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I’d give anything to be able to grab her arm and drag her out to the gorge to show her the cliff she’s made me throw so many people off. To watch her face when she knows she’s about to suffer the same fate, to see the terror in her eyes.
But it will be there all the same in an hour when she reaches the bottom of the mountain and finds the surprise I have for her there.
She gives me a sharp nod. “Until tomorrow.”
I follow her to ensure that she actually leaves, that she isn’t going to try to double-cross me the way that seems to be part of her nature.
Wendy opens the front door and steps out onto the porch, inhaling deeply while I lean against the jamb. “I’ve missed it, you know, the smell up here.”
“Of decaying bodies?”
She turns back and looks at me. “If anyone can smell the decaying bodies, you’re not doing your job right.”
She isn’t wrong about that.
My comment was meant in jest—a horrible joke about a situation that holds zero humor.
“You know no one will ever find anything up here, Wendy. I’m the only one who knows where they’re buried.”
She gives me a hard smile. “Let’s keep it that way.”
If she only knew…
That smug look would disappear in a second.
Balancing on her stilettos, she crosses the porch and makes her way down the steps into the waiting SUV. She doesn’t look back as she pulls the door open and climbs in, nor does she bother glancing this way before her driver pulls away and takes her down the mountain.
Soft footsteps cross the pine floors before Callista’s arms wrap around me from behind. She buries her face in the middle of my back. “She’s gone?”
Giving a sharp nod, I thread my fingers through hers over my chest. “Yes.”
She squeezes me tightly. “Did I do okay?”
I wait until the taillights disappear between the trees, then turn to face Callista and pull her in my arms, urging her back into the foyer so I can close the door before we speak further.
Capturing her face in my hands, I tilt it up to me. Nothing but love stares at me, reflecting my own. Gone is the terror I saw in her eyes that first night. And after what we just accomplished, I’ll never see it again.
“You did incredible. Absolute perfection, Beauty.”
I dropped my lips to hers and kiss her deeply, needing that connection, that acknowledgment that it worked. She sinks into me, aligning her body with mine, losing herself in it the same way I hope to.
The world melts away for a moment until it’s only the two of us, the need already simmering. My body responds to her eagerness, my cock hardening and pressing against her belly.
She releases a little moan of approval, but then she tears her mouth from mine, panting slightly. “We can’t. We have a phone call to make…”
Fuck.
We do.
And it can’t wait, even though I’d give anything to bury myself inside her right now.
I release her and pull my phone out of my pocket, dialing the number quickly.
He answers almost immediately. “Mr. Barker?”
“She’s on her way and will be there in about an hour.”
“Did you get it?”
