“Should we run away from dark eyes?” she asks in my ear. I turn and see Kai is still there watching us. I wave at him and he takes off in his car.
“Oh Lord, that man is intense, girl. I could feel all that frustration from a mile away. He needs to get laid,” she says with a chuckle as I walk to the front door. If only he saw me that way, I would gladly let him have my body.
There are approximately one hundred billion neurons in the human brain and thirteen point five million neurons in the human spinal cord.
“Have you done the naughty in the sack, yet?” Julia asks as she pauses the movie we are watching. We haven’t spoken much. She basically walked in, prepared popcorn and turned on a movie.
“No,” I say, a bit too quickly. She looks down at me and I know she’s trying to find the scars on my body that are covered with my bandages and clothes.
“But you want to?” she asks. I look at her, trying to work out if that’s what I want. I think it is. “Oh, I can see it, you just worked it out. You want to jump that man’s bones. Are you hiding a kinky Kristy somewhere?” she asks. I laugh and throw some popcorn at her. She throws some back and looks around Kai’s house.
“So, you a prisoner here then?” she waves her hand around the house.
“No, of course not. He’s just protective and wants me safe,” I say, dropping my head.
“Well, I think it’s kind of sweet, in a sick twisted kinda way,” she adds with a wink.
“It’s weird, I haven’t known him longer than a month and the feelings are so intense around him. He hardly kisses me anymore and he won’t touch me other than the way a friend would touch you,” I drop my head when I admit it out loud. I know his reasons, but he shouldn’t just shut me out.
“Give him time, Sugar. He’s seen you at your worst and he’s still here,” she says, pulling me in for a hug.
“What if he doesn’t want me anymore? What if I’m a charity case for him now? Someone he needs to fix?”
“Out,” Kai’s booming voice comes from the front door. He glares at Julia and points at the door. She glances at me and I nod my head.
“Call me,” she says when she leans in for another cuddle. She stands and grabs her stuff and walks past him, stopping just behind him.
“I won’t hesitate to castrate you,” she tries to whisper, but it comes out louder. I smile and she winks at me, and then shuts the door behind her.
“Is that what you think?” he asks in a deadly voice. I freeze in the chair and he stalks toward me. “Tell me,” he says, now directly in front of me.
“Yes,” I whisper.
“Because I give you respect and don’t take from you, that means you’re a charity case?” he huffs and pulls at his hair. “I want you. I want you so much it hurts in here.” He clutches his chest. “I smell you every night and want nothing more than you, but I’m not selfish. You are more important than my feelings.”
“It’s crazy, Kai, I don’t know what I’m meant to feel anymore,” I say, looking him in the eye now that he’s kneeling in front of me, seeming smaller than his usual self.
“Aren’t all great love stories crazy?” he smirks and my breath hitches at that word.
He can't love me.
It’s too soon, I could hurt him.
“I guess they are,” I say.
Kai takes a seat next to me and kicks off his shoes. He grabs my feet and brings them up on his lap. He restarts the movie and I lay back watching him, having no regard at all for the movie playing. All my focus is on this tattooed, mysterious man sitting next to me.
“Did you get the bad guys?” I ask when the movie finishes. He turns and looks at me.
“No, I had to put an end to a case I was investigating,” he says, his face growing serious.
“Oh, what was the case? Can you tell me?” I ask, sitting up.
“I was investigating a woman who likes to hurt men,” he says, watching for my reaction.
“Why would she do that?”
“She has issues. She thought she was doing the right thing. She’s getting help now that’s all that matters.”
“But she hurts people, Kai. You can’t let her get away with it. Did she kill anyone?” I ask sounding surprised he let her off that easy.
“She did, but we can’t prove it. The men she killed, well, let’s just say they won’t be a loss to this world.” I can’t believe he would defend someone like that.
“That’s no excuse, she took someone’s life. She needs to face her actions and pay for her crimes,” I say, taking my legs from him. He catches them at the last minute and holds them still.