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“I don’t think that it’s a good idea for you to be around me right now,” he said.
“And what makes you say that?” Again, I was daring him to treat me like I was in grade school.Did he really think that he was going to tell me how our relationship was going to go?
“Your father threatened to kill me if I were to see you again. He said that if I were to even look at you, our business would be no more. I just think we need to give it more time…”
“Enough of that!” I said. I could feel the heat of passion opening up inside of me. Only, it wasn’t just passion, it was something else. There was this spark of defiance that Brody had woken up in me. “I get what I want.”
“We don’t always get what we want,” Brody said quietly.
At first, I thought that dropping the subject would change things. We were both naked in bed, and I started to kiss him. He smelled of the finest cologne, a subtle hint of his manly musk penetrating the air.He can have me again if that’s what he needs to change his mind.
I was about to kiss him on the lips, when he stopped me.
“No,” he said firmly.
This sudden change in him bothered me.Didn’t he love me?
I tried again, hoping that he would be weak for me like he usually was.
“No,” he said again, this time with a more assured tone of voice. “We can’t be doing this. The last time you snuck out, a man died. You were almost kidnapped.”
“They’re my risks, not yours,” I said. I jumped out of the bed and started getting my clothes on. Brody didn’t seem to mind. He didn’t even look my way.
Is he going to at least try to stop me?Something was wrong. Very wrong.
Still, he was quiet, and I had put everything back on.
Two can play this game.
I was fixing to leave, grabbing my things, when he said, “Wait.”
I turned around.
He was still by the bed, only now he was dressed.
“I’ve thought about this,” he said.
“Thought about what?”
“Just everything,” Brody said. “The life that I lead. You. Me. I want you to know that I care about you very much. So much so that I’m willing…” Brody paused.
My heart shook, a cold feeling at the tips of my fingers.
“Willing to what?” I asked.
“It’s just that, this is too dangerous. I couldn’t forgive myself if something happened to you,” Brody said. As sweet as it was, I didn’t like the idea of a man thinking he could control me. Yes, he could protect me, he could save me, but at the end of the day, I was my own boss.
“I’ll be fine,” I said, trying to hide my annoyance.
“And if something happens?” He asked, his voice grating on me with its overly business tone. I needed him to be edgy right now, and this wasn’t it. It was the business man in him, but what he didn’t know was that I could handle myself. I already knew who attempted to kidnap me, and the only reason I wasn’t going after them was because my father was making it impossible for me to do anything.
And now, Brody was following suit.
“Nothing’s going to happen,” I said. I didn’t know what would quell his fears, but he needed to get over himself. “I can take care of myself.”
“No, you can’t,” he said.
Was this jerk really going to underestimate me? Didn’t he notice that I was the one who snuck over to him? Didn’t he take into account the fact that I had outsmarted my father, not once, but twice that he knew of?
