Jamie’s a disheveled mess as she awkwardly tries to cover herself—as if I haven’t already seen her in her underwear. Or made intimate friends with her gorgeous pussy. “You’re an asshole.”
“Apparently,” I drawl. The wall of ice around her has dropped the temperature in the room by at least ten degrees. “Still drunk?”
She shakes her head. “You ruined my buzz.”
My brows shoot up at that. “Iruined your buzz?”
“Yes, you.” Somehow, even looking like a train wreck, she manages to stare down her nose at me. “Once I got over the hurt of seeing you with that woman, I was having a perfectly good time. But you had to ruin it.”
I relax my stance and cross my arms. “Oh, I’m sorry. Do you want me to call back Jester?”
She throws up her hands then drops them, slapping the bed in frustration. “I don’t understand you. Everything was going great until we rode off the mountain. What happened? Why are you so mad at me?”
“You know what happened,” I growl.
“No, I don’t.”
I stalk right up to her and grab her chin. “You told Discord you’re leaving.”
“You’re an ass.” Jamie smacks my hand away. “All this over that? You could have talked to me, Wraith, like a sane person. I would have explained to you that I want to stay, but I’m afraid.”
I sink on the bed and drag a hand through my hair. “Yeah, of what?”
She motions between us. “Of this. Us. Because… Just because.” She grabs as much blanket as she can and tries to cover herself. “God, I don’t want to do this now. But just so you know, I’m staying. I would have told you before, but you were otherwise occupied.”
“Come here.” I reach for her, but she scoots away.
“Hell no.” She shakes her head. “Just because I’m staying in Mayhem doesn’t mean I’m staying with you. I don’t even want to go back to your house tonight.”
Now what the hell is this shit?
“Hate to break it to you, Jamie, but you don’t have a fucking choice.”
“Oh yes, the hell I do, Wraith.” She points to the door. “Go back to that woman because you’re not wanted in here.”
I blow out a long, frustrated sigh. “I didn’t fuck Rissa.”
“So, I didn’t see what I saw?”
The rebuke in her tone is enough to make me feel like ten pounds of shit stuffed in a five-pound bag. “I swear to God, not a single second of this night was spent with my dick in any part of her.”
“She was on her knees.” Jamie clasps her hands and wrings them within an inch of their lives. The anguish I put on her gleams like crystals in her eyes.
I put a finger under her chin and tilt her head up. “I was pissed, and I wanted to hurt you, so I put on a show. It was a dick move, and I’m sorry.”
Her eyes are so goddamn sad, and if even one of those tears slips down her cheek, I’ll cut out my heart myself and lay it at her feet.
But she drags in a breath and blinks them away, fortifying herself, and fuck me if it doesn’t make it even worse. I’d rather her cry than know I’m one more asshole who made her retreat into herself and hide inside her fortress. “I believe you.”
Thank God, because not onlydidn’tI do a damn thing with Rissa, I didn’twantto do a damn thing with Rissa.
“Brutal of you to choose Jester.”
She gives me an impish shrug. “He was the only one I trusted to stop because I knew I’d chicken out.”
Holy shit, she’s priceless.
I pull her across my lap before she can protest and claim her mouth. When I let her up for air, she clings to me, a breathless spectacle in white lace. “You’re mine, runt. Best get right with that because tonight isn’t ending with a kiss.”
