this kind of
recreation?" I dangled the scrap of pink and black fabric in front
of him.
He tried to snatch them from me but I was
quicker.
"You may remember that I didn't buy those
from anyone."
"But I bet you would have. How do I know you
don’t have a stack of these things at home to get off on, courtesy
of Madame Lovelock?"
"Give those back." He said, ignoring my
question. I drew back from him. "Victoria, I'm not in the mood for
games, we have a lot of things to discuss, now please return those
to me so that we can continue."
"Like hell I will. These are mine Vincent.
You stole them from me - just like you stole Will's car from him. I
think you have a problem with ownership Medici. You want to own
things that aren’t yours - like you wanted to own the patent for
the Life Defender -my invention."
He made another grab at me but I jumped up
and moved away.
He looked angry, but also kind of turned on.
If I'm honest, the little chase was also turning me on as well. We
had come that close to fucking in my old front yard before we'd
been interrupted. This time I wanted to finish what we had
started.
"We don’t have time for this Victoria. I need
to be back in New York by tonight and there's a lot of things we
have to talk through."
"I don’t think so. You were released into my
custody, remember? And Jeb told you to stay put in Shillington
until further notice so you're not going anywhere tonight
Medici."
The threat to his control was obviously
enough to provoke him. He got to his feet and towered over me in
that sexy way of his. It was such a turn on that I could get him
riled so easily. I backed away and waited for him to follow. Was he
seriously going to chase me around the room? Could I make him do
that?
"Don’t come near me." I said, moving rapidly
to put the couch between us.
"Don’t make me do this Victoria." He sounded
genuinely peeved. It was awesome. "Don't make me take those panties
from you again. I did it once before and I will have no hesitation
in repeating my actions."
He started backing away towards the door.
"Where are you going?"
"I'm securing this door. You're not going
anywhere until you see sense and return those underwear to me."
My pulse began pounding with an adrenaline
rush. He was boxing me in, leaving me nowhere to run and it was as
exciting as hell. I wasn't going to make it easy for him though; he
was going to have to work hard to get what he wanted.
"That's false imprisonment Medici - another
felony - you won’t get bail this time, not even with your
lawyers."
"It's not if I'm preventing you from stealing
my property."
"These are mine!" I screamed at him. The
bastard could be as infuriating as hell when he wanted to be. "How
dare you talk that way."
He placed a chair against the latched hotel
room door and then began to close in on me like a hunter on his
prey.
"You made no objection when I tore them off
you and that, young lady, is implied consent. Those are mine and I
insist that you return them immediately or suffer the
consequences."
I backed further away but there was nowhere
else to go; my back was literally against the wall.
"Tell me about Clarissa first. How do you
know her?"
"It's none of your business."
He crossed the room and shoved the couch out
of the way. I looked around for an escape route. Of course I knew
it was a game but that didn’t stop my heart from racing. There was
the bedroom on one side, the bathroom on the other. Vincent was
directly between me and the blocked doorway.
"You've got nowhere left to run Victoria. Now
it's either time to play ball or to have that thieving little ass
of yours punished for your insolence."
I took the panties and shoved them down my
shirt and into my bra.
"You're the one who's got nowhere left to
run. Will and Jeb are so going to put you behind bars unless I talk
them out of it, so it's you who had better behave himself
Medici."
He took a step closer but I darted to the
bathroom and then struggled to get the