Total pages in book: 62
Estimated words: 61082 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 305(@200wpm)___ 244(@250wpm)___ 204(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 61082 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 305(@200wpm)___ 244(@250wpm)___ 204(@300wpm)
“Yeah, yeah,” he grumbles. “But seriously. Get her out. I don’t want her in here.”
“That’s a no.”
“Fucking hell.” He picks up his phone and storms out. I open the storage door to find Magina lying on the bed, reading a book.
She looks up when I enter. “He doesn’t like me very much,” she says quietly.
“He doesn’t like anyone. That’s just Lucas.”
“He’s always telling me to fuck off.”
“I’ll talk to him.”
“I don’t want to go back. I want to stay here.”
My hand scrubs down my face. “I’m seeing what I can do.”
“Thank you.”
“Yeah.” I turn to leave, but she gets up from her bed and grabs my hand. “I can help you, just so you know.”
“Help?” I ask her, confused, and she holds on to my hand tighter.
“I didn’t enjoy doing it for Scott, but for you…”
The door opens to reveal Adora. Her eyes lock on to Magina’s hand holding mine. I pull free from her grasp as Adora’s eyes go wide.
“Are you fucking the help already, Joey?” she asks, the venom in her voice potent. Her eyes leave mine and go back to Magina.
“You need to leave. Stop mooching, get your shit, and get out.”
Magina reaches for her shoes and slides them on. She looks to me for help, but one glance at Adora, and I know I need to keep my mouth shut.
“Lucas rang you?” I question.
“Damn right he did. He told me you needed me. Seems you don’t, though.” She turns to leave, but I reach for her wrist and pull her to me.
“Remove your hand, Joey.”
“No.” I hold her arm so she can’t escape. She turns, and within seconds, she knees me where the sun doesn’t shine. It’s not hard enough to make me cry, but hard enough for me to buckle over.
“Told you to remove your hand. That’s what happens to men who don’t listen.”
Magina pushes past us and walks out.
Smiling, Adora flips her long hair over her shoulder before she follows Magina, but not before I grab for her again and protect my junk with my other hand, kicking the door shut and closing us in.
“Joey,” she warns. “Do you want to lose your cock? We both know how useful it is.”
“You’re jealous,” I state, backing her up against the wall and caging her in at her sides.
“No, I’m not. I just don’t see why you had to step into a room with a woman who only knows how to give sex as a thank you.”
“I was helping her.”
“Did you want to help her with your cock as well?”
Oh, she bites.
Hard.
I fucking love this woman.
“Jealousy looks good on you.” I move my hand from my cock but don’t let her go.
“I look good on you, but we don’t all get what we want.”
I can’t help the smile that leaves my lips at her words. “You do look good on me. Hurt dick and all, I still want you to touch it.”
Her eyes fall to my pants, and she sucks in a breath. “I didn’t come here for this.”
“What did you come for?” I ask, pressing against her. “To yell at me?”
She opens her mouth to speak, but my lips slam onto hers before she can say another word. I kiss the fuck out of her, and to my surprise, she doesn’t push me away. Instead, her hands wrap around my neck, and she kisses me back.
Oh, how I have missed her kisses.
Gripping her hips, my hands slide up her body, but she pulls back.
“Shit, sorry.” Dammit! I forgot about her back.
“It’s fine,” she says. “I need to go. And this…” she waves a finger between us, “… cannot keep happening.”
“But it can.”
“Can’t,” she insists, her tone firm, but her eyes don’t agree. “I’ll take Magina with me.”
“No, you won’t.”
“Yes, I will.”
“No, I mean, you can’t.” Her eyes go wide. “This isn’t your world. She knows too much. Keir wanted her dead, but I needed to see what information she had.”
“She’s innocent.”
“That means nothing. She knows things, and it’s only a matter of time before she speaks.” We hear a rustling on the other side of the door, and I step past Adora to open it. Lucas stands there, holding Magina by her hair as she kneels on the floor.
“Seems someone likes to eavesdrop.”
“I wasn’t, Joey, I swear.”
“Just because you think he’s the nice one, it doesn’t mean you are any good at lying.” Lucas pulls her hair again, and she winces.
“Lucas, stop,” Adora says.
A phone dings, and we all look at each other. It’s then I realize it’s coming from the room we were just in. I step back into the room, find the phone stuffed under the mattress, and open it. The message reads…
Report back about how they run everything ASAP.
I step back out and look at Magina.
She sees the phone in my hand, and her eyes go wide.