“That al you got?”
I was back to my stunned, annoyed staring.
I just could not believe him.
He waited then leaned up to touch his mouth to mine and made a move to shift me off his body as if our talk was over, al was hunky dory, he was going to exit the bed and get on with the rest of his day.
Erm… no.
We were not done.
I put my hands to his shoulders and pressed down, locking my thighs at his hips.
“Hang on a second,” I said.
Mace stil ed and started to look impatient.
Amused, but impatient.
“Stel a, in case you forgot, I got a bad guy to catch.”
“I know that but we aren’t done talking.”
“If that’s what you want to talk about then we are.”
“We aren’t!”
“We are.”
“Damn it, Mace!”
His hands on my waist got tighter and his face came closer and that face had lost its amusement and was now very serious.
“This is how it’s gonna go down,” Mace stated, his voice firm.
Effing hel .
I don’t think I want to know how it’s gonna go down, my brain sounded kind of scared.
I don’t either, I told my brain.
“You’re obviously gonna fight it and that’s fine, I already told you I’m happy to take you on. We both know where we stand with this; we’re goin’ over old ground. You gotta know, though, that this kind of fight, there aren’t any rules. If it means I gotta f**k with your head then I’m gonna f**k with your head. You don’t like it, tough.”
Did I say he was unbelievable?
In case I didn’t, he was just unbelievable!
“I don’t like it,” I returned. “As I already told you, I’m not going there again. Not with you.”
“You’re already there,” he informed me.
“I am not!” I snapped back.
The amusement returned. “Babe, you’re sitting na**d in my lap on the morning after a night where you begged to suck my –”
I put a hand over his mouth to stop his words and drowned out the muffled noise with a sharp, angry scream that came from the back of my throat.
I thought back and I had begged and then he’d let me and it was nice, for both of us.