Total pages in book: 80
Estimated words: 79261 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 396(@200wpm)___ 317(@250wpm)___ 264(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 79261 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 396(@200wpm)___ 317(@250wpm)___ 264(@300wpm)
“Let go of me,” I murmured so low, not wanting to say it too loud. Trying to find the good in him when all I could see was the bad.
My resolve slowly began to crumble around us like shards of glass slicing into my skin.
At this moment between us, I no longer owned my body…
My heart.
My mind.
It owned me.
And that was the scariest feeling.
“I don’t like you,” I breathed out, needing him to hear it.
“I know,” he stated in a much deeper voice.
I slightly backed away, once again needing to protect myself from him. Before he could reply, I moved out of the way and stood but was stopped short when he gripped the back of my neck and knocked my willpower right out of me.
He didn’t hesitate, yanking my mouth toward his until his were pressed up against mine. His lips instantly parted, beckoning me to do the same, and I couldn’t resist, so I did. His hands cupped the sides of my face as he pushed me until my heels collided with something solid behind me. Propelling my body backward, I slightly gasped, expecting to fall hard on my ass, but he wrapped his strong arm around my waist to break my fall. He eased me back onto what felt like stairs, his muscular frame collapsing on top of mine.
Caging me in with his arms, pinning me beneath him, he whispered against my lips, “You alright?”
I nodded, unable to form any words. My mind was too scrambled with thoughts and emotions I didn’t understand, couldn’t control, and was too scared to label. It was one giant clusterfuck, him being on top of me in such an intimate position, having me at his mercy for the first time. My chest rose and fell faster and faster with each deep breath that escaped my lungs. Digging in deeper and deeper, inch by inch, I crumpled beneath him, and he wasn’t even kissing me again.
Before my mind could catch up, I put my arms around his neck and kissed him instead. He groaned from the depths of his chest like it was all he’d been waiting for. As he pushed me harder against the steps, I kissed him with more force and determination, demanding something I couldn’t quite place. Slipping my tongue into his waiting mouth, I bit his bottom lip, causing him to growl as we immediately tasted the faint copper of his blood.
With his possessive hold around my neck, he kissed me slower.
Every time I felt his hard cock thrust against my wet heat.
Every time I felt his heartbeat against mine.
I felt him all over again.
My eyes widened in shock, and it was the jolt of fire I had to feel to end this between us. Using all my strength, I shoved him off and tried to knee him in the balls, but he got off me before I could. Knowing my intentions.
“That’s not very nice,” he exclaimed.
If he was surprised, he didn’t show it. In fact, it was as if he expected me to react like this once the daze of him wore off.
“I’m not very nice,” I spewed, pushing him off until I was able to stand.
It was only then I realized we were behind the stage where no one could see us. The music changed over to a remix of “Everybody Free” by Rozalla, and the irony was not lost on me. For the rest of the night, I stayed at the DJ booth.
Drowning my thoughts and emotions in the music…
It was the only way I knew how to survive.
CHAPTER
TEN
LUKE
It was the same ole shit, just a different day. Except this time, I couldn’t get her out of my head. It didn’t help that I had no way to communicate with her. The only time I’d see her was at my club. After I yelled at my GM for deciding without clearing it with me first, I tried to locate her before she left for the night, but she was nowhere to be found.
For the past couple of days, I did whatever was needed of me without a second thought. I still needed to figure out who was on my ass, trying to take over my territories, yet I kept coming up empty. So I decided to take out my frustration on finding the man who was trying to fuck me over.
“Think I wouldn’t have found out?” I interrogated the drivers of one of my gun shipments that had mysteriously gone missing.
I tied them to a chair, ready to use any means of torture to make sure they talked. Shawn and I had rolled up to my downtown warehouse, where all the loading docks for the trucks were stationed. We took them both by surprise, standing locked and loaded outside when they lifted the bay door to let us in. Shawn shot both men in the knees, bringing them down before they had a chance to blink.