Page 45 of A Corruption Dark & Deadly

Annie nodded through a yawn. “Yeah,” she said with a small smile. “I figured I would just take the day to get back on our time and relax.” She pressed her lips together before asking, “What about you?”

“I have a meeting in the afternoon, but after that, I’m free for the rest of the day,” he told her. “You think that’ll give you enough time to rest up?”

Annie smiled, shaking her head. “Unbelievable,” she said. “You’re not sick of me yet?”

. “That’s a stupid question,” he said with a dry tone and a roll of his eyes. “Be real, Annie. I wouldn’t have married you if I ever thought I’d get sick of you. Why do you think I never settled down with anyone else? The women were pretty, sure, and we had fun. But they couldn’t keep my attention for more than a few days. And you’d be surprised at how awful some of them were.”

Annie clenched her teeth at the mention of his past sexual escapades. She knew about them, sure, and he was entitled to his past. But that didn’t mean she wanted to hear about it. That didn’t mean she wanted to be reminded of it. Her fingers clenched into fists and she tried to think of something to change the subject with, without making it obvious she was upset.

“Are you jealous?” he asked in a low voice.

Annie opened her mouth, ready to defend herself, but stopped. His eyes had gone dark and he was waiting carefully for her reaction.

“Yes,” she told him, her voice quiet, her gaze unflinching.

Without warning, he grabbed the car remote she hadn’t even noticed before and pressed a button. A black divider rose, suddenly giving Annie and Jericho much more privacy than she anticipated they could have. When he finished, he dropped the remote to the floor like it didn’t even matter.

“Why?” he asked, his voice husky.

“Because you’re mine,” she stated. The answer was so simple, so true. “You’re mine. And anyone else who came before me borrowed what was mine. Which I never said they could.”

He clenched his jaw so hard it popped. He continued to look at her with hard eyes, not because he was angry with her response. No. He was hungry.

“Is that so?” he asked, unbuckling his seatbelt so he could scoot closer to her.

She bit her bottom lip – something she knew he liked – and nodded.

He reached out and unbuckled her seatbelt.

“And what about all the men that came before me,” he said slowly, placing his hand on her shoulder and sliding the loose sleeve down so the bare skin touched the cool air. Her eyes went wide and she gasped.

“What about them?” she managed to get out as she watched him lean forward and kiss her shoulder with his lips.

“I should just kill them all,” he murmured against her skin, causing goosebumps to burst out all over her body. “No one who has seen your naked body or felt the inside of your cunt should be allowed to live.”

Annie swallowed. This should be scaring her since Jericho was notorious for following through on these promises. But, if she was being honest, his dirty talk made her soak her panties. The thought of him being this possessive made her pelvis throb and she didn’t realize how badly she wanted him until she felt her nipples harden against her bra.

His lips trailed up her neck until they found that sensitive area where her throat met her shoulder, and he sucked on her skin until she knew there would be a mark she would have to cover up with makeup tomorrow morning. Her head tilted away from him, giving him much better access to her throat to do whatever he wanted to her.

“You are mine,” he said through each kiss, his teeth gently gnawing on her skin before his tongue ran across it. “And I want everyone to know it. Take off your shirt.”

Annie glanced sideways. She knew they had privacy in the car and that the driver wouldn’t be able to hear them. But that didn’t mean there were any secret cameras positioned in the back, ready to catch Jericho on tape having sex with some woman they could sell the tape to for a shit-ton of money.

“In the car?” she questioned. Surprising even to her, she wasn’t entirely opposed to having sex with him in the backseat of a car. She didn’t even care that the chances of them being caught increased dramatically considering the fact that there was a driver a couple of feet away from them.

“Yes,” he said with one nod. “Tell me your concern.”

He already knew something was bugging her thanks to her hesitation. At least he didn’t seem upset with her or frustrated at her caution. He simply wanted to hear her out in order to help alleviate the situation.

“Cameras?” It was only one word. That was all she was concerned about.

“None,” he told her. “Do you trust me?”

She nodded once. “With everything,” she told him.

The corners of his lips twitched up. “Take off your shirt,” he repeated.

She did as he told her to without hesitation this time. Her shirt fluttered to the ground so she was left in her bra.