“No, I don’t need to hide you. You’re not going to run from me because deep down, you know I’ll protect you.” Zeke sat staring at her. Alessandria couldn’t help but fidget. She wasn’t used to being under such scrutiny before.
Biting her lip, she looked out of the window and couldn’t help the loneliness that filled her heart. She was a long way from home, and she doubted she’d ever make it back there. Part of her didn’t want to. It only held bad memories. But she’d leave, escape, and she’d find her own way, her own life.
Chapter Five
In all honesty, Zeke didn’t know what the fuck he was doing, or why he was doing it. He just remembered picturing Alessandria on that exam table, her tears making tracks down her cheeks; the need to protect her at all costs waging war inside of him.
So here he was, taking her back to his place, knowing she’d be safer there than anywhere else, but not knowing what it was about this woman that made him need her like this. He’d never felt protective over a female except Daniella. But Dani was his daughter, his life, and this sad, broken woman wasn’t anything to him.
But a part of you wants her, wants her for yourself, so you can claim her, protect her, and fuck up any and everyone that hurt her.
Yes, that was all true, and it confused the hell out of him.
They were close to his place, and he looked over at her, not sure if he liked having this unknown woman on his mind like this, consuming him, making him feel like he was off balance.
She sat with her hands in her lap, as close to the back door as she could get, and stared out the window. In the glass, he saw her reflection, could see that she had this for lonely look on her face, and a part of him, one he didn’t even know existed¸ just wanted to pull her on his lap and hold her. He wanted to shield her from this shit the world had thrown at her, wanted to help her understand that life didn’t have to knock a person down until they didn’t think they’d ever get back up.
She’d been sent to gather information on him, sent by some lowlife pimp to infiltrate the running of his businesses, and if he hadn’t felt this intensity for her, this need to protect her, he would have killed her on principal alone. He’d been able to look in her eye and see that what she wanted was not the hand dealt to her. And that’s why he’d taken her out of the club and was going to his place.
When they pulled up to the gates that barred entrance into his driveway, the driver punched in the code, the wrought iron gates opened, and they ascended the long narrow strip of road. He continued to watch her, saw through the reflection that her eyes widened and her mouth parted slightly. Yes, his home was something he was very proud of, something he’d worked for, killed for, and made sure was like a fortress. He’d feel safe with her here, locked behind the gates, with the cameras making sure no one would come in and try and hurt her.
He knew that Gerald would find out that his plan to gain information had failed, and when he did, Zeke had no delusions that the motherfucker wouldn’t come after her. Gerald would make Alessandria pay, because he’d want to use her perceived failure to set an example to the other girls he pimped.#p#分页标题#e#
Zeke had known men like Gerald his whole life. Hell, before Zeke got to where he was right now, he been a lowdown and dirty pimp, a small-time criminal. He knew the tricks, knew the fact a man like Gerald would do anything and everything to make it to the top. Whether he was alone in trying to bring Zeke down remained to be seen. But Zeke would find out all the information he needed sooner rather than later. In fact, he had his men working on that right now.
He could have just sent someone out and killed Gerald, put a bullet right between the eyes, but the sick and twisted part of Zeke wanted to kill the fucker himself, wanted to stalk him, let him know it was coming, and have him in fear right up until the end. And when the end did come, because it would eventfully, Zeke would make Gerald’s death slow and painful. Zeke would get off on the fact he was ending Gerald’s life, making the man see that when he’d hurt Alessandria, he signed his own death warrant.
Just thinking about taking down the man that hurt Alessandria sent this wave of pleasure through Zeke. Whatever it was that had him so enthralled by this woman made him even more dangerous than ever before. He couldn’t let her go. He had to find out why he wanted her like this, and that’s why he’d get to know everything there was about Alessandria, and show her that despite the devil he housed inside of him, he wouldn’t hurt her.