Page 43 of Stuck with my Boss Daddies

She bit her lip, hesitating. “I never meant to hurt you. It just happened. We were just talking and?—”

“Yeah?” I scoffed. “Well, don’t worry. You aren’t the first woman to fall for Reid’s charms.”

Her face crumpled, but I didn’t have it in me to take the words back.

I should have walked away again, but the way she looked at me, like she wanted to say more, had me rooted in place.

I exhaled sharply. “So, it’s Adam, right? You and him?—”

“We aren’t anything. And it never became anything with…”

She trailed off, her eyes widening like she’d said too much.

It never became anything with…

What the hell did that mean?

My stomach turned. “With who, S?”

She hesitated, then looked away. “Kai, it’s nothing.”

“No, say it.” I stepped closer, my voice sharper. “Who?”

Her throat bobbed, and she finally whispered, “Samuel.”

Something in me snapped.

Samuel.

I took a step back, then forward again, too restless to stay still. “Are you serious?”

Her silence was answer enough.

I let out a rough breath, my hands shaking as I dragged them through my hair. “Jesus, S.”

Guilt flashed in her eyes, but it didn’t soothe the fire in my veins.

First Adam.

Now Samuel.

That darkness from earlier clawed back up my throat, possessive and unrelenting.

I closed the distance between us before she could stop me, my hand sliding around the back of her neck, tilting her face up to mine.

“Kai—”

I didn’t let her finish.

I kissed her.

Not soft, not gentle.

Raw, desperate, claiming.

She gasped against my lips, but I didn’t give her a chance to protest.

My hands tightened, pulling her closer as my mouth swallowed whatever words she thought she’d say. And the second she melted into me, the second her fingers fisted in my jacket, I knew I wasn’t letting go.

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