Am I okay? For the first time in years, I’m perfect, but at the same time, no, I’m not okay.
“Baby…” I slide my arm under her to roll her into my body, tucking her head in my neck to hold her. I need to hold her after that.“You fuck her?”I hear Vlad’s voice in my head. I did way more than fuck her and I have no idea if it’s going to blow up in my face. “Just make sure you keep your dick away from her. That bitch is messed up. She doesn’t need your mess confusing her more.”The one order my president gave me where Danni is concerned and I couldn’t do it. “How’re you doing?” I ask her back.
“That was… That was… Jesus, Green, I don’t even know what that was except amazing.”
“You know what this means, right?”
She shakes her head, her hair tickles my skin.
“You’re mine, Preppy,” I tell her. “Don’t know where this thing between us will lead, but it’s way too clear that at least for now, it’s led us here. Tell me where your head is at.”
“I’m yours?”
“Babe, I will kill any man who touches you. Period. You got a problem, I take care of it. You need a shoulder to cry on—it’s my shoulder. I don’t know why you’re different, but you just are. I was stupid one time in my life and it ended up backfiring on me. Won’t let that happen again. You need to be okay with this because from now until we’re done, mine is the only bed you sleep in.”
“Yours is the only bed?”
“Only bed, babe.”
“But that bed”—she nods in the direction of the other bed—“seems so lonely.”
“It’ll get used to disappointment.”
She sighs. “Well…okay?” The word goes up on an upward inflection. “If you’re sure it’ll get over the disappointment, then I’ll sleep here with you.”
“Wasn’t exactly giving you a choice.”
“Darry, you have to know by now that commands don’t work with me.”
“Yeah…? Well, you’re awful sweet and accommodating when I eat your pussy. Maybe that’s the trick. Maybe I need to eat that pussy.”
“That’s going to be your best bet,” she answers and I can’t stop myself from laughing.
“Damn, Danni… fucking glad I got to you first.” Then I bend in to kiss her.
I don’t know what I’m getting myself into here, but I just know that I can’t let her go. Not like I did with Dela.
9
DANNI
Inever expected to have the best sex of my life when I propositioned Green. I had an entirely different proposition in mind when I did. Thefinding a killerkind. Yet here we are lying naked together in a hotel room, where I’m his for the foreseeable future. I don’t even know exactly what that means, other than more explosive sex. No one could deny that we have it going on in the bedroom.
He keeps holding me tenderly. Who would’ve thought a biker could hold a woman tenderly? Certainly not me. No matter how badly I want to stay here in his arms, losing myself in his touch, his smell, his heat…him, we have a mission. There’s still a psycho out there killing women and someone has to stop him.
“Green, we need to get up.”
“I know,” he replies, sighing. “I think I’d rather fuck you again, though.”
“I don’t think I can handle you again. I’m not used to so much sex in such a short period of time. You have to let me work up to it. And you know, there is that wholekillerthing… The reason we’re here to begin with.”
“Don’t remind me.”
Sweetly, Green pushes out of bed to grab my clothes, tossing them to me before he ever gets dressed. He lets me clean up first.
We have to figure out Sloth. I don’t relish this one. My head throbs thinking about it. When he comes out of the bathroom, I have the atlas and other papers spread out on the bed along with my laptop open.
“Find something?” he asks.