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“Of course I can’t deny it.It’sthe fucking truth.I married Michael Granito.My family needed themoney, and I did what I could to make them happy.”She cut off,staring past his shoulder and smiling.The smile didn’t reach hereyes.
“What did you want me todo?”he asked, taking a step closer.
Staring at him, Kelsey wondered what shewanted from him.Licking her suddenly dry lips, she turned to stareout of the window.“I didn’t want anything from you, Killer.Imarried when I was eighteen.I never once expected to meet a manwho’d want me.”She turned back to face him.The tears were thickin her eyes making him blurry.“Don’t you get it?I’ve been a fatwoman all my life.I’m fat and ugly.I’ve been told it enough, andyou know what, I believe it.I believe every fucking word I’veheard throughout my whole life.”The blood from her cut drippedonto her carpet.“Every man and woman I’ve passed has always foundsome way of putting me in my place.”
“Baby, stop this,” hesaid.
“No, it all makes perfectsense.I mean, why would any man go for me?”She pressed her palmagainst her chest.The red blood coated the front of her shirt.“Imean, look at me.I’m nothing.”Her tears fell down her cheeks,coating her shirt.
Killer walked toward her.She shook himaway, but he wouldn’t let her go.He tugged her close, and Kelseysaw it useless to fight him.What was the point in fightinghim?
I’m nothing.
Her mother’s cruel words wouldstay with her forever.Over the years she’d been dealt her fairshare of hatred.It was time she listened.She may be a marriedwoman, butthere was no way she ever intended to be more to Michael than aconvenience.Someone knocked on the door, and Killer escorted herout of her apartment.
She felt broken.What was thepoint of her even living?She had hurt the one man she reallyloved.
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Zero stared at Sophia as shehandedherdaughter to Nash.The woman he’d been with last night had lookednothing like Sophia, and when he woke this morning, he regrettedeven being with the other woman.
He held a mug of coffee watching hergather up the mess from the party before.
Why couldn’t he get her out of his head?He hated Kate, her sister.The other woman had been a whore throughand through while Sophia was different.Her curves were sinful, andwith his room at the clubhouse being close to theirs, he’d heardher come apart in Nash’s arms.
She walked past him, giving him asmile.He sipped his mug as she put the bottles into thetrashcan.
“How are you doing today?”she asked, tugging the bag out of the bin.
“I’m good.”
“We heard your little partylast night.I hope you had fun.”Her smile was big and bright asshe tugged the bag out of the trash bin.
“It was.”He lied soeasily.
“I’m going to get rid of this.”She nodded to him and then left the bar.Taking his mug of coffeewith him, he followed her outside.
Bad move.Turn around andgo back.
Still, he followed her outside andwatched as she opened the large bin.She was too small to open thebin.Sipping at his coffee, he opened the lid for her to throw thetrash in.
“You’re a lifesaver.What would Ido without you?”she asked.
“You’d be struggling to put thetrash away.”Hestood close to her, inhaling her sweet scent.Since herpregnancy she’d not lost any of her curves or the sweetness abouther.Part of him hated the fact she hadn’t changed.
“That’s certainly true.”She tooka step back, tripped over her feet and fell into his arms.Zerocaught her to him, brushing his arm across her breasts as he heldher.“Great, now add clumsiness to my list of problems and faults.”She giggled, standing away from him.
The mere touch of her body against hisown made his cock thicken.He wanted a hell of a lot more than asimple touch.Zero wanted to fuck her.Most of his nights werespent imagining what it would feel like to slide his cock insideher sweet, tight pussy, and simply fuck her.
She rested against the wall,tilting her head back to soak up the sun.He stared at her neck, slowly losinghis mind.What would she do if he just grabbed her, kissed her andhad done with it?
Tiny warned him against poaching othermen’s women.Sophia didn’t belong to him.
“Baby, our angel needs achange.She’s, erm, yeah, I’m not changing that,” Nash said, comingaround the back.
Sophia giggled.“Come on,sweetness.”
Zero watched her kiss Nash beforesmiling at him and then leaving.
