Page 10 of Drive Me Crazy

"Good." I tweak her nose. "I thought I was gonna have to hold you here and torture you with my sexual deviancy until you agreed."

She tosses her head back, laying her arm over her forehead. "Now that you mention it, I am gonna be kinda busy this week. You might have to pressure me into it."

"You're trying to kill me, aren't you?" I nip at her bottom lip.

"God, if sex with you is like this every time... then, hell yes!" Her mouth crashes into mine, and we roll into another pleasurable time.

An hour later, we're both filled with heartache. She rests her head against my chest, molded to me. I hold her as close as I can, without breaking her.

"I don't want to leave." She grumbles.

"And I don't want you to, but if you don't, Landon's gonna come after you." I rub circles on her back, hoping to soothe her.

Her body tenses, and I ready for the worst. "I was wondering..."

"I assumed."

"When you come next week, we need to clear the air. Make a fresh start, no secrets, and nothing between us." Harper stands motionless, waiting on my response.

I rear back, nudging her chin up. "I agree, I want you to share everything with you."

"Really? How is Mackenzie gonna take this?" Her frown deepens at the mere mention of Mack's name.

I can't hold my laughter back. "She will be fine with it, baby. Trust me, she's okay with us."

"Good." She kisses me sweetly. "I better get going. Come by in an hour, I think it's time we make this thing official. You can help me pack my car and say goodbye the lame way."

"That, I can do." I return her kiss and gaze longingly as she saunters away from me. A flutter in my chest when she turns, blowing me a kiss before slipping behind the trees to her home.

I slump against the wall of the barn, letting the night's events sink in. "I can't wait to tell you how in love with you I am, Harper Blaine."

"Sadly, or not so much for me, that's never going to happen." A shadow from the dark corner of the building crawls out from the mire of shit it's been buried under for far too long.

I push off from the wall, squaring off with this fucker. Obviously, he and Harper are friends, and I'm about to find out exactly how much. "Fuck you. Now, let me show you the way out." I point behind him.

"Alright, but you and I both know you want to find out more, don't you?" He walks toward me, and I ready for the fight of my life.

"You're mistaken, I'm the type to give a fuck about who you were to her." I narrow my eyes, fists at my sides, ready to go.

When he finally steps into the light, the darkness beneath his eyes reveal a deeper evil in him than anyone can imagine. "You will take your little prick and walk away from her, she's mine."

"Huh? What did you say, can you speak up?" I step into him, pushing him back.

He shoves his finger into my chest, and a rage races through me. "Stay the fuck away from her."

"Or? Because it sounds like there's an or but if you want to drop it, I can let you do that." I spit at him, seething.

"Here's the thing..." He turns his head in the direction Harper walked away in, a smile creeps across his face as he slowly looks back at me. "while you're babysitting, I'll be across the hall from her. In class with her. Close enough to her that no one will ever find her once I'm done."

"Are you threatening her?" I growl, spittle hitting him across the face.

His eyes are black, like a hole deep inside him, a void like I've never seen before. A chill runs through my veins, and for the first time in my life, I fear for Harper.

"She's no fool as to who I am, and she has firsthand account of what I'm capable of, but she won't say is that I'll do it. Now, you know too." His lips twitch when something flashes behind his eyes. "Yeah, I've done it before. I can do it again."

"I'll never let you lay a hand on her." I push him backward, praying he'll run back to the hole he came from.

He smirks. "She'll leave with me today, and I'll see you both dead before I let her go."