00:00My fingertips spasmed on the table, the kind of terror that climbs out from under your nails.
00:05I shoved the photos, the ones with last night's mess on them, into my bag,
00:09my hands as clumsy as a thief in their first week.
00:11When I looked up, I crashed straight into the frozen black of Elias' eyes.
00:15He stood with the light at his back, the cold mist still clinging to that black cashmere.
00:20His gaze paused just a half second on the last photo that had slid out to the corner of the
00:24table,
00:25the blurred shape of us.
00:26Last night on a bed, but Elias left.
00:28He pulled out the chair next to mine and sat down like he'd been invited.
00:31Every movement as composed as if he were arriving at a charity gala.
00:35His long fingers laced together.
00:38The faint blue veins on the backs of his hands looked like snakes in winter under the bright cafe light.
00:43He even thoughtfully refilled Seraphina's coffee halfway,
00:46then told me gently that wanting time off to see his wife wouldn't work, I had to go through him
00:50instead.
00:50A clean, undisguised threat.
00:52This couple, each one quietly twisting a knife behind their back,
00:55sat across from each other like Manhattan's most picture-perfect power marriage making small talk about the morning financial news.
01:02I sat between them.
01:04The red marks the tie had left on my arm pulsed under the cuff of my blouse.
01:08The aggression he'd left in my body was screaming under the polite breakfast conversation.
01:11When it was time to go, Elias stood without warning.
01:14His big calloused hand closed around my wrist as if it had every right to.
01:18The grip was hard enough to crush phone.
01:20I watched the mask on Seraphina's face flit open in real time.
01:24The eyes she'd lined in gold dust burned with something poisonous.
01:27But in front of the room, all she could do was watch as the man she personally aimed at me
01:32walked me out of the cafe.
01:33In the sealed cabin of the Bentley, the partition went up.
01:37His face shrank down to the size of an interrogation room.
01:39The wild, possessive want in Elias wasn't hidden anymore.
01:42He snatched my phone and dragged one cruel swipe across the screen.
01:45The silence in the car tore in half.
01:47Last night played back through the speakers, the ridiculous, ruined sound of it.
01:51My broken voice tangled with his heavy beast breathing.
01:54It echoed in the closed cabin.
01:56I closed my eyes from shame and for a second I was back in that bed, back in the dark,
02:00breaking apart in his hands.
02:02Elias stared at my face on that screen.
02:04The face of a woman, past surrender.
02:06The line of his Elias's apple worked sharp and sexy in the dim light as the want in him started
02:11rising again.
02:11He reached out the cool of his fingertip, traced my trembling mouth, a touch that was both punishment and suggestion.
02:17The angel's good.
02:22Luffy, your moans are something else.
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