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I just couldn’t believe it.
13
AXEL
I sat on the couch in my bedroom, the entire bottle of scotch on the coffee table in front of me so I wouldn’t have to keep getting up to refill my glass. Wasn’t sure why I bothered with a glass at all. Should go straight for the bottle.
The TV showed a replay of a game I’d already seen, but I couldn’t focus on anything in front of me anyway. I had to relive my conversation with Scarlett over and over, listen to her reject my lies because she knew my truth.
Knew my heart.
That made this so much fucking harder. I sat forward with my elbows on my knees, dragging my hands down my face to massage the tension out of my eyebrows and cheeks. I’d felt like shit before when my parents disowned me and my ex-wife used me, but I’d never felt this low.
I was tempted to kill Dante. If I got rid of him, I could have her.
But if she lost him, I would lose her anyway.
There was no scenario where I got to keep her.
My butler texted me.
I grabbed the phone and glanced at his message. Scarlett is here to see you, sir.
“Fuck.” I dragged my hand down my face again.
Shall I send her up?
I had been at her apartment a few hours ago. Now it was midnight. She’d obviously combed over every single word I’d spoken to her, and now she had more to say. I could order her away, but she would show up another time. Yes.
I set my glass on the coffee table and stared at the TV. My heart didn’t race like it used to. The pain was so potent that it numbed me. My reality was so unbearable that my systems shut down so I wouldn’t have to feel my despair. Scarlett was the first gift that had walked into my life…and now I had to return her.
The door opened, and her heels sounded until she rounded the corner.
I stared at the floor, elbows on my knees. “There’s nothing more to say, Scarlett.”
She came into the living room and stood in front of me, blocking the TV.
I looked up to meet her gaze, not having to pretend to be annoyed because I was annoyed. I was annoyed that she didn’t make this easy on me.
She reached behind her back and unzipped her dress.
Oh no…
It fell down around her feet, revealing a black thong and matching bra.
Fuck.
She walked to me in her heels then dropped her knees on either side of my thighs, straddling my hips, her perfume washing over me as her hands palmed my bare chest. Her hand cupped my face, and she looked at me. “I know this is real.”
I closed my eyes because it was fucking torture.
“You’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me.” Her strands of hair fell down to my chest as she dipped her head to kiss me, to press those pillow-like lips against mine. “I’m not letting you go.”
I inhaled a deep breath as I kissed her, the pain in my chest rising to a new level. This was the sexiest Scarlett had ever been, fighting for me like a soldier on a battlefield. It made me fall for her harder—and it made it hurt a million times more.
Her kisses deepened as my mouth reciprocated, and soon her tongue was in my mouth, dancing with mine.
My restraint came loose, and my hands gripped her perky ass, kneading the muscle under the soft flesh. I turned my head to kiss her at a different angle, pulling her toward me, lifting my hips so she could feel how hard she made me. “Baby…” I spoke against her mouth as I unclasped her bra and let it fall off her shoulders.
