Page 271 of Chaos Kills

“I get it,” she mutters, tucking her chin into her chest.

My index finger hooks under her chin, and I get those beautiful blue eyes directed at me. “I wish you would’ve told me.”

Bay’s blue eyes immediately avert from mine. “And what was that going to do but cause more problems?”

“It would’ve come out eventually. I could have protected you, drew a line, put a stop?—”

“You can’t stop Torin,” she cuts in, slicing her focus back to me. “He’s devastated. He lost his brother?—”

“And you lost your dad. But you seem to be functioning just fine.”

A small scoff leaves her lips. “Yeah, well, natural causes or complications or whatever you want to call it. Unless Torin murdered my father, I have nothing against him.”

“He dropped you…in the middle of the ocean. You can’t swim.” Bay inhales and slowly releases the air from her lungs. “Will you do something for me?”

“Sure.”

I like that the answer came fluently to her lips. However, my so-called favor is going to piss her right the fuck off. “You’re not taking care of yourself. You’re not eating, and you look like shit.” A now murderous glower is directed at me, but I need this girl sane and fed. “I’m sorry, sweetheart, but that’s facts.”

“It’s amazing how Vivian still even chases you around. Or maybe you just like the attention.”

“Why would I want her when I have you chasing me around?”

Her eyes narrow into tiny slits. “I’m not chasing you around. In fact, I’m disappearing.”

She shoves my hand, urgent to get away from me, but I catch hers again just the same. “Don’t go stomping off. I didn’t hurt your feelings.”

“Who told you?” she leers, glowering up at me with blazing blue eyes that almost look unreal. “Is it that little spy of a husband you planted for me? Because it’d make sense now. I always wondered why he decided to show up, but then, it’d be because I didn’t know him. You needed to throw me off my game because?—”

“I didn’t need to plant anyone at your side,” I retort. “Ozzy would’ve gotten me what I needed like he did before without needing to be within your view.”

A tense silence falls between us, but she doesn’t move.

Bay just continues to stare at me like the answer to her question is going to leave my mouth soon enough.

It doesn’t, but it should.

It’d make sense I’d offer her this because I’ve only been trying to get her to trust me for weeks now. That, united, we could be a powerful front.

But Torin has severely fucked that up and now I know why it was so hard to get her to agree with me in the first place. Why her walls are always up with everyone besides Levi.

“So?” she finally presses impatiently. “Who?”

“It sucks to be left out, doesn’t it?”

Her closed fist pops below my ribs, but it doesn’t cause me to flinch, nor do I utter a single syllable in return. “You have more secrets, and I’m starting to not like you again.”

“That’s a load of bullshit, Little T, and you know it,” I say matter-of-factly, and I can’t help the damn smirk that forms along my lips. “But I know how you can get it.”

“How?”

My body tilts forward as my fingers splay possessively around her spine. “Bend over…and let me fuck you, Little Terror. Then I’ll tell you everything you need to know.”

She gapes at me like I’ve lost my shit—maybe I have—but I still want her, this, a relationship where we come together and find a happy medium.

“It was the blowjob, wasn’t it? You’ve had a taste and now you want more.”

“Actually, it was the time you set me up with Wallace, and I thought you were running through The Landings again. I’ve wanted to fuck you hard since then.”

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