His Obsession by Quinn Marlowe

Author:Quinn Marlowe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Spitfire Press

10

SLOANE

ULTERIOR MOTIVES

Shit.

Shit, shit, shit.

And I wasn’t even talking about the fact that I’d just fucking kissed Joseph Rossi. Or rather, he’d just kissed me … and I hadn’t stopped him.

The truth was, I’d kissed him back. And I’d liked it way too fucking much.

And no, because I can hear you asking, I hadn’t been lusting after that for years and years. I hadn’t been dreaming about it since I was sixteen, letting my mind wander over what it would feel like to have his hands on me. His lips on mine.

Wondering if he felt the same way I did.

Besides, none of that was the point right now.

The point was, he’d just told me what I already knew: that Caleb Massimo was currently stalking me. I’d known it for months, and Joseph Rossi suddenly showing up in my life and figuring it out too didn’t give him the right to get involved.

“That’s none of your fucking business,” I told him coldly. “And the last time I checked, you haven’t spoken to me in about five years, which means you don’t get a say in how I live my life, Joseph. Not that you ever did. You’re not my goddamned father.”

Yeah, okay, that was a little bit over the line, but what was it to Joseph, anyhow? Sure, Caleb was a pain in the ass and a royal dickhead, but that didn’t mean he was actually dangerous. And even if he was, that was none of Joseph’s business.

I wasn’t his girl to protect anymore. In fact, I never had been.

And while I was at it…

“What did you do, anyhow, come all the way from New York just to piss me off? Act superior, like you know more than I do about how to live? Act like you had any right to just show up out of the blue and starting handing out orders, when you haven’t bothered to pick up a phone and give me a call in the last five years? You think you can just show up and act like you’re in charge, the way you always did when we were kids?”

He slammed me back against the wall, his eyes on fire and his face cold, and I suddenly remembered how close we were standing together. I remembered the dark hallway and his hands on me and his lips sealing over mine as he pushed me back, his body telling me exactly how much he wanted to do more than that.

I shoved that thought away from me, thinking I could deal with it later when we weren’t in the middle of a fight, but he pinned me to the wall with his body again, his hand coming up to grasp my chin and keep me still.

His breathing was ragged, and he smelled like he’d been drinking the bitterest beer he could find. He smelled like the beach and the LA sunshine, and he smelled like the soap he’d used ever since I could remember.

He was also hard as a rock

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