“That’s not nothing, Little Bird. I’m gonna ask you one more time. Who the fuck did that to you?”Chapter 10CLARISSAVance’s grip on my arms is firm, but it doesn’t hurt. It is the way a parent might hold a child who is being belligerent, gentle but he wants me to know he isn’t messing around.I sigh, casting my eyes down. There is something about the intensity of Vance’s stare that makes me want to run both to and from him. The man is an enigma with a well-fortified web, and I am standing right in the middle of it.“Look at me, Clarissa,” he demands before his fingers lift my chin. I am lost in the deep blue of his irises. The man is really a work of art. His face is perfect in every single way, matching the sizable muscular frame of his sculpted body.“What are you gonna do to him?” I stutter, my words failing me.“Kill him.”Vance says those words as if I'd asked a stupid question. I can see that to him, that is the only solution, but the real shocker in all this is that if Vance

My hands hold her face as I take a moment to just take in her sheer beauty before I ram my cock in her mouth and hear her moan. A growl escapes from my throat, and I tug her hair back as I push farther until I fuck her mouth like it’s her pussy. I keep my eyes glued to hers the whole time, wanting her to know it was me and she was safe. She gags on my cock. The vibrations feel so good that I think I am gonna come like a teenager. I pull her off my dick, a thin line of saliva connecting her tongue to my cock like a leash. As soon as she catches her breath, I ram my cock into her again and hold her down. Her face is getting red, the fucking hottest thing I’ve ever seen. “You’re doing such a good job, Little Bird. A natural cock sucker. You like a mouthful of cock in your mouth, don’t you?”I pull her hair to get her off my cock. When she goes to answer, drool falls out of her mouth. I catch it with my hand and smear it along her face, mixing it with the blood on my hands. “You make such

“Hey, Button,” I say when we come in the back door.She turns around and looks at me. I can see in her eyes she’s still a little pissed, but she’s cooled down.“I’m sorry, I should have been more supportive,” I say, holding out my arms. I just want to hold her, but I don’t know if she’s ready for that.“Well, good thing. They just called and offered me the job.” She crosses her arms in challenge and stares me down.I have to swallow before I speak and try to put a happy look on my face. I’m not sure I do a good enough job because for a second she looks concerned like something is wrong with me.“Oh, really?” I say, stalling to think of something nice to say. “That’s good.” God, I could kick my own ass. That didn’t sound cheerful enough. “I mean, fantastic. That’s fantastic!” I say, a little too loudly the second time.“Oh,” she says and then uncrosses her arms. She looks around the room then back to me. “Yes, I mean, it’s different. But good. Right? Of course. It should be fun.” She d

“Interesting,” Nancy says, more to herself than me.“What?”“What else has he been doing that’s odd?” she asks.“Last night he seemed flustered, which isn’t like him. He was just acting different,” I admit.“Emily.” I turn at the sound of my name to see Mark coming towards us. I force a smile, trying to be polite.“Hey.”“I’ll need you to stay late tonight. There’s an event over at the Carlton and I thought we should go over and say hello to a few people. A lot of the people there make donations to the library.” He adjusts his tie that’s already perfectly straight. It’s just something else he does that annoys me.“Okay,” is all I can come up with. I don’t want to go somewhere with just him. I know Dylan wouldn’t like it either. It almost seems like a date or something. “Nancy, you’re coming, right?” I throw out really quick.She opens her mouth to respond, but Mark cuts her off. “I can only bring one person.”“Didn’t want to go,” Nancy mumbles. I second that.“Take a long lunch to run

“Well?” I ask, waiting.I tuck my cock back into my jeans and she rolls her eyes.“I have to work late, and there’s some party across the street I have to go to. Some donors to the library are going to be there.” She walks up to me and puts her hands on my chest. “I’d rather be at home with my guys.”“Then quit,” I say, but I can see that was the wrong answer.She steps back, and suddenly the cold look from earlier is back. “It’s my job, Dylan. I can’t just quit. Besides, don’t you have something on your schedule to get to?”Right when I open my mouth to respond, there’s a knock on the door.“Emily? You in there? Sorry to bother you guys, but Mark has a question about a shipment,” Nancy says from the other side of the door.I growl at the name. Mark. I didn’t get a chance to talk about him with Emily yet, and I can see I’m not about to get the opportunity.“Yeah, be right out,” Emily says and then looks at me. Her eyes soften a little as she comes back into my arms. “We’ll talk about