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“I know she wants to be free of him.”
“And you’re the man who will make that happen?”
“Well,” I chimed in, mocking, “I wouldn’t have to do it if you would have already.”
I blinked, and his gun was now aimed at my head. “There are only two ways to end this—either you die, or he does.” He scoffed out a chuckle. “Because trust me, if it were that easy to take him down, he’d already be dead.”
Despite wanting to rip him to shreds, I was able to govern the stability I needed. Allowing him to think he had the power over me in this situation.
He obviously had no idea who he was fucking with.
And I had no problem showing him a side of me I didn’t know existed.Until her.
CHAPTER
THIRTY-SEVEN
SLOAN
Taking a deep breath, I wanted to take a shower to try to loosen the tension building in the forefront of my mind. I grabbed a cream silk nightie with a matching robe from what I like to call my brother’s brothel closet and walked into the en suite bathroom, closing the door behind me.
Turning on the shower next, I set it on the hottest temperature possible and slipped out of my clothes before stepping inside the steam-filled ceramic walls. I welcomed the heat against my anxious body and allowed the hot water to burn into my pores, hoping it would relax the strained muscles in my back and neck.
I pressed my hands against the shower wall and leaned my forehead against the cool tile. Closing my eyes, I still felt Luke’s strong, callused fingers all over my flesh.
His body on top of mine.
Hearing echoes of his reassuring words and his hurtful ones.
No matter how much I tried, how much I wanted to push away the unrelenting questions with no answers, it was no use.
My mind ran wild.
I couldn’t get it to stop playing image after image from today in front of me. I stayed in the shower until the water ran cold over my aching body. After drying off, I threw on the nightie and robe, wrapping the ties around my waist and knotting it off in a bow.
I finished brushing my damp hair, going about my nightly routine before I cleaned up my cheek the best I could. Nav had everything I needed. I shivered when I opened the door, and the cool air hit my warm skin. I immediately walked over to the bedside table to turn on the lamp.
Instantly sensing I wasn’t alone.
I rapidly spun back around, shrieking as soon as I saw Luke sitting at the table by the sliding glass door in the dark room.
Placing my palm on my chest, I yelped, “You scared the shit out of me. Why are you lurking over there, sitting in the dark?”
His regard quickly turned predatory as he raked my body with his intense glare. It was somewhere between wanting to fuck me and kill me. At least I was somewhere in the middle.
He was like a snake slithering in the grass, drawing you in with its sinful allure and hypnotic trance before it unexpectedly struck you.
A hint of amusement crept in his eyes. “Out of everythin’ in that closet, that’s what you decide on?”
I shrugged. “I could have picked naked. Besides, it’s nothing you haven’t seen before.”
“Cute.”
“I thought so.”
I tried to pretend that small exchange from the first time we met didn’t mean he was warming up to me. Luke was the most difficult man to read. One minute, he was Jekyll, and the next, he was Hyde. It was hard to keep up with his mood swings.
I sat on the bed with my foot tucked under my ass. I started mindlessly playing with the seams in the bedding, not knowing where to go from here. Once again, there was a shift in our relationship.
