His hungry gaze racks over my body leaving me feeling naked under the intensity of it all. "She's resisting, but in the end what does that matter?"
Black dots blur my vision, the audacity of his ego knows no bounds. Grabbing Kai's phone, I place it on speaker mode so everyone can hear. "No, I'm not going anywhere with him. I'm ona date, and it's time that the both of you stop with all your patriarchal bullshit, I! Am! Done!”
Gunner's voice is a low rumble of cold fury. "Care to bet?"
I wince as my voice comes out in an almost squeak. "Ye—S!" Regardless, I'm still not going with him.
He grunts. "Put Kai back on the phone, Pres."
My heart turns to mush as it always does when Gunner calls me by my silly nickname. He rarely does it, but when it happens, I'm convinced the feeling is equivalent to what I felt like the first time I ate chocolate.
Gloating, I return Kai his phone. However, my newfound victory is short lived, because nothing is ever easy when it pertains to the Donovan brothers.
"It'll be my pleasure." There is no warning before he pulls me up against his well chiseled chest. It's hard to be mad about him manhandling me, when this is something I've wanted him to do for years.
Even still, I won't let him win. "Kai, what the hell?"
He runs his hands up and down my back, before placing me back down on the ground. His show of dominance, makes my pussy light up like a Christmas tree. I hate him!
Kai looks from me to Leo, a self satisfied smirk firmly on his face. "Tell Leo, goodnight, Presley Kate."
I give him one last chance. "Kai, what's wrong with me going out with somebody? You go on dates all the time, do you not see the hypocrisy here?"
Kai levels me with a look that would make a lesser person faint, but I won't go down without a fight tonight. "I don't date. Ever. Get in the truck, Presley."
Confusion furrows my brow. "But you do, Kai."
"No! I don’t! Now get in my fucking truck, Presley." He yells.
Giving Leo a look, I hope he understands that I have a plan. Iwould rather pull out all of my eyelashes with tweezers than go anywhere with Kai tonight.
"I'm sorry, I'll see you later." I whisper, then give him a quick hug.
He shrugs with a promise. "I'll see you later, beautiful."
When Kai comes for him, I jump in my car. It's not going to take my stepbrother long to figure out that I've escaped, so that should break up this pissing contest he's created between the two. I draw the line at Kai messing up Leo’s pretty face.
Looking through my window in horror, I watch as Kai grabs Leo by the collar. He says something before letting him go. Leo makes a move to punch Kai, but he blocks it, then punches him twice instead.Fuck.
Starting my car, I hope that it will be a distraction enough to stop the fight, but Kai's solely focused on my date. Guilt maws at my heart, because I caused this. His poor nose looks broken and his left eye is beginning to swell shut.
Rolling down my window, I try to think of a way to cause a distraction. I hate to admit that I'm too chicken shit to get back out of my car. It's not the fact that Kai has anger issues either, because he'd never hurt me. Right now, he’s past the point of reason, and he'd be voted most likely to throw me over his shoulder and there'd be no getting out of his grip. "Kai! Stop it right now!"
Placing Leo in a chokehold, his face is contorted in fury. "If you come within a hundred feet of her again, you'll have to start eating your food through a straw."
Leo nods as I scream. "You're a damn psycho!"
Just like I planned, he drops his hold on Leo the moment he realizes I'm in my car. His anger goes from bad to worse when he puts together that I've tricked him.
"Run!" I shout as Leo stands there waiting to make sure I'm going to be okay.
He hesitates, but thankfully makes the decision that ultimately saves his life. Glancing one more time in Kai's general direction, I tear out of there like a bat out of hell!
As gravel flies, thunder sounds off in the distance. A storm is rolling in, and I'm truly terrified of what's going to happen next. Swallowing down the bile, I wipe my tears as they fall.
This is uncharted territory for us, how will they retaliate? I'm not foolish enough to think that Kai won't follow me, or that Gunner’s bossy ass won’t be involved in some way.
I'd hoped that my act of rebellion would help them to see my side of things, but I'm not sure they ever will see it. The lines between us are blurred at best, and I'm afraid I just threw kerosene on an already out of control fire.
