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It was precisely this moment when my brain and mouth decided notto work together. My brain was telling me to go willingly, comply with the hot psychopath, and whatever is about to happen may not be as bad.

But my mouth had other ideas.

“Get fucked, Wolfe, I’m not going anywhere with you.”

If looks could kill, the gorgeous man in front of me would be deadfrom the venomous look I was shooting his way. But clearly looks didn’t kill and all I achieved was smirks and chuckles from the men standing in front of me.

Patronizing assholes.

“Oh, Riley, sweetheart. We are going to have a lot of fun together,”Kai said with a wink.

A motherfucking wink!

Before I could respond, he nodded to the man with the dirty blondhair.

“Hendrix, do the honors, will you. Take Ms. Bennett to the guestroom.”

The man with the blond hair, Hendrix, shot me an evil grin beforelunging toward me. I screamed loudly, even though it was damn well pointless, and the second he laid his hands on me, I fought as hard as I could. But he was too strong and within seconds he overpowered me.

For the second time in what I assumed was an hour, I found myselfslung over the shoulder of a dickhead who thought it was perfectly okay to manhandle women. He trapped my legs with a powerful arm, turned, and started walking away.

My immediate reaction was to pound his back, the same way I hadpounded Kai when he first threw me over his shoulder, but what was the point? He was hardly going to put me down and say I had hurt him and I was free to go on my way.

I was helpless and it was a feeling I did not fucking like.

From the moment I made the decision to run away with Angel when Iwas sixteen, I had been in control of every aspect of my life, until this point. But in a blink of an eye, it had been stripped away.

I raised my head to look at Kai as Hendrix carried me through the carpark, I met his eye and held his gaze, refusing to look away and glaring daggers at him right until the point where Hendrix walked through a door.

Just as the door started to close and before I lost sight of Kai, I raised my middle finger and flipped him off.

His laugh echoed through the car park, reaching my ears and adding fuel to the rage burning through me.

Kai Wolfe could go to hell.

With blood pumping in my ears, I took calming breaths to clearthe chaos that was racing through my head. I would need a clear head if I was going to go up against Kai Wolfe and walk away in one piece with my sanity intact.

Chapter 8

Riley

PaniclikeIhadnever known before hit me the second Hendrixstepped into an elevator, the doors closing and leaving me trapped in the metal box with him, and him alone.

Call me crazy but as much as Kai had taken me against my will,thrown me in the trunk of a car, and then ordered his man to take me to the guest bedroom, I hadn’t actually felt unsafe with Kai.

Yep, crazy, I know.

But in the elevator with Hendrix, Ididfeel unsafe.

Maybe it was the way one of his hands was gripping my thighs, hovering just below my ass. Or maybe it was the creepy way he’d smiled at me before throwing me over his shoulder, but there was something unsettling about him and I did not like it one bit.

He didn’t talk as the elevator rose to wherever the fuck we weregoing, which suited me fine.

Funnily enough, I wasn’t in the mood to make small chit-chat.

The elevator tookforeverto get to where we were going,giving me an opportunity to come up with a game plan.

Which, right now, was pretty nonexistent.

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