I could practically see her convulsing with revulsion when she said it.
“I think I got you.”
She giggled.
It’d been three days since I’d heard from my sister. Three days since Logan had curled up beside me and held me all night. Three days since he’d whispered that I was his, and he would do anything to protect me.
He’d murmured it would be fine, the way he used to do, though there had been an undercurrent to it that hadn’t existed in the man before.
He promised he was already digging. That he would find a way to free me of my chains.
One way or another.
I’d awoken to his side of the bed cold.
We’d tiptoed since, unsure of our standing.
His caresses were real but restrained, his gaze sure but his steps faltering, as if he were waiting for me to decide because both of us had so much riding on this fine, undelineated line.
I forced myself to focus on Taylor. “Does Dominic know who it is? Family or hired?”
“Definitely hired. Tatted dude on a bike who looks like he slits throats on the daily and gets a kick out of stomping on kittens with his boots.”
MC.
Nerves rattled through my being.
Those connections went deep.
My father tended to hire them to do the family’s dirty work—all depravities accepted as long as you were willing to pay the price.
It was also what brought me Logan.
A boy I never should have noticed but whose spirit had called out to me.
I paced as anxiety clamored beneath my skin. “Crap. I don’t know what I’m going to do.”
“Um, dude? Do you think so little of me? Your baby sister has this handled.”
“What are you talking about?”
“I’m getting whatever is in that safe.”
“No—”
“Yes, absolutely, yes. I will find a way to get in there. Dom is trying to figure out a plan in exchange for a littledomplay.”
“Ew, Tay.”
She cracked up. “Don’t knock it until you try it. Unless you have?”
She sounded way too excited by the prospect.
My entire life was submission. I’d pass.
Logan’s rough voice skated through my mind. The rasping scrape of a command.
It became clear in a flash, if he demanded it, I would gladly get onto my knees.