. Ever.
* * *
“Buckle up, buttercup,” Harry says, swigging the Hibiki she stole. She hands me the Heart of Dark Desires.
We’re at my downtown apartment, where she was waiting for me. When I arrived, she took one look and rolled her eyes.
That was ten minutes ago.
Now I’m just…I don’t know. Missing them? Them. Not just Hendrick.
“What if I love them?”
“Love? Who the fuck are you and where’s Lena?” She hands me the bottle. I take a sip. “They’re even hotter in person, so I get it, and trust, if they were women, I’d be all up in that shit. Unless of course, I was robbing them. And then I’d say no way.”
“But…”
“They’re Quinate, mafia. Bad ass kings of their slices of the world. They’d kill you, and Jac’s an ass. Hendrick is…I don’t know. Look, I guarantee he won’t be fuzzy knowing you stole it.”
I frown. “One minute of wallowing. Geez, Harry, cut a girl some slack.”
“No way, no how. If we’re doing this, we gotta move. And they didn’t make you happy.”
She’s right. They didn’t. The Heart of Dark Desires is what I’m going to call a tip.
“I’m going to go. We’ll leave in two days. I’ll put word out you have a job, and when we get to our destination, I’ll start looking into passing off the necklace. Start packing. Everything must go.”
She leaves, and I get changed and start to pack. I’ll hit the—
Someone knocks on the door, and I spy Harry’s keys. Rolling my eyes, I open it and hand them to her without looking. “Here, Harry.”
