Chapter Nineteen
I open my eyes slowly, the morning light making it harder. I feel a pressure on my stomach and I'm too lazy to go pee. I feel hot, like the room has three fireplaces.
I move the blanket off me, not even remembering when I put it on me, and I try to rise. Key word try . The pressure from my stomach isn't because I need to pee, it's from a big tattooed arm that holds my waist like I might disappear.
My heart starts beating faster as I turn to see Everette sleeping without a care in the world. His face is relaxed and I can see his eye twitching. His lips are parted and his breathe is even.
What the fuck am I doing admiring him?
I lean down on the bed again and this time I try to move slowly out of his hug. I put my hand on his chest to push myself down the bed, my fingers feeling his hot naked chest. I close my eyes when I feel the hardness of his pecs and the smooth skin.
Everette looks like a god. Arms full with tattoos with big muscles are making him look like Hades. Like Anubis.
Powerful gods that bring and welcome death like it's
their nature. Everette is like them. Beautiful, prideful, cruel.
I shake my head and I continue to slide down until his hand is near my breasts. I close my eyes and I move again, his touch letting a burning trace behind. I hold my breath as his big hand slides across my left tit and when I believe I'm out of his embrace, his hand squeezes my tit painfully.
I let out a quiet moan, trying to get away from the pleasure that runs in my body.
"You think you're sneaky, little fox?" His rough morning voice makes me whimper more. My eyes are still closed and I feel his hand massage my breast.
Like that night. A night that I've been trying to forget since it happened.
I arch my back at the second wave of pleasure.
"Do you like torturing me, little wife?" He asks again but my throat is too weak to make a sound other than moan. "You make me lose control, and I'm a master in control." I put my hand on his big one and I don't know if I him to stop or to continue. I feel his other hand caressing my hair and face and I feel lost in his twisted game.
Those stupid bugs appear again in my lower belly and Emmeline's words make sense now.
Butterflies. I'm feeling butterflies.
The normal stage in a teenager's life. Only that I'm almost twenty-four and experience it for the first time.
"Do you want me stop?" I almost yell at him to not stop. But what he said a few seconds ago it's true. I love torturing him.
"Yes." I whisper in his ear and his smirk makes me frown.
"Too bad I don't believe you." And his body moves so
quickly that I don't have time to process it. Everette is on top of me, holding my legs with his big ones and my hands with one of his. His other hand is on my chin and he makes me look into his green eyes.
My chest moves fast and my lips part at the position we are in. His hold on my hands isn't strong but somehow I feel stuck. He lets my chin and moves his hand to the bedside table to look for something.
I don't take my eyes off him as he looks at the thing he wants from there. His jaw is sharp and tight, his beard is the sexiest thing I've seen and his neck looks delicious.
I hear the click of a lighter and then the familiar scent of the cigarette. Everette puts the head of it in front of my lips and I stare at him.
What is he trying to do?
After a few seconds I put my mouth on the cigar and inhale a small amount of smoke. My muscle relax as the smoke runs through my body.
I flinch when I feel Everette's wet lips and tongue on my neck, sucking parts of it like it's a lollipop. I let the smoke out as a moan escapes again from my lips.
Everette inhales from the cigar and leans again against my neck. He blows the smoke on my neck and goosebumps captures my body. The cold feeling over my wet neck after Everette's kisses makes my body tremble.
He moves lower and kisses my nipples through the thin material of the shirt.
"You said no fucking." I finally say. "When you asked me to sleep here, you said no fucking." He laughs and bites my right nipple. I gasp at the stinging sensation.
"Little fox, who said anything about fucking?" He goes back to my neck and licks it. Without realizing, I move my head so that he can have more space. "I'm
simply exploring my wife's body."
I gasp when I feel the burning ash of the cigar on my stomach. He moves to stand on his knees, letting my hands free. I look at how he brings his finger to the ash and press it harder on my skin.
"Ah," I whimper.
"Oops," He simply says and smirks. "I have to kiss it to heal the wound." And he starts kissing my stomach with little kisses.
