Authors: Juliette Jones

BILLIONAIRE (Part 5) (8 page)

In my remorse, I felt like the big bad fucking wolf who’d stormed into her life and destroyed it one fuck at a time. All I’d wanted to do was protect her and possess her and in that moment I realized couldn’t do both. That the two were mutually exclusive.
That
was the change I’d felt: my full-blown obsession was testing her limits.
Our
limits. But I had no idea how to calm myself the fuck down.

“You didn’t hurt me, Alexander,” she said softly. “You didn’t. I wanted you to do everything you did. I
asked
you to. It’s okay. I don’t know why I’m crying.”

He shoulders shook gently as she sobbed. The sight of her cut me up completely. Those thin, angular shoulders. The beading moisture dripping from her breasts like milk. The mussed ropes of her wet hair gathered damply against her skin. I held her and soothed her and let her cry it all out.

It seemed impossible that I’d only known this girl for less than
two
weeks
. She was more important than anything else in my life. And I resolved right then and there to figure out a way to keep her. Without breaking her. By stepping back a little and allowing this new yet exceedingly-intense relationship to grow. Without forcing her to accept my fanatical guardianship and infatuated ownership of her time, her laughter, her smile.

Her body.

In all honesty, I didn’t know if I could let go enough to do that. My obsession was closing in around me, around us, like a steel cage. And there was nothing I could do to stop it.