I leaned towardhim, my eyes locking on to his like a target. “You,” I said withabsolute conviction. Fuck it; make him believe what he wants. Itwas dulling me out anyway.
“Good girl.” Hesmiled smugly and released me from my chains.
I stood from thebed as he did, wrapping my arms around myself as the goosebumpstook over. I suddenly realized the only item of clothing I had inthis room was the wet bathing suit Darren had tossed somewhere onthe bathroom floor. I highly doubted Darren wanted me walkingaround the house naked with security personnel on thegrounds.
“Clothes?” Iasked, hopeful he’d let me go to my room to change. “I’d like toclean myself up as well if you don’t mind.”
“You can clean upin my bathroom,” he said. “I’ll get you something to wear.” He hadthat twinkle in his eye again that I knew meant trouble.Great.
I walked away andheaded toward his bathroom, quietly shutting the door behind mehoping he’d give me just a little privacy to take care of business.I used the toilet and ran a warm wet rag between my legs, cleaningoff the earlier mess Darren made all over me. I then looked at myhair, which was now a tousled mess thanks to it being damp andbeing fucked. I flipped my hair over, ran my fingers through myroots, and shook it out. Flipping my locks back over, I teased itwith my fingers in places and made it look a hell of a lot better.I could rock that.
Stepping from thebathroom, I found Darren leaning against the doorway of his walk-incloset. He held a shirt out for me.
“Here,” he said,and I took it from him. “That should besufficient.”
Unraveling theshirt in my hand, it turned out to be one of his dress shirts.Bluish gray with pearly whitebuttons. As I lifted it up, I almost laughed. I would swim in this.Slipping my arms through the sleeves, which fell eight inches pastmy fingertips, I buttonedthe shirt up to the last two buttons and tugged it down as low asit would go. It went all the way down just above my knees. I wasn’tjust swimming—I was drowning in this.
Darren stared downat me as the most satisfiedgrin I had ever seen on him slid across his face. “That,” hebeamed, “is the most adorable thing I’ve everseen.”
I looked down atthe dress shirt and looked back up at him, raising an eyebrow.“Seriously?” I said.
“Hmm ... I may have to make some changes in your wardrobe. Ithink I like you in my clothes.”
To be honest, I washappy to be wearing something that wasn't a dress even though itpractically fit like one. Despite all that, I had sleeves and I waswarm.
“I still need underwear. I’ll justgoto my room and grab some realquick.”
“Nope,” he said, grabbing my arm as I tried to walk past him.“I think you’re just fine as is.”
“What if someone sees?” I asked, a littleshocked.
“Then you’ll have to work extra hard at behaving to avoid thatnow, won’t you?”
I looked at him indisbelief, but then it suddenly clicked.
“Oooh, I get it, now. It finally all makes sense,” I said,crossing my arms over my chest as I stared him down. He gave me alook of caution, but I could tell he was curious about my suddenrevelation. “G-string thongs and barely-there dresses?” I laughed.“Nice try, but if you think the risk of exposing myself down therewill deter me from fighting you, then you are very wrong. Icouldn’t care less who sees when it comes to mysurvival.”
Darren stared downat me, that devious sexy shark-like grin of his plastered all overhis face, and it quickly made me uncomfortable. I hadprobably overstepped my boundaries again. Fucking A.
“You might not care now,” he said with a smirk, “but that’sonly because I haven’t told you what will happen should anyone everlay their foolish eyes on what’s mine.” His voice suddenly becamelow and dangerous as he stepped closer to me, and I couldn’t helpbut find myself backing right into a wall. Fear crept into my chestas Darren’s eyes gleamed with possessiveness and I suddenly wantedto run again.
Darren brought hishand up to my face, cupping my cheek in an almost too tight gripwhile those ocean blue eyes blazed down at me. My crossed armsslowly around me until I was unconsciously hugging myself,clutching anything I could.
“I’d kill them, Jaden,” he finally said with absolutecertainty. “Any man who is ever stupid enough to touch, speak, oreven look at you without my permission will not live another day.And if I find out it was because you broke my rules and allowed itto happen, I will make you watch.”
I gulped back myfear, trying hard to find the ability to make my tonguework again while my stomachtwisted into itself.
“You would kill your own men,” I stated. It was meant to be aquestion, but it came out as a simplefact.
“Yes,” he said seriously, his thumb running across my cheek.“Because if anyone should know better, it’sthem.”
I was silent for amoment, taking in everything that he just said. IfI wasn’t careful, Icould very easily be responsible for someone else’s death. Itobviously wouldn’t take very much to set Darren off and I reallydidn’t want to spend a single second of my time watching himtorture and kill someone to punish me. Then again, maybe I couldjust inadvertently get him to kill all of his guards or anyone elseI didn’t like for that matter, but I doubted that wouldwork.
But then somethingelse came across my mind. He couldn’t control the eyes of every manI came into contact with. I couldn’t imagine he would keep me onhis estate for the rest of my life. If he planned to marry mesomeday, then surely he would trust me enough to want to take meout in public, right?
“But … how could you possibly control something like that?Eventually, I’ll be seen, especially if you plan to marry me.Unless … you intend on never letting me off the
