force you to look at things in a different light. As I’m processing, my eyes drift to the Matrix.
“The car,” I mutter.
“What?”
I turn to Kyle and grab his arm, curling my nails into his skin.
“The car. He was in my car.”
I experience a full body shiver at the idea I’ve been driving around with… I can’t even bring myself to think it.
Kyle pulls me to his chest, while Keith Blackfoot starts barking orders into his phone.
“What’s wrong?” I hear Edward, who walks up to see what the fuss is about.
I tune them out, focusing on Kyle’s familiar scent and safe arms. I’m not an idiot, I know I haven’t just been stalked, but that son of a bitch actually marked me. He has pulled me into some kind of sick, twisted power game, in a way that scares me more than the dead birds. I almost feel violated in physical sense.
Suddenly I have the strong urge to scrub him from my skin.
“I need a shower.”
Sumo
“Stay.”
I freeze in my tracks, turning back to where Annie is tearing off her clothes in my bathroom.
Once the tow truck arrived to take her car to the forensics lab, Blackfoot drove us back home and Annie ran straight upstairs. Worried, I followed close behind until I saw she was turning on the shower.
Apparently she doesn’t want me to leave, though.
“Please,” she adds, her eyes only briefly on me as she strips naked.
I notice the clear outline of her floating ribs as she reaches up to pull the shirt over her head. Annie is small, although I wouldn’t go so far as to call her skinny; she’s too muscular for that. Her breasts are no more than a handful and her hips only flare slightly, but somehow she’s the sexiest woman I’ve ever seen.
And I’ve seen a few in my lifetime in all shapes and sizes. I’ve never had a particular preference like some men I know—have sampled a wide variety—but I’m definitely hooked on Annie’s shape.
If not for the reason she is violently scrubbing her skin with soap, I’d strip down and join her.
“Are you coming?” she asks, sticking her head around the shower door.
It’s as if she heard me.
“Are you sure?” I want to know, but I’m already kicking off my shoes and unbuttoning my fly.
She raises an eyebrow and then disappears into the steam, leaving the shower door open. I drop my clothes in the same pile as hers and step inside.
“I’ve been thinking,” she says, sliding her hands up my chest. “I’ve already let this man take enough from me, lived in fear long enough. I’m done with that.”
She hooks her arms around my neck as my hands land on her hips.
“I won’t give him another minute. What’s more,” she adds. “I don’t want you to either. There’s a security system on the house, the police are out there doing their job, so what do you say we go and pick up your son and bring him home? You can have some quality time before you’re back at work next week, and the two of you can teach me how to play Call of Duty.”
I pull her closer until my cock brushes her belly, and bend my head to touch my nose to hers.
“I like the sound of that.”
“I can tell.”
She grins up at me and I’m amazed, with the day she’s had, there’s a teasing twinkle in her eyes. I didn’t expect to see this core of steel after the nonstop hits she incurred today, but I’m looking at it.
“You amaze me, you know that?”
Her smile turns lascivious as she rubs her wet body against mine, eliciting a pained groan from my lips.
“Good to know,” she whispers. “Even better if you showed me.”
She doesn’t need to tell me twice.
I slant my mouth over hers and plunge my tongue deep as she hooks one of her legs around the back of mine, her invitation clear. I cup her ass in my hands and lift her up, not hard to do, since she barely weighs anything. Both her legs wrap around my hips as I line up my cock at her entrance.
The feel of her slick skin against mine, and her heat kissing the most sensitive part of me, it takes everything out of me not to surge inside her tight channel. I rip my mouth from hers.
“Condom,” I whisper against her lips as her eyes blink open.
“I’m safe. I’ve had some health issues.”
I pull my head back a fraction and read her