Page 5 of Bound by Adoration

Being in such confines of two overly masculine men, no escape, and two worlds colliding in a way I wasn’t prepared for was suffocating.

What the hell was I to do? Jumping up, I tugged just enough to free myself from Raid’s grasp as his focus was on the man in the chair, and I took the distraction.

Instantly, Raid stood at my movement, and I held my hand up to his chest and gave a push, but it didn’t move him an inch. “Cujo, I gotta breathe. I’m not leaving the room. You can see me, but damn I gotta breathe, and you’ve gotta take it down a few notches. This is a lot of shit for me to process.”

Raid said nothing, just studied me, then settled on the couch as I sucked in a deep needed breath. He was giving me this play. In any other circumstance, Raid could be, would be, everything I could ever imagine as a lover and a partner. Our souls danced together in ways he could silently read me like now. Yeah, I was in deep with that man.

Both men stared at me.

Sucking in a deep breath, I pulled up my lady balls and asked Liam again, “Tell me how you found me.”

Liam glanced at Raid, then back to me.

I looked up to the heavens. It was too late to hide shit. “Just tell me.” This was already getting blown up.

“Cameras,” he responded. “You’re smarter than that, Cami.”

“Please don’t call me that.”

Liam tipped his head. “Nyx. Sorry. You wanna tell me how the hell you were able to get those installed to their places and have the ability to watch?”

My stomach fell to my knees. “How do you know I watched them?”

Liam leaned back in the chair. “Five dead bodies who ended up being their security guards.”

“What the fuck does that mean?” Raid added in, but it seemed to be white noise as my thoughts raced. “Cameras, dead bodies, what the hell is going on?”

“Needless to say, they weren’t happy the cameras got into their space and cleaned house,” Liam said, ignoring Raid. “Which, you know they’ll continue to do until they get what they want.”

“How do you know this?” I asked Liam, knowing Raid was still here but ignoring him momentarily. He’d want answers, but there was a bigger picture here that needed an explanation.

“I told you when you left, I would always take your back. This is me taking your back.”

Literally and figuratively.

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LIAM

Well, fuck me. This was unexpected. Cami and Raid? How the fuck did that happen? How’d they meet? Why did she pick here of all places? How long had she been in town? So many questions rolled through my head that needed answers. Whether she’d give them all was up for debate, but I was curious as fuck how she ended up here in my personal hell—Sumner, Georgia.

Cami was as beautiful as the day she left Atlanta. Long blonde hair I loved grasping while I took her lips. Those sultry blue-purple eyes that I never got tired of seeing and haunted my dreams every night since she’d left. The heart that was bent but not broken. Strongest woman I’d ever met. Would ever meet.

My Cami.

But … now she was Nyx. And she was Raid’s?

No. I couldn’t accept that. He didn’t deserve her. She was so much better than him. Better than me, even though she didn’t feel that way. She’d told me point blank, but that didn’t mean I agreed with her. She never gave herself enough credit. The woman was the total package: brains, beauty, and street smarts. She was always sassy mouthed. God, she was everything. Losing her was tough but necessary. Even though I hated it.

When alarm bells back home started going off about her, the paranoia of those assholes getting their hands on her hit me square in the chest. There’d been rumored sightings of her that were bullshit, but the way they were talking this time, it seemed as though their source was credible. Therefore, the search started. Hit several dead ends. Every lead that went nowhere was a blessing and curse. I knew she was still safe and at the same time, I missed her like crazy.

Then to find her here… Happenstance. I came home for something else, and she was here. Two birds, one stone—I’m never this fucking lucky. I had a tip, looked into it on my way here for my personal shit show and boom, it paid off. If I found her, the others weren’t far behind me. That fear for Cami threatened to take over. Just like before.

“This isn’t a good idea, Cami. People can’t just disappear with no trail.” My stomach clenched as the panic of her leaving me was getting closer and closer.

“I’ll figure it out. But I can’t stay here with you.”

“Why?” I asked her because I’d be happy as hell to have her here in my arms and not out running from these fuckers.

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