Total pages in book: 30
Estimated words: 28041 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 140(@200wpm)___ 112(@250wpm)___ 93(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 28041 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 140(@200wpm)___ 112(@250wpm)___ 93(@300wpm)
I wait a moment to see if she’s still talking in her sleep. When she doesn’t say anything else, I walk over to the windows, draw the curtains shut, and make sure the locks are in place. A part of me wants motion detectors on these things too.
Raina moans and turns onto her side, facing away from me, and thankfully so. There’s a side of me that’s not sure how I can stay away. I want her to sleep and don’t want her to worry about the danger of Owen’s situation. I need to get out of here before she wakes up.
As soon as that thought crosses my mind, three heavy thuds on the front door crash through the quietness of the night. Raina stirs and groans with frustration.
“No,” she mumbles and buries her head under her pillow.
The person at her front door isn’t giving up. As a matter of fact, they’re knocking even harder. Raina snarls as she snatches the blanket from off her body. She’s about a foot shorter than me at 5 feet tall. Her tight little ass looks like it will sit perfectly in my hand. When she turns around, I get a glimpse of that delicate pussy, covered in a trim triangle of light brown hair.
“Holy shit!” She shrieks once she lays eyes on me, clutching herself across her tits and over her the apex between her thighs.
“RAINA!” The voice at the front door yells from the other side.
“Rex?” Confusion comes through first before relief washes over her. She drops her hands and storms out of the room and into the bathroom. She comes back with a robe on.
The guy at the front door knocks frantically again, still shouting. “Raina, open up. There’s a weird man in your apartment. Raina!”
“Stay here. I’m going to get that,” I tell her and make my way out of her room.
She doesn’t stay, deciding to follow me and turning on the living room lights. “Rex, what the hell are you doing here? Do you have any idea what time it is?”
However, before I can answer her, a key is put into her door, and turns.
2
RAINA
Sage and leather are the scents that hit me first any time Rex is nearby.
I’m not sure if it’s his soap or cologne, or if his skin just pushes the scent out like a pheromone. It’s not a shock that I’d dream about him. He smells so close and I call out to him, but sleep still holds me close.
The banging on my door forces my eyes open before I can have my way with the Rex of my dreams. Only when I get up to stop the incessant noisemaker do I turn around to see him standing by my bed.
Fear hits me before I realize it’s Rex, and the banging on the door isn’t stopping. After I throw on a robe to answer the door, I want to know what he’s doing here. However, the sound of keys unlocking my front door makes my heart stop. Rex points for me to get back and sit on my couch. I obey him this time.
I sit down and the door swings open with Drew, my building super, rushing inside and crashing into Rex’s broad chest. Drew’s about an inch taller than Rex, but they’re around the same build. It becomes clear quickly who’s the strongest of the two.
Rex wraps his massive hands around Drew’s shoulders, whipping him around to slam him against the back of the door he just came through.
“What have you done with Raina?” Drew asks.
“Why did you let yourself into her apartment?” Rex answers his question with one of his own.
Drew tries to shake himself loose to no avail. “Let go of me. I’ve already called the police.”
“That’s a lie. They would be here with you if you did that. Why did you let yourself inside of this young woman’s apartment in the middle of the night?”
“You came in here first,” Drew spits with nervous energy running through every syllable.
“Everything is fine, Drew,” I tell him, getting up from the couch once I see it’s just the super. “Rex is a friend.”
“Just a friend?” Rex quips with a raised eyebrow. His dark brown eyes are looking at me as if he can see through my robe. I clutch it tighter and turn to look at Drew. The corner of Rex’s mouth turns up in a cocky grin as he also faces Drew, telling him, “Raina is fine. I was invited, and you were not.”
“Raina?” Drew asks, hoping for me to say something to the contrary.
I nod. “I’m okay, Drew. You’re not supposed to use that key if there isn’t an emergency.”
“I know, but I saw the security camera. It showed him climbing through the window,” Drew says in his own defense.
It bothers me. I shake my head. “So instead of calling my phone or the police, you decide to use the master key to let yourself inside my apartment?”