49. Slade

49

SLADE

I was still so fucking upset and infuriated I could barely pilot the fucking ship. I was basically flying blind until we hit the Space Gate and then I finally managed to take some deep breaths and calm down. As I watched Rigelis Nine appear on the viewscreen, I knew what I was going to do.

I was going to take Aurora to the penthouse and leave her there.

I would send someone over to collect my things later and move into another place—anyplace where she wasn’t, I told myself. I couldn’t stand to be around her because I wanted her so fucking badly.

Already , sitting beside her in the ship and smelling her sweet scent had The Thirst raging inside me. It was all I could fucking do not to put the ship on autopilot, drop to my knees, and taste her then and there. My shaft was rock-hard and the knot was aching—everything inside me was begging me to take her, to make our Binding permanent. But I couldn’t do that—not after what she had done!

Just have to ignore the urges, I told myself sternly. Leave her at the penthouse and get away!

And that was exactly what I intended to do.