I marched to the automotive and flung the door open, not ready for him to get it for me like he all the time did, and flinched when he shut it exhausting after I’d gotten in.

He turned to me when he climbed into the motive force’s aspect. “Macy—”

“Simply drive.” My voice broke and a tear slid down my cheek.

“Shit, angel,” Rhys hissed.

“No,” I floor out. “I wish to have this discuss at your house.”

“At our place. Our house,” he corrected.

“Yeah,” I sighed. “Our house.”

As he began up the engine and pulled away from the curb, I turned in the direction of the window and stared out, watching one other tear path down my cheek. It damage, eager about how I’d come to view his home as my house. Relying on how our dialog went, I won’t really feel the identical approach about his home by the tip of the night time. The ache was nearly overwhelming as I sat there, silently crying the entire drive.

When he pulled into the driveway, I didn’t even watch for him to chop the engine off earlier than I ripped off my seatbelt and flung my door open. I heard his footsteps behind me as I raced into the home, close to determined for the privateness and luxury the home provided.

“Why did you do it?” I cried out as quickly because the door shut behind us.

“Bed room,” he growled, stripping of his garments as he walked away from me.

“What the hell?” I grumbled, following after him.

“You wished to have this dialog in our house, and I let you’ve got that—caught listening to you crying with out having the ability to do something about it.”

Shit, a lot for considering I used to be doing it silently.

“You bought what you wished. We’re going to speak about this at house, in our fucking mattress.”

“However—”

“Don’t,” he hissed. “I get that I fucked up and wish to clarify to you what occurred with Kassidy and Harbor Home. However you’re mine, and this shit isn’t going to alter that. Nothing ever will.”

There was vulnerability and ache in his voice, nearly as a lot as I used to be feeling. It made me pause, jogged my memory what was at stake. I used to be prepared to bend, however solely a bit. Toeing off my sneakers, I sat on the sting of the mattress. “Positive. I’m on the mattress. However I’m not getting bare.” As a result of if I did, I knew precisely how this dialog would go—and there wouldn’t be a complete lot of phrases concerned.

“I can stay with that. For now.”

“Then reply my query,” I demanded.

He plopped down subsequent to me, sighing closely. “As a result of I fucking hate the concept of you working at Soiled Gamers. Of douchebags considering you’re honest recreation due to it if you’re mine. Of not being there to guard you whilst you’re working.”

“I do know you hate it, however the job there’s solely short-term till I get a—”

“Publishing deal,” he completed for me.

“One which I earned, although.” My voice cracked within the center. I’d been so happy with myself after I opened that e-mail, and it was devastating to know I hadn’t earned that provide due to my expertise.

“You probably did,” he vowed. “Kassidy’s my buddy, however she would by no means have pushed for the deal they provided you except she cherished your e-book as a lot as I did.”

“You actually cherished it?” Gah! I sounded so insecure, however when it got here to my writing that was precisely what I used to be in some methods.

“Sure, angel. So did Harbor Home.” He moved away from me, grabbed his pants off the ground and pulled his cellphone out of the pocket. “And I can show it to you.”

He jabbed his finger on the display screen and the sound of it ringing on the opposite finish stuffed the air.

“Hey, Peanut Buttercup! Did your woman let you know the information?”

“Peanut Buttercup?” I mouthed at him.

He grimaced and shook his head. If it had been underneath some other circumstances, I might have joked about his buddy’s play on his title. However we had critical stuff to work out. There was positively a narrative there, however it was one for an additional day after we didn’t have critical stuff to work out.

“Yeah, Kassidy. I’ve truly bought you on speakerphone, and I want you to clear one thing up for Macy earlier than she does one thing silly like flip down the deal you guys provided to her.”

“No! She will be able to’t do this!”

Kassidy sounded panicked by the concept, and a few of the rigidity left my physique.

“Then you definitely’d higher persuade her that you just didn’t make the supply due to who she is to me.”

“Macy, I might by no means decide up a e-book due to a buddy. Take the time to learn it and see if the story is an effective match for us? Completely! However that’s the place my loyalty to my buddy ends, and the businesswoman kicks in.”

“So that you preferred her story?”

“Like isn’t a robust sufficient phrase. I cherished it, and we’re publishing it as a result of I feel it has the potential to be a finest vendor.”

“Actually?” I squeaked.

“Abso-fucking-lutely,” she responded.

“Okay.”

“You’re going to just accept our supply?”

I nodded, however it was Rhys who answered. “Solely after my lawyer has an opportunity to go over the contract.”

“I wouldn’t try to screw over the lady you’re keen on, Peanut.”

I smiled at how casually his childhood buddy spoke about him loving me.

“I’m nonetheless going to have him look it over. It’s my job to guard her.”

“Awww, that’s cute,” she cooed. “I can’t wait to satisfy you, Macy. I’m actually wanting ahead to working with you on this sequence.”

“Me, too. Thanks a lot.”

Rhys rapidly stated his goodbyes, setting his cellphone on the nightstand when he was executed.

“Thanks for asking Kassidy to learn my manuscript.”

“You’re welcome.” He dropped down beside me once more, his fingers enjoying with the buttons on my shirt.

“I get why you probably did it, however I don’t like that you just saved your connection to Harbor Home from me after we talked about it. From right here on out, no secrets and techniques. Okay?”

“Then I ought to in all probability let you know in regards to the safety crew I’ve on you whilst you’re at Soiled Gamers.”

“You’ve gotten guys watching me whereas I’m at work?” I shrieked.

“Not guys. Girls.”

“I ought to have recognized,” I muttered, rolling my eyes at his aversion to different males being anyplace close to me.

“If it weren’t for them reporting in whilst you’re there, I’d exit of my thoughts each time you had been at work,” he defined.

“They don’t simply control me? They report again to you?”

“Fuck yeah, they do.”

“Gee, stalker a lot?” Sarcasm was thick in my tone.

“I’m not denying it, angel. However I’ve grown extra snug with my tendency to stalk you as a result of you may’t precisely stalk the prepared, now are you able to?”

Shit, he had me there. “I suppose you don’t want any extra plots to maintain me away from Soiled Gamers or a guard for me whereas I’m there,” I teased. “As a result of I’m going to be busy with my publishing deal.”

His eyes full of apprehension.

“There was one other plot? How within the hell did you get any work executed all this time?”

“It hasn’t been straightforward. However at the very least I didn’t disguise this one from you, precisely.”

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