Total pages in book: 28
Estimated words: 25313 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 127(@200wpm)___ 101(@250wpm)___ 84(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 25313 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 127(@200wpm)___ 101(@250wpm)___ 84(@300wpm)
I don’t want her to feel ashamed, but my patience has all but run out. It’s hard enough to not grab her and smother her with my body, wanting her smell and taste on me. It’s been so long.
I’m still in somewhat of a state of shock that she’s finally sitting beside me. Don’t get me wrong, I always imagined this day would come, but that is vastly different from it actually happening. I try to calm myself, concentrating on each breath of air I can get into my lungs.
“You’re right, I don’t, but that doesn’t matter anymore.” Finally she flicks a glance toward me.
“You could be ruining everything right now. How did you find me?”
A humorless laugh leaves me. “You really thought I wouldn't find you?” She glances out the window. I hate it. I want to see her face to read every expression she has. I thought not having her was hard, but having her at my fingertips is almost unbearable when I can’t touch her. The reminder of how it felt to have her look at me like I was the only thing that mattered in her world is not something I’ll ever be able to go without again.
“Where are we going?”
“Away.” Now, that gets her attention.
“What do you mean? I can’t just leave!”
“Your father and sister will be alerted. No one else. You won’t even be on the flight manifest.”
“Flight manifest!” she screams. Her reaction shouldn’t make my cock jerk once again, but it does. She can breathe and I’m turned on. Nothing has changed on that front. It’s always been that way for me when it comes to her.
I should have seen her next move coming, but I was too focused on her to anticipate it. Thankfully, my girl gets her coffee iced because the contents of it fly through the air directly into my face, drenching me and my suit.
“Did you really think I wouldn’t find out?” She lets out the sexiest evil laugh which I didn’t know was a thing until it passed her lips. “Just like you thought you wouldn't find me. You also thought I wouldn’t find out about her.” Her anger is tangible, but there’s also hurt laced in her words.
Fuck, I shouldn’t play into this. But damn, the fire I see in her reminds me of the love I knew we had. That we still have for each other. She just needs to be reminded. I want all of it. It might be selfish, but I want to bathe in it. Her love and jealousy for me. I’m greedy and starved for it. For her.
“You can fuck so far off.” She turns her beautiful face from me. I can’t have that. It’s been too long since I got to stare into it. I grab her chin and jerk her attention back to me, not giving a shit that I’m covered in her coffee. “What are you going to do, blow our cover?”
“Neverland.”
“Don’t call me that!” she screams in my face, showing me all the pain she’s been going through right along with me.
“What do you want?” I ask her. Her eyes lock dead with mine.
“I want you six feet under.” She bares her teeth at me.
Years of anger rise to the surface for her. At this moment she's not realizing how much of herself she’s exposing to me. My girl knows on some level she can throw anything at me and I’ll take it from her. If she wants to rage, she can do it and I’ll take it all. Every single bit of it. I know I’m the only person she’s ever been able to let out her true feelings to. Each day when she went home, she put on a brave face. With me, there was no pretending.
Her behavior is so different from the girl I first met all those years ago. The one I had to lure out of her shell when we were in high school. Back then, she had just lost her mom and had so much weight resting on her shoulders. But I always saw fire and passion in her eyes.
It’s not a surprise to me that she has become successful. Her drive was something I envied. The world was laid at my feet, and I didn’t give a shit. In fact, I resented it …until her. She gave me a purpose, and then they thought they could take her from me.
I fight a smirk. I can’t help it. God, she’s breathtaking in her passion.
“You’re a fool if you think I’d ever be with you again,” she spits out.
“Even after your father stole millions from my family?” I’m baiting her. I should have seen it coming, but damn I love that she can still shock me. She slaps me so hard my driver even starts to pull over.