“Hey…” I take a deep breath. “Can you bring my car around front?”
I slam on the button for the lobby.
Eoghan watches my hand then gives me a side eye.
“Bring your car around? Do I look like a chauffeur?” He cages me against the elevator panel. “One that fucks you until you scream?”
“I just…” I clear my throat. “I need air. The garage is so stuffy, and I have a sensitivity to the smell of gasoline.”
“Gasoline? These are million-dollar villas. There’s enough ventilation to…” He stops and scans my face. Stepping back with a smile, he says, “No problem.”
The whiplash turnaround concerns me. Perhaps he knows the door will open to the lobby, and I can scream if he was abducting me against my will.
“Thank you.”
We reach the lobby, and I start to breathe heavily to keep up with my ruse of needing air.
As I go to step out, Eoghan clasps my hand and lays a panty-melting look of possession on me. “Do not move.”
I nod.
He struts to the guard’s desk, and points to me before he disappears through a set of discreet doors.
The point was to get air. Playing dumb, I stroll to the front doors that lead to a circular driveway beyond a jet-black canvas portico.
“Miss,” one of the guards calls out to me.
I lift my phone to my ear and wave him off, smiling.
The night air hits me, and I glance around.
It’s still warm. My jacket hangs over my purse, so my wrinkled shirt and creased skirt are on display. My hair is a mangled mess from Eoghan pulling out all my pins, ruining the elaborate twisty bun I made this morning.
When I take a step, that pinch in my vagina is back. Hiding a smile, I don’t correct the little wobble that says: I am indeed well fucked.
But can Johnny see me?
A few cars sit parked in a side lot, but it’s too dark to see movement.
Headlights shine on me from the hill, and I freeze.
Crossing my arms, I keep a smile on my face. I can’t seem ungrateful. Eoghan is driving me home in my car, and I asked him to pick me up right here.
The Honda stops and my instinct to just step off the curb and get inside shatters.
I open the door for you.
Eoghan’s crucial warning hits me and I stand there.
Feeling like a spoiled dope.
He gets out, and after a confused look at me, he cuts a vicious glare back at the lobby.
Oh, no.
He paid a guard to keep me inside, and I blew him off. As Eoghan takes a few rough steps that way, I jump in front of him.
“No, don’t. He tried to stop me. I just wanted some damn air. You can’t control me like this.” I swat at his chest, the tight T-shirt hugging his pecs and six pack.