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“Come on, get in, I’ll take you to the police station. It’s just down the block,” the driver says, pulling open the door. “Take my jacket.”
He slips it off, resting the warm black fabric over my shoulders enveloping me in a new sense of relief and safety.
With a final breath, I catch sight of my face reflected in the black of the car window as I turn and hop into the back seat.
I’m still a disaster. Sex messed hair and no makeup. I look crazed.
“Thank you so much,” I say, dropping the gun to the floor as I sit on the cool leather seat releasing an enormous exhale, so happy to be safe I barely register that the back of the car is pitch black.
I lower my face into my hands, my insides quivering with the surging adrenaline that comes with running for your life.
There’s the scent of roses and that cologne…and the sound of breathing.
I freeze.
I spin on my bare ass, letting my eyes adjust until I make out the shape of a man spread across the whole of the back seat, his arms flung across the backrest, knees impossibly wide.
He’s huge...
I wiggle my toes on the floor, trying to find the gun, cocking my thumb toward the window. “I’m sorry, the driver—” I stutter, already knowing this man is not my savior. “I need to—”
“Hello, wife.”
That voice chills me down to my marrow as the row of lights along the ceiling slowly rise.
“Noooo.” I sob.
The back of the limousine is filled with bouquets of black roses tied with white ribbons. Heart-shaped silver balloons hover at the ceiling and there is my husband, tapping his front teeth together, lips pulled back with a click of his tongue.
“Hello, daughter. Wife. Little Lamb. Daddy is never going to let you go. I keeptellingyou that.”
I grasp at the door handle, tugging at it over and over, but it does nothing. I slap my palm on the cool glass of the window, the car already moving down the street.
“No!” I scream. “No, no,no, no, no. How did you—”
I stall.
Pinching my lips together, looking at Ramses, all cocky and arrogant and fucking stunning.
The clutch starts in my belly, then vines around my throat, making that pulse between my legs start up again.
I cough and choke but the laughter bursts from my lips as I kick my feet and squeal like a child bouncing up and down on the seat.
I cover my face as I throw myself against my husband. My stepfather.
My hus-father.
My Daddy.
The only man I’ve ever loved. His arm coils around me, those killer blue eyes sparkling in a half-glare as I melt into the loving feel of his hard edges against my soft skin.
“When did you buythiscar?” I demand. “I wasn’t sure it was the right one. I never thought you’d get a tacky Hummer.”
He grins, and before he answers he leans in to plant a kiss full on my lips. It tastes all the better for the tears, for the panic, for the chase. I luxuriate in the feel of his mouth dominating mine, barely breathing as I drink him in.
“I already told you, it’s no fun if you know what’s coming. You thought you could run from me? Never.”
“Mom and Dad are going to besomad,” I say, letting the laughter come full and wonderful now, swiping at the tears cascading down my cheeks. “I can’t believe we’re really married!”
