“It’s nothing. The nail broke in the middle. Worst case scenario, they will remove it, and it will grow back.”
He glared at me. “What disturbed you so much that you had to press your nail hard enough to break it like that?
“What? How did you know I did that?” Fuck me. First Damien and now him. “Don’t tell me you noticed, too?”
“You do it all the time. It’s hard not to notice,” he said quickly. “What happened, Isabella?”
Should I tell him? Confide in him until I finally went to therapy? I did need to tell someone, and I felt Joshua could be the one person I told such things.
“Did he touch you?” he asked under his breath.
The way he asked took me by surprise more than the question itself. “What? Why would you say that?”
“Just answer me.” He banged the desk surface with his fist. “Did he touch you?”
“No! I…I don’t think so.”
“What do you mean you don’t think so? It’s either he touched you or not.”
“I don’t know, Joshua. One minute he was… The next he was sitting in front of me, his hands far away.” I shrugged, staring back at him, agitated. “I had a fucking day dream. That’s it.”
A dark flick I’d seen before struck his steel gaze. “About him?”
“Yes,” I whispered inaudibly.
“Fuck.” He was fuming.
“What is this all about?” This couldn’t be jealousy. We only hooked up once. I never mentioned anything about dating him, exclusively or otherwise. “Why was Damien touching me the first thing you assumed?”
“Damien?” he scoffed. “Do you need me to drive you to the hospital?”
“No. I can take care of myself. Now, answer me. Did he do it before? To someone you know?”
He spun and headed to the door. “I have to go.”
“To Rena?” I dared.
He stopped short and his heels raced back to me. “How did you know that name?”
Fuck, piss and shit. That backfired fast. To explain, I had to tell him about Alec.Well done, Belle.
I twisted my lips and glowered at the floor. “Answer my questions first.”
“You want to know everything? Fine. Come with me.”
CHAPTER 23
KAYDEN
Alec paced from one tree to another like a caged wolf. His rambling didn’t make any sense. Belle, that little thing, had supposedly flown out of her place at lightning speed and had enough strength to drag this bull into her building with the same speed.
“This can’t be. I think the bear claws are messing with your head with their venom,” I said. “You need me to suck that out for you?”
“You’re not listening! The fucker bit her!” he howled, his eyes glowing with the beast’s golden flames. “She’s turning.”
“The bloodsucker is a lot of things, stupid ain’t one of them. He would never deliver her to the devil on a silver plate like that. He couldn’t have turned her, Alec.”
“I saw the marks on her neck!” His clothes ripped off him as he half-shifted, claws, fangs and wolf hair on.
