Page 54 of Forbidden Harmony

“No, I don’t -”

“Let’s go, Addison,” he said. He pulledher gently to his bike and put the helmet on her before buckling it. He puthis helmet on, sat on the bike, and patted the seat behind him. “Get on.”

“Preacher, I don’t want you to -”

He switched off the comm and then pointedto the helmet before shrugging and making a ‘I can’t hear you’ gesture.

She glared at him and he pointed at theseat behind him again. She flipped him the bird and he had to hide his grinfrom her as she straddled the seat behind him. She put her feet on the pegsand her arms around his waist. He grunted when she smacked him on the abdomenbefore clasping her hands together. He checked for traffic, pulled out on thestreet, and headed for home.

* * *

He drove straight to his shop. It was onlyfour but the blind in the front window was down and the closed sign was on thedoor. Nolan had closed the shop like he’d asked.

Addison followed him inside and flounced tothe couch, collapsing dramatically on it as he closed the door and locked it.She was scrolling through her phone and he said, “What are you looking at?”

“I’m looking for another piercing place,”she said.

“You’re not allowed to let anyone elsepierce your nipple but me,” he snarled.

“I don’t want you piercing my nipple or myclit,” she said.

He ignored the trickle of hurt that wentthrough him. “You said you weren’t getting your clit pierced.”

“No, I said I wasn’t getting my clitpierced today.”

“You’re not getting your clit pierced,Addison, and that’s final.”

She laughed. “Do you seriously think I’mjust going to do what you tell me to do?”

He stared at her in frustration before beinghit with sudden inspiration. “If you pierce your clit, you can’t have sex forat least six weeks.”

She blinked at him. “What? That isn’ttrue.”

“Yes, it is,” he said. “It has to healcompletely and sometimes that can take months.”

“Bullcrap,” she said. “You’re just sayingthat.”

He shrugged. “Look it up, you’ll see I’mtelling you the truth. No sex for possibly months, Sunshine. Is that what youwant?”

“Shoot. No. I guess I won’t be getting myclit pierced any time soon.”

He was instantly jealous. It had barelybeen twenty-four hours since she’d asked him for lessons. Had she some foundsomeone else already? Was his little schoolteacher fucking some moron who didn’tknow how to make her come? How to eat her little pussy until she was screamingwith pleasure?

He folded his arms across his broad chestand glared at her. “Who are you fucking?”

“Excuse me?”

He stalked over to her and leaned down as shepressed herself back into the couch cushions. He placed his hands on eitherside of her head and said, “Who did you find to teach you how to suck dick? Toteach you how to fuck properly?”

She flushed bright red and returned hisscowl. “That’s none of your darn business, Preacher.”

Her scent and the heat of her body wasdriving him insane. He had to touch her. He traced her exposed collarbonewith the tip of his finger, immediately satisfied when desire flared in her eyes.

“Tell me his name, Sunshine.” As soon asshe did, he’d track the guy down and warn him to stay away from Addison unless hewanted a goddamn broken kneecap.

“Obviously, there isn’t anyone yet. It’sbeen barely a day since I asked you. But I have a few different men I’m considering.”

“No,” he said.

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