Page 46 of Gilded Lies
I struggle against Rune’s tight hold on me. “You can’t do this. I work here. I’m off-limits.” I know I am grasping at straws, but can you blame me?
Being completely naked and still wet, Rune’s hold on me slips. I take advantage of the moment. I rush for the door without a plan.
“Whoa, you’re not getting out of here.” Rough hands catch me around the waist, and I am pulled into a hard body. I swivel my head to find it’s Oliver keeping me prisoner this time.
“I didn’t sign a contract. Club rules,” I try again.
“Behave, Magnolia. I don’t recall you being such a stickler for rules our first night,” he purrs in my ear like a dirty secret.
“Fuck you!” I growl back snipping at him. He jerks back just in time to keep his earlobe.
“Mm, yes. I’m going to enjoy doing just that. Eleven months is a long time to go without you.” He slowly grinds himself againstme. He’s soaked through and for a second I want to strip him out of his clothes and see his body dripping with all that water.
I hate how weak I am but damn, who would blame me?
Me. I would blame myself. Sometimes I want to kick my own ass.
Skirting the entrance to the rabbit hole of my emotions, I give up the struggle and rethink my exit strategy.
Danika walks up to me and tips my chin up. Holding my gaze he says, “You said come and catch me if you can. Raja, does that sound like an invitation and permission to use Room Six to you?” Danika speaks to Raja, but it’s me getting the full force of his steel-laden gaze. He’s come here with one goal. Won’t he be surprised when Raja tells him no!
Unable to do more than look in Raja’s direction, I see the traitor nod in agreement and then I hear two words seal my fate. “It does,” Raja confirms.
Motherfucker.
My back molars will break any second I’m clenching my jaw so tight. “Fucking traitor.” I fight Oliver’s hold, but the bastard’s cock is only growing harder the more I struggle.
“Careful,amore mio. I will fuck you in front of your friend if you keep it up. He might actually enjoy watching.”
My chest heaves with the amount of fury coursing through me.
“You wouldn’t dare!”
“I would and will.”
Raja’s smile is slow and filled with heat. His gaze caresses the swell of my bouncing breasts before turning for the door. “It’s best I leave.” Heat turns to pain and the woman in me wants to run after him and give his heart the same pain. With a knife through it!
I don’t know who this murderous villainess inside me is, but I am growing to really like her.
“Treat her like the queen she is,” he says flatly and with that my friend slips from the shed and leaves me to the animals.
Too heart-struck to move, I stand there as I am sealed inside with three villains. Rope comes around my wrists.
“Wait! No!” My brain comes back online. I fight to pull away but there is no escaping the three men on a mission to see me tied up and helpless.
“Don’t look so scared, petals. Have we ever harmed you?”
“I’m not scared. I’m pissed you turned a friend against me and now you think you have the right to touch me.” I snap at the air, narrowly missing the tip of Danika’s nose.
“Whoa, beautiful. I can’t pleasure you if I am bleeding.”
He steps back and peels off his wet shirt. Scars litter his broad chest. Some are fresh and still pink and puckered. Others I am familiar with. But the one dressed in stitches fills me with questions I should not want the answers to.
“Looks like you pissed off someone who didn’t care how much you bleed. What happened? Did you get in a fight with a lawnmower?”
“Something like that. He moved as fast as the blades on one.” I hear the stunned awe in Danika’s voice.
“Brother, catch.” Rune throws the end of one rope to Oliver. He catches it, but I tug it free and work quickly to gather the end before he can tie it off. But I’m not fast enough. He latches onto the end and locks me to a hook secured to a support beam.