Page 77 of Legendary

Oh, he was definitely angry.

I hadn’t done anything wrong in my opinion. Nicholas and I weren’t together in any way and yes, he had gotten on his knees for me, but that was for my trust, not— my heart. He wanted information just like the rest of us and he wasn’t happy with the way I had gotten it. He was in my world now, the world I’ve always known, so he would have to learn to deal with the way things were done.

I had my back to him, but I felt his eyes on me. I could practically taste the anger that he was harboring. It was anger of a possessive nature. I cracked my neck and turned around. He was standing so still and breathing slowly, looking at me as if he was trying to figure me out. His brown eyes were narrowed, scanning my entire body like he was afraid I was going to start spewing curse words at him at any given moment. I crossed my arms over my chest and tilted my head to the side.

“Are you waiting for me to apologize?”

He blinked up to my face. “That’s not what I want, Dani. Even if I did, you wouldn’t do it anyway.”

I shrugged. “You would be correct.”

“I want you to explain to me what that was. Is that how you always get information?” He questioned, taking a step towards me.

I planted my feet and squared my shoulders. “Sometimes. It depends clearly. Dimitri is…different.”

I noticed the distinct scar under his eye tick at my words. I hit a nerve.

“Different? As in you go about retrieving information differently depending on if you’ve fucked that person?” If he knew that, then Elise musthave opened her mouth and told him.

I stuck my tongue out and traced it under my two front teeth. “You should be thanking me.”

He dragged his hand along the back of his neck and took another step. He was getting dangerously close to me, but I didn’t mind. I knew he would be mad about what I did at that club. I was prepared for it. I did what I had to do. I didn’t rip off Dimitri’s clothes and suck his dick, so that was saying something.

“Thanking you? I won’t thank you for dry humping him.”

I leaned forward. “Sex sells, Nicholas, especially down here.”

He rolled his eyes in the most annoyed way. “I bet he was so eager to get you on top of him.”

I nodded a bit giddy, knowing it would piss him off even more. “Oh yeah, I could feel how hard he was right at my thigh…”

“Fuck, Dani. Stop. Just stop.” The tick under his eye was back.

I looked down to where his hands had turned into fists at his sides. I wasn’t planning on taking things any further with my former fuck buddy the minute I knew we were going to see him because he was so easy to get information out of, but Dimitri was the type that liked to think he was the center of your attention, he liked to think he could have you at any moment. Maybe there was a small, teeny, tiny part of me that wanted a certain angel to be unleashed by my actions, but I didn’t do it on purpose.

“Do you enjoy doing this?” He took another step in my direction.

“Doing what?” I said, innocently.

“Getting under my skin?”

I looked at his face, letting my eyes glaze over his features. “You make it so easy.”

He ran an overtly frustrated hand through his hair. “I’m not a fan of your methods.”

“For fucks sake, I wasn’t going to fuck him right in front of everyone.” I scoffed, letting an exasperated laugh leave my lips.

“Try to be a little more subtle next time if that’s even possible for you.”

“How about next time you don’t look.” I suggested, rolling my eyes.

He bared his teeth. “God, you are so fucking annoying you know that. It’s like you want to help, but at the expense of my sanity.”

I laughed at him, again. “Maybe you should keep that crazy in check. I didn’t mean for you to feel some type of way about it, but at the end of the day, Nicholas, I can do what I please. I’m notyours.” I said that last part, looking directly at his lips. I blinked back up to him, noticing the way his eyes were a bit darker, like he was contemplating my words and a whole newemotion was enveloping him now. He was taking in my dress inch by inch, almost like he was committing every piece of it to memory.

I took a step towards him so that we were just inches apart. “We both know that you have a lot of emotions because I left you hard and unsatisfied last time and that wasn’t very nice of me. Not to mention you didn’t get to feel me come around your fingers on the dance floor.” I lifted my hand to reach for his hair, “and then you had to see me grind my tight little body all over another…” My words were cut off by his hand grabbing my wrist, his bicep flexed. My fingers were inches from his dark hair, but I couldn’t move any closer. He pulled my hand away from him and looked down at me. Nick pulled me so that I was shoved against his body.

I could feel his breath against my face. My own breathing was becoming a bit more erratic.

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