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Everyone was expendable, especially his only child.
I was a pretty face, but my wild nature was constantly getting me into trouble. The one constant I had, the one that always stuck, were the threats and promises from my father about ruining my life. Every time his arm came around me for a photo op, he’d pinch my side while whispering threats of behaving.
I grew up feeling like my peace and safety were on a thin line, every waking moment. I hated the wildness that lived within me. I hated how curious I was, and how I’d always needed to investigate, and how it inevitably would end with me getting into trouble.
Killian made me feel protected, and like I could unapologetically be myself for the first time in my life, while still being cherished.
Blinking past the burning in my eyes, I gripped a bundle of sheets and a pillow.
Perhaps if I had some space from him, some time away from seeing him or being near him, just like I did over the past three months, I could go back to being apathetic toward him.
I was still standing, staring at a closet with the linens in my arms when I heard the door to the top of the stairs open and close. Then feminine laughter.
Oh shit.
I quickly ducked as Giles made his way down the stairs, kissing a Sweetbutt. I couldn’t recognize who she was from here, but it didn’t matter. This was his space, and I had just invaded it, like I did to Killian.
Shame flared aggressively in my chest, as I got on all fours and began crawling out of sight.
The couple was kissing and heavily petting when they paused near the pool table, making me freeze.
“You ever fucked on one before?” the girl asked in a sultry voice.
I was within viewing distance of Giles, but he wasn’t paying attention. Hopefully she’d strip or something and he’d be distracted.
“Why don’t you just take those shorts off and show me exactly what you want me to fuck, and we’ll start there,” Giles muttered, all low and sexy.
Oh no. That was definitely Sadie. She was the only Sweetbutt that was still wearing shorts in November. I was still on the floor and I did not want to have to watch them, or hear them, have sex. Maybe if I?—
“You mean these shorts?” Sadie asked, and I could see from my spot she’d tossed the denim at Giles’s face. She stood in front of him in just a light blue thong. Her shirt went next, and of course, she wasn’t even wearing a bra.
Giles smiled at her, his hands dropping to the copper button on his jeans.
“You gonna let me have your ass this time?” he asked all husky, and oh my god.
They were about to fuck, and I had a decision to make. I could scatter across the floor while they were going at it, but if they didn’t move to the couch, or his room, then he was going to catch me. It wasn’t that I cared that he did. I just didn’t want to talk to him. I knew he was going to mention Killian, and I wasn’t ready.
I was so stuck deliberating my choices, I missed that his phone had rung…and the idiot answered.
“Hey boss. Nope, not busy at all.”
Poor Sadie was just perched on the edge of the pool table, watching Giles as he held the phone to his ear.
No girl wanted to hear that, but especially not while she was in front of a man naked.
“Yeah, I can go check on her, but I’m almost positive I saw her earlier mingling at the party.” Giles placed a sweet kiss on the side of Sadie’s face before tucking himself into his boxers.
Were they talking about me? Was I conceited to assume they were?
“She saw you two…no she saw her get on the back of your bike, and how you tried to hand her your jacket. She was hurt, Kil. No idea what she plans to do tonight, but whatever it is, it’ll likely be with that image in mind.”
Definitely me then.
I heard Killian’s billowing “fuck” all the way from my place on the floor.
“I tried to explain it to her,” Giles said, now walking back toward the stairs.
Sadie was scrolling through her phone, half naked on the pool table as if she were completely used to this. Maybe she was, but I’d eat a dead cockroach before this ever became my life. Where I just lay around, ready to be fucked only to be silenced and shelved a moment later.
