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“I want to make a rule, too,” I say.
“What rule do you think you need to make, Little Mouse?” His smirks will be the death of me.
“If you’re gonna keep me, then you have to keep me. Only me. No other women. Ever. I mean it. I won’t share you.”
He barks out a laugh that flexes his cock where it’s still shoved inside me, and we both groan. Ripples of pleasure pour through me, even though I’m too exhausted to move.
“Zero risk of that. Can’t remember the last time I bothered looking at a female, much less bedding one. You’re it for me. From the moment I laid eyes on you until forever. You might not be ready for the words yet, but it won’t make them less true. I love you, Perla.”
He might not expect the words back, but I want to give them to him. I open my mouth to do exactly that, but an ear-splitting alarm shatters the quiet of the room.
“What the fuck? Whoever tripped the alarm has a death wish for forcing me out of this perfect pussy,” he growls, menace overtaking the sweet giant I’ve already gotten used to.
“Stay here, Mouse. I’ll get rid of whoever it is.”
“What if it’s Rory? You can’t make him leave. He lives here!” I don’t want to come between them. Rory and I have never had a second of chemistry between us, only a friendship that immediately felt like family, but I don’t want Ev thinking he has to push out Rory to keep me.
“Kid wouldn’t set off the alarm, he has the codes. Otherwise, neither of you could have gotten in last night. Besides, he left a couple hours ago, while you were in the shower. Something about the bookstore calling to tell him the textbook he needs to read, ahead of classes starting, arrived in stock. Now, you. Stay. Put.”
He snatches his slacks from the floor where he tossed them earlier and jams in each leg. They’re wrinkled to shit, but he doesn’t seem to care as he storms from the room.
If he really believes I’ll hide up here like a literal mouse, he’s got another think he needs to think. I’m on my feet throwing on his discarded shirt the instant he closes the door behind him. I follow him downstairs, staying out of sight, and tiptoe in his wake toward the front door.
The heavy wood barely muffles the enraged roar coming from whoever is on the other side. I watch as Ev reaches into a drawer of a foyer table as he passes it on the way to the door. His hand comes out holding a scary black handgun that looks large, even in his enormous mitt of a hand.
He tucks it into the waistband of his slacks with a practiced ease that would terrify me in another reality. In this moment, it settles my nerves to know whatever is out there, Ev’s got it handled.
He throws a dark look over his shoulder to where I’m peeping around the corner.
“Told you to stay put. You’ll need a punishment for disobeying me. If you’re a good girl while I handle this asshole, maybe, it’ll be a punishment you’ll like.”
Ev’s calm and cool as if he didn’t just set my body on fire with lust. Bracing his feet wide, he throws open the door.
“The fuck do you think you’re doing at my home, Hurd?”
It’s Perry? He followed me here?
ChapterTwelve
EV
All my intentions tokeep Perla shielded from the reality of what I am are ruined by the bastard glaring at me from my front stoop. Because if this fuck thinks he can stalk my woman at all, much less come to my home in search of her, and leave with breath in his lungs, he’s delusional.
“Perla! Come here this instant! Do you know who this is? You’ve thrown in with a criminal, you foolish girl! Get over here behind me. I’ll protect you from him.” His voice trembles despite the bravado he attempts to project.
“I see you know of me. Then you should also know I don’t tolerate disrespect.” Rory and I have never hidden our connection to the Allards, despite my taking their name while he’s still a Clune.
“I do know who you are, and that’s why Perla needs to come with me, where she can be safe from the likes of you.” His tough talk wavers as I advance closer to where he takes several steps back.
“Come inside. Let’s discuss this as men.” I clap a hand on his shoulder and guide him into the house. He has no choice but to submit as I propel him deeper into my home.
There are rooms here Perla should never know they exist, and under normal circumstances, she never would. I feel her presence behind me, though, so I guess today’s the day she sees me for the mafia beast I am.
I manhandle Perry Hurd past the room filled with computers that will tap into every traffic cam and surveillance video that recorded his movements from the time he stepped out of his apartment until he arrived here. Those videos will be scrubbed later. Perry Hurd will be ghosted from this earth, disappearing like Hoffa when I’m through with him.
“Wha-what do you think you’re doing? You can’t just—” Fear shakes his voice and makes his body tremble when I shove him into the lone chair in the center of the dark room behind my office.
“People will notice if I disappear,” he stammers.
