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“You bring that dick anywhere near me, I’m going to bite it off.”
A husk of laughter bubbles out of me at her words and my fist tightens in her hair as I see pleasure and pain wash over her features. “So that’s your kink.”
“I don’t have a kink.”
“Liar.”
Audrey flushes and I want to kiss her so bad it’s like a siren song in my blood.
“I hate you.”
I release her then, stepping away before I do something I’ll regret, like bending her over my desk and fucking her until she admits she still wants me as badly as I want her.
“For the record, Audrey, I don’t share. So while we’re married, you don’t fuck anyone else. If you have needs, you come to me, and I’ll look after you.”
Her cheeks pink, and a sudden memory of her smiling up at me in bed, her naked body relaxed against mine as we whispered and planned a future we thought would be very different from the one we have hits me. Her pert nipples, the same shade as the blush on her cheeks, rub against the cotton of my shirt. I clench my fist as the need to bury myself into her body makes my cock ache.
“No need, I have a collection of toys that can get the job done better than any man.”
She’s lying. She came so hard when we fucked I thought campus security were going to knock the door down, but I let her have her lie for now.
“What are your other demands?”
“I need to know Kennedy is safe. I know I fucked up on Saturday but I don’t want the company my family built put in jeopardy when we divorce.”
“Have the paperwork drawn up and I’ll sign it.”
“Thank you.”
I nod at the relief in her voice, not trusting myself to say more as I release her and step away.
Audrey twists her fingers around each other in a rare sign of nerves before she speaks next. “What about Tia?”
My shoulders tense. “What about her?”
“What will you tell her?”
“We’ll tell her a version of the truth. You’re my wife, and you’ll be living with us some of the time.”
“Won’t that confuse things?”
I shake my head. “Tia will just accept you. It’s who she is. She adapts better than most.” I feel my lips pull at the edges as I remember Tia’s chatter this morning about Princess Belle. I can’t help but wonder if it’s because we’re half-siblings that we see the same thing in Audrey or if it’s because it’s the book I read to her the most.
“I’ll follow your lead with her then.”
My head comes up as she moves toward my desk. I watch her, waiting until she makes eye contact, and let the emotions I have regarding Tia show on my face. Tia is my greatest gift but also my biggest vulnerability and I need Audrey to understand that I mean business about this. “Just don’t hurt her. I’ve spent my life protecting her and I won’t have her hurt because of my own stupid actions, not for you and not for anyone else, either. She’s my priority and always will be.”
I see her flinch, but Audrey holds her head up straight like a Queen in waiting. I don’t want to hurt her, ever, but I need her to know that Tia is the line I won’t let anyone cross.
“You have my word. I won’t hurt her. I promise.”
Audrey sticks out her hand for me and I look at it in surprise, every instinct wanting me to take it and pull her into my arms, but I don’t. Instead, I grasp her palm to mine, electricity tingling between us, and shake. For better or worse, we’re doing this.
7Audrey
I rushtowards the restaurant and give the doorman a brief smile, but my mind is on what awaits me on the other side. I’ve spent the last three days just trying to survive by burying myself in work and research on blood cancer. I wanted to believe with everything in me that somehow my dad had got it wrong, that there are other options.
But if what he says is right, and I have no reason to believe otherwise, then in a few months I lose my father.The one man who has been my constant, my hero, and I can’t accept it. The other reason I’ve been secluded like a Tibetan monk is this deal with Hudson and all the revelations from last weekend. I still can’t get my head around what we did, although there has always been an element of inevitability about us. Like this was always going to come to a head in some way. I just never dreamed it would be by us ending up married and then keeping the ruse going for all the wrong reasons.
