It felt good that he was keeping an eye on me. Since Tirone left, I hadn’t felt really safe. Not until I met Fort the other day and knew the Night Skulls were watching over me. Not until I knew the smell of Laius Lazzarini’s hug and the feeling of his protective arms.
“Okay. Well, I was…um…reminiscing…but your call stopped me at a crucial timing, and now some parts of me, two to be exact, are blue.”
There was a pause. “Fuck. You’re driving me crazy, baby girl. I hate that you need me, and I can’t be there yet.”
You’re here now.I didn’t say it. There was no way in hell I was going to have phone sex over a prison collect call.
“I’ll make it up to you tomorrow, I promise,” he said.
“What makes you so sure I’ll be there tomorrow?” I teased.
“Because I said so, and you’re my good girl.”
My nipples hardened and a fresh gush of arousal melted my panties. “No, I’m a very naughty girl. I think we’ve established that today.”
“Oh yeah? I gotta punish you then.”
“Is that so? How?”
“No morereminiscinguntil tomorrow. Until I show you the rest of my punishment.”
Fuck. I could come just at the anticipation of what he planned for me the next time I saw him. “Laius…I don’t know…”
“You can’t be that cruel, baby, and let me miss you like that.” His voice dropped, the playfulness gone.
I sighed. I was going to miss him, too. I was missing him already. How could that be happening? We’d only known each other for a few weeks, when we practically fought every time we met, when I thought he was an enemy about to destroy my life. How could everything change in one day?
“Jo? Still there?”
“Yes.”
“Do you remember what I said today before you left?”
You’re mine now. My cum in your panties proves it. You’re mine, and you know it.“Every word.”
“Good. Because I don’t like to repeat myself.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“It means you can’t run from me. I won’t let you. So you’d better be there tomorrow, baby girl.”
The threatening tone of his, while toxic, wreaked havoc on my body. I blamed Tirone for it. He was the only boyfriend I’d ever had. My first love and the boy who took my virginity. My body responded to his toxicity no matter how much my brain resisted it. He was always threatening me because of his jealousy and over the top possessiveness. Furore was exhibiting the same tendencies, and while I should be running as far away from it as possible, I was drawn to it like moss to a flame. “Or else?”
“If the mark I left on you isn’t enough to make you understand you’re mine, I’ll have to claim you some other way, baby. I can’t promise I’ll be gentle the next time, though.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“Come tomorrow, and you’ll never have to know. Wear something pink.”
CHAPTER 20
Jo
My body loved the threat. My brain screamed at me to run for the hills. There was a thrill to the forbidden and a kick in breaking the rules. To be the object of desire to someone who didn’t take no for an answer that he’d destroy anything in the way to have you, even you. To want what you couldn’t have, to crave what destroyed you.
I had that with Ty. Why would I want it again with Laius?
It had to stop. No matter how much I wanted him, I couldn’t repeat the same mistake and expect a different result. Furore and I would end the same way Ty and I did. In pain, tears and heartbreak. The only way.