“All of my feelings are fucked up. None of them are pretty or nice or normal. I don’t want any fucking feelings, but I have them for now, and I really like this one. You make me feel—”
“Like I could keep you safe from everyone but me.”
My pitch was dead fucking serious.
The hellion that she was smiled up at me anyways, an inspired thing that shook my foundation down to the bones.
“You’re good and you’re bad, James. No one more than the other. You’re split so phenomenally between the two. You’re one mean fucker when you wanna be, totally barbaric if you don’t get your way, and your temper is downright murdery.”
Humor glittered her eyes, fracturing self-made light inside her irises to make them a hundred hues of the same color—all fucking stunning. They’d shackled my tongue and turned me mindless and speechless, two hundred and twenty pounds of muscle reduced into mush for a woman half my size.
Her fingers threaded against the back of my head, weight returning to her stare.
“But you’re also so good that when you loved someone, you did it so hard that it broke your heart too much to ever heal. You’re so protective that you jumped off a cliff to save the broken girl down at the bottom of it. And then you believed that girl when no one else would have,” A vulnerable break caught her sweet voice, saltwater catching her lashes, “and you have no idea how much that meant.”
I didn’t think I could hold her harder, but I found a way and so did she. All of her soft curves clung to my hard body, Scarlett anchoring her forearms around my neck to pull herself up so her whisper washed my parted lips.
“You’re Yin and Yang. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” She held her tongue, wrecking my world in a smile. “The good Hades and the bad.”
Restraint contracted my chest in a harsh breath, the seconds turning unbearable and hazy between us.
“What’re you?” I breathed over her mouth.
Sadness tinted the corners of her small smile.
“I’m as bad as it gets…” She slid her half-hooded eyes across mine. “But you already knew that.”
She ducked her face south just to prove it, lips of silk skimming down my throat.
My head fell forward, choking on a groan as I went into a full-body clench that originated from my balls. They tightened so fucking hard, they had to be bruising from all the cum loaded up inside of them begging for a new wet pink home inside of her.
I moved my arm from around her waist to brace against the wall, needing both hands to keep me upright. Not horizontal on the floor with my boss’s daughter screaming my name underneath me.
Her kisses were practically virginal as she peppered them in along my jaw, soft pecks to tease the ever living shit out of me.
I was two seconds away from being inside of her—two seconds—and that’s probably how long I’d last too. She was only a few innocent kisses away from making me jizz in my briefs like a goddamned teenager.
I had to make her stop, say fucking anything to stop this.
“How would your boyfriend feel about what you’ve been trying all night?” I forced out, fighting the disgust trying to openly pinch my face.
It coated my mouth on all sides, the urge to scrape my tongue clean of that fucking word and who it belonged to overwhelming my brain. Bringing up that whiny idiot while Scarlett’s soft mouth was on me was may be my sickest idea ever, but I was desperate and 100 percent losing the war between us.
“We’re not dating.” Steamy breath clung to my neck as she spoke against it. “I don’t date well. I fuck well.”
She pulled back, cocky grin dressing her lips. “Actually, I fuck great.”
Ignore her.
“If you’re not dating him, then why is he in your life?” I snapped and snarled.
Appreciation glossed a deviant lens over her gaze, mouth twisting up at the ends. “Guess you weren’t lying about that vicious jealous streak.”
“I’m not jealous.” Yes I fucking was.“His lifestyle is dangerous. If you keep fucking around with him, he’s going to get you killed one day.”
“What do you think his biggest appeal is?” she pitched like it was obvious, a half-step away from falling into cynical laughter.
I felt her words contorting my face unbelievably harsh and frightening.