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Chapter 7

Reeve

I COULD TOLERATE A lot of things I was iht very little of the people that slung the that I was a rat I often heard the word backstabber mumbled as people walked by I had been labeled a sellout, a traitor, but even worse was the disappointh for him to realize exactly who it was that had her hands on him, what kind of woman it was that made his eyes bleed all their color and burn white hot with craving and need It stripped little pieces away fronity when he looked that way because the disappointled with the way he wanted s that rose up inside hiive in to them I wasn’t sure he even knew they were there, but I could see the to me louder and louder the harder Titus tried to quiet the on than his duty to serve and protect, and I wanted to dig into all of it

Apparently the situation between me and the handsome detective bothered Honor as well I knew Keelyn Foster and her glittery stripper skin outside of Spanky’s She was one of ular clients when I worked down here in the District doing hair She was tough as nails, spoke herqueen of the Point it was her She was tough and unbelievably beautiful She was also unabashedly honest and had no proble ood for the likes of me, and that I should keep my bloodstained paws off of him It should have been ridiculous The words were trite and obvious and she delivered the and a pair of platforht as ht Titus was abovehim down to the level she and I were at, and she didn’t approve It rubbedway, maybe the truth in it, maybe the way I knew she was honestly concerned about what being associated with me would do to Titus’s reputation I only wanted to help hi it into hurt him whether I wanted to or not

I told her to back off I told her Titus was a grown man and could make up his own mind about who he wanted to spend his time with Key’s eyes had narrowed speculatively and she crossed her arms over her naked boobs She should’ve looked ridiculous and trashyshe didn’t She looked fierce and protective, like an ancient Amazonian warrior, and that just made my hackles rise up even farther I orried about Titus just as much as she was Hell, I was stupidly and hopelessly infatuated with the guy, had a crush built on first ier as I learned more about as behind his drive to take care of the innocent and good No one had a bigger stake in how this charade played out with him than I did

She proceeded to tellhad to be up, that there was no way the handso out with me, that he also wouldn’t be so handsy and affectionate because he wasn’t that ith anyone It was the presumption that she someho Titus better than I did, that she had intie Without thinking, I poked her in the center of her naked chest and told her that obviously he was that touchy-feely, was that hands-on with soone predatory, and before I could stop round before she could get a shot in The first rule in the Point was to never show any kind of weakness, so I attacked before I could be attacked It was siic

There was no hair pulling There was no delicate screeching Nope, ent after each other with closed fists and powerful punches She even caught the inside of e of one of those lethal heels and the resulting scratch had blood spilling downIt really hurt but so did all of her pointed accusations, which hy I threw myself at Titus as soon as the bathroom door clicked closed behind him

I wasn’t thinking straight The heat of his hands when he pulledsilver in his eyes as he looked at my now bloody faceit all scrambled my brain All I could think was that I did as best for him, and that despite himself, he wanted me I locked my hands around the back of his neck where the short brush of his hair tickled ers, and sealed ht about things never being fine

I held on tight because I expected him to shake me off, to tell me this was too much and there was no one to put on a show for in here I expected hi and hollow in his too blue eyes

What I got was co Instead of distance, I got backed into the sink so hard that the edge of the counter bit hard intoot a rock-hard thigh pressed between s were forced apart and an erection that was inore even between the layers of clothes pressed up against the tender parts of me that were suddenly every kind of achy and wet

I jolted as a paper-towel holder got whacked hard enough with an elbow to fall off the wall as Titus lifted one of his hands and clasped it around my neck while the other dived under the heht for me The bathroom was tiny and Titus was really, really not There wasn’t a lot of rooet me up on the counter andelse or causing either of us bodily harm

My chest was heaving and I was sureto hiet and without hiain, tasting the copper bite of blood and the warm cleanness that was so, sure, and potent He tasted like righteousness and honor Redeoodness, and I didn’t think there was ever any way I was going to get enough of it

I twirled ue around his I sucked hi into his skin when I felt hiht The black fabric was noto pass out from pleasure when the pad of his thuasped into his e behind his zipper and settled evenme see stars