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“You want to know why I don’t touch you?” I shook my head. “Because if I did, I wouldn’t stop. Not until I’d snuffed out that pretty fire in your eyes.” His gaze flashed. “Don’t shut yourself in a room with me again, Gianna.”
“You take what I give you.” I glared, barely biting back the retort on my tongue. “Go ahead and say it,” he warned.
“Allister,” I begged. “I just had my tongue inside you,” he said, annoyed. “You can start calling me by my first name.” I opened my mouth. Closed it. His eyes darkened as he took in my expression. “You forgot my name.”
“What part of ‘call me if you need anything’ did you not fucking understand?”
I needed to see her—it wasn’t even an option anymore. So, I looked her up just to see if she was still alive. She was a walking hazard to herself and others; I had to make sure. Things might have gotten slightly out of control—checking on her becoming my daily routine—but I wouldn’t apologize for it. The sight of her calmed the rush in my ears, the beat of my heart, and I’d finally been able to focus on my work again.
“And if she is getting serious with him?” I’ll kill him.
“I don’t care what you call it. I’m done! With this.” I gestured between us. “With you.”
Like the set of the sun, his eyes filled with darkness. A merciless darkness that wrapped around my soul and pulled. The force of the snap made me fall back a step. He slammed the car door. Stalked toward me.
“You’ll never be done...
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“All of it, malyshka,” he commanded.
“Ty samaya krasivaya zhenshchina kotoruyu ya kogda-libo videl.”
“Kak moya.”
“Moya zvezdochka.”
“Takaya krasivaya,”
I raised a brow in challenge. “Take off your shirt.”
“Come take it off yourself.”
“You have never looked more beautiful than you do right now, malyshka.”
“That’s not a good enough reason for me to marry you, Christian.”
“Fine.” He shook his head, his eyes flashing with darkness. “How about because I love you, Gianna? Because I think I have since the moment I saw you? Because if you weren’t in this world anymore, I would find a way to take myself out of it?”
