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“Should I fight you for your mess, baby doll?”
“You wouldn’t win.”
“I always win, Ms. Hardy.”
“What are you so scared of? Losing someone you care about again? You care about me?”
“If I cared about you, we’d have a hell of an uphill battle. Don’t you get that? I’ve had therapy for my addiction, Cade.”
“You’re using a man’s suicide to cage you in. It’s keeping you away from really living the beautiful chaos you would be if you’d let go and talk about it. So I’ll indulge you for now, and when you’re ready, I’ll be here to talk.”
“Come take this bracelet off.”
“That’s not happening. It’s a gift that stays on you. Forever.”
“If you were with me? Wanting to go out dressed like that? We wouldn’t leave the fucking building.”
“Someone is a bit territorial over a little skin showing, huh?” “No, dollface. I know how to fight. I’m not worried about a guy looking at you wrong. I’ve slit enough throats to combat that.”
“We wouldn’t leave the building because I’d rip the dress off and bend you over your desk.”
“You think I can replace that sinful mouth of yours? Or find a girl who gives as good as she gets and can rival me in hacking, Ms. Hardy?”
“I’m sure you could find someone.”
“Yes, Izzy. Maybe I could, but I wouldn’t want to.”
“You like the mask, baby doll? Want to fuck a stranger instead of the guy you’re trying your best not to love?”
Love. I knew I loved him. It was the reason my soul felt alive right then, why my skin felt the shock of his touch.
“Unzip me, baby. And work my cock into you. I want to feel your pussy milking me, strangling me, squeezing me.”
“I missed you, Cade.”
“You’re mine, Izzy Hardy. Even if I have to mask up to have you.”
“And in my world, details matter. They didn’t want to figure out the details before they drugged the girl I love—”
“You’re in love with her now?”
“Figure out how you want to cover up the chaos, brother. Because I’m ...
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“I’m only one day sober at this point—” “Nine years and thirty days.”
“They stole that.” “I know you think so, dollface.”
“I hacked your phone. You did good recording something. But I heard you. And I’m so fucking sorry.”
“But no one gets to steal that from you. Your sobriety is yours. If someone takes it, it doesn’t count.”
“Who says?”
“Me. And I can write it in anything across the fucking globe if you like.
“I’ll nuke your whole goddamn country if any of you come near her again. How about that for her being an Untouchable?”
“She’s just a woman.” “Don’t women rule us? She owns my soul. I can control every computer you log into, the technology that protects your country, and I can control if you live or die. But she controls me. She says kill you, and I ask how she’d like it done. Do you understand? Take a look around you.”
“I’m fine. I can walk.” “And I can carry you,”
No one got to torture her but me. No one got to mark her but me.
Because there, in that SUV, I fell in love with loving her. I wanted to fuck her slow, with the night’s city lights on her, and see how she melted into my gentle touch. I wanted her to feel safe and loved and treasured.
“Izzy, don’t fuck with me right now.” “I could have died, Cade. And if I’m starting over, maybe I’m not going to bury this feeling. Maybe I need to accept what I want right here and now.”
“Now? Because I’m still on edge, Izzy. Someone fucked with what was mine.” “Show me I’m yours, then,”
“This is never going to happen again, Izzy. You’re my Untouchable, and I’ll destroy the world before they come near you again.”
“I can’t take your life, Cade. Not when you gave me back mine.”
“Watch how we work, Izzy. You see us together here, holding this. It’s me making you feel everything, protecting you from the other side of destruction, and you holding my life in your hands. Me and you. We work.”
“Ride my face, baby. And don’t stop until I tell you to.”
“Fuck me hard, Cade. Make me feel alive.”
I fucked her with the city as my backdrop and wondered if it’d be enough to show them that she belonged to me.
Then I fucked her slow into the night, made love to her, and told her she was mine forever. I meant it. I lay awake figuring out how to make it all right, how to make sure she was never taken again, how to make sure she’d always be mine.
I found that I loved her, and that meant I had to determine whether I loved her enough to let her go.
“They’re what you need, and I’m not, Izzy.”
“I’m leaving, dollface. You don’t need me right now. You need them.”
He unlocked the bracelet and put it in his pocket.
“Sure I need them. I need you too. You’re leaving for a few days, but y...
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“I don’t think that’s a good idea.”
“I think you’ll be better off without me.”
“You just killed a man for me. I think you are the only thing I need in my life right now.”
