It Ends With Me

**ROMANY**

The moment the words are out of my mouth I regret them. Not because they aren't true, and not because they might push him into murdering Antony, but because the last thing I want him to do is go back to where we were. Back to the path of destruction he was on *after* the incident. When he was ignoring me...when he couldn't look at me. It was torture.

I cringe at myself, freezing with Alex at my back and my feet three tiny steps from the door. Taking a deep breath I scan the floor, looking for the one thing that might make the rest of this afternoon a little easier. I spy it to the left of me, in front of the coffee table and pick it up without another thought. There's only about a quarter of it left and as I turn back around I twist off the cap.

I don't know what I expected to see when I turned around, but it certainly wasn't Alex with his gun in his hand, tapping the damn thing on his thigh like he was counting down the seconds I had left alive. My eyes are glued to the motion as I stand there, the light tapping of the cold piece of steel in his hand against his leg. Without looking up into his eyes, I keep my gaze trained on his weapon while I pour a good deal of his whiskey down my throat.

flexing beneath the barrel as I drink. Coming off the bottle, I lick my lips, dragging my eyes upward and over the brown sugar goodness of Alex's biceps, then across the magnificent ridges of his bare chest. Finally, I trek

swims with the amber liquid that I

afraid too. He appears ready to snap and for some reason that puts a stupid as fuck smile on my face. I step around the table carefully, the meager buzz I gained from that one shot of whiskey not nearly enough

the bottle back up to my mouth and down the rest of it

the empty bottle into his

despite that the hit was right on target. Now though, he looks at me. "Do you know why I allowed it to happen?

their little 'meeting' comes back to me. "Not that it matters, but yeah, I do. It's because you're a sick power hungry fuck that will use anything and *anyone* to place

at me. "That's true enough, but despite what

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