“Well, if you’d stop, I wouldn’t have to.” I sigh. “This doesn’t change anything. You and Lake are never gonna happen.”
She stomps her foot and releases a low growl. “You drive me crazy!”
“Did you fuck that geek the other night?” I ask. It’s a question I’ve been needing to know the answer to since I saw her with him.
“Yes,” she says, but I know she’s lying. “And it was amazing.” She turns to walk away again, so this time I catch her around the waist and lift her off her feet. She squeals and wriggles to free herself. It sends a volt through me and I shift her to my side so she doesn’t feel my obvious erection.
I shove her into a dark shop doorway and place my hands on either side of her to cage her in. “Liar,” I say. “If you did fuck, then you were left unsatisfied. No woman would be as feisty as you were just then if they’d had a good orgasm.”
“You’re so disgusting,” she mutters. “Eurgh!” she cries. “I can’t believe you’re having sex with my boss.”
“If it makes you feel better, her husband is just as bad. He knows she fucks around and he doesn’t care because he does it too.”
“Why are they together?” she wails.
I shrug. “Money?” I suggest.
“That makes a mockery of marriage.”
“Marriage is bullshit,” I mutter, and her eyes widen.
“How can you say that?” she whispers. “Marriage is beautiful. It’s a promise to love someone for the rest of your life.”
“Is that what you want with geek boy?” I ask.
She pauses and then shrugs her shoulders. “Maybe.”
I step closer and she presses herself against the door. “You believe in love, Eva?” I ask and she nods. Her eyes are staring at me with wonder. “You want marriage, kids, a dog?” I add and she nods again. “That’s exactly what I needed to hear,” I say. It’s everything I can never give her, and it’s the reason I have to keep away from her, but trapping her here against this door, where her tits spill over her dress and her leg pokes from the slit that goes to her thigh, I can’t help but want to taste her.
My hand goes to her cheek and I cup her face gently. She closes her eyes and tilts her head slightly into my palm. Her chest rises and falls with each deep breath she takes. I swallow and move my mouth inches from hers. “Just one taste,” I whisper before sealing my lips over hers. Gently, carefully, treating her like the delicate flower she is, I move my mouth against hers. Her lips are soft, and when she gives me access, I sweep my tongue against hers. My chest swells with warmth, and something about her feels so right that for a second I want it all. I want to be selfish and take it all, ruin her for everyone who goes there after me. But I can’t. I can’t spoil her with my darkness.
I feel the moment her hands begin to move from her sides and up towards my chest. I catch them before they make contact and I break the kiss. She looks to where I hold her and frowns. “Now, stay the hell away from me and my brothers,” I hiss, then I drop her hands and stalk away.
Callum’s waiting by the bar. He raises a glass when he sees me. “Thought you’d met a fine woman and left me.” He grins, and Chains sniggers from beside him. Callum’s eyes go to the door and he spots Eva walking in. He grins at me. “Oh, you met Eva?”
“No,” I say coldly.
“Oh, come on, you can tell me. I’ve been trying to crack that for months. I bet she fucks like a greedy little bitch.” He smirks, and I shake away the vision of me ripping his head off. Chains senses my burning desire for blood and asks me for a word. I follow him away from Callum.
“Shit, brother, I thought you were gonna kill him then and there. Did something happen with you and Eva?”
“No,” I growl. “Yes. Fuck!” I shake my head. I hate talking.
“Look, you don’t have to tell me, VP. I know you hate to talk,” he says.
“She caught me fucking Callum’s wife.”
Chains laughs hard. “Shit. What did she say?”
“That it leaves Lake open for her because apparently that’s how it works?”
“I think Lake got your message loud and clear when you broke his nose. He won’t even look at her again, trust me.”
“Everywhere I turn, she’s there. I can’t get away from her. And now she works for the bitch I’m screwing.”
“Get a new bitch?” suggests Chains. I nod. Maybe I’ll have to. “And you don’t think it can be her?” he asks, looking across the room. I follow his gaze to where Eva is. “Cos if you don’t, I think Callum will.”
Callum has her cornered. “He’s a sleazeball,” I mutter. I’ve watched him with other women. He often books out hotels after the parties Michelle hasn’t attended and takes women back. “Eva isn’t like that. She believes in love and marriage. She wouldn’t go off with a married man.”
“What makes you so certain? Maybe she feels sorry for him after she caught you and his wife together?” asks Chains. Eva glances around like she’s looking for help and I’m about to go over when she raises her knee and it connects with Callum’s balls. He doubles over and she steps around him, disappearing into the crowd, leaving him coughing and spluttering. “Or maybe not,” Chains adds and laughs.
Chapter Four
Eva
That piece of shit. I shudder. “What the hell did he do?” asks Kyle.
“He invited me to an after-party,” I say.
Kyle frowns. “And you kneed him in the balls for that?”
“It was at a sex club!” I add,
