I have only been good at one thing—being a criminal. So I've learned to embrace my strengths: money, power, dealing, and women. All four things have made me who I am today, a man that is both respected and feared. In my eyes, my life is everything I have ever wanted and more.
Until she walked into my life.
Emory has changed everything. She has changed me. She was just another employee of mine until she asked for my help. She is the one that opened the door, and now that the door is open I can’t let it close. There is something about her that draws me in and makes me question everything. She is trusting me to keep her safe from her ex, but honestly, it is me that she will need protection from. My desire for her is growing and soon I won’t be able to hold back.
Be Warned: bondage, forced seduction
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Love, is a strong word, and before her, I would never use it. But I believe in it now. Instant love is not just in the movies anymore, it is right here in this moment. She isn’t ready, though, to hear that I am now obsessed and completely in love with her.
She isn’t ready to know just how far I am willing to go to keep her. I will go at her pace, she is used to men taking from her and forcing her. I will never do that. I will show her with my actions what my feelings are.
If this is what a relationship is? I never want it to fucking stop.
“I like the sound of it, though,” she whispers.
“Me too,” I state, not needing to think about my answer.
She stays silent for a moment, searching my eyes, making my heart beat even more. I am normally not like this, and I know with her I shouldn’t be like this, but I can’t help it. There is something about her that makes me question everything.
I lean in and gently kiss her forehead, another gesture new to me, but with her, it feels right. We are moving so fucking fast, I am getting whiplash, but I have never done things slowly, and it seems so far she is enjoying the ride. So why stop?
“What happens tomorrow?” she finally asks. I pull back and then gently place my forehead against hers, taking a deep breath.
I know we have to think about tomorrow. I know we can’t run away, but I wish we could. Everything feels perfect right now, and tomorrow that might change. Tomorrow is uncertain, and it makes me nervous. “We go to work, and we wait,” I whisper.
“He will be there,” she whispers back. The fear is now back in her voice, making my blood boil. I am getting sick and tired of this ex, and I don’t know how long I can hold out before I fucking break. And when I break, I will fucking break him.
“I know.” I pull back and rest the back of my head on the bed frame. She looks up at me. Her eyes are filled with desire and worry, a mix I wish wasn’t there. I know the worry will stay until everything with Jesse goes away, and I plan on making him go away sooner rather than later. Again for selfish fucking reasons. Thinking of him touching her, taking her from me, brings to the surface a level of rage I have never felt.
I watch her close her eyes and take a deep breath. I tighten my arm around her as she opens her eyes. “I’m afraid of him,” she whispers.
“He won’t touch you, and if he tries, I will fucking break him,” I state through gritted teeth. I am not normally possessive and controlling over a woman, but Emory is bringing forth many things I thought were long gone—things I never thought were possible for me to feel.
She allows a small smile to form across her lips. “I believe you.”
“Welcome to my world, my Fallen Angel,” I say in an amused voice.
She doesn’t respond as I lean back down and connect my lips to hers. I have no idea what we are doing or what I am doing, but I do know now that I have had her, I can’t let her go. I want her, and if that means bringing her into my world of drugs and crime, then so be it. She will be a queen.
I will give her everything she has ever wanted and more. She will know a life she should have had all along, and I will do the one thing I promised myself I would never do. I will fall in love with her, and she will have all of me.
Am I moving fast? Yes.
Will the world agree with what we are doing? No.
Is she forbidden? Someone I shouldn’t touch? Absolutely.
But I don’t fucking care. I have always prided myself on breaking the rules, and that won’t change now.
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