My heart beats like crazy and my body is hot. My brain is empty and my blood boils.
All because of him.
I let out a short yell when I feel the same burning sensation on my pussy that is covered just by panties.
When did he took my pants off?
"Oops, again." Everette smirks and without any warning, he kisses my clit through the panties.
"Dio Mio." I moan as the burn and pleasure combines. My hands are quickly grabbing his hair, trying to get him off me. I'm ashamed of how much I like this.
My panties are getting wetter and wetter and Everette smells my arousal, letting himself also a moan. He continues to kiss and tease my clit until I feel the climax coming.
I shake as I let the exhaustion take over my body. I feel his fingers tangle around my panties and with wide eyes and fast hands I grab his hair in a painful hold and take him off me.
"N-no, don't," I almost beg him. Twisted imagines are filling my brain and I try to get away from his touch. When he doesn't move, I whisper, "Please."
His angry eyes are holding mine in an intensive staring competition.
"Who hurt you?" He growls and I swallow the gulp in neck.
"No one."
"Who fucking hurt you?" He spits in my face.
"No one. If I don't want you to slide my panties it's simply because I don't you to touch me." I say through my teeth.
"How many lies have you told?" His question makes me freeze.
Everette leaves me alone in bed and goes to his wardrobe and takes out a T-shirt. I look at him almost desperately.
He can't find out.
"I'll go meet Arius, see you later." His cold answers are back, but I'm stuck at what he said.
"Wait, I'll come with you." I need to find the bastard who killed my sister. I need his blood more than I need to paint.
He turns around and looks at me like the thing I've been called all my life.
A disgusting woman.
"I need to find this man, Althea. I don't have time for this." And he slams the door to our bedroom, leaving me with something I never felt before.
Guilt.
My father and Everette have one thing in common. They both call me sneaky.
And it's so fucking true.
The guards from the outside of Everette's office are looking at me with a raised eyebrow as I have my ear glued to the door, trying to hear what Arius is telling him.
I hear their voice but it's so faint that I can't figure what they say. I move my ear closer to the end of the door where the little space between the floor and the door is. At this point I'm on my knees, with my head on the floor.
I wouldn't do this if I wasn't this desperate.
"Ma'am-" I move fast to motion to Harper to shut up. His wide eyes are looking at me.
"You want to have me killed?" I whisper so slowly that I don't think he heard me.
I take my previous position and I close my eyes in the hope that I'll focus more.
Everette's deep voice begins to get clearer and clearer.
"Why are you asking about Ivan?" He asks with confusion.
"Because he was her main bodyguard, and he's not exactly the kind who's mute around women." Arius rough voice makes goosebumps all over my skin.
"Ivan is the head of my security." Everette says angry, but he's not taking Ivan side.
Confusion takes over me too. Ivan was the one who welcomed me in Chicago. I never thought of the possibility that he can be the one who killed Keres. But why would he kill her?
"I found a fingerprint on Keres's face in her medical records and since the gun doesn't have any, this might be your only lead." Arius says calmly. They have the gun that killed Keres but didn't tell me?
You just give me reasons to hate you, husband.
"I'm not sure it's Ivan yet, I need something of his so that I can match the prints." Arius adds.
I stand from my position and I try to think and make some connections but I can't.
"I was never here." I tell the guards and they give me a short nod.
I let my legs take me to the garage where I find Everette's car collection. I don't know what I'm doing here but at least it's quiet.
My mind is stuck between Ivan and the early event with Everette. It doesn't matter how much I try to stay away from Everette, to make him hate me because I end up more confused than ever. He's pushing me until he makes me see just him and ignore everything that happened. Not even my sleeping pills are working anymore.
I dream about him in all stages. Happy, angry, confused, aroused. I take sleeping pills since my mother left me. The pills are keeping the dreams away, the nightmares. They've been the only comfort at night and now they aren't working anymore.
A wet nose brushes against my legs and I look down to see Trinity, my sweet Dobermann who wiggles its tail in delight.
