CHAPTER 21
Dominic
“My office, now.” I barked the order at Sutton on my way through the house.
I didn’t even look to see if the kids were with her.
The tension coiling through my body had settled around my shoulders and I had a massive fucking headache.
A hard fuck at the club might’ve eased some of it but the idea of touching another woman made my stomach sour.
The woman had broken my body and brain and she’d done the same to Theo.
I slammed into my office like a bull and crossed to my desk, needing something between myself and Sutton when she came in. I sat down and yanked my desk drawers open one by one looking for any kind of pain reliever.
“Yes, Sir?” Sutton’s gentle voice made my head throb harder. Sweet and innocent as she was, she held a power in her hands that she never should’ve been given.
“Shut the door and sit down.” I couldn’t help being short with her. I couldn’t help glaring at her, either. If she wasn’t so goddamn genuine, I’d believe she’d been sent by an enemy to ruin us. She’d broken Theo. He’d clearly lost his mind, if his actions the night before meant anything.
Sutton looked like she was biting her tongue to keep from insulting me for how I was talking to her. She sat and tucked another long skirt around her legs while inhaling deeply and blowing it out slowly.
“Yes?”
I leaned forward.
“What Theo told you. Do you understand that repeating a single word of it to anyone else could mean he goes away for a very long time?”
She flushed and managed to look indignant, like the idea was the craziest thing she’d ever heard.
“I wouldn’t.”
“No? Before you sound so surem, let me tell you something. Theo would go insane in prison, Sutton. Being forced to give up all control and live in a tiny space with too many people? He’d fight till his last breath to get out.
He’d die there.” I shuddered at the idea.
“I don’t know why he told you anything. He never should’ve.
What he does is always to protect others.
He did it for the government for a long time and now he does it to keep our family safe.
He’s a good man. I won’t let you hurt him. ”
For the first time since I’d met her, she looked at me with so much anger burning in her gaze that I sat back in my chair. The force of it was amazing.
“I. Would. Never. I wouldn’t risk hurting Charlie and I wouldn’t risk hurting him.
Don’t you think if I was planning on telling someone I would’ve run away and done it last night?
You don’t need to yell at me and do whatever this is.
I freaked out last night but I’m not scared of Theo.
I just needed a few hours to process everything.
I don’t need you threatening me, Dominic. I’m loyal to the people I care for.”
Something deep in my body settled. She cared for us.
I doubted she realized she’d admitted it but she couldn’t take it back.
The band around my head loosened enough for me to blink without it hurting and I found myself fighting a smile.
I believed her. Somehow, we’d managed to stumble upon a woman who was as pure as fucking snow but was built like a fucking mob wife.
If the version of Theo she’d seen the night before hadn’t scared her, nothing would.
“Come here.”
She looked like she wanted to keep arguing but when I raised my eyebrows at her she huffed and came over. Standing next to me, her sweet almond scent washed over me and had me wanting to soften even more towards her.
“Theo is my brother in every way but blood. For whatever reason, he doesn’t scare you and he deserves that.
He’s a good man. He would die for this family.
He would die for you. And it’s about time he had someone in his corner that looks at him the way you look at him.
” I rolled my shoulders as the discomfort of talking so emotionally settled on them.
“Don’t worry, Angel. I know you look at me and Leon the same way. ”
She turned dark red and tried to move away but I caught her around her waist and pulled her onto my lap. She struggled for a few seconds and then settled with a frustrated sigh.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Hmm. Lying, being a bit bratty, and you didn’t come to me when you were upset last night?
You’re aching for a punishment, aren’t you?
” I cupped her face and told myself I’d kiss her but it would be a punishing kiss that left her lips swollen and sore.
The moment my lips touched hers, though, I forgot everything.
A buzz of energy shot through my body. Her lips were pillowy under mine, so soft that I immediately softened my approach and kissed her gently.
I took my time and slowly eased her into a deeper kiss, all the while she gripped my shoulders and held on tight.
She let out little puffs of air through her nose and leaned into me more, letting more of her weight rest on my lap.
Her kiss was shy at first, so timid that I wondered if it was her first, but as she grew more comfortable with what was happening, she got brave.
Her hands crept up my neck until she was holding my face and tipping her head to the side to kiss me harder.
I’d never been kissed like that, like I was something precious.
It did funny things to my chest and I pulled away before I really wanted to.
“Stand up and bend over my desk.” My voice was rough as I helped her stand and slid my chair back. My heart was racing so fast that I felt unsteady on my feet as I stood. One kiss from the woman and I was fucked for life. I knew it as surely as I knew my fucking name.
Sutton pressed her fingers to her lips and stared up at me with those big eyes before turning away from me. She leaned forward and pressed her hands on my desk, careful to not upset the paperwork laid across it. She gasped when I reached around her and jerked her hands forward.
“Dominic…”
I pressed a hand between her shoulders so she was bent at the waist with her ass pressing into me.
I gripped the bottom of her skirt with my other hand and gradually dragged it up her legs.
I watched her fingers press into the desk so hard that they went white.
She wanted to move, wanted to fight what was happening but she stayed where she was.
“Such a good little sub for your Sir. You listen so well when you want to.” Pulling the skirt over her ass so I could see her pale yellow panties made me groan.
“So innocent, Angel, even down to these pretty panties. No thongs for you, huh? One day I’m going to eat your pussy through these panties and then force you to wear them for the rest of the day so you feel just how wet we can make them together. ”
Her back arched and she let out a breathy sound so sweet that I wanted to record it and play it over and over again.
She needed to be punished, though. For not listening and for fucking with my head.
When I swung my hand and let it crack against the side of her ass she screamed and tried to scramble away from me.
“Stay. You get two more and then you can run away.” I delivered the next two quickly but just as hard and the second I was finished she rushed around my desk, hands over her ass.
The look on her face was pure challenge and I wanted to snatch her up and give her a true punishment.
It wasn’t the time. I reminded myself that Theo was waiting somewhere, impatiently waiting to see if he’d gone too far with her.
“Go.”
She huffed at me but when I acted like I was going to move after her she hurried out of my office and shut the door firmly behind her.
I caught one last glimpse of her skirt before the door closed and I shook my head as I sat down again.
My head hurt less, probably because the pain had lowered into my dick.
Painfully hard and desperate for just a taste of Sutton, it was the devil on my shoulder demanding I push our angel further and faster.