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ChapterThirty-Eight
Dominik
The second that door closed, my groin tightened.
Already, I had crossed one of the lines I had set out for myself, and I did it without a second fucking thought. Her lips had been so soft. So sweet. So delectable and tempting. I simply couldn’t help myself as she teased the slit of my lips the way she had.
And the way my dick ached for her tempted me with breaking my next rule.
“So,” I said as I peeked down at Eden, “where do we start?”
She drew in a deep breath. “We start by getting my things. Come on.”
She walked in front of me, and I reached my hand out for her wrist. I wrapped my fingers around her skin, halting her in her tracks before she turned around and looked back up at me. For once, she didn’t pull away. For once, she didn’t curse my existence. And I wondered why that didn’t bother me.
I wondered why the hell I cared.
“Let’s wait until we know everyone else is safe. If someone’s watching, it’ll look weird if we all leave at the same time.”
Eden blinked. “That’s… actually not a bad idea. How long do you want to wait?”
I pulled her close to me and wrapped her up in my arms. I just wanted to hold her. I wanted to comfort her and let her know that things were going to be all right. I didn’t know why I wanted to do that, of course. I had no fucking clue what the hell was happening to me. But, as I rubbed her back and settled my chin on top of her head, I found myself staring at the wall of information I had inadvertently made.
Before my eyes found the one sliver of tinted window that hadn’t been covered with anything.
“That’s where it came from,” I murmured.
Eden lifted her head from my chest. “What?”
I released her and charged the window. “That’s where that fucking laser came from!”
I gripped the paper on the window and ripped it to hell and back. I raked my nails down its entire expanse, tearing the pictures in half and balling everything up into my fists. I slammed the paper onto the ground. I trampled it with my feet as I cleared the window of the now-useless information I had dug up on her entire family.
And as I panted for air with sweat dripping down the nape of my neck, I stared out the window.
“Fuck you and the horse you rode in on,” I glowered.
“Dominik?” Eden asked cautiously. “Do you see something out there?”
I rolled my shoulders back and clasped my hands in front of my body. I stared out into the night air, listening as car horns honked beneath me and people screamed at one another down the block. And as I stood there, tall and strong, a smile settled upon my cheeks. I wanted that fucker on the other end of the line know that I wasn’t scared of him. I wasn’t afraid of what he might do to me. I wanted him to know that I sure as hell wasn’t backing down from a fight, especially when my life’s legacy was wrapped up within the fight itself.
No one could intimidate me. And as I stood at the window that had almost perished with a sniper shot, I locked eyes with the only other building facing my headquarters.
He had to have been across the street in that building.
“Dominik,” Eden said as she started rubbing my back, “do you see something? What is it?”
I shook my head. “All I see is darkness. A cloak that a coward would wear. He had to be in that building across the street. It’s the only way he could have angled a laser through that little slit of a hole that wasn’t covered with paper.”
“Do you think someone would let us into the building so that we can check it out?”
Just as she asked the question, my desktop dinged. I whipped around and saw that I had an email notification, and it gave me pause. It was late at night. Very late at night. And I knew that we were the only two in the building outside of the night-shift security guards on the main level. So, the email couldn’t have been work.
“It might be Jackson,” I murmured.
Then again, they’d only left a few minutes ago. It couldn’t have been Jackson letting me know that everyone was safe. The man was too smart for that. I knew he’d take Eden’s parents to the outskirts of town before putting them up in a cash-only motel. We’d done it several times with clients that needed to lay low from the public eye. And that trip alone would’ve cost him half an hour before he’d even have the ability to tell me that they were all okay.
That revelation alone made my heart drop to my toes.