I lean forward and take her face in my hands and start coddling her. Trinity licks my face and I smile at her energy. She was a gift from my father when I turned the sweet sixteen, the only good thing that he did for me.
When I get her off me a sudden weight appears on my back. I know in a second that Anubis is on my back because I forgot to cut his nails and now he's scarring my back.
I turn to settle him down and I see in his mouth a
pair of blue keys. I take them immediately thinking that my stupid dog would eat them, because it wouldn't be the first time he eats something weird.
I realize that the keys are from one of his cars so I push the button that opens the car and look for the light to see which car Anubis picked. When I see the blue BMW that Everette was repairing weeks ago an idea struck in my head.
I smirk and went to the car, eyeing the beauty. It's not as beautiful as his Bugatti, but it's nice...and expensive.
I start walking around the car in the hope I'll see something damaged, but it looks brand new. I grab the key and keep walking until the uncomfortable sound of the key scratching the car is heard. I draw a straight white line and when I'm in front of the car, I draw a big heart with a knife in it.
A laugh makes me stop and my dogs start growling coming on each side of me.
I turn slightly and see the familiar face of Ivan. I try to stay calm and not alarm him by showing him that I might know something.
"You like it?" I ask with a fake smile. He comes near me but Anubis barks violently, making him stop at about two feet away.
"What has he done now?" His question seems weird. I look at him and observe that his chest looks way bigger than it used to be.
"Playing with my patience." Ivan laughs again and my skin is full of goosebumps. "What happened with your chest? Too many burgers?" I raise my eyebrow. He doesn't answer me right away, looking at me skeptical.
Take a big breath, Althea.
"It's an anti-bullet vest. New security costume." My eyes are stuck on him.
"I'm not sure it's Ivan yet, I need something of his so that I can match the prints." Arius words are making me move without realizing. I go in front of him and my dogs aren't leaving my side.
"I hope you won't need them." I look in his eyes and something crosses his vision.
Anger. Confusion.
I go around him and I fake stumble. His hand is immediately around my arm, keeping me on my feet.
"Careful," He says softly. I look at his arm that is on my T-shirt and all I want is to get out of here. I smile little at him and I go for the exit. "See you around." I stop at that and I turn to face him.
He smile makes my blood boil.
I almost run to Everette's office. I slam the door open and the men stop and look at me. Or maybe just my husband. Arius has the pink mask that hides his face.
At my alert face, Everette sits up quickly and bolts in front of me checking my body for any injuries.
"What happened?" His rough voice finally makes me speak. His eyes are angry and confused and his body has a tremble.
"What happens if Ivan is the killer?" I ask in a little voice.
"You've been listening all this time?" Everette asks me and he gets angrier. I look at Arius and I think he can see the desperation in my eyes.
"Knowing your husband, he'll hunt him down and make him wish he was dead." I look at Everette again and he nods in agreement.
I sigh and move my hands at the end of the T-shirt, taking it off me. I hear Everette curse and almost yelling at me.
My husband's eyes are moving down my body, eyeing the black sport bra that I'm wearing.
"Ivan was in the garage," I don't have time to finish because the two men are running to the door. "WAIT." I say but it's useless because my husband is already out, yelling for his men to go in the garage.
Arius stops and looks at me. It's the first time I'm alone with him.
He eyes the material in my hands and he comes next to me.
"He touched you, didn't he?" He asks with his hoarse voice. I nod and he takes the T-shirt from my hands. He moves quickly and gets his computer out along with some weird devices.
Everette comes back and he looks at me, still in my bra. My cheeks turn red and he gives me his jacket.
What a gentleman.
He then looks at Arius in action along with my T-shirt and he finally gets why I took my shirt off.
"Did he touch you?" He turns my face to him and I can feel his tight muscles.
"I pretended to fall and he caught me." I explain like it helps. Everette's hands are brushing my wild hair while he tries to calm down.
After about an hour, the computer makes a weird noise.
We all look at it and the words on the screen changes everything.
The fingerprints are a match.
“Call Venus.” I whisper in anger.