Violence (Antihero Inferno #3) - Lily White Page 0,103
allows me to slide down his body to my feet, but before I can move away from him, he traps me against a wall, his heavy breathing the only sound between us.
“You were going the wrong way,” he teases on a soft voice that sends chills down my spine.
It pisses me off that he uses those words against me now, that he uses a memory to terrify me.
“I don’t think away from you is the wrong way.”
The answer only makes him grin.
“You scared the shit out of me,” I hiss, so fucking angry that I press my hands against his chest and shove.
Not that it moves him. He only steps in closer.
I can barely see anything in the dark, my eyesight still adjusting, but I feel the air move around my face when he lifts his mask, the heat of his mouth when it’s suddenly on mine.
My lips part the instant his tongue sweeps out, my heart hammering inside my chest as his hands dive into my hair.
He’s done with me, and yet this man is kissing me like he’s been drowning for several days and is coming up for air.
He wants nothing to do with me, and yet his hands are fisting in my hair, and his mouth is demanding submission from mine.
How weak does it make me to give it to him?
At least until a noise in the hallway grabs his attention. Ezra steps away from me as the door opens, his stare locked on my face when the light flicks on and blinds me, my lips kiss swollen and pulsing.
Our eyes dance together like two people losing each other, or like two people who realize they’ve already lost.
“I see you found her.”
Damon.
The guilt sets in immediately.
“Yeah,” Ezra answers, his voice a low growl. “She ran up here to hide. I chased after her.”
Liar.
Eyes releasing me to look at his brother, Ezra asks, “Are the guys all inside now.”
Damon is studying me when I look at him, his eyes narrowing enough that I know he doesn’t believe his twin.
“Yeah. Thanks for unlocking a door for us.”
I can’t look at either of them. I’m too mad. Too guilty. Too...everything.
“Sorry about that, but I didn’t have time. I heard Emily running and went after her. But I found my way in and figured you all were smart enough to follow.”
How did he get in?
And silently at that?
“Whatever. Come on, Red. We’re not going to hurt you. We just wanted to scare you a little.”
A little? I’d hate to see what these guys do when they want to scare somebody a lot.
Pushing away from the wall, I walk to Damon, feeling only slightly safer by his side.
“Where’s Ivy?”
“Probably still running. Gabe was waiting out there for her.”
So there were nine of them, after all. And Ivy probably ran straight to the person she thought she was running from.
“Why?”
“Why what?” Damon asks, his arm slipping around my back as we walk. He hooks his fingers over my hip and tugs me close.
“Why is he doing that to Ivy?”
He laughs.
“It probably has something to do with her destroying his house, taking out all our tires, dumping him in Tanner’s front yard-“
I glance up at him, and he grins but presses a finger against his mouth to tell me to keep that secret.
“She’ll be fine. You know how they are.”
He’s right about that. Sadly, it does nothing to make me feel any better, especially when he walks me downstairs to where the rest of the Inferno is waiting.
Quickly glancing at Tanner, I startle to see a woman sitting next to him, the same pretty brunette I last saw running from him at the party.
This must be the infamous girlfriend, and for as curious as I am to find out why she would date someone like Tanner, I bite my tongue to keep from saying anything.
I look away from them to see Mason staring at me with warning behind his eyes, but it’s Shane’s stare that stops me in place, our eyes locking together from where he’s kicked back on the couch with his foot propped against the coffee table.
It’s obvious he’s not happy to see me with Damon’s arm draped around my body, but he quickly looks past us in the next second to where Ezra is standing.
I can feel the air grow cold behind my back, can feel those cruel hands and icy temper scraping down my spine.
None of these guys are happy, especially Ezra, and there’s nowhere I can run to escape.