Page 26 of Prey

Something occurred to me then. “Does Micah know about this place?”

He looked up at me from where he stood in front of the sink.

“Yes,” he answered carefully.

“Does he know you took me here?”

“Does it matter?”

I looked down. “I guess not. But… he doesn’t like me, does he?”

“He thinks you’re my weakness. He thinks you’ll be the reason I get myself killed.”

I frowned up at him. “Why would he think that?”

He walked around the counter and came up closer to me. I resisted the urge to back away, or show him how wary I was.

He cupped my cheek, and I swallowed.

“He’s not wrong.”

I shook away his touch. “Stop toying with me.”

I tried to move off the chair, but he pressed in closer to me, turning me around until my back dug into the dull, round edge of the island. Both arms came out on either side of me, grabbing the edge and trapping me in place.

“I’m not toying with you.”

I laughed. There was nothing humorous about the sound. “You say I’m your weakness?”

He didn’t say anything. Just watched me with those devastating brown eyes of his. “I’m not. I’m the person who sent you to prison.”

“Who says you can’t be both?”

“Me!”

“You’re wrong,” he said calmly, and I really hated that.

I felt like I was on the edge of losing control. Yet, Roman was able to hold onto his with an iron-clad grip. Or perhaps I didn’t affect him as much as he said I did.

“Then why am I here? Do you usually take the women you call your weakness captive?”

“There has only been you, so I’m figuring this out as I go.”

I frowned. I should not be affected by Roman saying there had only been me. I shouldn’t.

I shook my head.

“What’s wrong with you?” I asked instead.

A shuttered look came over his eyes, and I almost regretted asking it that way… but no. There was something wrong with himandwith Micah. Even after one encounter with the man, I knew there was something wrong with him.

Micah was a dangerous man, to others and to me, no matter how much Roman tried to play it off that I was safe with his brother.

It was a shame that I didn’t get that vibe from Roman from the start.

I had thought he was charming.

My very own dark prince who would protect me from all the dragons in the world.

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