“I. Would. Never. I wouldn’t risk hurting Charlie and I wouldn’t risk hurtinghim. Don’t you think if I was planning on telling someone I would’ve run away and done it last night? You don’t need to yell at me and do whatever this is. I freaked out last night but I’m not scared of Theo. I just needed a few hours to process everything. I don’t need you threatening me, Dominic. I’m loyal to the people I care for.”
Something deep in my body settled. She cared for us. I doubted she realized she’d admitted it but she couldn’t take it back. The band around my head loosened enough for me to blink without it hurting and I found myself fighting a smile. I believed her. Somehow, we’d managed to stumble upon a woman who was as pure as fucking snow but was built like a fucking mob wife. If the version of Theo she’d seen the night before hadn’t scared her, nothing would.
“Come here.”
She looked like she wanted to keep arguing but when I raised my eyebrows at her she huffed and came over. Standing next to me, her sweet almond scent washed over me and had me wanting to soften even more towards her.
“Theo is my brother in every way but blood. For whatever reason, he doesn’t scare you and he deserves that. He’s a goodman. He would die for this family. He would die for you. And it’s about time he had someone in his corner that looks at him the way you look at him.” I rolled my shoulders as the discomfort of talking so emotionally settled on them. “Don’t worry, Angel. I know you look at me and Leon the same way.”
She turned dark red and tried to move away but I caught her around her waist and pulled her onto my lap. She struggled for a few seconds and then settled with a frustrated sigh.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Hmm. Lying, being a bit bratty, and you didn’t come to me when you were upset last night? You’re aching for a punishment, aren’t you?” I cupped her face and told myself I’d kiss her but it would be a punishing kiss that left her lips swollen and sore. The moment my lips touched hers, though, I forgot everything.
A buzz of energy shot through my body. Her lips were pillowy under mine, so soft that I immediately softened my approach and kissed her gently. I took my time and slowly eased her into a deeper kiss, all the while she gripped my shoulders and held on tight. She let out little puffs of air through her nose and leaned into me more, letting more of her weight rest on my lap.
Her kiss was shy at first, so timid that I wondered if it was her first, but as she grew more comfortable with what was happening, she got brave. Her hands crept up my neck until she was holding my face and tipping her head to the side to kiss me harder. I’d never been kissed like that, like I was something precious. It did funny things to my chest and I pulled away before I really wanted to.
“Stand up and bend over my desk.” My voice was rough as I helped her stand and slid my chair back. My heart was racing so fast that I felt unsteady on my feet as I stood. One kiss from the woman and I was fucked for life. I knew it as surely as I knew my fucking name.
Sutton pressed her fingers to her lips and stared up at me with those big eyes before turning away from me. She leaned forward and pressed her hands on my desk, careful to not upset the paperwork laid across it. She gasped when I reached around her and jerked her hands forward.
“Dominic…”
I pressed a hand between her shoulders so she was bent at the waist with her ass pressing into me. I gripped the bottom of her skirt with my other hand and gradually dragged it up her legs. I watched her fingers press into the desk so hard that they went white. She wanted to move, wanted to fight what was happening but she stayed where she was.
“Such a good little sub for your Sir. You listen so well when you want to.” Pulling the skirt over her ass so I could see her pale yellow panties made me groan. “So innocent, Angel, even down to these pretty panties. No thongs for you, huh? One day I’m going to eat your pussy through these panties and then force you to wear them for the rest of the day so you feel just how wet we can make them together.”
Her back arched and she let out a breathy sound so sweet that I wanted to record it and play it over and over again. She needed to be punished, though. For not listening and for fucking with my head. When I swung my hand and let it crack against the side of her ass she screamed and tried to scramble away from me.
“Stay. You get two more and then you can run away.” I delivered the next two quickly but just as hard and the second I was finished she rushed around my desk, hands over her ass. The look on her face was pure challenge and I wanted to snatch her up and give her a true punishment. It wasn’t the time. I reminded myself that Theo was waiting somewhere, impatiently waiting to see if he’d gone too far with her.
“Go.”
She huffed at me but when I acted like I was going to move after her she hurried out of my office and shut the door firmly behind her. I caught one last glimpse of her skirt before the door closed and I shook my head as I sat down again. My head hurt less, probably because the pain had lowered into my dick. Painfully hard and desperate for just a taste of Sutton, it was the devil on my shoulder demanding I push our angel further and faster.
CHAPTER 22
Sutton
I looked around for Theo for the rest of the day but I never spotted him. Even when I turned the camera back on and watched the tablet after dinner there was no sign of him. It made me restless and cranky. I wanted to apologize to him for telling him to leave. I knew he wouldn’t have hurt me. As twisted as it was, I didn’t care about what he’d done, not as long as he never got caught for it. If he did hurt bad people to protect his family…I could accept that. I just wouldn’t think about it.
I’d just started to fall asleep when the loud roar of a motorcycle came closer and closer to the house until it felt like it was directly under my window. I went over and glanced down to find Leon parking his bike in the driveway but he didn’t shut it off. He stood up and started poking around it but the sound was still there, as loud as ever.
The idea of him waking up the kids had me sliding my feet into my slippers and hurrying downstairs as fast as I dared. I stepped outside and felt the muggy heat and the painfully loud sound hit me square in the face. I winced and frowned at the combo.
Leon spotted me immediately and he crossed his arms while he waited for me to reach him and say what I needed to say. His smirk said he knew what I was going to say.
I had to shout for him to hear me over the motorcycle.
“Can you shut it off? It could wake the kids!”
He prowled the last few feet between us and gripped my waist before leaning down and pressing his lips to the shell of my ear.
“Ride with me.”
I gasped and pulled back enough to look him in the eyes.
