Page 59 of Under His Watch

We weren’t being cowardly about retaliating, but wise about it. Rushing into anything with guns blazing wouldn’t equal glory.

“He’ll feel the heat when we foil his plans with the MC, then,” I said, already laying out the ways we could fuck with them. Andy continued to give me intel, and I put it to good use now. All that spying would benefit us.

After that meeting, my work time took over my opportunities to fuck Tessa and simply enjoy having her close. I was glad that she never lacked for anything to preoccupy herself. If she wasn’t reading or texting with Nina, she was cleaning. The penthouse didn’t get that dirty with just the two of us, but I noticed that she liked things tidy. Perhaps it was a residual effect of her always having jobs, a built-in or trained neat-freak tendency. She might have come across like a clingy woman to others, but she wasn’tlazy or spoiled. Her baking attempts were precious disasters, but I appreciated that she had her own interests.

Having to go into the city and meet with the men more often wasn’t a hardship, but now that I had Tessa in my life, I wanted the ability to make her my whole life. She might still be falling for me, but I’d fallen first. And hard. It was only her inexperience and recent rape trauma that kept me at a more mild-mannered pace with her.

A week after the fire, I came home later than I wanted. Every time I arrived at the penthouse, I looked forward to seeing her and letting her welcome me home.

“Any issues?” I asked the two men who stood stationed at the door.

“Nope.” Both nodded at me as I entered.

Once I closed and locked the door, though, I suspected that wasn’t the case. I had a very big issue on my hands.

I froze, narrowing my eyes at the sounds I heard coming from the bedroom. Groans and moans. The sounds of pleasure.

“Take it, slut. You take it hard for me,” a man ordered.

What the fuck?Anger filled me that I could’ve been so mistaken about Tessa.

And the issue of those useless guards at the door, letting another asshole in here to be with her?

I ran, pulling my gun from my holster.

As soon as I skidded to a stop in the bedroom we shared, I caught my breath. Then I blinked my eyes and took in what was happening.

Tessa wasn’t cheating.

No man told her to take it hard in here.

She was watching porn. A woman and a man. He fucked her mouth while she rode a dildo.

A smile tugged at my lips. I was amused that she hadn’t registered that I’d come in the room. But I quickly became intrigued, so curious that she’d choose something like this for her viewing pleasure. It wasn’t like I didn’t give it to her regularly. “Lonely?”

She squeaked, startled and scrambling onto her knees from lying on her stomach on the bed. The laptop slid off the edge of the bed with her jostling around, and I had to bite the inside of my cheek to hold in a laugh at her dismay and embarrassment.

Her cheeks were red, and she fumbled not to fall off the bed as she dove for the laptop. Facing me sheepishly, she pulled her lips in and exhaled hard through her nose.

“No,” she admitted dryly. “I’m not lonely.”

“Really?” I put my hands in my pockets to hold back from lunging at her and fucking her wildly.

“How could I be lonely when I have you in my life?”

“Hmm.” I stepped closer.

“But I realize now that you’ve been holding out onme.”

I raised my brows. “Is that so?”

She nodded as she dropped to her butt and sat on the mattress. “I know I’m… new to all this. The things you might like.”

I leaned forward and set my hands on the bed, stalking toward her. “Things I might like?” I kissed her softly. “I likeyou, Tessa.”I fucking love you.But I doubted she was ready to hear that.

“The dark stuff. Kinky stuff.”

“What gave you the idea that I want things like that?”

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