Lust & Lies Box Set-Sexual Awakenings, Excess, Predator & Prey

“I will return.”

I chuckled at his attempt at a more stable relationship. We were so screwed.

“Will you call, too?”

“No,” he barked as he took my lips and then walked out the door. I shook my head and raced after him, my rib screaming at me for it.

“Hey, you.” I caught up to him and placed a slow kiss on his lips. “I like you now.”

His slow smile made my entire body flutter with need. “Ah, Taylor, you have always liked me.”

“No, no I haven’t,” I said, truthfully. He laughed loudly as he took my lips again before whispering in my ear. “Enjoy your family union.”

It was on the tip of my tongue to correct him, but he gave me a knowing smirk.

Rocco’s stare out of the damaged SUV was deadly. I gave him a wink and a wave as Daniello climbed into the driver’s seat.

I wondered if he was going home to Barga. I wondered how our relationship would change with my sister living with me, even if it was temporary. I smiled as I remembered his description of me.

“Phoenix,” I whispered as I watched my fire drive away.

Auburn Sunset 43.

I stared at the box before I barked my order. “You fucking done yet?”

“In a minute!”

“Rub it in good.” The itch raced through me as my blood boiled with thoughts of her still running through my head. All of that fucking beauty and I had smashed it with the back of my hand. I’d squeezed the life out of it, almost to the point of no return. I plucked a cigarette from my pack and lit it with a slow inhale.

She fucking broke me.

And after all this time, I’d wanted to return the favor more than I’d ever wanted anything. Killing her with my bare hands would’ve been the most righteous way. She deserved to die at the hands of the man who had made her. I’d shaped her into the woman she was, and she was fucking some foreigner who had no rights to her.

She was supposed to be mine as she had promised.

“Now, right fucking now,” I ordered as I crushed my cigarette into Lucy’s expensive carpet and pulled out my cock. I’d been hard all day thinking of crushing the bones in her perfect face and watching her lying lips go blue. I’d sacrificed more for her, done more for her than I’d ever thought I would do for anyone.

She didn’t appreciate shit. She’d never loved me. Her eyes lied, her lips did the same.

Lucy came out of the bathroom wearing nothing but the same shade of hair that’d I’d ordered her to keep up. My skin itched, and I needed release as I jerked her by the arm and slammed her head down on her kitchen table.

“Please, don’t hurt me.”

“Please shut the fuck up and take your medicine.” I spat into my hand and rubbed it over my cock before positioning my head. “Fuck you,” I hissed, slamming into her and hearing her scream. I gripped the red locks, pulling hard and feeling a few give in my hand. I fucked her hard as I cursed her for every fucking thing she’d ever done.

“Liar, whore, thief.” I shook with rage as I pounded into her over and over, hearing her cries. Each prayer from her lips fueled me as I shoved into her, all of my frustration centered on my cock.

It was only when I saw the blood that I slowed and released her. She crumpled to the floor, broken as I unloaded in the hair shielding her face. “FUCK YOU!”

Minutes passed as I sat in my jeans at the table and smoked a foil as she gathered herself from the floor.

“NO MORE!” she screamed. “I can’t do this anymore! Laz, please, I’m sorry I didn’t mean to—”

“You cost me my son, you fucking cunt!” I stood and slapped her back to the floor where I watched her fall apart. “You and that fucking running mouth of yours. Couldn’t leave it alone, could you? Had to spray the habits of everyone in town with that fucking mouth!”

I pulled my cell from my pocket and saw the text.

Amber: Here.