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I’m definitely attracted to him. Okay, it’s more like a crush. Girl sees guy. Girl likes guy. Girl keeps staring at guy.
It’s weird how some people can make a compliment sound like a threat or an insult.
“Not that there’s anything wrong with being quiet. I’m an extrovert. If you give me half a minute, I’ll talk your ear off.”
I wonder what she would talk about. I’d be able to listen to her for hours.
There’s no reason when it comes to Hailey. There’s no control. There’s only want and need. It’s more potent than anything I’ve felt before.
Drops of water cling to his clothes, and his hair is wet. And now I’m picturing this is what he looks like when he steps out of the shower. Sigh.
It’s the first time he’s said my name, and it sends goosebumps rushing over my skin.
Acc its the second
Desire. It’s another emotion that’s joined the many Hailey’s been making me feel.
I use the moment to get some staring done as well, and like a stalkerish fangirl, I try to memorize every inch of his face.
I need to distance myself from Hailey, or I’ll end up getting her killed.
Our eyes meet, and I wonder if I’ll ever have the privilege of seeing something so beautiful again.
In no universe can the moon and sun be together. They’re forever destined to be lightyears apart, with empty darkness filling the space between them.
When my time comes, she’ll be my last thought. Until then, I have to forget she ever existed.
“Lie to me again, and I’m going to beat you up,” Alexei threatens.
This is why my brother is the best in the world. He fucking knows when you’re going to take a shit before you even think of taking one.
“This isn’t like Damien and Winter. I can’t arrange an alliance. I can’t do anything to fucking make this work for you.” His fingers wrap around the back of my neck. “I’m sorry, brother. If you care for her the way I think you do, you’ll let her go.”
There’s a sudden burst of excitement in my chest, and Alexei immediately picks up on it. “You’re fucking in love.” He shakes his head. “I really hope this works out for you.”
It sucks. Huge, hairy donkey balls.
His mouth begins to devour mine, making me burn up to the point where I start worrying about spontaneous combustion being an actual possibility.
There’s no sign of my recluse. Carson dominates me, and all I can do is submit.
“Yeah, maybe we should take it a little slower.” Then she teases me, “Never thought I’d have to say those words to you. I guess the saying is true. It’s the quiet ones you have to watch out for.”
“It’s kinda hot knowing I have such an attractive stalker.”
“Feels like I’m Red Riding hood, and your brother’s the big bad wolf,” she mutters.
When I’ve cut the last one, she leans in and whispers against my ear, “Is it weird that it’s a turn-on watching you handle a knife.” She hasn’t seen me handle a knife yet.
“Everything you do makes me want to fuck you.”
When she sucks on my neck, I growl, “You’re playing with fire.” “Mmh… will you kiss the burns better?”
“Do you want to come?” “God, yes,” she says breathlessly. “Then keep your hands there,” I order.
My cock jerks, and it feels as if my balls are trying to get inside her.
“I always thought hermits were old men sitting on the porches of their cabins with their hunting rifles, threatening to kill anyone who trespasses on their property,” I say as my fingers trail over his abs.
“This world is chaos. The wars. The good and the evil. Love and hate. The guy working a nine-to-five job until he dies. The old woman dying of loneliness in an old age home. There’s more darkness than light. Everyone looks for a purpose, but if you take a step outside of your comfort zone and look at every single thing, you realize there’s nothing but chaos.”
He answers in Russian, and I listen even though I don’t understand a single word. It’s just hot hearing him talk in his native language.
People do stupid things for love, and I don’t want you giving up your dream for a man.”
We end the call, and then I grin at Carson. “I need to send my parents a photo of your ID. You know, for incase you kidnap me and make me your sex slave.”
“Would you have a problem with it if I kidnapped you and fucked you until you couldn’t walk?”
“Breakfast can wait until much later,” I say as I take hold of his hand and pull him out of the kitchen. “I want to do dirty things to you.”
“You’ve been shot. Come, let’s get the bullet out.” I shake my head, unreasonably thinking they should leave it inside me so it can poison me the way I poisoned Hailey’s life.
I have no hope that Hailey will forgive me. I know she’s going to leave, and Alexei will keep his word. He’ll protect her, even from me.
I can’t keep the tears from falling as I ask, “Can you look at me like I’m not a monster… just one last time? Can you remember the happy times we shared? Can you remember how it felt when I made love to you? That I’m not all bad?”
The intense vibe I got from him turned out to be because he can kill someone in seconds.
“One coffee,” he says, giving me a pleading look. MJ steps partially in front of me. “She said no.” The guy narrows his eyes at her. “I wasn’t talking to you.” “You are now,” she says, her features tightening with warning.
Alexei: Contract accepted. Fee: A lifetime supply of vodka.
The moon only shines at night because of the sun. Hailey’s my sun.
The main guy groans as he begins to climb to his feet. Letting out a squeal as if I’m about to step on a bug, I dart forward and kick him in the crotch. “Please stay down, you idiot.” When I look up, Carson’s looking at me with an incredulous expression on his face, then he says, “That was fucking cute.”
“Don’t fuck with the property of the Russian Mafia,” I growl. “I will fucking kill you.”
They both keep glancing around us until I say, “I feel like a VIP with the way the two of you keep checking around us. I just need to get you matching suits and earpieces.”
I don’t think there will ever come a time that I’ll stop wanting to look at her.
“To the sun who fell in love with the moon and gave him some of her light. Without her, there’s only darkness.”
