“C’mon, Cammie.” I tucked her hair behind her ear. “You know what I’m talking about.”
A soft tremble ran through her. She crossed her arms over her chest.
“Are you really scared of me?” I asked in disbelief.
She laughed under her breath. Then she finally held my gaze. “You know I’m not.” Her arms moved nervously, and then she crossed them again. Not fast enough to hide those hardening nipples from me.
Oh.
My cock throbbed. Standing this close, knowing she wanted me too, shattered my resistance. I leaned in, devouring her lips with my stare before my kiss.
The fire inside her, the one I’d been dying to taste again for the past couple of months, set me in flames, even though she broke the kiss almost immediately.
“Dusty,” she whispered. “Why are you here?”
I placed my hands on the car top, caging her, afraid she might run away. “I’m here to tell you don’t go.”
She blinked and took a deep breath. I struggled so hard not to look at her tits. “We talked about this.”
“Don’t go, Cammie.”
“I have to. I lost my scholarship, and I’ve taken a fat student loan to go back to school. I must go and finish so I can get a job to pay for that loan.”
“That’s not a problem. I’ll cover that.”
She grunted, not pleased, her gaze at the new patch on my cut full of disdain. “And you’ll cover it with what? Blood money? From the people who killed my sister?”
“Cammie, just give me a chance.” I took her hand in mine and planted a kiss inside her palm. “I know I can’t bring Annie back, but I can make things right for you again.”
She pushed my arm and got out of the circle I made around her, but I didn’t let go of her hand. “Let me go.”
“No.”
“What?Youwill kidnap me now?”
“If I have to.”
She tried to pull her hand, inducing a firmer grip on my side. She bit her lips on a smile. “Just leave me alone. Go run your gang. You belong there.”
She couldn’t have been more wrong. “Tell me that kiss in the bunker wasn’t real.”
A deep sigh burst out of her mouth. “You know I can’t say that.”
I closed the distance between us and twined my fingers with hers, holding both her hands now. “Do you regret it, too, like you said you regretted everything between us?”
“I regret a lot of things,” her breath hitched, “but not that kiss.”
“That kiss changed me and my life forever. Made me know where I really belonged.WhoI belonged to.”
She glanced down. I lifted her chin with the back of my hand without breaking our hold. “Please don’t go, Cammie. Just come with me. I’ll do everything in my power to make you happy.”
Her eyes reddened with tears. “I have to go. I have no one here anymore…and I certainly can’t be a Night Skull.”
“Things have changed since I took the lead, I promise.”
“It doesn’t matter.”
I knew she was too damn stubborn. “Then I’ll leave everything to Mama and come with you.”