“I own the place. I’ll call the manager and let him know you’re my guest for the night. Free drinks, lap dances, whatever. Bring a couple friends with you, knock yourselves out.”
“Seriously?” he asks, and then gives a soft laugh when he realizes it’s not a joke. “Damn. Thanks.”
Valeri waves off the thanks. “No worries. We’ll all be happy to get rid of Scott. Think of it as an early celebration.”
Ilya and Nikolai leave with Adam to take him back to Inferno so he can get his car while Andrei heads back home to his wife. After they’ve left, I clasp my hands behind my head and let out a deep breath. “What do you want to do about Kaylee? Let her go?”
“Yeah,” Vasily says. “She’s of no use to us anymore.”
“Oleg will be so happy,” Valeri says with a laugh.
I can tell by the way Vasily’s eyes are lit up that I’m not going to like what’s coming. “I guess this means we no longer need Maddie, too. I think it’s safe to say she won’t be running to the cops, and soon Scott will be out of the way. She can work for Kaylee again or maybe find something else. There’s really no reason for you to keep a watchful eye on her.”
“Fuck off,” I mutter, knowing exactly what he’s doing.
“I think he’s decided to keep her,” Valeri says, sitting on the edge of the table and grinning at me. “You saw the way he was latched onto her at the club. Although,” he adds as if he’s deep in thought, “Volodya’s never going to have a serious relationship, so maybe I should just ask her out. She is a cute little thing.”
I point my finger at his smug face. “Don’t you even fucking think about it. Those pancakes you wolfed down are the only damn thing of hers you’re tasting.”
He laughs and smacks me on the shoulder. “Go home and cuddle with your girl. I’ll get in touch with Oleg and make plans for Kaylee to be dropped back at her house.”
I think about arguing just to spite him but then I think about Maddie naked in her bed and decide I’d much rather just go home and not have to deal with Kaylee. I tell him thanks and leave to the sound of my brothers laughing like we’re fucking teenagers again and they’ve just caught me crushing on the hot girl in class. If they ever find out about the Cubby Bear Foundation, they will never let me live it down. I’d nearly throttled my damn lawyer when Maddie had told me the name. I’d texted him, asking what the fuck he’d been thinking naming it something so ridiculous, and he’d simply texted back that he’s a lawyer, not some hippie creative type who can come up with tough-sounding names for foundations on the spot.
On the drive back, I think about Maddie. I’ve known her a ridiculously short amount of time, but it’s still the longest I’ve ever spent around a woman. I’ve never been a relationship kind of guy. I’ve never wanted that. Hell, if I’m being honest, I rarely even asked for a woman’s name. I wanted no-strings-attached fucks, and that’s what I got. I want more than that from Maddie, though, and that scares the hell out of me.
When I open the front door, part of me hopes she’s in a deep sleep so I can push all my confusing thoughts away for the night and worry about it all tomorrow, but as soon as I turn on the kitchen lights, I see her sitting on the couch with the dogs. She’s determined to break every rule I have in this goddamn house. Pulya at least has the decency to look away in shame, but Graza and Grom meet my eyes, and I swear they’re grinning at me.
She stands, and the hard-on I’d finally managed to lose quickly starts coming back. I let out a groan because I don’t know how much more of this I can take. She’s in short sleep shorts that show off her tanned, toned legs and a white T-shirt that’s clinging to her like a second skin. No bra, of course, because she’s trying to drive me insane. She steps closer, no longer looking like a timid little kitten. She looks like a goddamn lioness on the hunt, and for the first time in my life, I get a glimpse of what it feels like to be prey. I can’t say I care for it.
As if the universe is feeling my pain, a sharp crack of thunder and lightning split across the sky. She gives me a wicked grin and closes the distance between us.
“Kiska,” I warn, but she ignores me and runs her hands up my chest.
“Time to finish what we started,” she purrs, fisting my shirt and pulling me down to her. She’s so much shorter than me that I have to lower my head a foot to get face to face with her.
“The orgasms you had earlier not enough for you?”
“No.” She nips at my bottom lip, reminding me of the bite she gave me at the club. “I want all of you, Volodya.” She brings one hand down and palms my cock. “You promised to make me sore.”
“Goddamn, sweetheart, you’re going to regret teasing me.”
My need for her starts to take over, and I no longer feel like the prey. Standing up to my full height, I look down at her, feeling every bit the predator as I run my thumb over her parted lips and see the way her body’s softly shaking. She’s trying so hard to be my brave little pussycat, but I can feel the fear mixing with the excitement. I take a step forward, forcing her to take a step back, slowly guiding her to the French doors. Lightning splits the sky again, revealing the wet veranda. The rain is soft now, but it’s going to start pouring. I look at her white outfit and grin.
“Run,kiska, and you better hope I don’t find you, but don’t go into the woods on the left.”
“Why not?”
I laugh at how she refuses to just take a fucking order. Leaning down I give her bottom lip a soft suck and whisper against her lips, “Because I have men over there tonight taking care of something for me, and if anyone else sees you soaking wet in this little white outfit, I’ll have to fucking kill them.”
She sucks in a quick breath and nods her head. “Okay.”
“Good girl,” I whisper and open the doors. “Now fucking run, sweetheart.”
Her dark hair whips around, hitting my chest and giving me a whiff of her vanilla shampoo as she spins and darts out the door. Her bare feet slap across the wet deck before she takes off toward the beach. Keeping the dogs inside, I follow her out, letting her get a head start and enjoying the view of her white shorts slowly getting soaked and clinging to her round ass.
I strip out of my shirt, tossing it over one of the patio chairs and kick off my boots. Barefoot and in nothing but my jeans, I stalk towards my littlekiska, hoping she doesn’t make this too easy for me, because fuck do I love a good chase. The rain drenches my body in seconds, but I embrace the chill, letting it invigorate me as another flash of lightning crosses the sky. I can no longer see Maddie, so I slowly walk down the path to the beach, following the direction I last saw her headed. The ocean waves crash against the shore when my feet hit sand while thunder rumbles above me and my cock presses painfully against my wet jeans.
A flash of white catches my attention, and I turn my head just in time to see a glimpse of her shirt before she disappears behind a large rock on the beach. Instead of running, I force myself to walk slowly, savoring every second of anticipation. Swiping water off my face, I walk to the other side of the huge rock, wanting to scare the hell out of her from where she’s least expecting it. I run my fingers over the sharp edges, debating whether or not I should pick her up and fuck her up against it or go easy on her and take her on all fours.
