Page 20 of Chemistry: The Chemist

She turned to me, eyes tightening to slits.

Nodding, I encouraged her to follow instructions. Still, she remained silent.

Her hesitation was enough to fuel the fire within me.

“Now is not the time for defiance. A man’s life is on the line.”

Raised brows and upturned lips followed snickering. She was willing to call my bluff. I was willing to show her I didn’t bluff. As my hand located the butt of my gun, words began flying from her mouth.

“I am not sorry,” she admitted, a smile still visible on her lips. “Please, send our waitress in. Female, please.”

The host scurried out.

Nobody’s safe, darling. A new set of eyes wasn’t the answer, her obedience was. Lowering until my lips were next to her ear, I paused to gather my thoughts.

I wanted to fuck her as much as I wanted to fuss at her. I wasn’t sure who was winning the battle, but I focused on the bigger head while drowning out the pleas of the smaller one.

“I, too, admire life on the ledge, but please don’t fuck with me, Eden. I jump often.”

I rounded the table to find her tongue crossing her top row of teeth. The hunger in her eyes, in her posture, wasn’t related to food.

She had developed a thirst only my semen could quench. And when the time came, I’d make sure she guzzled it. Hydration was key.

“I feel slighted. Cheated, in a sense.”

I waited for more, knowing it was coming. I didn’t need to respond for her to reveal whatever riddle she was speaking in.

“You know my name but I have no idea who it is that isn’t a knight in shiny armor, has the power to calm the relentless storm within me to restore peace, and is willing to end a man’s life because he thought to pull out a chair for me.”

“You flirted.”

“Barely.”

“That’s even too much.”

“A jealous streak.”

Shrugging, I shook my head and squared my shoulders.

“I’m insulted.”

“That easily?”

She was a mind fuck. I had an inkling she knew it as well.

“You’re a very inquisitive person.”

“That’s all beside the point. Name.”

“My name isn’t important. My position in your life is.”

“Your position?”

“Eden, baby, do you ever just shut the fuck up?”

That smile, the one that could shatter earth in fifteen thousand pieces, reappeared.

“Am I upsetting you?”

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