Page 106 of Prince Charming

“I’m not doing this. Either use the gym or leave.” Unless it was poking her nose where it wasn’t wanted, she wasn’t one to workout. He’d thought it was cute for a minute a long time ago. Now it irritated him. She assumed her job gave herrights.

The vulture circling had a reason, and he didn’t like it.

Her beaming face morphed into something nasty.

“Aren’t you ever going to forgive me, Tag?”

He shook his head, tired of this shit. He’d been raised not to hate women, even though his mom was never the best. Sofia had done a devious thing, but he didn’t hate her. But she was getting on his last fucking nerves. More so when she tried to press her tits into his chest. He was unaffected by her technique.

It didn’t help his irritation when he saw Marianna round the corner and come up short when she saw who he was with. Goddammit.

“This is getting old. Move the fuck on. We dated, it ended.”

“We were more than dating.” Maybe in her crazy mind. Not in his. “Please, can we talk?”

“No.”

“Because ofher? The fucking Russian.”

Tag’s eyes pinned to narrow slits, and he set his voice low. “Be very fucking careful what you say next.”

Sofia’s true bitchier nature showed itself.

For the time they dated, she didn’t like any of his brother’s old ladies.

Possessiveness was something he didn’t like.

Though he wouldn’t mind Marianna being possessive over him.

“What the hell do you see in her, Tag? I can give you better than she does. Bet you don’t even know there’s no paper trail of heranywhere.”

That’s all he needed to hear when he grasped her arm, all but dragging her into his office. He slammed the door, yanked her closer until she could see the killer in his eyes. “Didn’t I say be very fucking careful what you say next? You don’t learn, Sofia.”

“Funny how she has no record, isn’t it?” She chimed. “Hmmm. Let’s take a guess why a foreign bitch is not registered in the system. Bet she’d be in trouble if I dropped that information to the right department.”

Tag’s blood went nuclear. “Making shit up only makes you look crazy.”

“I don’t have to do anything with that information if you give me a chance, Tag.” Sweet talk didn’t work on him back then. Didn’t now. “We were good together, you know we were, handsome, you fuck like a dream, I know I made you happy. I’ve missed you, haven’t you missed me?” He stopped her hands from creeping up his chest, pushing her back from him.

“Move on, Sofia. This shit is boring.”

“I won’t lose you.” She hissed. “I don’t fucking lose!” Spoiled brat showed her true goals before she masked her anger. “If you want to save the Russian bitch, think about it...”

Seething inside, he’d fucking destroy her if she ever tried to touch Marianna, no hesitation.

“Get out.” He said, bored. She turned a sickly-sweet smile on him, waving her fingers. “You know we’ll be good again, Tag.” He shut the door in her face.

Fuck him.

His lungs flattened.

She was going to be an irritant.

He either fucked her or she’d rat on Marianna being an illegal citizen.

Anyone else he would have plugged up the problem.

Nothing would get in the way of him protecting his woman.

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