Page 104 of Foxy Filthy Omega

“The only person in the world you can’t have.” I turned my head slightly, still not giving him the pleasure of my full attention, but his nose brushed along my cheek with the movement, making him go completely still.

This…he hadn’t expected this.

Good.

His little half-smile evolved into a wide grin. “That’s true,” Leo admitted. “But I’m a stubborn guy. I want to be withyou. However you’ll have me. And you’ve made me regret that decision every chance you get, haven’t you?”

“Poor baby.”

“The poorest,” Leo agreed.

His knuckles brushed against the scent glands on my neck as he removed his touch from my feverish skin and I buried down the shiver it gave me.

I couldn’t risk losing control again and if he saw even the slightest inclination I might give in to him, he’d push me until I caved and then I’d really be in trouble.

Leo chuckled like he could see my internal struggle. “I became invisible so they could all see you, Francesca. So won’t you give me a modicum of sympathy in exchange?”

“You don’t deserve it.” I pushed his face away and turned my attention to the mirror above my dresser to make sure my expression wasn’t showing any of thatweaknesshe’d accused me of. “Is it really so bad to be invisible?”

Some days I wished I could be nobody. Absolutely nothing.

“No, it’s not so bad.” Leo shifted his body closer to mine without really moving, but I couldfeelhis presence and aura intensify. “I’ve been living in the shadows for a long time now.Yourshadow. But I kept that promise I made you all those years ago, Francesca.”

I raised an eyebrow and forced myself to look at him before blood splattered the walls. “You want to be my good boy so badly don’t you?”

Leo licked his lips and I watched his pupils dilate until those pretty red eyes were nearly black. “You know I do.”

This man was dangerous. Even to me. One wrong step and this dance would turn into a massacre. That would be on me. I knew that. Because the only thing I had to do to prevent it was give in and accept him as mine.

It wasn’t like I didn’t want to, but things were…complicated.

I turned slightly so I could get a better look at him. “If you’re such a good boy, then why did you leave?”

His nostrils flared and Leo stepped into me, trying to force me back, but I wasn’t a little girl anymore. I could hold my own against him even if I’d never win.

“Youtoldme to leave, Francesca, or did you conveniently forget that tiny little detail?”

We both knew that wasn’t the real reason why he’d left.

“My room,” I reminded him. “Not the goddamn country.”

Leo took another step into me and this time I moved with him, stepping back and away, turning like we were dancing the Viennese waltz in the ballroom once more.

I kept my eyes on his throat not his face, which only infuriated him more.

Leo turned and redirected me until my back hit the wall.

He placed one hand on either side of me until I was caged between his arms. He towered over me and I hated it.Hatedhim. How he was everything I could never be.

A true legacy alpha with blood-red eyes.

“I couldn’t become what you needed if I stayed,” Leo confessed, his tone almost gentle now that I was exactly where he wanted me. “So I asked your father to send me away – as far away as possible.”

Staring into his blood-red eyes, I could see just how much it had hurt him to have to do that.

“Lopez sent me to Hong Kong first. Then Singapore.” Leo ran his hand through my hair again, watching as the strands slipped through his fingers. “I’ve done everything I set out to do before coming back. What about you, Frankie?”

We both knew I’ve accomplishednothingI once wanted.

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