Page 222 of Poison Aches

“Do you want me, silly girl, because I’ll swallow you whole, leaving nothing at all.”

I think something in me bursts.

I want him…but I also know that he doesn’t want me.

Suddenly, I can’t look at him.

I can’t breathe anymore, and I sure as hell need to get out of here.

“I… I need to go,” I stutter.

“Oh? Where to?”

I have no idea what time it is or how I can get out of this, but all I know is, I HAVE TO GO.

“I have a prior appointment, Emmett, please… can you unhand me?”

“I’m not touching you.”

He isn’t.

In fact, our bodies are not touching at all.

I’m just under him and I feel trapped both emotionally and mentally.

This is bad.

“Can you… can you please move so I can get up?”

“Oh, so now you can’t take your brazen audacity, huh?” Emmett rasps in my face. “Then tell me, when did you and your family start plotting to take my family down?”

As I watch, he alters right in front of me, shifting, casting away the mask he was wearing since I first spotted him.

Now, the shield is gone, and in its place, an intense, magnetic, almost wild force of power reveals itself.

DANGER.

Alarm bells shoot off somewhere in the back of my head as I watch. Then my flight-or-fight instinct kicks in when his words echo in my ears.

For the third time this morning or early afternoon, I’m stunned into utter silence. But unlike the self-embarrassment of the times before, this time I no longer feel the sexual frustration this man has on me—don’t get me wrong, that’s still there, in intense spades—but I now feel one thing.

The violence in the air.

It’s now potent, vibrant, almost tangible, and as I process that, only one thought rings in my head.

He knows.

Emmett knows everything!

CHAPTER 29

Ivy

Iquickly push away from him as quickly as I can, as if I’ve just been doused in ice-cold water, ready to be electrocuted by the man who I witnessed murder the asshole who tried to rape me last night.

Jackson didn’t do anything personal against Emmett and he died a brutal death… but me, my brother… we’ve been working to take Emmett and his family down. And he found out.

I’m not going to survive this day.

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