Insomnia

Babe // Eight

Cade walked out of the bathroom, watching Evie pull her flawless blonde curls across her shoulders out of the neck of the shirt he had bought her yesterday. The jeans she wore fit her sinfully well. Whatever progress his cold rinse did was reversed as he stared at her ass.

"Where do you think you're going?" Cade asks.

Evie turned his direction. "I have work. Student loans don't pay themselves."

"Don't worry about all that." He said flippantly. "You can't leave. My father has you in his scope. Someone was tailing you last week."

Evie took pause. "The black Explorer." She murmured.

"You fucking saw him?" Cade demanded. "Fuck, babe, you should have called me the second you thought something was off."

"It's not like you're an easy man to talk to." She bit back sassily, putting her hands on her hips. "Also, you need to stop with the pet names. My name is Evie or Evangeline."

He completely ignored her. "I don't care. If something like that ever happens again I need to be the first one on your speed dial, do you understand me?"

She huffed angrily. "No, I don't. You aren't a part of my life and you're certainly not going to be one."

"I was a part of your life the second I paid for that bus ticket."

She wanted to scream at him. "And look where I am now! Scared and being followed!"

He narrowed his eyes at her. "Oh, yeah? So I should've left you shoeless and half naked on the sidewalk that night? Or let your calculus buddies drug you and drag you into an alley? What? I should've fucking walked inside and left you there crying in the rain that morning?"

Her expression softened.

"Men want to own you, can't you see? They see those goddamn eyes of yours and fall ass over tea kettle trying to get into your pants." Frustrated, he ran a hand through his drying hair.

"Just like you." She murmured.

"Yes!" He exclaimed. "Except I have no interest in rape."

"That's nice to know." She muttered sarcastically, rolling her eyes at him. "I'm thankful that you've saved me, but I have a life. I want to finish college, I want to find a decent man and do a bit of traveling. You can't ever give that to me."

"Roll your eyes at me one more time. I dare you." He grabs her chin threateningly.

To make a point, she rolls her eyes at him exaggeratedly. "You just said you would never hurt..." At his expression, she realized her fuckup. "You wouldn't ever..."

He chuckles darkly. "I said I wouldn't rape you. I said nothing about hurting you. Taking you over my knee right now and turning your ass a beautiful shade of crimson sounds pretty appealing."

She paled visibly, and he let her go. Evie watched him dig through the chest of drawers and he suddenly dropped his towel. At seeing Cade's bare ass, Evie shrieked girlishly and hid her face in the duvet.

He chuckled. "I always know when you're staring, sunshine."

Cade turned around and saw her ass up on the bed in those sinful jeans. He smacked her ass. Hard. She made that absolutely adorable noise again and flipped over, rubbing the sting away. "Ow!" Evie cried at him. "That hurt!"

She flicked her eyes over him. He was wearing those jeans. Yes, those. They were unbuttoned and hanging very low on his hips.

He shrugged. "Your rear end is just so smackable."