Sweet Possession (Criminal Underground Book 1) by Lucy Smoke & A.J. Macey

Author:Lucy Smoke & A.J. Macey [Smoke, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-30T05:00:00+00:00

20

Mare

Ian drove the SUV with one hand on the wheel and the other propped on the windowsill. I watched him for a moment, waiting for some kind of explanation. When he didn’t speak again, I crossed my arms over my chest, glared, and cleared my throat pointedly. Without turning his head, his eyes slid my way once before returning to the road. “That sounds pretty bad,” he said lightly. “Might want to get that checked out or else you really will be calling out of work because of some fast acting illness.”

I whirled and stared at him. “Since you brought it up, what the hell makes you think you have the right to call out of work for me?”

He lifted one shoulder and let it fall. “You had training today.”

“Funny,” I said in a tone that blatantly stated just how un-funny it all was, “I didn’t know I had training until I woke up with a man in my bed. Tell me, Ian, why exactly are you so preoccupied with stalking me? Can’t get another girl on the line?” The question instantly made my stomach turn, and I knew no matter how much I wanted to push them away, they were mine.

He dropped his arm from the windowsill, both of his hands curling over the steering wheel. He flashed me a wickedly dark smile. “Oh, you know there’s no other girl for me, baby. I only need one naughty little brat in my life, and that’s you.”

Until that moment, I hadn’t thought of it, but I wondered … it’d been five years, after all. Sure, I hadn’t had sex. I’d been too busy going through the motions of the Witness Protection Program. Taking classes, being retrained as Mary Peterson since they’d erased my life as America Perelli. “You didn’t…” I started, not sure I wanted to hear the answer, but masochistic enough to know that I needed it. “I mean … you weren’t with me anymore. You could’ve…” Ian looked over at me, his eyes serious as they bore into me.

“No one else, Mare,” he said with such severity that I knew I’d risk the fucking spanking of a lifetime if I even questioned it. “Since the moment we fucking laid eyes on you, my little brat, it’s always been you.”

Tears misted over my eyes and I turned my head abruptly away to keep from showing how much his words affected me. My heart wrenched in my chest, relief filling me. I didn’t realize until now how much I needed to hear those words. Actions had always spoken louder than words. They’d waited for me, searched for me. To know that I was truly theirs like they always claimed, but as soon as he said them, declared them with such intensity, I knew they were true.

I cleared my throat in an attempt to dislodge the lump that had formed this time, and Ian returned his focus on driving. After a few moments, I peeked back at him, outlining the strength and cut of his jawline with my eyes.

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