Page 10 of His Wild Attraction

I had to tell Adrik and Marat. They deserved to know the reason I worked so hard to try to get them to notice me, turning down jobs I’d been offered at well established companies for the chance to work for them.

Yeah, I needed to come clean.

I knew it.

But I was distracted, what with Ellie coming into the picture and the way my brain was fucked over this whole thing with her. I just hadn’t had the time.

The woman called to me like a siren’s song. She was all I heard. All I saw. All I thought about.

She attracted me like no one else ever had. And not because she ran away like a mystery in the night the way Sofia did with Adrik.

Not that at all.

I knew where she was. I knew exactly where that fine as fuck woman parked her sweet ass every night.

But what kind of fucking animal would I be if I stalked a woman on the run from her abusive ex?

That motherfucker should be dead already.

I growled and tried to focus back on work. I couldn’t just kill the man.

Not yet anyway.

I opened my cell phone to check the security feed outside the Morristown home she was living in.

Yeah, I fucking hacked it. But I was smarter about it. I merely swiped one of Josef’s men’s passwords.

I had no choice, really.

I couldn’t rest until I knew she was safe and sound inside. I scanned the feed until I found her returning from the park with Sammy.

That kid was a real cutie. I was crazy about him already. Almost four years old and smart as a whip.

But his mother. Holy hell, she looked beautiful. Her pixie cut had grown out, and the dark curls framing her face were half wild from the fall breeze.

Those hazel eyes were sparkling with joy as she held her son’s hand and walked inside, greeting Mrs. Stevens as she did.

The woman was hired by Sigma International and had all the training necessary for doing a job like that. Her military background ensured she was tough enough to deal with any unwanted visitors that might try to bully their way in.

Still, I’d much rather she was here with me. I’d bought a house close enough to where she was staying that I could be there at a moment’s notice.

Was that weird?

I didn’t really fucking care.

I just knew I wasn’t parking my ass all the way in Manhattan while Ellie and Sammy were all the way out here in fucking New Jersey. Her cunt of an ex was still walking around free, and I just couldn’t bring myself to get any farther than this.

Three houses.

That was it.

I was three fucking houses down, and I made sure she didn’t fucking see me coming and going. It was a good thing I kept the crazy hours that I did.

My phone rang. The sound was loud in the nearly empty space I’d claimed as an office.

Morristown was filled with big, old houses, and this one wasn’t exactly for sale when I approached the owner. But everyone had a price.

All I needed was a desk, a chair, and a bed. My real stuff was back in my condo in New York.

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