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I leave the top two buttons undone.
Fuck, he’s so hot.
Pressing my hand to his chest, I smooth down the row of buttons. But my eyes keep trailing down. To the noticeable bulge at the front of his pants.
“Thank you.” Hans’s voice sounds rougher than usual. Then he nods to the other backpack. “Your turn.”
I switch the bags so the one with the orange tag is closest to me. “My turn for what?”
“Change of clothes.”
I look down at myself. At my bare legs, my shorts hidden beneath the hoodie I clearly stole from someone bigger than me. “Where are we going?”
“The Syndicate.” He says the name of a nice hotel, and I suddenly feel uncomfortable about looking like such a goober.
“Why so fancy?”
“I like their room service.”
A flare of anger hits me. “You take a lot of women there?”
“Cassandra.” He’s back to using his scolding tone, but I’ve flipped past reason.
“What’s in here?” I rip open the zipper of the second backpack and see clothing that definitely doesn’t belong to Hans. “I’m not wearing your stash of skank clothes.”
His head jerks over to look at me.
I’m not used to these waves of awful jealousy. I’ve literally never felt anything like this before.
It’s all consuming.
It’s more than I know what to do with.
“I can’t?—”
I was going to sayI can’t be reasonable about wearing someone else’s clothes,but the arm on the back of the seat hooks around my shoulders, and Hans presses his hand over my mouth.
“You are going to listen to me for one fucking second before you finish that sentence. The backpack is full ofyour clothes, Cassandra Lynn. Youractualclothes.” My eyes widen. “I’m a sick fuck. I’ve crossed some pretty big lines when it comes to you. I won’t pretend otherwise. And I never wanted to drag you into the mess that is my life, but I still wanted to have you.” He uses his hold on me to pull me into his side. “I wanted to fucking keep you, Butterfly, from the moment I met you. And on the off chance something like tonight happened, I needed to be prepared. So, yeah, I took a few of your things. But now you have what you need.” He takes a deep breath and lets it out. “So be a good girl for me and find something to put on. Or don’t.” He shrugs against me. “You’re a beautiful woman. People won’t question what you’re wearing. But I’m a big creepy dude. If I showed up dressed in tactical black, dragging a girl like you behind me, people would assume I’m one of the trafficking assholes I’ve dedicated my life to killing.”
I reach up and gently touch the hand over my mouth.
Hans takes another big breath. “Please don’t ever tell me youcan’t.”
Twisting into him, I dislodge his hand and wrap my arms around his body. It’s an awkward way to hug someone. But… I have to do it.
Please don’t ever tell me you can’t.
He thought I was going to say I can’t be with him. That I can’t stay. That I can’t do this.
I squeeze my eyes shut.
The only thing I can’t do is give him up.
For a year, I’ve been dreaming of what it would be like to have his attention. And it turns out I have all of it.
Now I can’t settle for anything less.
Hans presses his arm against my back, holding me to him.
