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I batted his arm away, and he fell against the door.
“Fucking dick,” Duncan gritted out.
“That’s enough!” Celeste yelled, pushing Duncan into the living room and giving me one last look before shutting the door on me.
Chapter9
Celeste
Icouldn’t believe he’d shown himself to Duncan. Aside from my disbelief, I was in shock from the whole encounter. The challenge on Vassago’s face was intoxicating, but the hunger in his eyes when they landed on me had my skin on fire once again.
He was going to be the death of me.
Duncan stumbled back to his feet and looked around as if he were going to find the six-foot-two “gym bro” waiting to take a swing at him. When he realized the door had shut, his focus zeroed in on me.
“You fucking bitch,” he seethed. A dangerous red anger bloomed on his face. “First, you don’t want to come to Boston, and now you have strange men showing up to our house in the middle of the night? How long has this been going on?”
He was no longer slurring his words. Stony sobriety had found him, and he was ready to go for several rounds. Tears welled on my lashes, and I held my towel tight around my shaking body. I didn’t dare look out the window, but I could feel Vassago watching me from his nightly post. Would the demon come to my defense after inciting the scene playing out?
“Answer me!” Duncan shouted with his fists in his hair.
“I just met him. I don’t know how he knew where we lived, and he’s never been in the house,” I answered honestly. “He is not the reason I don’t want to go to Boston. My life is here in New York. You know that.”
I inched closer to him and placed a tentative hand on his shoulder. He didn’t recoil, but his head snapped up, and the wild look in his gaze made my blood run cold.
“Your life is with me, Celeste.” The hard lines on his face melted before he took me into his arms. “We need each other, right?”
I nodded against his sweat-damp shirt, trying my best to hold back the tears and screams caught in my chest. “That’s right.”
He softened around me, his Hyde receding and giving way to Jekyll to lull me back into his web before?—
“And I know nothing happened between you and that guy. We both know that if he knew what a lousy lay you are, he wouldn’t bother.”
He struck exactly where he’d aimed.
My eyes burned and leaked. My tears mixed with the perspiration his pores had wept during his overreaction, and I was now being punished for both.
“Let’s go to sleep.” He rubbed his hand up and down my bare arm before letting go.
“I’ll be right in.” I sniffed.
I locked the front door and spun around to press my back to the cool wood. If it weren’t for the class I had in only five hours, I wouldn’t follow Duncan. The idea of sleeping next to him felt like going to bed with a serial killer. His hands were covered in the blood of my self-esteem and the future he’d strangled out of me.
Sleeping on the couch would only cause a prolonged argument in the light of day, so I mustered the last bit of strength I had for the night and went to our room. My stomach was in knots, but I’d stopped crying. I slipped on my night shirt and got into the sheets next to Duncan, who was scrolling on his phone. The light illuminated his blank face and cast a blue hue to his blond hair.
I plugged my own device in and laid it screen-side down on my nightstand. I didn’t need a random notification lighting the room with tension still coursing through the air.
Duncan rolled over and scooped an arm around me, apparently done looking at whatever he’d been going through. His other hand moved my hair off my neck. It had mostly dried but was still moist, and I didn’t have it in me to blow-dry it. He pressed his lips to my neck, and bile threatened my throat.
“You smell so good.” His tongue flicked over my skin. “You taste even better. Fuck, I missed you.”
His hard-on pressed into my lower back, and I realized that he had taken off his clothes before getting into bed.
“You’re so passionate when we fight. Such a sexy, stubborn mouth you have, Celeste.”
I flinched as his hand at my belly moved down between my legs. His dick nudged at my entrance.
“Duncan. Not tonight. Please. I have to get up for class soon and just need some sleep.” I tried to scoot out of his hold.
