Page 65 of The Night Shift
“Don’t bait me to pin you down.”
“I’m also faster than you,” she goes on. “If you run, I will chase you. If you try anything else, I will hurt you.” Her eyes flick to mine. “And this time I won’t stitch you up.”
Heat simmers in my gut. I look down at my free hands and the red welts around my skin. “Are you going to grant me my second wish too?”
“No.”
“What if I get on my knees and beg?”
“No.”
“That’s too bad.” Gently, I take her hair in one hand and sweep it to the side. “Because you should know…” I place my chin on her shoulder, my mouth descending on a spot near her collarbone. “I am very,verygood at begging.” I lightly kiss the side of Holly’s neck, then bite it.
My insolence is immediately met with a tight slap across my face. Not very hard, but hard enough for thesmackto echo through the tiny space.
“Did you just fuckingbiteme?!” She touches the nape of her neck.
My cheek burns with the sting of her palm.
“What the fuck is wrong with you!” she shouts. “I stab you and try tobiteme?”
“Would you rather I stabbed you back?”
“You are insane!”
I shrug. “Possibly.”
Her eyes grow lethal and dark.Livid. “Stop. Testing. My. Patience.”
“Will you punish me if I don’t?”
“Theo, I’m trying very hard not to give in to my urges right now.”
My grin quickly takes on a wicked edge. “Carnal?”
Holly crosses her arms across her chest and pins me with a death glare, and the answer is crystal clear:Murderous.
My smile disappears.
“Take out your car keys,” she orders.
“Why?”
“Because I want you to eat them. Why do you think? I need you to drive us somewhere.”
My heart hammers in my chest. My blood heats.
I need you.
I. Need. You.
She brushes a loose strand of hair behind her ear, then glances at me. “The fuck are you staring at? Take out your keys! It’s getting late and I have an early shift tomorrow!”
“I just got stabbed, Holly. I can’t drive.”
“Well, neither can I. So unless you want to add ‘died in a fiery car crash’ to the list of things you’ve experienced tonight, I suggest you suck it up and do as I tell you to.”
I frown. “You don’t know how to drive?”I didn’t know that.
