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Dominic
Warmth spreads through my body like a fire. It’s a feeling I’ve never felt in all my life. It’s a high. It’s something I want to hold onto forever, but I know it’s going to fade. It always does. Nothing good ever remains in my life. Yet I pull Eva’s limp form into my arms and hold her just a little tighter. She smells like my body wash and it’s a kick in the face to smell that on her. I never thought I’d have her in my bed. I never thought I’d be holding her the way I am either because she was a pawn in the game of the mafia. My father wants her, but I want her more. A war is coming and I can feel it.
“Dom?”
“Hmm?”
“Will you hold me?” Eva whispers. I don’t typically hold women, but for her, I’ll do it. I’ve already made her life a living hell holding her isn’t the worst thing in the world. Shifting, I pull her into me closer than she already was, my hard body pressed into her soft one. I never thought she’d feel like this, this soft, this perfect. Her body forms to mine and I press a kiss to the back of her head.
“What’s going to happen now?” She asks sounding as tired as my body feels.
“Now I find out why your father had you here. What he wanted.”
“Are you going to kill him?”
“If it comes to that,” I tell her honestly. I feel her body tense, but then she asks a questions that I never expected her too.
“Is it true? He sent me here to use me?” I sigh.
“It looks that way.”
“How does this work?” she asks.
“I honestly don’t know. I’ll protect you until this is all over and then you can go about your life,” I tell her the only thing I can think of. She can’t stay. That would cause an even bigger war, one I’m not sure I’m ready for. Of course, the plan was to take out my father one day and make a place for myself, but I didn’t expect it to be this soon. I have years of learning still ahead of me and I’m not sure how my mother would handle things. I have to plan, that’s what I do. I plan things out, I don’t jump in headfirst like I did with taking the girls.
“Thank you,” she whispers.
“For what?”
“For saving me from her.” Her words feel like a stake to the heart. She shouldn’t be thanking me for something like that. I wasn’t saving her, I was saving myself. I was saving my family from the reality that Abbigail Nash could have had something on my father or me. Blowing out a breath, her hair flutters in front of me. I’m drawn to this girl and I don’t know why.
“Dom?”
“Yes.”
“Are you okay?” She asks softly. So softly I barely heard her.
“I don’t know what I am, Evangeline. Keeping you means war.”
“What does letting me go mean?”
“It means war. I don’t think I can let you go, Eva. I don’t know that I want to. I’m a selfish son of a bitch and when I want something I tend to take it and keep it.”
“Will you hurt me?”
“Far more than you know.” The questions end there. I won’t answer anymore and I wait until her breathing evens out before I climb out of the bed. Being wrapped around her naked body would only mean trouble for me in the end. I can’t sleep with that girl no matter how much I might want to.
I walk down the hall before I’m hit with the scent of bleach and other cleaning products. I don’t stop at the room, I keep going until I end up in my office. Pulling the whiskey from the bar, I pour myself a drink and walk over to the desk taking a seat. There’s too much happening that I’m not aware of. There’s too many lefts and not enough rights. This road we travel isn’t a safe one and when you don’t know what’s on the other side, that’s an issue.
Tossing my drink back, I set the glass back on the table before pulling a cigarette from the pack I left on the desk. I light it up and lean back, flipping my computer on. Just as the screen pops up, the cameras kick on. I see her, sleeping in my bed on the feed in front of me.
“Why are you up so late?” Vin asks as he strolls causally into my office.
“Couldn’t sleep.” I run my thumb along the scruff on my jaw as I let things settle in.
“This about her or the impending war?”
“Both.”
