Page 43 of Run From Me

I was breathing rapidly. My pussy still pulsing around his emptying cock. I was ruined. He wasn’t wrong. I wasn’t never going to feel like this with anyone but him.

“No one,” was all he said between breaths.

The sun was already up by the time Xander and two guys I still didn’t know the names of walked me to my door.

“Open it, Calliope. They are going to sweep it.”

I couldn’t remember the last time I’d been tired enough that I almost didn’t care what was in there, but I gave Xander my keys and he took care of it from there.

I yawned against my will.

“It was a long night. I’ll be out of here in a few.”

I was fighting a war with my eyelids when I became all too aware of being lifted into someone’s arms. The familiar scent of Xander enveloped me, and I leaned into him.

“Thanks, Xander. I might sleep for once,” I said as I buried my face in his shirt.

I could still hear them moving, but it was either quiet or I was just tired. I didn’t know which one it was.

I felt his arms release me and subconsciously knew this was my bed. I was so tired I couldn’t fight him. But the more I tried to let myself float into sleep, the second something slid or knocked or whatever, I bolted up.

I couldn’t sleep with them here. Of course, now that I looked through the bedroom door, I saw far more than Xander and two others.

Now I was up. How long had I actually slept? I kicked my feet off the bed and headed for the doorway and stood there.

“What in the hell?” I asked a room full of men.

Xander was in front of me in a breath.

“Why aren’t you sleeping?”

That earned him a shrug.

“Why aren’t you not in my apartment?”

He held up a key fob.

“Installing security. Just in case I’m not with you to do a sweep. Oh, and those,” he paused and pointed to a vase that had never held any flowers but had something a little stranger inside it now. Small black squares and wires were floating in water. “Those were in your apartment. You were right to be paranoid, not that I doubted you.”

Well I wasn’t tired now.

“I’ve been looking all over, where did you find those?”

He started to answer but someone called his name so I followed.

“It’s all hooked up. This camera will monitor if anyone tries to get in and she can…” the guy turned around. “Oh, hey. I guess you. You’ll be able to see everything here on this monitor. You’ll know if anyone tries to break in.”

I took in all the commotion and watched as, one by one, they all packed up and slowly filed out of my shitty place. They all wore T-shirts and all had obvious tattoos or a jacket showing the hourglass.

“What is all this?”

Xander took my hand and put the fob in it.

“This is so you can sleep.”

I blinked back a burn in my eyes that I hadn’t felt since I was before I was sold.

“How can you do all this? The Vipers?” I pointed to the vase. “Well, that was their ability to monitor me, and it was nothing like this.”

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