Page 115 of Insatiable

I cross my arms. “You said you wanted to talk. So talk.”

An older man appears behind us, and we move out of his way – then when someone else walks out, he swears and pulls open the door to the maintenance room and tugs me inside.

As the door closes, we hear the squeal coming from Tylar as Dez pulls out of her – both completely naked with the smell of sex in the air.

I cover my eyes and turn around. “Sorry!”

Kade mutters, “Fuck’s sake. Put your dick away.”

“Why are you guys here?” Ty asks, and I turn around to see them thankfully hidden. She covers her breasts with Dez’s top. “Were you looking for us?”

“I wanted to talk to Stacey,” Kade says. “Can you fuck off?”

“We were here first, asshole!” Dez zips his jeans up and stands in front of Tylar while she fixes herself. “What are you two doing in here? Screwing around again?”

Tylar doesn’t even flinch at the words. And when I stare at her, she gives me a tight smile. Of course she knew.Perfect.

She kisses my cheek as they leave, and Dez – very disgustingly – tosses his condom into a box full of rubbish.

The door closes, and it’s just us two. The force is igniting, but I refuse to let any heat build or think of how well we fit together so intimately – how addictive it is.

“I didn’t mean to vanish right after that happened,” he says, taking a step towards me, hands in his pockets. “I know you think I’m disrespectful and whatever else you’ve thrown my way, but I fully intended to approach you the next day.”

“And what would you have said if you did approach me? Thanks for the quick fuck, snake? Sorry for fucking you while killing someone?”

“Do you want me to apologise for that?”

I gulp. “No. I just want you to leave me alone.”

“Do you?” Another step. “Because I’m a killer?”

“Because you’re my ex who can’t stand me.”

Kade tilts his head – another step. “What if I have good intentions? What if I said I don’t want to sleep with you but be your friend?”

“I could never be friends with you,” I say, unable to move as Kade invades my space. His muscular form towers over mine, and I strain my neck to glare up at him. “I’m nothing but a slut to you, remember?”

His eyes are burning into my apparently dark soul. “And I’m nothing but a piece of shit to you. It must be the entire aspect of loathing each other that draws us together.”

“I’m not drawn to you,” I lie.

I don’t move away when his hand comes up to push a lock of my hair behind my ear, his thumb stroking my cheek. “Well, I’m drawn to you, Freckles. And it infuriates me that I am. I could be inside someone else, yet all I can see is you.”

My brows furrow. “I don’t know if you were trying to be sincere there, but it made you sound like a total prick.”

“I’m not a sincere man. Maybe when I was a teenager, when I worshipped the ground you walked on, but now? I want to rip your clothes off and sink my teeth into your skin.”

My breath hitches as he comes even closer.

“I want to degrade you while you sit on my cock. Praise you as you swallow every drop of my cum. I want to brand every inch of your skin with my mouth and make sure you’re unable to even look at another man.”

I suck in a breath, holding it in my lungs as he lowers his forehead to mine.

“I want you, but I can’t have you,” he says. “You deserve way better than me. If you knew half the shit I’ve had to do, you wouldn’t be in this tight space with me now.”

“What have you done?”

Kade sighs, slightly pulling away. “The company I work for has their claws in me – that’s all you need to know.”

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