23. Hayden

There"s a warm,wet washcloth in my hand and a glass of water in the other when I go back into Cassidy"s bedroom. My body feels like I just played a full game on the ice. That's how hard and intense we fucked.

I hand her the glass. "Drink."

I know she"s completely fucked out when she doesn"t fight me, and I watch as she downs the entire thing while I wipe away any stickiness around her pussy. Can"t have that, not for what comes next.

She sets the glass on her nightstand and looks up at me with a dick drunk smile on her face. "You realize that punishment only encourages me to act out, right?"

I toss the washcloth toward the door before crawling into bed beside her and pulling her against me. Her bare skin is silky and warm. Home. "Maybe I like it when you act out."

She laughs and snuggles closer, her fingers tracing patterns over my chest and down the ridges of my abs. "What would your teammates say if they knew you were so whipped?"

I scoff and pull her tighter against me while she fights to keep her eyes open. That"s it, little liar. Give in to the drugs. "I don"t give a fuck what any of them think about my relationship with you."

She completely ignores the R-word, but she won't be able to for much longer. "Not that anyone would say anything to you," she says, her words slurring together, "since you"re kind of terrifying."

I smirk and kiss the top of her head as she succumbs and drifts off. "Damn right." She really has no idea how terrifying I can be.

Her breathing evens out, and she"s asleep before I can say anything else, like confess how fucked in the head I am when it comes to getting what I want. And she should be afraid since she's the thing I want most.

She starts snoring softly, falling into a deep sleep as the pill I dissolved in her glass of water kicks in. When I know she"s completely out, I climb out of her bed and grab my phone out of my pants pocket.

Hayden: What"s your ETA?

Wraith: I"m outside the door.

I grab my pants and pull them on, not bothering with a shirt as I walk out into the living room and pull open the door to Cassidy's apartment. I'm trying not to let how annoyed I am to be back here show, but fuck, I hate that she ran.

I need to take away her option to come back here, but that's a problem for another day.

Wraith has his leg kicked up against the wall, running an inked hand over his buzzed hair. He looks like he"s bored, but who the hell knows what goes on in the mind of a guy like him? My dad"s hacker, Romeo, put me in contact with Wraith when I asked if he knew anyone willing to do what I"ve got planned for my princess.

When Wraith sees me, he tucks his phone into his pocket and grabs the duffle at his feet, walking past me into the apartment. I"ve never met the guy before, but he looks scary as fuck. I"m the American Psycho kind of dangerous, but he"s a tattooed head-to-toe beat your face in with his fists sort of terrifying. I"m a big guy, but this guy"s on a whole other level.

"Your girl asleep?" he asks, his voice low and gruff.

I nod and gesture for him to follow me back to her bedroom. He starts pulling equipment out of his bag, setting everything in a meticulous row beside Cassidy. She"s still naked and while I hate the idea of him seeing the parts of her body that only I should ever get to see, it"s necessary for what he's about to do.

He gets everything prepped and then shows me the design. When I approve it, he pulls on a pair of black latex gloves and goes to work. Cassidy doesn"t even flinch, and it"s over in less than five minutes, her skin forever etched with my name right above the pussy that now officially belongs to me.

Hayden"s.

It's scrawled in a pretty script, small but clearly legible to anyone who might try to touch what's mine.

When Wraith"s done cleaning up, I shove a handful of cash at him and push him out the door.

Once he"s gone and I make sure Cassidy"s still out, I grab some clothes out of her closet and dress her, careful of the bandage. I pack her a suitcase full of clothes, grab her girly shit from the bathroom, and take it all down to my car. It"s the middle of the night, so no one"s in the hallways or lobby of her apartment building to wonder what the hell I"m doing, and this place isn"t nice enough for functioning security cameras.

When I get back upstairs, I bundle her up in her blanket and carry her down to my car. She murmurs something in her sleep that sounds suspiciously like my name, and as soon as we get back to my house—sorry, our house—I"m definitely taking advantage of the fact I don"t have to go through the show of putting on a condom only to take it off later.

My body's sore as hell, but it won't stop me from fucking her again before I fall asleep.

I buckle her in before driving us back to what"s about to become our house. Sawyer understands my crazy, and I bet he already knew this was coming, so I don't have to worry about discussing it with him first. She"s still asleep when we get there and I carry her upstairs, laying her in my bed before stripping off my pants and climbing in beside her.

Sawyer"s got an overnight shift tonight at the hospital, so I won"t have to deal with him giving me shit until tomorrow. He's never going to let me live down not being able to wait long enough to get Cassidy to agree to move in on her own, but he doesn't know what it's like being so obsessed with someone, having this need to possess every second of their time and attention.

Feeling like you'll lose your goddamn mind, your soul torn in half when you're away from them.

Cassidy"s going to be pissed when she wakes up, but that"s okay. She can fight me all she wants, but it won"t change anything. She"s mine. And now she has my name on her body forever to prove it.

I peel off both of our clothes and then lube up my cock before sliding into her bare. Her back is to my front, and I grab her thigh, looping my arm around it to open her up for me. She"s completely out of it as I fuck her, this time hard and fast since I don"t have to hold back to get her off. When I come inside of her this time, I stay there, my cock still hard and holding all of my cum inside of her to do its job.

"You"re right where you belong," I whisper in her ear as she snores softly. "And you"re going to learn to crave me as much as I crave you."

I pull her close and let myself drift off, knowing I"m going to need sleep for the hell that"s coming tomorrow when she wakes up and discovers what I've done. But it"ll be worth it.

She"s worth it.