Page 91 of Cruel Devotion

“The guy that gets a little pussy and now thinks he owns it.”

He raised his eyebrows at me. A wicked smile spread across his face. “And what if Idothink I own it?”

I frowned.

“What if I do, Monique? What if I feel like I own every little bit of that pussy and every inch of you?”

I sucked my teeth. “You do not own me,Mountain Master.”

Lei’s grin grew even wider and his eyes twinkled with mischief. “Is that a challenge?”

“It’s a fact. No one owns me.”

He licked his lips. “But don’t you want to be owned by me? Just a little?”

My breath hitched and I could feel my resolve crumbling. The intensity in his gaze, the authority in his stance—it was all too much.

His voice grew low and husky. “You ownmebut I can’t ownyou?”

“I don’t own you.”

“If you saw what I did to your cousin’s men, you would think differently.”

I opened my mouth in shock. “What did you do?”

“I broke a few bones, but all of the men will heal. Eventually.”

I glared. “Lei—”

“Don’t worry. They’ll be able to play with their toys in a few weeks.”

“Banks will be pissed.”

“Banks knew I was going to do it. He just wanted to prove to you that I was violent and psychotic.”

I scowled. “Well, he definitely did that.”

“Good. Now that we have that out of the way. No other men guard you, besides the ones I appoint. And you wear blue.”

“We’ll see about that.”

“We sure will.”

I just hoped that whatever Duck was going to have put under my pillow would be some form of help.

“Anyway. . .” Lei drank me in some more. “Due to my father’s puppeting, I am going to make sure we have more alone time together.”

“And if we are still too busy this week?”

“We should never be too busy to spend more time with each other.”

I considered our steamy hot moment in the tent earlier today. “If I do let you get some more.”

“If?”

“If,” I rolled my eyes. “If I do let you get some, I’m going to want more than your tongue. You can’t go around beating people up and not even have pierced the pussy.”

He blinked.

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