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Penulis: Anya Ivy
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RORY

I’m going to break a sweat.

I’m going to break a sweat and ruin my make-up and then I’ll be toast.

I try to reach for my zipper one more time before I give up completely. Carter is going to have to help me with that. He’s already knocked on my door twice. The first time to tell me that he’s ready and that the car taking us to the event arrived already, and the second to ask me if I was waiting for a special invitation from the Queen of England before I came out.

That one cracked me up, I won’t lie. But I’d been making the final touches on my hair. Does he have any idea how much work and time it takes to get one’s hair and make-up done? Not a single clue, I’m sure.

With one final glance at myself in the mirror, I grab my clutch, necklace and walk out the door. The walk down the hallway and stairs is done with bated breath. I know how I look and I know I look good, but I still want to see Carter’s reaction to the dress. Don’t ask me why. Let’s just chalk it up to the fact th
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  • Tempting Her Bodyguard    56

    CARTERI’m glaring at my phone on the island top like it’s going to magically make the person I’m calling answer faster. Newsflash; it doesn’t. I reach voicemail. A-fucking-gain. I’ve heard this fucker’s greeting so much in the past twenty-four hours that I’ve already memorized it--not voluntarily--and it’s beginning to grate on my fucking nerves. The voicemail greeting isn’t even finished yet before I’m slamming my thumb down on the screen, ringing him again. I’m beginning to worry--even though I know I probably shouldn’t be because he’s a grown ass man and more than capable of taking care of himself--and it’s pissing me the fuck off. What responsible adult doesn’t answer their fucking phone a whole day? As if he hears my question, the call connects and the asshole’s voice fills the kitchen. “What?” He barks like I’m a fucking inconvenience. Like I’m not the one who’s been calling him since fucking yesterday without a fucking response. “Where the hell have you been, asshole?” I s

  • Tempting Her Bodyguard    55

    RORY“What are you doing?” Carter asks, a note of surprise evident in his voice. I don’t have to turn around to know he’s staring at me with that look again—the one that suggests I’ve got more than a few loose screws in my head that I need to get checked. “Arming us with supplies, obviously.” He even had to ask? Anyone with a working pair of eyes would take one look at the packed island and know. I strategically place the only one tub of ice cream closest to my stool before I take a few steps back with my hands braced on my hip, admiring my work. It’s not until Carter responds, being his usual pessimistic self that I turn around to glare at him. He’s staring at the island top rather dubiously, eyes moving over the drinks, different brands of chocolate, before resting on the giant tub of ice cream. The one meant for me and me alone. “These are supplies.” “Yes,” I chirp. It isn’t a question but I answer anyway. “I don’t know about you but my body consumes a lot of sugar when I work

  • Tempting Her Bodyguard    54

    RORYThe heat of Carter’s eyes are like a brand on my skin from where he stares at me, on the other side of the kitchen island. He hasn’t taken his eyes off me since the blowjob and while there’s definitely the unmistakable look of awe on his face, there’s also something else. He almost looks unhappy, probably because when we got out of the shower, he’d been so hell-bent on eating me out, to which I’d refused, taken a proper shower and ordered us takeout instead. He looks at me like I’ve taken his favorite thing away. It’s so unexpected, it brings a small smile to my face. His scowl deepens and that does nothing but make my smile widen. Sometimes, I think about the Carter of before and struggle to match him with the man sitting in front of me now. We’ve come a really long way, from not being able to pull a word out of him to him giving them to me freely. From him avoiding me like I was the plague itself to him now being in a foul mood because I refused to partake in an activity that

  • Tempting Her Bodyguard    53

    CARTER“Rory…” Her name is a hoarse sound on my lips, my vision so clouded with lust and hazy around the edges that I can barely make out anything save for her face.“Yeah?”She seems just as distracted as I am. I don’t even think it’s possible she heard what I said with the way her eyes stay glued to my lips. Her lashes are wet and spiky, a droplet of water running down the side of her face and stopping at her upper lip. All I can think about is closing the distance between our faces and licking it off. Her skin has never looked better than it does at the moment. “What are you doing?” Actually, the question I should be asking is ‘what the fuck is wrong with me?’ because how on earth do I have a naked Rory pressed up to me and the only thing I can think to do is ask her what she is doing. Maybe the blood loss had affected my brain after all, because I sure as hell am not thinking right. “I-I…” Rory blinks as she struggles to find her words, her hands dropping to rest on my uninjur

  • Tempting Her Bodyguard    52

    CARTERShe looks around, seemingly at a loss. “Um…”“Need me to refresh your memory?” I’m having way too much fun with this than I should. “If I remember correctly, your words were ‘I want to assist you in taking a shower’. Or are you retracting them?”“Of course not,” Rory huffs, rolling her eyes as she seems to get her bearing back. “Why would I? I said I’ll help you take a shower and I will.”One of my brow quirks up as I appraise her. “Okay, so why am I standing in here and you’re all the way over there?”My mood has significantly improved compared to when I slid out of bed this morning with my arm radiating so much pain, I’d wanted nothing more than to cut the limb off and be done with it. After staggering to the bedside table, pain ringing a fucking anthem in my head, I’d found my prescription, popped two pills in my mouth and washed it down with water before stumbling into the bathroom to take a piss. The fact that I’d woken up to find Rory sleeping next to me yet hadn’t ling

  • Tempting Her Bodyguard    51

    RORY I’m jolted awake by the sound of something crashing to the ground. Frowning, I sit up on the bed, glancing around warily as I tried to make sense of my surroundings. This room looks familiar but it’s not mine. I frown, glancing down at the sheets pooled on my laps. Where the hell am I? That’s when I remember.  The lights going off as the room plunged into darkness.  Several gunshots ringing out in rapid successions. My head slamming against the ground. Carter getting hit by a bullet.  A familiar masculine voice muttering a string of profanities has me hurrying out of the bed and running to the en suite bathroom. In my panic, I don’t remember to knock. I simply twist the door-knob and freeze when I see Carter standing in front of the bathroom mirror, gripping the sink with his one good hand. His head lifts at the sound of the door creaking open and his eyes meet mine in the mirror.  He looks like he’

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