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CHAPTER THREE
CORBIN
Riker drifted off to sleep before I had last night. He was still asleep and curled into me with his arm and leg over me, holding tight. Like his limbs had been scared I’d leave in the middle of the night, so they’d latched on.
I couldn’t leave, though.
I’d lain awake, asking myself what the fuck was I doing with this guy, but I couldn’t come up with an answer.
Wrong.
All right, I did have an answer. It was simple really. The thought of not seeing Riker was like having an invisible hand wrap around my throat, choking me. It was why I hadn’t kicked him out after his deadly confession.
The way he’d talked, the way his body had locked down and his eyes had darkened when he told me he’d kill anyone who touched me, was clearly the truth.
He really would slaughter anyone who touched me.
I didn’t know how I firmly knew, besides his body language hinting at it, but I did. And I always listened to my instincts since they’d gotten me out of situations before.
He was a tiny ball of viciousness.
I should be disgusted or annoyed by his intense obsession of me.
But I wasn’t. And I didn’t know if feeling satisfied over his possessiveness made me twisted, too, but I’d ended up grinning smugly over the thought of Riker cutting someone who’d screwed with me.
When he’d also told me that after I fucked him, I’d get to keep him forever, I was damn sure that was the truth too. At the time, I hadn’t read into it, but fuck, I’d been up most of the night thinking and concluded that a lot of what he said had to be because he was a shifter.
I would be able to keep him if we fucked.
He would kill if he saw another flirt with me or if I was in trouble.
Holy fucking shit.
This tiny tornado was about to twist my world upside down, and I was ready for the ride.
Another thing I was slowly wrapping my head around was that there weren’t only shifters, but vampires and fae as well.
I wasn’t sure if I’d met or would meet any of them. Didn’t bother me either way. My hands were already full of my little shifter anyway.
Christ, my brothers would think I’d hit my head and had lost my damn mind if I told them any of this.
I glanced down, and my heart skipped a beat seeing how peaceful he looked.
It was better than that other look he’d gotten in my living room. I had seen it when he’d been lost to his past. He’d seemed so broken for a few moments until there was a cheeky smirk on his face. But the broken part had already done its work by grabbing hold of me in a way that I wanted to do anything I could so he’d never have that look on his face again.
There was something about this boy that’d crawled under my skin and was now stuck.
Fuck.
It was his damn fault for saying shit about me fucking him and him protecting me that had called to another part of me that’d craved his actions. Now his fate was sealed to be stuck with me.
Christ, it sounded crazy even to me.
That I was ready to jump into something with a man because the thought of not seeing him was like a kick to the balls.
I’d try and take my time with him. Get to know him. But I only had so much strength, and if he kept offering himself to me, I was going to take him up on the offer.
