Total pages in book: 86
Estimated words: 81694 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 408(@200wpm)___ 327(@250wpm)___ 272(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 81694 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 408(@200wpm)___ 327(@250wpm)___ 272(@300wpm)
This was all hard to take in.
“Okay, but I’m still stuck on you sending me away. And now, you’re in my bed, giving me a mind-blowing orgasm. I need time to catch up, I think.”
His hand squeezed my butt cheek. “Take all the time you need, but you’ll be doing it by my side. With me. All the time.”
All the time? I frowned. How would I do that?
“And that means exactly what?” I asked.
A knock at the front door interrupted us, and I started to sit up, but he held me to him.
“Levi will get it,” he said, his arms tightening around me.
“Levi is here?” I asked, my cheeks turning bright red. I’d been screaming Gage’s name just a few minutes ago.
“He brought me last night,” Gage explained.
I heard male voices.
“That’s probably Wilder. I should go explain why Levi is answering my door.”
His hold on me was like a vise grip.
“Gage?”
“Levi can handle it.”
I reached up and cupped the side of his face. His jaw was clenched tight.
“He helped me when I needed it yesterday. He’s my friend, and I owe it to him to let him see that I’m okay.”
His nostrils flared as he held me.
“Let me do this, and then we can talk some more—in bed.” I was bribing him.
Slowly, his hold on me eased, and I smiled, pressing one more kiss to his lips before getting up and grabbing my robe and heading toward the bedroom door.
My apartment door was open, and Levi was standing at it, just like Gage had said. He turned his head in my direction and looked relieved.
“Ah, there she is. You can see she’s alive for yourself,” Levi said, stepping back as I walked over to the door.
Wilder’s eyes scanned me before he locked on my face. “Are you okay?”
I nodded. “Yes. I’m all better. Thank you for your help.”
He glanced behind me.
“There were two of them last night,” he said to me, then scanned the area behind me like he was looking for Gage.
“The other one is in her bed. You just missed her screaming his name over and over,” Levi drawled.
“Levi!” My face was bright red.
He shrugged. “Dude thought we were gonna hurt you last night. Pushed Gage too far. I’m just reassuring your friend that you are being taken care of properly.”
I winced at his choice of words, then turned back to Wilder. He looked angry. I’d never seen Wilder angry. It was shocking.
“I’m sorry about him.”
Wilder narrowed his eyes. “You’re sleeping with that psychopath? Did he tell you that he put a gun to my head?”
Levi made a tsking sound from behind me, but I didn’t look back at him this time. I was trying to figure out what I had just heard.
“A gun?” I asked, not sure I had heard him right.
Wilder nodded.
A hand was on my waist then, and I tensed. I hadn’t heard Gage walking due to the carpet cushioning his steps. He pressed a kiss to the side of my face.
Wilder’s eyes widened, as if he was scared. Had Gage seriously held a gun at him?
“You saw her. You can leave now.” Gage’s tone wasn’t normal. It had a darkness to it.
Wilder looked from him to me.
“You got two seconds,” Gage said coldly.
“I’m fine. Thanks for checking on me,” I told him, then went to close the door quickly before this escalated.
Levi started to clap. “That was handled like a fucking pro. Damn, if you’d handled shit like that five years ago, things might have gone down differently.”
“Gage, did you point a gun at Wilder?” I asked in disbelief.
Gage shook his head. “No, baby, I pressed it against his forehead. I didn’t point it,” he replied as if this were a normal conversation.
“You did what?” I asked.
He smirked. “After I licked your pussy and had you come all over my face, I warned you about this. Me.”
I shook my head. “No, you did not mention anything about guns.”
He ran his knuckle down my face as he tilted his head slightly. “The monster that consumes me. Takes over. The insane jealousy. I explained this to you. That wasn’t a fairy tale, baby.”
I ran my hand through my hair. “Being jealous is one thing. But that … what if you’d accidentally killed him?”
He chuckled. “I’ve never accidentally killed anyone. Everyone I’ve killed, I meant to pull the trigger.”
I needed to sit down. I felt light-headed.
“She’s gone pale,” Levi said.
Gage wrapped his arms around me and brushed his lips against my ear. “I warned you many times that I was dangerous. Your uncle warned you.” He licked along the outside of my ear. “I’m cruel, unstable, deadly.” He ran the tip of his nose along my neck and brushed my hair back. “And I’m fucking obsessed with you.” He pressed a kiss on my neck. His warm breath caressing my skin. “For you, I’m willing to try and be better. I didn’t kill him last night. The son of a bitch wants what’s mine, and I let him live. You’d be sad if he was dead. And I don’t want you sad.” His hands grabbed my butt, and he jerked me against him. “I want you happy, satisfied, and taken care of, but only by me.”