Maid for the Mafia by Jaylee

Chapter 86

...I Was Yours

**ROMANY**

I get out of the pool carefully, glancing around and making sure that there isn't anyone outside. Satisfied that the coast is clear, I stumble toward the garden behind the back of the waterfall where I was forced to stash my phone in order to keep it from getting wet. Once I have it, I creep back toward the patio chair that I stowed my sundress on and head inside soaking wet.

It was hard as hell to hear what was being said during that video call, what with the rushing water so nearby, but I heard enough to know that Ruby *is* in fact alive and that's enough for me.

Friday is two days away which means I'm going to have to figure out how the fuck to get out of here without anyone following me.

*It's almost time for my birth control shot. Maybe I can pretend I'm already due for it and have Alex send me into town. That might work.*

But what if he insists on coming with me? *Shit!*

As I reach the door to my suite, I see that it's standing open and I jolt to a halt. *What the fuck?* I shove open the door angrily just to find Damien sitting on the couch looking sorely displeased. *Crap.* "Damien," I say, sauntering soaking wet then closing the door behind me.

up from my bare feet to my soaking wet

blue eyes heating at the sight of

the couch and

you so that you could go down and talk to Alex," he

my sundress off and reaching behind the bathroom door for my robe. As I

eyes so full of hurt that I can feel it in

me tells me. He must have come up here looking for me and then when he didn't

sad smile. "You know, when I first saw you, I really felt like something special was happening. I saw your beauty and your innocence and I thought"-he sighs"-I thought if I could just protect it, then maybe I

I protest, my insides suddenly clenching when I

backing away. "It's my fault though," he grumbles, stopping his retreat when his back hits the wall behind him. "I should never have left you alone with Alex that night to go and pick up Mickey. I knew he was sending me just to be an asshole and I *let* him do it. I don't know... I guess I had higher hopes for you than I

stomp so close that we're but inches apart. I poke his chest with my fingernail. "I may have been getting a little crazy, sure, a little wild, a little slutty - so what? I've never been allowed to explore my sexuality so

face and then lower, toward the decoration of hickies along my shoulders and throat. "I've never been

so I don't. "You know what I mean, Dreamboat." I let my little nickname for him slip on purpose, hoping it will do something for the way he's looking at me. Because despite that I know I don't owe him anything, I honestly *hate* the way he's looking at me now. So differently than before. I want him back.

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