“Where is your bag then? If I didn’t know any better, I would say you were in here with that doctor.”
“Well, you don’t know shit, so back off, buddy.” I step forward and into his chest, doing my best to move him to the side. But I am powerless against someone his size.
He glances down at my too-short skirt and tight top that has my cleavage popping out, my breasts shoved out like an offering. I look as cheap as I feel.
He licks his lips and tugs at the string of his scrub bottoms. “I guess it’s my turn now, seeing as you are in the room where I’m supposed to sleep.”
“You can go to sleep now. I was just leaving,” I choke out, terrified of this man.
He’s not much older than me, give or take a few years, but nowhere near as handsome as Sloan. Not even close. In fact, his attitude makes him even more repulsive.
“How can I sleep when the room stinks of sex?”
I shove into his chest in an attempt to move him. “Get out of my way.”
I try to step around him and he pushes out his hand. Then, I duck under his arm, but he catches me before I can break away. He slides his hand up my arms and holds me in place. I cringe at the thought of what he has planned for me. Tears stream down my face and my body trembles.
“Just let me go, already. Get your hands off.” I shake him loose, or at least I think until I realize the door is now open and Sloan has this man up against the wall.
Sloan moves his hand to the man’s throat, the mask thankfully still covering his face, but the name on his lab coat is showing. “Touch my girl again, and I will kill you.”
The guy gasps for air, reaching for Sloan’s hand.
“Let’s just go,” I say to Sloan.
Sloan finally releases the man and leads me out of the room and into the hallway. He slams the door behind us and cups my face in his hands. “Are you okay, Ava? Did he hurt you?”
Over the past few weeks, I have learned a lot about Sloan Hart. He’s cold, closed off, and only responds when sex is involved. And even when he gets what he wants, he’s moody and arrogant, overconfident and full of himself. Sure, he has a big dick, and he thinks that gives him the right to be an ass, but that side of him turns me on. It shouldn’t, but it does. I love when he orders me around and barks orders at me. And watching him take control with that man who was about to hurt me gives me a sense of pride.
“You called me your girl,” I say with a smile.
“Yeah, so? That’s what you are.” He releases my face and drops his hands at his sides, scanning the hall to make sure no one saw us together.
“I like the sound of it.”
He sucks in a deep breath and lets it out. “Me too. It still feels weird to think of anyone that way, but there was something about you from the start, Ava. And I can’t stay away from you.”
“There’s no man I would rather be with than you,” I confess.
“Good,” he whispers, “because you’re mine, and no one is ever going to put their hands on you ever again unless they want to end up in the morgue.”
“That’s a bit dramatic, don’t you think?”
“I’m protective of my property,” he says, as if that is a normal thing to say to a woman. But I like the sound of it.
“I’m yours,” I say.
“And only mine,” he adds with a sexy smirk.
It’s a ghost town around here after the shift change, with people too busy to notice. We get to share a few minutes of peace together without anyone rushing down the hallway, bothering us.
Before Sloan, I had only ever been with a few men, and the sex was nothing like what I have with him. They weren’t forceful and in your face like Sloan. But that’s what I like about him. My nipples harden with one look from Sloan, let alone when he touches me. My legs are still trembling from our encounter, and my pussy aches with need. I can never get enough of my new mentor.
Sloan removes a set of keys from his pocket and unhooks one from the ring. He places it in my hand and covers my fingers over it. “This is the key to my apartment. Drive there right now and wait for me. I want you in my bed wearing nothing but a smile. Do you understand?”
“Yes, sir,” I whisper.
I don’t miss the flicker of passion in his eyes. We are so sick, yet so right for each other. All we do is have sex, but when the sex is this good, it’s hard not to become addicted to one another.