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“I’m sure you would. Now that I have you backed into a corner...or a tree.”

“It really doesn’t matter, though.”

“Doesn’t it? You think I was just going to pass you around to Bishop and Mills?”

“No, but—”

“While you’re here—” He lowers his head, and my palms grip the bark of the tree. “—you’re mine. When you leave, you can have that freedom I promised. But for now—” He brushes a piece of stray hair away from my face then cups my cheek. “—no one touches you but me.”

“And if I don’t want you to?”

“Then okay,” he replies, his lips hover an inch over mine. “If you don’t want me to kiss you or have you riding my cock while my tongue—”

“I liked having sex with you, Marty, but that has nothing to do with—”

“So, you just like me for my dick?” A hum resonates off his chest as though he just realized something. “Alright, Harley Quinn, I’ll make a note of that.”

“Harley Quinn?”

“Yeah, because you’re fucking crazy. Almost suicidal, really, since you thought it’d be a great idea to lock lips with my partner. But it’s okay, sweetheart, I’ll keep your secret. You don’t mind me as much as you think you do, your morals are in the way. But once you let those down and see it for what it is, you might just fit in.”

“Within this?” I shrink back into the rigid bark of the tree, letting it dig into my spine. “I’ll never be part of this.”

“You’ve never thought about it?”

I have—a lot.

I could see myself living in this cabin and becoming good friends with Reagan. I could picture cooking dinner for Marty and his chest meeting my back as he kisses my neck while I attempt to focus on the food. I can imagine us in bed and on the couch, kissing, touching, and making love.

But we don’t make love.

We screwed around multiple times in one night and then in the hallway. And we’ll keep it just like that. No need to make this situation worse than it already is.

“You fucked me against a wall with blood on your chest,” I voice. “Then the next day you come tumbling in with the woman who got me here. I don’t think about anything anymore.”

‘Cause if I do, it’ll destroy me for anyone else.

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