5. Adonis

She gave me what I wanted but not quite. This thing between us is dirty, possessive, and consuming. I shouldn't be so deeply invested in this girl. Not so fucking quickly. I don't obsess over women. Ever. Aside from my territory, I've never laid claim to anything in my life. What I'm doing with Soren is new unchartered waters.

Unplanned and unpredictable, I find myself doing things I wouldn't normally do. Like killing one of my men for putting hands on her.

"Tell me again why you were spying on her." Soren told me the reason she woke up while I was taking a call in my office was because Blue started growling. That could only mean one thing.

He sensed a threat.

"I wasn't," he groans from the floor where I've beaten him to the point where he can no longer see out of either eye. His nose is busted, too, making his voice nasal.

"Yeah, Hudson, you were. You weren't even supposed to be in the house. No one was permitted, especially while Soren was here." Which makes a hundred different scenarios run through my head. "So, who were you trying to gather intel for?" Zak and Eli bristle beside me.

Hudson doesn't realize it because he can't see, but his body language gives him away. "I wasn't doing anything of the sort."

"You were going to betray the boss?" Zak pokes him with the cattle prod. His body lights up and twitches as it electrifies.

"Bad move, man." Eli takes a more relaxed stance as he leans against the exposed brick wall in the basement.

"Tell me who, and I'll end you swiftly." The implication is clear that if he doesn't, suffering is in his future.

He holds out for another thirty minutes before begging for mercy, begging to tell me who he's betraying me for. Abdul Karas, a man who wants the Irvine region. I knew the location was coveted by a few, but I didn't realize how much so. In hindsight, I should have anticipated others wanting a piece of it. Filled with all those rich soccer moms, I'm already making a mint off them. Others would want that as well.

Upholding my promise, I put a bullet in his head. The bank robbers are still confined in three of the four cells we keep down here. Weak, beaten down, and scared. Exactly as I want them to be. I haven't decided their fate. Only one of them threatened to hurt my girl and shot me twice, but the other two were present. They didn't have a care in the world about her. In my mind, they're just as complicit.

As I make my way upstairs, my anger grows as I contemplate the betrayal. It's not something I've ever experienced before. I've never had to worry about it. My wrath was enough to keep the men around me scared into complacency. The amount of money I pay them is another good incentive.

"Joe." I stop him as he's about to pass by. "Get Hudson's computers and phone and find any correspondence between him and Abdul Karas. I need to know what he's been telling the man."

"On it." He turns around and heads towards the garage. I'm confident Joe will find anything I need.

"Adonis." Soren's velvety voice calls to me from her spot in the kitchen where Sally is attempting to feed her everything she can. "I need to go home." My eyes narrow.

"No," I snap. We discussed this already.

Getting to her feet, she matches my defiant stance with one of her own. "Yes."

Gritting my teeth, I fight to remain calm. My leg burns with fire, and I know it's only a matter of time before I'll be forced to relax. "Why?"

"I told you, my parents will be worried about me. I need to see my mom." She did say that before I went to take care of Hudson, but I don't care. She's a grown woman. She should be able to come and go as she pleases.

"Why?" I ask again. She's about to roll her eyes at me but stops when I lift a brow, biting the inside of her cheek instead.

"Because she was freaked out when Zak and Eli came to collect me. They weren't exactly forthcoming with their intentions." That sounds like them.

"You'll come back." It's not a question.

She beams at me as she nods. "I will tomorrow."

"Tonight."

"Tomorrow," she argues. Moving closer, Soren wraps her arms around my neck, pressing her body closer to me, forcing me to drop my crossed arms. "I can pack a weekend bag tonight, too."

I pick her up, and she wraps her legs around my waist. Pivoting, I take her into my office and slam and lock the door shut behind us. Shoving my pants down, I rip her panties off and press my hard dick against her damp folds, groaning out my pleasure.

"If I'm being forced to let you go for the night, you're leaving with my cum in your cunt." I don't give her a chance to respond. Slipping the head of my cock into her tight heat, I don't move in farther. "Your virginity will be saved for tomorrow." She moans, tightening her opening around me. "But you'll leave here filled up with me, understand?"

Her eyes are already glazed over. "Yes, Daddy." Laying her back over my desk, I lift her skirt, playing with her clit with one hand while making shallow strokes inside her sweetness, bumping into her barrier but not breaking it.

"Come for Daddy, little princess, show him how much you want his seed." Fucking hell, she's beautiful. Flushed, horny, and needy. A few more flicks of my thumb on her button, and her back arches as she lets out a pleasure-filled scream.

A few hard strokes with my hand along my cock, and I'm blasting my release inside her virgin cunt. Coating her walls with my seed. I stay that way for a few minutes, rubbing gentle circles around her nub, using my dick as a stopper for my cum until some of it gets absorbed into her body.

She twitches and moans, lifting her legs higher to give me more access. She holds them behind her knees as I slip free and watch her pink lips slowly hide her perfect hole from me. When my cum starts dripping out of her, I'm quick to rub it into her skin, marking her.

"You don't shower again until you're back in my arms," I growl, feeling feral. I need to know she'll be smelling of me. Marked by me. "Understand me, princess?"

Pushing up from the desk, Soren slinks down to the floor in front of me on her knees and responds, "Yes, Daddy," before licking up the length of my dick, sucking the tip between her lips, and swallowing the drop of cum leaking out. "Does that mean the same for you?"

I help her to her feet, sweeping down and taking her lips in a fierce kiss, biting and sucking at her plump lips. Licking into her mouth and taking her flavor into mine.

"Yes, baby girl, same for me." She gives me a pleased grin. "I'll be there to pick you up at ten sharp; you'd better be ready for me."

"I will be, Daddy." After helping her fix her clothes, her soulful eyes gaze up at me like I'm her fucking king. "Daddy?"

"Yes, princess?"

She nibbles on her lip before speaking. "Thank you for killing him." Stunned, I can only nod. My little girl is not nearly as innocent as I believed.