There was nothing underneath it but dust.
“Have you lost your mind?” She struggled to free herself from my hold. She even growled, and I found it to be the cutest sound. I set her down on her feet and ignored her as she cursed. I searched her closet full of clothes and even knocked some from the hangers. “Satisfied?”
“Why were you laughing?”
She gestured to the TV she hadn’t had before I left and smirked. She’d been using the TV in the living room since she didn’t have a personal one. She must have convinced her father to install one while I was gone. I was still high off being angry, so I pushed my body into her smaller one. I wasn’t above intimidation to get the reaction I wanted.
“Move,” she warned.
“What will you do?”
She cocked her head and snorted just before she brought her knee up. Lucky for me, I was quicker. I gripped her underneath the offending knee and wrapped her leg around my waist. Because we were standing in the middle of the fucking room, the only leverage I had to offer her was my hand.
“What are you doing?”
“You were going to knee me, Sprite. Not a very good idea.”
“Then why did you teach me how to do it?” she challenged.
“So you can fight off horny teenaged boys who can’t keep their hands to themselves.”
As opposed to a grown man who damn well should keep his hands to himself?
Her mouth twisted and her eyes debated. I tightened my grip on her leg but then decided to test the waters and let go. Holding my breath, I waited to see if she would make the sane choice for the both of us and lower her leg.
She didn’t.
I don’t even think she noticed my hand was gone. She was too busy staring at my lips. I leaned forward, drawn by a will that was not mine. The hitch in her breath brought me back to my fucking senses.
She was just a child, and at this age, there was no chance in hell she was in control of her own body yet. Not enough to resist me if I pursued her.
My other hand fell from her as if I’d been scalded, and I quickly stepped back. She looked startled. The arousal in her eyes rapidly dimming.
“I need to get the fuck out of here.”
I needed to talk to my father. There was no way I could keep this shit up and not take her. It wasn’t just about her age. I had been warned away from Mian Ross. I knew my father would never let me take my rightful place as The Bandit if I didn’t heed his warning.
Nothing short of her whispering the words, “Fuck me,” would make me give in.
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Enemies don’t flash each other their playbook.
ANGEL
Present
Seducing Mian wasn’t as easy as I had assumed. Each day in her presence, I was finding less of the spoiled girl who had her daddy catering to her every whim, and more of the guarded woman she had become since I had last seen her.
“How’d it go?”
“She has a beautiful face when she comes. And the sound… None of that over the top, porn shit. It was… sweet.”
I played it cool as if the thought of him touching what I had made mine didn’t make me want to murder them both. “Is she on board?”
“Not yet but she will be.”
“So you didn’t fuck her?”
“Nope.” His nonchalance was getting on my last nerve. “She could be on to us.”
“Bullshit. I’ve seen you two seduce happily married women, twice her age, out of their panties within a week.”
“She’s young, but she’s not dumb,” Lucas corrected. He’d been silent for most of the meeting, but he took a deeper interest when the subject turned to Mian.
“And we don’t get to fuck a married woman if she’s happy,” Z clarified. “We get to fuck married women who can’t admit they’re unhappy until we send them on their way and they come back for more.”
“I don’t care how you do it. Just do it.”
Lucas’s eyebrows reached for his hairline. “You saying we should rape her?”
“Of course not. Use her, but do not hurt her.”
“You two were childhood friends…”
“You could say that…”
“You don’t think you’re hurting her by giving her to us? Blind men could tell the only man she cares to spread her legs for is you.”
I turned to Z who looked deep in thought. “How long did it take before you made her come?”
“A few minutes… why?”
It only took her a few minutes to yield to another man, yet they expected me to believe I was the key to cracking Mian?
“Could you please tell Lucas that spreading her legs for any man but me won’t be a problem?”
His bark of laughter as he sat back surprised me. “You’re fucked if you think that’s true.”
“Meaning?”
“She didn’t stop fighting me until I mentioned your secret kiss. Yeah, we know about that. I seduced her with thoughts of you coming into her room and finding her waiting so you could give her more of what you’re denying yourself. She couldn’t get enough of my hand between her thighs after that.”
I stood and paced the room. “You’re playing a dangerous game, Z.”