The sight of her sexy, wrapped legs is when I know she’s walked into my lion’s den and I’m going to devour her. Lucy knows she came to be my prey, but I know she has no idea what’s in store for her.
Her hand closes over mine as I let go of my glass. Her eyes capture mine; her head following me down and then up. She’s got me, sure, but she has no idea how trapped she is. Her skin on mine makes electricity surge through every part of me that died when I gave up on love. Gave up on sex. But fuck if Lucy doesn’t revive me and revive every urge that I’ve had dead for so long. My cock is steel in my suit trousers, but erections were never the problem.
She’s the first woman to make me give a single goddamn fuck about anything other than money. The sadness and pain in her calls me to her; her sorrow mirrors my own. I know that I’m only going to bring her more sorrow. She doesn’t want this. I’ve accepted the monster that I am, and I accept it again now. If the price for having Lucy is destroying her, I’ll accept myself for the monster I am again. I get what I want at any cost.
“Sure, I’ll erase his debt,” I tell Lucy, letting my eyes cascade over her face again.
Her hands squeeze mine, and there’s a grateful look in her eyes. And fear. So much fear. Her eyelashes flutter for a second. She inhales sharply.
“But that’s a lot of money,” I say in a low voice, even though no one is listening to us right now. It wouldn’t matter if they were. I get everything I want, and right now I want Lucy more than anything I’ve ever wanted. “I’m not keeping you for the night. I’m keeping you permanently.”
4
Gian
That fear in her eyes fights with the hope that courses through her. How can she have so much fucking hope? I’m taking her whole life away and she’s still thinking about how I’m going to help her save her brother.
Squeezing my hand again urgently, she’s trying not to sound like she’s begging. Her voice is smooth. But I can smell that fear, see it with the hope in her hazel eyes. She’s fighting herself, but she’s going to win what she needs. I’m winning what I need. I try to look anywhere but at her lips when she continues. “If you’re taking me that long, you’re clearing all his debts, and you’re getting him in rehab.”
Ballsy as fuck. I fucking love Lucy’s strength now; I wonder if I say no just how hard she’s going to push. But I hold back making her suffer, at least in that way, right now. I take her hand and slide it into my trouser pocket.
No, baby girl, that cock so close you can feel the heat coming off it, is not what you’re reaching for. Yet. I close her hand over my penthouse key. “This will get you in the room with the code,” I tell her. I crook my finger indicating for her to lean down. When she does, that’s when I stand so that she falls against me, and I pull her close. I can’t help it; I need to feel her body now. Especially because I’m going to find out the deal with her brother before I take Lucy’s virginity. She’s mine now and I want her so goddamn bad, but I have to know what kind of a deal I’m making.
Fuck, Lucy should be confirming this. She’s got this big fucking plan and she’s not even certain that I’m not just going to fuck her, and then not give two shits about her brother, or his debt.
I’m not going to do that, but she doesn’t know that.
I don’t think Lucy trusts me. I knew when she called me out that there was hate in her voice for me. But she has to trust me enough to believe I’m keeping my word. Well, that innocent way she hopes for the best is going to be her fucking undoing.
For a second, that hope in her rubs off on me. I want her to enjoy me fucking her, but grandiose ideas form in my brain because a spitfire like her could be my queen.
But that’s far too much hope for a man like me to have. I can buy anything, have any woman, but when would I ever find a true partner who would trust me and matter so much more?
I know that’s never going to happen because that’s something you can’t buy. And I’m buying Lucy.
“The code is 9567,” I whisper. That’s the code that activates my cameras specifically for someone entering my penthouse with a given code. I’m a paranoid fuck, but this is certainly a much better use for the code than I ever thought I would need. “Wait for me, naked. I’ll cancel your brother’s debt to me now, and then I’ll take what belongs to me.”