Handcuffed Heiress

22. Don't shake her

22. Don't shake her

Kaitlyn-Rose

How dare he barge in here and demand I return the deed to the house? Not only that, he kissed me and started saying a bag of nonsense that I couldn't piece together. Where was this determined interest four years ago? He could have gotten anything he wanted back then. All he'd had to do was say the word. I shook my head. No. It's too late. I don't care what he says. I love Phoenix. Phoenix is the one for me. Phoenix loves me. It's always been me for him. I should have done more than kick his pompous ass in the balls. I needed a drink. Niko De Luca was going to drive me insane.

"Send them all home. I'm done for the day."

"But you just started."

"Send them the fuck home, Madeline. I don't pay you for your ideas. I pay you to do whatever the fuck I tell you to." I needed to get away. I could feel the devil's eyes on me, scorching my skin, burning me from the inside out. My palms felt sweaty all of a sudden. I couldn't get to the elevator fast enough. Those dark blue eyes stared me down until the elevator doors closed. I gripped my chest trying to calm my racing heart down. How is it possible for him to affect me with just a look? My heart was beating wildly. I needed to stay away from that man. He had the ability to set my heart racing with just a look. What would happen with a touch? No. I wouldn't think that way. I needed Phoenix. But it was night-time in Korea now. I couldn't bother him, especially since he came home over the weekend.

I took out my cell and called Kei. I needed the familiarity of his arms. "Where are you?"

"Where else would I be?"

"Can you leave?" I know I sounded desperate, but I needed my best friend right now. It was selfish of me to take him away from his studies, but I needed him. "Kait, what's wrong?"

"I'm going to your house. I'll wait for you there." I was desperate to get away from the building. Every step I made I could feel those devil blue eyes watching me. When I finally made it outside I took a deep breath before getting in the car.

"Where to, Ms. Paxton?"

"My uncle's house please."

I closed my eyes trying my best to block out thoughts of Niko's tongue in my mouth, but I just couldn't stop thinking about it or him.

After about twenty minutes I was letting myself into my uncle's house. I headed for Kei's room and curled up in his familiar bed. He arrived about forty minutes after I did. By then I had thought about all the possible ways that Niko De Luca could fuck me.

"What's wrong, Kait?" He crawled into bed with me and I curled myself into his body. "Kait?" I took a few minutes to gather my thoughts. "What's wrong? I haven't seen you like this since boarding school. Although I'm not complaining, I am a tad concerned. Did Phoenix do something?"

"No. It isn't Phoenix. It's me."

I took a deep breath. "Remember in boarding school when Drake said he had videos of me? He did. He threatened me with them. I had gotten a lawyer to take care of it. He bought the videos and copies for seven million."

"What? Why didn't you tell me?"

"I got kidnapped and everything went crazy. I guess I forgot. Anyway, the lawyer that helped me was Niko De Luca."

"The Niko De Luca from De Luca and Associates?" I nodded. "How did you meet him?"

"I'll get to that another time. Back then I had a crush on him."

"Kait, tell me you didn't sleep with him."

"What if I did? I slept with you."

"The guy is twenty-eight years old. He's practically a grandpa. Well he would have been younger then, but still too old for you. You were seventeen. That would have made him a creepy old pervert." I laughed. "That's exactly what I called him back then, although for different reasons.