hips. I moan again, my eyes rolling back in their sockets.
What the hell is happening between us? This isn’t normal.
“I think you and I both know I would dare, Little Minx.” The vibrations of his chest move into me and the next thing, I can feel his hand flexing around my neck again.
“Let go of me,” I demand, but it’s weak and not real. My body has never been so alive like this before. I’ve never been so charged, so wanton and so damn angry at the same time.
“J.” A voice breaks the tense energy between us and just like that, Julian steps back, the hunger that was in his eyes now masked behind the same darkness as before.
I look over his shoulder and notice Liam and Julian’s incredibly handsome, sexy best friend that stood next to him silently watching two years ago, smirking at the way Julian and I were shouting at each other. His name’s Cole, I think. Both of them are standing there, amused expressions on their faces.
“We’ve got TMZ wanna be paps coming closer. Leave the nice girl be,” Cole says, but Julian just watches me, not saying a word.
“Let them see what happens when you’re a lying shit who’s looking to get our attention,” Julian says to them, but I know he’s talking me.
“I wasn’t looking for your damn attention.” I roll eyes. “You’re not all that.”
They were, but that’s not the fucking point. I don’t give a damn about them other than the fact that they royally pissed me off.
Liam throws his head back and starts laughing, shaking his head as a group of people break away from the crowd, but I can’t see where they are going. “Seriously, J. We can deal with her later. After all, we now have enough time.”
I don’t know what Liam is talking about, but I swear, I can hear worry in his voice as he looks at his brother. But all Julian does is sigh silently, like a powerful force that can’t be moved.
“Don’t you have something to say?” Julian demands again, the stirrings of lust playing the chords between us.
“I’m not brainless,” I counter, unable to hide the hurt in my voice. His nostrils flare, watching me, like my pain affects him, but I know better.
“No, you’re not, so quit acting like it,” he growls in my ear, making me frown. “Now apologize.”
“No.”
“Tread carefully, little minx,” Julian mutters, his jaw locked. “You’re walking a thin rope.”
“I’m not apologizing, and your brother should know better than to talk about my family like he knows us.”
The anger is back and in full swing. My chest twists as my heart pounds like it’s on the verge of exploding.
“You can talk a big game about destroying me and all that shit,” I start, noticing from the corner of my eye as the crowd starts closing in on us, but this is between me and the brothers. “But if you ever threaten my family, I’ll come for you.”
Liam starts laughing then. Even Cole, who I think is the silent sexy storm among the three of them, looks down, as if trying to hide his smile but Julian doesn’t react in any way other than stepping closer to me, like he’s drawn to me or something.
“Let me go,” I try again, proud of myself when my voice comes out strong, not as shaky and disturbed as I’m feeling inside.
“I said, don’t you have something to say?”
“No, now get your filthy hands off of me,” I demand.
He squeezes his hand around my throat just a tiny bit, making my heart pound so hard in my chest, I’m sure he can feel it. I can feel everyone’s eyes on us. I can see phones recording from the corner of my eye, but no one dares to move or say something to defend me. Or help me.
“They won’t dare come here,” Julian whispers in my ear, making me shiver. “They know you dug your own fucking grave the moment you touched my brother.”
“I didn’t even start with your stupid brother—” I start but he cuts me off.
“And bad mouthing him isn’t making your shit situation any better, Little Minx.”
I still in my shoes, my entire body tensing the moment he growls that pet name in my ear.
All I want to do is get away from him, he’s twisting my insides, confusing the hell out of me in just a few clipped words.
We stare at each other, it feels like he’s pulling me into his current,