Why He LUSTS: A Dark Billionaire Romance Series (Why He Sins Book 4) by Mary Madison

Author:Mary Madison [Madison, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Chapter Four—Desmond

We were just starting to doze off, huddled together on the couch, when I saw a shape pass by the window and snapped awake.

“What?” Chelsea mumbled blearily. “What's wrong?”

“Nothing's wrong.” I squinted at the window, shaking my head. “It's just that for a moment, I thought I saw...”

She straightened up, yawning and extending her arms over her head. She was adorable when she did that, like a cat stretching after an afternoon nap. “Saw what?”

I got up and grabbed a blanket that was draped on a chair, wrapping it around my naked body. Then I went to the window, cupping my hand above my eyes and peering outside.

Sure enough...

“Son of a bitch,” I grumbled.

“Des, what's going on?” Chelsea's eyes were wide, and her voice was starting to rise with alarm. “You're scaring me.”

“No, hey, it's nothing to be scared of,” I assured her, thinking, Annoyed, though... that's another story. “You remember Whitey, right?”

She tilted her head, sleepily. “The big guy from the house? The one who played cards with me when you went to the warehouse with Junior and Peter? Kind of hard to forget a guy that size, wouldn't you say?”

I snickered. “You've got a point there.”

“What about him?”

“He's outside,” I told her. “Hanging around on the sidewalk. From the look of it, he's trying to appear inconspicuous, God help us.”

I couldn't help but laugh. The sight was quite comical—that giant slab of a man was just loitering nonchalantly a few doors down, casting the odd glance toward my apartment and studying his nails as if to say, Nope, not up to anything suspicious, folks, nothing to see here, go about your business.

“'Inconspicuous?'” Chelsea repeated, giggling. “The Titanic would have a better chance of going unnoticed out there. What do you suppose he's up to?”

“Oh, that's an easy one,” I sighed. “Junior must have felt bad about the way things went between us earlier, all that stuff he said about not protecting me anymore, and... No, wait, it was probably Peter, actually. Yeah. He must have sent Whitey to watch over us after all, make sure we were safe.”

Chelsea raised her eyebrows. “Huh! Well, that's good, right? It means we don't have to fend for ourselves anymore. We have a better shot of making it through all this.”

“Yeah,” I conceded, “except that it's kind of silly for Whitey just to stand around out there, you know? He sticks out like a sore thumb.”

“Isn't that the idea?” she asked. “People see him guarding us, so they don't try anything?”

“Ordinarily, I'd agree,” I mused slowly. “Except that this time, we need to know a lot more about who's behind all this. We need to draw them out, take them alive if possible so we can get another crack at questioning them—us this time, not Junior, so we can find out what's really going on. We won't be able to do anything like that with him out there.”

“I guess you're right.” She still sounded uncertain. “So, what are you going to do?”

“I'm going to go out there and tell him to come inside.

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