He shrugs. “Maybe. Or maybe I just have experience in this. Trust me.”
He grabs his whiskey and heads toward the living room. “Also, I got your clothes for a reason, so you don’t have to keep wearingmine.”
I stomp over to him, about to give him another piece of my mind, but I decide I should put on my own clothes before I fight with Lennox more. I don’t know why I keep wearing his except to piss him off.
Trust me,he says.
I don’t trust him.
Chapter20
Lennox
I sulkfor the next three days and barely see Rialta. She’s not a morning person, so it’s easy to slip out of the apartment before she even wakes up. But I’m tired of sleeping on the couch. If this is going to continue, then I at least need to buy a better couch that converts into a bed or something.
Rialta spends most of her days with Hayes. He teaches her how to fight and cook, while Gage and I spend our days looking for the man who wants to kill Rialta. It would be so much easier if we found him. Then all of this game of trying to make Rialta love me could be over. I’d become Corsi’s successor instead of inching closer to my death.
I try to tell myself the main reason I’ve been avoiding Rialta is because I’m focused on my work, and I’m not ready to have any more conversations with her about our wedding night. In reality, I can’t get the sound of Kit licking her in my bed out of my head. It was absolute torture listening to him elicit such delicious sounds from her mouth.
In. My. Bed.
The balls on that boy are solid as steel to have done that. Maybe I underestimated him.How am I going to make Rialta grow real feelings for me if there’s nothing wrong with the man she’s currently in love with?And he has the advantage of not having killed an innocent man in front of her.
“Should we take dinner to our apartment? Lennox doesn’t have a table,” Gage says, standing next to me at the bar of my kitchen, while Hayes and Rialta finish preparing dinner.
“No, let’s eat on the couch,” Rialta says.
I eye her suspiciously. I don’t know what it is about my apartment that draws her in, but she feels more comfortable here than anywhere else. Works for me since I feel the same, but I don’t know why it’s the case for her.
The guys don’t argue. Everyone grabs a plate and a glass of wine, and then we all find a spot on the sectional. Hayes and Gage sit next to each other. Rialta sits on the opposite end. As much as I want to sit as far away from Rialta as possible, I force myself to sit so that my thigh brushes against hers.
She notices and tries to squirm away from me into the armrest, but there’s not enough room. Our thighs touch, and our arms brush against each other every time either of us moves.
We all eat silently, enjoying the dinner Hayes and Rialta made. But Hayes always has to be an instigator with rude comments.
“So, how are you two getting along?” he says with a smirk.
“Fine,” I say at the same time Rialta says, “If we don’t kill each other within the month, it will be a miracle.”
I frown, looking in her direction. “What? It’s the truth. You want to kill me. And you would have already, if you could still take over Vincent’s job with me dead.” She elbows me hard, trying to give herself breathing room.
I don’t budge. She’s going to have to fight harder than that to get rid of me. I’m a stubborn man, and I intend on getting everything I want.
Instead of moving, I drape my arm around her shoulders, my hand resting against the sensitive spot on the back of her bicep.
“That’s not what I want to do to you. I’d much rather tie you up and spank that pretty ass of yours again before slamming my cock deep in that tight cunt,” I tease.
Rialta doesn’t blush or so much as blink at my dirty talk.
I frown.
“What are you doing? Do you really think putting your arm around me is going to have me weak at the knees, begging for you to kiss me or something?” Rialta says with amusement in her eyes, completely ignoring my comment.
Hayes snickers, and Gage tries to hide his own smile as he shovels in a mouthful of food.
“No, I don’t think any such thing.” She can pretend that we don’t share any physical attraction all she wants, but I can feel her shiver ever so slightly beneath my touch. She can’t help her body’s reaction to me.
I’m about to push things further when an alert goes off on Gage’s phone. He immediately jumps to attention, with Hayes catching on a second later. They both whip their guns out and race out the door.