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I’d fucking kill.
I’d murder.
I’d betray.
That slow slide had started years ago. But I'd been lost then, blind and helpless…wandering around with no tether to my name. But that was changed now.
Now I had someone to protect.
To save.
Alexi’s face pushed into my mind as she gave me a soft lick and lifted her head. I'd smashed the bastard’s phone, the recording was gone. Butheknew now…he knew who she was. He knewwhereshe was. And if he knew, then she was vulnerable.
And that could not stand.
I smiled down at her. But it was a cruel smile, robbing myself of that moment of perfection.
Because inside my head, she was already tucked safely inside her apartment, guarded and free from danger.
And Kilpatrick was mine…
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Anna
“Let’s get you home,” he said, looking down at me.
I wiped the corners of my mouth.Now?Confusion flared. Had I done something wrong? “Okay,” I answered, and moved away.
But he captured me, his hand gripping my jaw gently, stopping me cold. “You are more perfect than I deserve. I want you to know that.”
My pulse raced at the words. More perfect than he deserved? But didn’t he realize hewasperfection?
Finley Salvatore, the god.
Finley Salvatore, the lover.
My lover.
Still, I couldn’t stop the sting as I pulled away.
“Anna.”
I met his gaze. “Yeah?”
He licked his lips and combed stiff fingers through his hair. “What would you say if I asked you to stay here…with me?”
Wow…
“I mean, it’s closer to your classes.”
My stomach sank.
“And you’d be safer. I mean, I could keep you safe. Here…with me.”
He looked away awkwardly, combing his fingers through his hair again, as though he was…nervous.“You want me to live here because it’s closer to my classes and I’d be safer? I mean, I don’t mind the walking and as for safer…I don’t think I could be any safer than living with a billionaire heiress.”
He jerked his head up, fire blazing in his eyes. “You know and I know that means fucking nothing in this world.” He winced, adjusted his shorts, and rose from the bed, only to turn and lean over me. “I want you here…period, and not because it’s fucking closer to your goddamn classes. I want you here because...because I want you in my fucking bed.”
