Tell Me to Go by Charlotte Byrd

Author:Charlotte Byrd
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781632250537
Publisher: Byrd Books

20

When he makes me cry…

I wrap my sheet around my chest and prop up my head. My eyelids feel heavy, but I try to keep them open. Waves of emotion are no longer taking me on a rollercoaster ride. I look at him, but really somewhere past him in the distance.

Nicholas is just as relaxed. He lies flat on his back with his arm tucked behind his head. His hair is infused with body but not a mess. He stares at the ceiling. His chin is tilted upward, away from his body, as his chest moves up and down with each deep breath.

I have met my match. He wants me as much as I want him. We lust after each other, and yet, neither of us can give up the game. I will not beg and he will not give in until I do.

“So, are we actually ever going to do it?” I ask, teasing him.

“That’s up to you,” he says without moving a muscle.

“Oh, is it?”

“You ask me to, I comply and send you to the moon.”

“Or the next time, you can just not stop,” I suggest.

He turns to his side. His eyes focus on mine. After a bit, I’m the one who blinks first.

“So, there will be a next time?” he jokes.

“Maybe. Maybe not,” I say smugly.

But if we keep talking like this, I can’t be too sure that it won’t happen again really soon.

I’ve never thought of myself as a competitive person but Nicholas seems to bring out that side of me.

Especially when it comes to this. He had set up the rules. When I agreed, the rules made me feel safe.

But now, I feel anything but that. Every time I touch his arm, every time he brushes up against me, the bolt of electricity that surges through me makes me weak in the knees.

It’s almost as if my body aches for his and there’s nothing I can do to keep that sensation at bay.

I lie back and look up at the ceiling tiles, which have thick crown molding around each one.

I’ve never seen anything like this except in magazines. As much as I want to keep them out, Owen’s warnings about Nicholas and his true identity creep back in. He lied to me about not knowing my brother, and Owen wouldn’t have any reason to lie.

But does knowing that change anything about our deal? I’d suspected that he had a past, with his skills, it would’ve been ignorant not to.

But what about the people that he has supposedly killed. Did he do it or are those just rumors?

“I have to go back to Boston,” I say definitively.

Nicholas doesn’t reply.

“I have to testify on my brother’s behalf. He’s all I have.”

Again, Nicholas doesn’t reply.

“If I don’t go and he doesn’t get out, I will never forgive myself.”

He doesn’t say a word.

“Are you listening to me?” I ask.

“I can’t let you go,” he says after a moment. There’s that possessiveness rearing its ugly head.

“I don’t need your permission,” I remind him.

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