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‘He’s all talk. He’s not going to stab me.’ He looked a lot less cocksure than he had a few minutes prior.
I stepped forward, lifting my head and feigning a confidence I absolutely didn’t feel.
‘The last guy who touched me without my permission had his throat split in two with that very knife. He wouldn’t hesitate to send you to hell right along with him.’
He narrowed his eyes, looking from me to Alec and back to me. ‘I don’t believe you.’
Then Alec was on him, knocking him to the floor as he squealed. He dragged up the guy’s bloodied shirt and set his knife to his skin. Blood seeped from the spot where he sliced the point into his pale flesh.
Alec stuffed a hand over the guy’s mouth as his friends stared wide eyed. Even his friends weren’t willing to defend him. I really hoped Alec didn’t intend to gut him. He was a dick, but I didn’t need anyone else dying.
Within a few seconds, Alec stood, wiping the bloodied knife on the man’s shirt. I looked at the red-coated skin and raised my eyebrows. Alec had scored a great bit cock and balls into the guy’s lower stomach.
‘Thank your lucky stars. It’s only skin deep. Now whenever you go around trying to force yourself on women, hopefully you’ll think better of it.’
One of the other guys took his phone out and tried to take a photo of Alec, yelping when Alec strode over to him and snatched up the phone. ‘What’s the code?’
The man stammered but didn’t answer.
Alec grinned at him. ‘I can take your PIN or your thumb. Your choice.’
‘Eight-zero-zero-eight.’
‘Like boob? How fucking mature.’ Alec typed it in to test it. The home screen popped up, and he pocketed the phone.
‘Get him cleaned up and back in his hotel. Try the police, and I’ll come after anyone on your phone who means anything to you.’
With that, Alec grabbed my hand and took me back to our hotel.
‘I’m sorry you had to see that side of me,’ he said, not meeting my eyes.
‘Hey,’ I said, slowing down and pulling him toward me so that we were face to face, forehead touching. ‘That side of you doesn’t scare me off. You make me feel safe. Protected. I wouldn’t change it.’
He closed his eyes and inhaled shakily. ‘You’re perfect Esther. So fucking perfect.’
The kiss he gave me was tender and chaste, so unlike the ones usually filled with blistering heat. So sweet that it made my insides turn to jelly.
I was falling for him. Too hard.
And it was going to break me to go home and never be able to explore what could be.
But I had to go.
For Maeve.
She didn’t deserve Harold any more than I did.
THIRTY
ALEC
We took the first bus toward Barcelona in the morning, just in case the drunks had gone to the police after all.
As we settled into our seats at the back of the bus, I gathered Esther up with her head in my lap, and her legs stretched out over the rest of the back seat. There were so few people up and out that early that we were alone at the rear of the bus, with a few hours to go before we hit the city.
I’d used the stolen phone to book us into a luxury hotel for our remaining few nights in Spain. The suite looked out over the city, with an eight-seater sunken hot tub on the rooftop terrace accessed only by our suite. I’d also instructed them to leave champagne, condoms, and a generous amount of lube. I hadn’t forgotten her last request to go back to Harold with none of her holes remaining virginal.
But for now, I was glad to just have her in my lap, a bag stuffed full of snacks, and nothing to do but luxuriate in her for a few hours.
