“Are you fucking kidding me?”Levi said.
Skye grabbed his shoulder and steered him behind the tour bus, away from the group.“Look, are we going to have a problem here?Because I will get you kicked off this tour—”
“So you fucked him over too?”Remi said, following them.
Skye sighed.
“You made a bargain with her?”Levi asked.
Remi didn’t answer him.He stepped into Skye’s space.His anger stole the air from her lungs.She didn’t know what was going on or why or how.It was like Remi’s broken bargain was getting revenge on her.She’d never had a deal sour like this before.
“Listen, man,” Levi continued.“She’s going to tell you to sell your soul, and then she’s going to give you what you want, but not really.I told her I wanted our band to be huge!To play stadium tours!And now look at us!”He waved his arms around and gestured to the parking lot.
“Playing a huge stadium tour,” Remi deadpanned.
“As the fucking opening band!”Levi said, exasperated.“It’s a bullshit play on words or some shit!It’s technically what I asked for, but she’s a fucking bitch—”
Remi snapped.Faster than even Skye’s demon eyes could track, he shoved Levi against the tour bus.“Wanna say that again, fucker?”
Levi scrambled against Remi’s hold, but there was no competition.Remi might have been as scrawny as Levi, but there was a practiced viciousness in the way he withstood Levi’s attempts at shoving him off, the way he slammed him against the tour bus over and over.
“Sorry!Sorry!”Levi conceded, gasping for air.Remi took a step back and released him.Levi hunched over, holding himself up on his knees, trying to catch his breath.
“I’d like to talk to you in private,” Remi said in a level and even tone that was completely out of place to the violence he’d just dealt out.
Skye was too shocked by the entire turn of events that she just quietly followed Remi around the front of the tour bus.They walked past the rest of the band—who had to have heard the scuffle since they were staring at them with wide, round eyes—and into the venue.
Remi led them into the dressing room and locked the door before Skye could finally find her voice.
An angry buzz hummed under her skin.“What the hell were you thinking?Fighting him like that?So what?The only person who can call me names and treat me like shit is you?”
Remi turned around, a matching ruthless anger on his face.His eyes had molten lava burning within them.
He took three long strides toward her, his combat boots clunking against the floor, every heavy thud a warning of some kind.The thick metal chains on his neck clinked against one another.
Skye found herself backing up.The edge of the vanity table dug into her lower back.
Remi closed the distance between them.The studs on his leather belt poked into her stomach.He wrapped one hand around her throat, and with the heavy press of his thumb on her windpipe, he whispered on her lips, “Yes.Only me.”
Then, he slammed his mouth to hers, and his brutal kiss consumed them both in a blaze of fury.
Chapter Sixteen
Skyetastedsweetassin, and Remi immediately recognized the kiss for what it was—the start of an addiction.
A primal rage pounded through his veins.The urge to yell, fight, smash—fuck—quickened his pulse until he was breathless, panting against her lips.
“What are you doing to me?”His voice lower than a whisper, more a single huff of air.“Why don’t I want you to stop?”
He wasn’t sure what angered him more—Skye claiming for months she wasn’t tricking Remi, only for him to find out she’d tricked others.Or the fact that he wasn’t theonly oneto get this treatment from her.
It didn’t matter.He didn’t know, and he didn’t want to know or analyze what fueled his instinct to smash that dickbag’s face in.
He only wanted to excise this demon from his life, and apparently, that meant he was going to plant his lips on Skye and kiss her like he’d been dying to do since the first moment he’d seen her.
Laurie had told him to give Skye what she wanted.Well, fuck that.Remi was going to take whathewanted.
She made a gasping noise as Remi’s fingers knotted into her hair.He tilted her head up so he could claim her mouth from a better position.His other hand wrapped around her back and squeezed her body against him.Any of Skye’s previous hesitation melted away, and her lips yielded to Remi’s desire.
