I had matured beyond the point of being a spoiled, attention-seeking brat.
When I saw Emily’s note to her dad written in tears, I felt a pang of jealousy rise in my chest and course through my veins.
I need to stop feeling bad about myself for liking Emily so much. Our world had thrust her into it against her will. She had little control over the fact that her life had been so privileged up until this point. Moreover, it’s reasonable to assume that she deserves to get her hands on whatever it is that she desires. She’d done nothing to deserve what I’d done to her, snatching her away from her secure, uncomplicated existence.
I shook off my rising feeling of remorse.
I wasn’t sorry for stealing her. Nicola needed her, and I needed Nicola. He was the only family I had in the world. My father could still be alive, but that didn’t make him family, not in the ways that mattered. Even after I’d hauled Nicola back to Lasvagas, he was like a ghost without Emily. He’d never truly been happy in his life, but this was on a whole other level. He’d been unhappy without her.
I’d assured Nicola that Emily would come around and forgive him.
“What do you think you’re doing?” I inquired, leaning against the doorframe with my arms crossed over my chest. I’d swung the bedroom door wide a full thirty seconds earlier, and Emily had yet to see me.
She yelped and rushed away from the drawer she’d been searching into. Several more were open, their contents in disarray. While I didn’t like seeing my carefully arranged belongings scattered over the room, her embarrassed blush and sheepish grin made me overlook the mess.
I entered the room and made a little step inside. When she attempted to back away, she collided into the desk.
She seemed to be trying to convince me that she wasn’t dangerous by holding up her hands. The thought of the voluptuous little brunette giving me any difficulty made me chuckle out loud. Compared to me, she was rather short, so I towered over her.
It was a priority of mine to maintain my fitness and muscle mass, therefore I worked hard to do so. Being the biggest, baddest motherfucker in the room was an asset to my profession, which required me to regularly intimidate others.
Emily was Nicola’s friend, and I’d vowed not to terrify her. Even so, it didn’t stop me from playing about with her. She had such big, blue eyes the first time I saw her, when I had cornered her at Nicola’s pub and asked for a dance. She had trembled in my shadow, and I must admit that a perverse part of me found it endearing.
Even while I didn’t want to intentionally scare her, I couldn’t deny that I enjoyed seeing her anxiety levels rise. Seeing her reaction to me was scrumptious. For Nicola, she may relax and sigh, but I could make her quake with fear.
Obviously, I knew she belonged to Nicola. However, it didn’t mean I couldn’t enjoy myself while he was out of the house. I didn’t believe it would bother him even if he were here. Even though he is very protective of Emily, we were always open with each other. Even women may be sexist.
Even though I knew Emily was too naive to enjoy such a game, I could still play with her. I have the ability to force her to do what I want.
As I inched closer to her, I said, “I asked you a question.” Why are you ripping my room to shreds?”
Her pupils constrict and her little chin arches up in d” Y’all just went and abducted me, and I’m not even mad. My anger is well-founded. ”
“You’re going through my stuff and ripping everything up because I pissed you off?”
I continued to go closer and closer to her until there were just a few inches between us. I avoided touching her, but I did get into her personal space to the point that she felt uncomfortable.
She attempted to lean back again, but her desk prevented her from doing so. Because I was afraid she may try to escape, I pinned her between my hands on the board at her hips. I suspected what she had been doing while I was away, but I wanted her to own up to her wrongdoing.
I said, “Emily, tell me what you were up to.”
She huffed a tiny bit in anger, but her wide eyes still kept me on edge. I was trying to find a method to get in touch with Ella, she blurted out hastily. I knew you had an extra tablet lying around here somewhere.
The hair on my head sprang up. “Did you really believe that I would leave anything of that kind sitting around where you might find it?”
I watched as her beautiful mouth twitched anxiously as she licked her lips. I was curious as to how she would taste. I imagine it’s a much like fucktopia. In any case, Nicola did refer to her as “his angel” often.
By using my most ominous tone, I made it clear that I anticipated a response to my questions.
Finally, the little shaking I’d been anticipating had arrived. Her hands were trembling and her skin was pebbly. Her eyes widened, and her head cocked to one side.
Fuck. With each passing moment, I could better comprehend Nicola’s fixation.
“I…” With a pause, she inhaled deeply. My first assumption was that you were being rhetorical.
I’ll just say, “No, it wasn’t.”