Page 174 of Never Die for a Sinner
I’m about to hang up when his voice rings out again.
“Levi?”
“What?” I growl. I’m in no fucking mood for a lecture.
“Go easy on her.”
He hangs up without another word, and I suck in a deep breath.
Go easy on her? Fuck that. It’s one thing to throw a tantrum. It’s something else completely that shefucking scared me.
Scratch that. She didn’t just scare me.
She made me fucking panic.
I don’t panic.
Yanking the door handle open, I fall inside, the blazing against my already hot skin. I’m burning up from the inside out and trying to reel in my temper. My hands shake on the steering wheel, my mind going a million miles a minute over what could have happened.
I want to punish her. Tie her up in my cabin and fuck her until she’s coming over and over for me. I want to brand my name on her goddamned ass so everyone will know who she belongs to.
He touched her. He would have hurt her, had I not found her in time. Maybe worse.
He touched her.
“I’m so—”
“Don’t.”
Ava jumps at the tone of my voice, falling silent. With a growl, I put the car in drive and start towards the house.
She doesn’t try to speak again until we’re out of the city and into the forest.
“Look—”
“Not the time, Ava.”
“Then when? I get you’re angry with me, but you can’t silence me, Levi.”
Oh, there are ways . . .
Fine, baby girl. You want to play, let’s play.
“What the fuck were you thinking?”
She sputters from the passenger seat, her cheeks flaming red.
“I was . . . I was thinking I didn’t want to sit around and watch you flirt with another woman while I looked like a fool,” she snaps, pretty little head shoved high.
I chuckle darkly.
She really has no fucking clue, does she?
“You mean the informant who’s been keeping tabs onyourname?”
“Why is she keeping tabs on me?”
“Because, Ava, someone was fucking following you. Or did you not think they were still watching you?”
