Page 29 of The Queen's Denial

“I’ll come as soon as I can,” he says in frustration, and I hear the rev of a car engine in the background.

“What are you doing? Don’t break traffic laws just to get here quickly, Andy. I still have tons of your own guards around.”

“That’s… not why I’m breaking traffic laws, baby. It’s because I’m being tailed by a bunch of fucking cop cars.”

I take a sharp breath in. Andy is being targeted, too. I’m going to end up being truly alone for some amount of time. Daiki is still making his way from Japan, and that is a long flight. Even if Andy makes it here, I’m certain whatever is happening goes above his and Cas’s heads. If my father was taken in, Andy is probably going to get taken in as well.

“Maybe you shouldn’t come here, Andy.”

“Fuck that, Chi. I need to see you… I need to make sure everything is okay there before they grab me.”

He seems to accept that they're going to take him, so I will just have to as well. At least I’m good at accepting things I don’t like because I do it all the time. I puff my chest up with courage that I don’t really feel and say, “Okay.”

*****

I’m waiting at the grand entrance when Andy comes in and sweeps me up in his arms, kissing me hard. “They’re coming. You need to call—”

“Daiki, I know.” He breathes out frustratedly, and I know why. He’s a little jealous of someone else watching over me, and something flip-flops in my belly at the thought. A guy like Andy doesn’t get jealous. I both hate and love that it matters to me whether he cares about stupid shit like that only when it comes to me.

“You need to tell me everything you’ve heard,” I say, trying to make my face as stern as possible.

“We have about 15 minutes, according to Oxy. So with that time, I’d rather do this.” He grabs my ass cheeks in both of his huge hands, slipping right under the loose shorts I’m wearing without underwear. In hindsight, this might not have been the best choice of wardrobe, because I’m immediately groaning with arousal. Suddenly, I’m manhandled into his arms as he effortlessly picks me up and slings my legs over his hips to carry me into the nearest room without cameras.

“We should—”

“No.” He pushes me down onto a desk by the throat and cuts off my air supply just enough so I can’t talk without choking. “We should do this.” He rips his pants off as I go to protest and pushes down harder on my neck while plunging into my embarrassingly wet center. “Shush. Be my good girl, Chee-chee.”

Goddamn him, every time he says those words, I go silent. It’s like he knows what will happen and uses it against me. And I hate it and love it at the same time. I think. I don’t even know where we are for the next 10 minutes as he fucks me into the shiny wood with gusto.

As the mist clears after he squeezes two orgasms from me and roars out his own, I come back to my senses.

“Please tell me what’s going to happen. What can I do to help? My father is wrapped up in this shit too, Andy! And I have resources. I know Oxy a little, and my father has soldiers here and in Japan. If you give me some information, I can try to get them over here!”

He looks hesitant for a second, for the first time considering that I might actually be able to help instead of hindering him, like I did when I got smacked on the head the last time we went on a mission together.

“Listen, Chee-chee. It’ll be okay. Cas and I will figure this out. We always do. But if something happens…”

Just then, unfortunately, is when the police decide to break down the front door and head straight to us. I quickly pull up my shorts and pull my shirt back on and Andy pulls up his pants.

“No fucking knock, huh?” he asks as they barge into the after-dinner study we’ve made into our little fuck den.

I draw myself up with as much authority as I can muster in a tank top and running shorts. “Twice in one day. You idiots have no idea who you’re dealing with. But you will. You’ll be so fucking sorry you ever thought this was a good idea.”

They say nothing, ignoring me as I expected, and Andy just smirks as they grab his arms. He sees the worry in my face as they cart him away, and he hates it — I can tell he does.

“You’ll be fine, Chi. I’ll make sure of it,” he vows.

And then, he’s gone.

Chapter 14

Chi

I’m not waiting for him to make sure I’m okay. I have to do something to help myself now that both of the men who were supposed to be protecting me are gone, and the other one is still on a flight hours away from here.

I decide to call Oxy. I’ve heard her name a couple of times. She works for my father through Cas and Andy now, but I’ve also heard her mentioned by all the men I’ve been around for the past few weeks. Andy thinks he’s so fucking slick, making calls when he doesn’t think I’m around. And usually I wouldn’t give nearly enough of a fuck to listen in on someone else’s calls besides Papa’s. But with Andy, I think I want to know about the things he tries to keep from me out of spite.

Luckily for me, Andy and my father have been getting careless about leaving this particular tech guru’s info laying around. I imagine she is becoming more of a high commodity — a rising star, just being given her due. Just from the legends I’ve heard of her, she does seem to be the best.

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