Page 125 of Obsession

“Yes, God,please,” Violet says with a smile. I grunt in agreement. “Send up sandwiches or something?”

We head upstairs. I quickly shoot Henri a text.

Sky found our archives. Delete. You know what.

I slide my phone in my pocket.

“You know… some days, I feel like we just met. Other days feel like we’re an old, married couple.”

My mind is focused on the footage, what’s on there, what Skylar could’ve easily found if I wasn’t careful.

Did she already find it?

“Yeah?” I’m distracted.

“Yeah.” On the landing, she spins to look at me, her voice wary. “Okay, Mr. Master.”

My heart does a little leap.

“Yeah? Violet, move.”

“Move? Now I’m your employee?”

Her voice takes on an edge.

“I am not letting you bait me.”

“Oh, don’t I know it,” she says, her violet eyes snapping at me. “You’d just as soon haul me over your knee, wouldn’t you? Hmm?”

“What the actual hell has gotten into you?”

“The better question is, what the hell got intoyou?”

Oh no, she does not turn this back around on me. “I’m warning you. Knock it off, or you donotlike where this is gonna go, babe.”

She stands her ground, hands on her hips. “And now you’re threatening me? Oh, no sirree.”

I’ve had it. I bend, yank her over my shoulder, and finish walking up the stairs. She predictably scissors her legs and slaps my back.

“Don’t you dare use your big, huge body to overpower me!” A door opens, and our housekeeper Alma holds it wide. “Oh, my, my, my,” she says, then goes right back in and closes her door again.

I slap Violet’s ass perched over my shoulder, hard.

“Don’t you dare!”

“Just did. Or what?” I spank her again.

“Or I’llscream!”

“Then what? Scream to be rescued?”

She howls and smacks my back. I walk past my bedroom to the library, slam the door behind me, and lock it.

“What are you doing?” she asks, her tone laden with panic. “Caiinnn…”

I’m driving her to distraction while Henri does what I asked him to. I don’t want to fucking fight with her anyway.

“Cain, are you doing what I think you’re doing?”

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