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“Love you, too.”
Was it my imagination, or did those emerald eyes flare?
I’d never been so uncomfortable, and for once, I didn’t want to get off the phone. I wanted to hold it between us, use it as a shield to keep him away from me, to protect what was left of me from whatever the hell was going on.
Lee had other plans. He stuck my cigarette between his lips, then reached forward and grabbed his phone. Without looking at the screen, he pulled the stupid thing to his ear, but I couldn’t make out the words he was saying as I got lost in the way his mouth moved around the cigarette.
It wasn’t until he was walking away that I realized he’d ended the call. My parents were gone, and anything they could have done to save me was no more.
I was all alone.
With the beast in the room.
Lee disappeared into the bathroom, only to come out a moment later without the cigarette. “No smoking in the house,” he grumbled, swiping at the smoke that hung like a blanket in the air. “Affects the resale value.”
He kept coming at me, and that constant fear I now lived with pulsed inside of every inch of my being. When he stopped in front of me, he hit the switch on the wall above the bed, throwing the room into near-darkness.
“Get some sleep, Kelly.”
Scrambling toward the headboard, my handcuff chinking against the wooden spindle, I tried to get away from the man. He turned toward the door, his broad shoulders filling the black hole of the doorway, before a different sort of fear raced through me.
“Wait! Where are you going?”
“Couch.” He stopped, peeking over his shoulder at me. “Need some fuckin’ sleep.”
“Out there?”
He licked his teeth, then dragged his bottom lip between his teeth. “Not exactly like I can sleep in my bed now, can I?”
Oh, but he could. He did it before. And I slept better when he was here.
Would I sleep better if he knew I was here?
“See ya in the morning.” Lee walked out, and every noise he made in the other room—tossing pillows on the couch, shaking out a blanket, laying his way-too-big-for-a-couch body down—had that tingle in my skin flaring like wildfire.
I barely slept a wink, thinking about him out in the other room. Thinking about his lips wrapped around my cigarette. About the way my body reacted to his.
It wasn’t like this with other men. I couldn’t stand the thought of them touching me, be it father or doctor or some random John.
I didn’t understand, and for the first time since before, I felt like, maybe, I should.
18
KELLY
Sleep eluded me for the rest of the night, which sucked, because I hadn’t slept as soundly as I had at Lee’s side since before. I dozed fitfully, jolting awake at every little sound, and wished with everything in me he was still here in his bed beside me.
My old obsession with him had not only come raging back, it had grown to a whole new level. Each time I closed my eyes, it was Lee I saw. His broad, naked chest. His thick thighs that could likely kill a man twice my size.
And that third fucking leg he kept hidden in his pants.
Jesus Fucking Christ.
Of course, that’s where my mind was when he padded into his room in the morning. He didn’t once peek at me, just went straight for the bathroom to take a piss. That, of course, did nothing to relieve the images floating through my head. Neither did the sound of the shower turning on.
He was naked in there, water raining down on his massive body. And here I was, fully clothed, still handcuffed to his headboard, and so wet between my legs I may as well have been in the shower myself.
It was frightening.
