I’ll kill him. Beat him senseless this time so he’ll know not to try anything next time.
I take her shoulders. “Tell me what he said,” I demand.
She draws in a deep breath and then she tells me. She tells me what she wants me to know and because I’m so observant I know she didn’t tell me everything.
By the time she finishes telling me what she can though, I’m ready to bring down Armageddon on Riley’s ass. Realistically though… I am ready to end him, but I can’t say the man was a liar.
He used the truth against me, and she knows it’s the truth.
She’s been her usual nice self as we’ve spoken, never offending me. Not once pointing out the obvious factors of truth.
We met at The Dark Odyssey and the way I’ve been with her at the place, it’s like I live there. I’m the devil in my nest of sin, cozy like one of the owners. Like I’m rubbing shoulders with the Giordano pack who own the club. I’ve been acting like that and she’ll know she wouldn’t have been the first woman to indulge me there. She’ll know that night she first met me was because I was on the prowl for a woman to live out my next fantasy.
She’ll know I’m the devil because I’ve kept telling her I am.
We look at each other as she finishes up. I’m still holding her.
Holding her and thinking now more than ever that an angel like her shouldn’t be with a devil like me.
Look at her, she’s beautiful. Inside and out.
“He’s kind of right, isn’t he?” she says. Her voice is meek. I can’t answer her. I don’t want to confirm it. “Josh, why did you pick me? That night you first saw me. My birthday, why me. There were so many women you could have gone for. I stood out a mile away. It was so clear that it was my first time there and I wouldn’t have been used to any of the things we’ve gotten up to. I’m sure without me saying it you must have figured out that you’re the second man I’ve ever been with. Why on earth would you want me?”
It’s all those things. All of it.
I look at her now and I actually understand the obsession, but I feel worse than I already did.
She’s unbroken, untainted. Delicate and innocent. She’s different.
I like different and I saw her and only her out of the sea of women at the club. I saw her then and wanted her, badly.
Like I want her now.
I can’t answer because I don’t think she would understand and I can’t begin to explain that she makes me want to be different too. Just the devil when I’m with her.
So I show her. I lean forward and claim her lips.
I kiss her and pull her close, so close I taste her. Taste her everywhere, except I’m still just kissing her lips.
I’m so focused on her that I hear nothing and see nothing else.
It’s the time that counted though because she must have heard enough for the both of us.
Her eyes go wide as she looks over my shoulder. I turn to see Dad.
Chapter Sixteen
Josh
Dad is watching us with complete disapproval.
“Just for once I truly hoped it wasn’t true,” Dad snarls. He looks from me to Giselle, and I release her. “Just like always and every woman that works for you, you just couldn’t leave well enough alone could you?”
He walks away slamming the door and I look ba
ck to her feeling more exposed. His words are a tell of what I am.
Fuck… what the fuck do I do now?