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“Stop being a brat and come with me.” He grabs my hand now and my pulse quickens at his touch. I dutifully follow him out of my bedroom, down the hallway, and to the elevator.
“Where are we going, Shane?” I demand.
“Wait and see, Hacker,” he says, and I roll my eyes in annoyance. Thankfully, he doesn’t see me, or he’d probably reprimand me for it.
We step into the elevator and take it to the ground floor. Shane steps out first and I follow him. He walks straight to the SUV he offered me last night and the car beeps to life as we approach.
I stop in my tracks and pull my hand from his, crossing my arms over my chest. “I already told you, I’m not leaving.”
He sighs deeply in frustration and frowns at me. “I know. Just get into the car.”
He pulls the passenger door open for me, and I shake my head in annoyance before climbing inside. I suspect that if I don’t get in voluntarily, he’ll just pick me up and throw me in anyway.
I stare out of the window as we drive away from the city and my heart races in my chest as we get further and further away from the place I’ve come to call home. “Why won’t you tell me where we’re going?” I turn in my seat and ask him.
“It’s a surprise.”
I chew on my lip nervously, and he reaches out his hand and brushes my cheek with his knuckles. “Don’t you trust me, little hacker?”
I stare at him. I’m not sure how to answer that question. “I thought I did. But then last night…”
“Last night, what? I didn’t force you to leave, did I?”
“No. But now I know that you want me to, I feel like I’m on borrowed time. I don’t know what you’re planning on doing or where you’re taking me, Shane,” I admit, the tremor in my voice clearly audible now.
“I would never hurt you, Hacker,” he says softly. “Well, not unless you want me to. What happened the other night. You wanted that, right?”
“I did. But…” I shake my head. There is no use reasoning with him.
“But what?” he frowns.
“After. You just dismissed me. I wanted more than…” Damn. Why do I keep speaking in half sentences?
“You wanted me to fuck you,” he finishes for me. “You wanted me to make you feel better. But that’s not the point of a punishment, is it? The real punishment is you going to bed alone with your cunt dripping wet.”
I roll my eyes and he sighs.
“You’re never honest with me, Jessie. You are with Conor and the twins.”
I turn in my seat and glare at him.
“If you had come to me the other night and told me what you needed, then I would have given it to you – the pain and the pleasure. But, instead you lied because you can’t be honest with me.”
“I… Damn.” I don’t even know what to say.
“You think it was easy for me to send you away? I was as hard as fucking stone for you. You could have asked me to let you stay. You could have asked me to come with you, Jessie. You could have been honest about how you were feeling instead of walking out and hating me.”
“God, I wish I hated you.” I snap at him. “Besides, you make it hard to be honest with you, Shane. You’re completely unreadable. I think you might be the most difficult person I have ever met in my life!” I cross my arms over my chest and sit back in my seat.
“At least that was honest,” he says with a faint laugh.
“Anyway, none of that matters considering what you did last night,” I breathe as the memory cuts a fresh welt across my heart. “You said you’d never hurt me, but you did. Those things you said…”
“I know,” he whispers. “I was way out of line, and I’m sorry.”
“How much further is this place?” I say, looking out of the window.
“Not much. We’re almost there.”
