Jagged Edge.

Chapter Fourteen - Entitled

We stayed up all night, talking, holding, kissing. It felt so perfect, but it burnt inside knowing he had a dark secret that he maybe couldn't tell me. He told me very few things about himself. He told me he had never felt love, he had never known love and never believed it would exist. He looked so deep into my eyes it almost terrified me, I almost fled then, a darkness I had never seen before. He told me his father had been a wealthy man and that's all he told me about his family. He always had a guard up, and I feared if I let myself, he would hurt me and I'm not sure I could stand after. I slipped off of the sofa after I had fallen asleep in his arms some point in the night, I watched his sleeping frame for a second, his eyes fluttered open. He looked like a lost boy and I loved that look, it was without the mask.

'My rose, where are you going?'

he was groggy, and sleepy and somehow crazily cute

'Breakfast?' I said enthusiastically

he looked at his Rolex, and his eyes popped wide, and a slightest hint of panic hit his face

'Shit, you have to go' he got up fast and grabbed me to him

'Why, what's wrong?' I had known him two.minutes but him telling me to leave, like I was nothing, that hurt.

'I can't, please just for once do as I say' he gathered my things, and gave them to me and pushed the small of my back to the elevator.

'Fuck, I drove here...' he grabbed his wallet from his trouser pocket and shoved a £20 in my hand '...here, your address, 19 Sinners Road, probably guess why I chose it. Call a cab, this should be enough'

I felt used and stupid, I hadn't slept with him and I felt like a common street walker, tears pricked my eyes but I refused to let him see, he didn't want me. He just wanted to know my damage and know he could have me, now he could just throw me out. We waited for the elevator.

'Too late' he whispered in a angry tone.

The elevator opened and a young man stepped out. He was about twenty, he had dark hair, rich brown, chocolate brown, he smiled at Jared and winked at me.

'Ah, this must me Ms. Payne. Newest play thing I have heard very little about' he reached out his hand, and I looked into his eyes. The same dark.intensity.

'Oh my apologies, Harrison, Jared's brother. Or at least the only one he acknowledges. So he has worked fast, already in his private apartment. Nice work, emerald eyes.' he stood at six foot, and yet that wasn't what got her looking up to him, she felt at his.mercy, if he told her to kiss his boot she may have actually considered it. He was a dominant man, and he was possibly even more sexually intense than her Jared.

Jared stared at me, and I was shocked he was terrified, so terrified. What the hell had just happened, who was this man. What was Jared scared of? Then I didn't have to question it anymore.

'So he given you your collar yet, I assume that's why you are so mute' he mused and smirked at Jared as Jared scowered at him

'Collar? What-' but I was interrupted by Jared

'Mel, I ... I planned to talk to you about something else. I don't want to discuss this now' he pulled me to the side

'Please leave, trust me. I will tell you everything'.