Reaping Consequences

Chapter Two

Mathias

Watching her walk in with that defiance turns me on more than I expected. I've watched her for years, staying away because I could see the love she had for that idiot step-brother of hers. I knew nothing would ever come of it on his end and that he would use her one day, not caring what happened to her when everything went to shit.

I knew the amount that he was in trouble for and knew that she wouldn't have any other option but to come to me for help.

I have to fight back the smirk as I scan her over, head to toe. She's fucking beautiful, even more so than I remember.

Cadence is younger than me by about six years, but I remember her. We went to the same school growing up even though she probably didn't remember that. I watch her from the bleachers as she cheered on our football team when she was a senior. She was breathtaking then at seventeen and now, fuck... I can't even describe the way she makes me feel now.

The sight of her in those tiny little skirts every weekend was a damn highlight even if I didn't go to that school any longer. The reason I went anyways was to watch my brother play. He was the quarterback and a shoe in for making the pros one day. Hell, that little fucker got a scholarship to Purdue and a few other big named schools. I was glad that he was getting the fuck out of this town and out of my parent's grasp. He deserved more than they ever wanted for him and football was his way out.

Her plump lips sit in a frown right now as she waits for me to finish inspecting her. Her tight yoga pants just show me how toned she is. That ass is something that I'm going to love to grab a hold to when I fuck her. I know she is probably trying to figure out how to escape right now, I wouldn't put it past her. She doesn't want to be here, but I'll make sure she never wants to leave after this contract is fulfilled.

A year is ready the length of it, but I can see myself being able to get her to stay longer, maybe even making her my wife one day. I grin to myself. That would be the icing on the cake.

I'll be able to shove that in her stepbrothers face and see how he likes that shit.

She doesn't know Aldrick and I's history, but she will. The truths will come out, and I know she'll choose between the two of us, I'm just hoping that it's me she chooses at the end of all this.

Running my fingers down the center of her body, I watch the way she reacts to me. She doesn't want to show me how she responds; I can see that look in her eyes again. Defiance. Something that I'll love breaking her from. She won't want to hold back when I finally get her underneath my body.

"One year." I murmur.

Her eyes snap to mine, and she glares at me. If looks could kill, I'm sure she would have tried to kill me more than once since she set foot in my house. "I get to have you in my bed for once year."

"You can't force me into your bed for one year." She grits her teeth, and I love the fight that she has in her. When I get her to fall for me, it will be even sweeter. Her being this damn protective over someone she loves, it gets me hard just thinking about it. She has no damn clue what she does to me.

"You signed." I remind her. In the contract, it specified that she would be in my bed every night. She must not have read it fully.

She pales for a second before her fiery spirit comes back rearing to go. "I signed that I had to be in your bed, nothing more than that." She looks pissed that she finally realizes the contract she signed was forcing her to sleep in the same bed as me.

To be honest, I wasn't going to sleep in the same bed with her. I wouldn't be able to keep my hands to myself if I did that. I was merely going to have her stay in the guest room next to mine. She has to want to be inside my bed, want me to fuck her.