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She pinched the bridge of her perky nose and breathed out. “Please tell me that tonight didn’t happen. That you didn’t stroll in on my date with Luke and kick him out. That definitely didn’t happen, right?”
I chuckled, liking the way she was able to make me feel amused.
“It happened, angel.”
And then she surprised me yet again when she flew across the room and got in my face. She was shorter than I was by quite a bit, which meant she had to look up at me. She pointed her finger in my face and glared at me.
“You think you can control everything! Well, you can’t!”
I crossed my arms, trying to keep the grin from my lips. But the truth was, her little fit was doing nothing but turning me on. My cock was already rock hard.
The fire in her eyes when she yelled at me? I wanted to see that fire while I fucked her. I wanted her nails scraping my back and her teeth in my shoulder.
“I can, and I will.”
She breathed hard once again, her nostrils flaring. “You owe Luke an apology.”
Her words struck a chord, sending angry vibes through me.
“I don’t owe anyone a goddamn thing, and I never will again,’ I snapped, making her jerk back.
“You basically called him poor. You put him down in the worst way possible.”
“I did no such thing. I simply made a statement about how expensive the restaurant he took you to was.”
She rolled her eyes. “You’re completely clueless about the real world, aren’t you? You’ve probably never wanted for anything in all your life. Never been hungry. Never been cold. You think you’re so mighty, but the fact is, you’ve never survived this life.”
She had no fucking idea what she was talking about.
None.
I had survived harder than anyone else I knew.
I did what I had to and nothing had ever been handed to me. I either took it or worked my fucking ass off for it, but I didn’t feel the need to defend myself to her. She was going to think what she wanted to about me.
“Oh, really? And have you survived? Tell me, angel. Have you ever been hungry? Have you ever had to steal to survive?”
Her face went blank, her large blue eyes looking wounded as she stared back at me.
She was at a loss for words.
“I didn’t think so.”
I turned to walk away, but before I did she spoke.
“I stole a car to come to Vegas. I did it to get away from the hellhole I called my life where my mother’s current boyfriend didn’t know how to keep his hands to himself.”
It took me a minute to comprehend what she had said, but once she did, pain struck me in the stomach while rage for whoever this man was began to boil in my gut.
“I’ve gone to bed hungry many nights because he wouldn’t let my mother and me work. They might’ve been fine without eating since they were too high to care, but I didn’t do the drugs. I was hungry. So, yes, Zander, I know hunger. And I know what it’s like to steal to survive because if I hadn’t stolen something and ran, I wouldn’t have made it another year in that house.”
Her eyes lowered as if she was embarrassed by her admissions, but to me, it only showed how much of a warrior she was.
She was a fucking fighter.
She might have looked angelic, but the devil was just beneath her skin, and I wanted to expose that side of her while enjoying the fruits of her innocence.
“Come here,” I said, reaching my hand out to her.
