Owning the Beast(16)

“We better leave this room before we decide to go for a second round,” she suggested with a waggle of her eyebrows as her hand came up to cup my now semi-hard cock.

I growled into her mouth and pulled her closer. “Don’t tease me, Beauty. I’ll have you bent over gripping your ankles, with my cock filling up that tight * of yours before you can catch your breath.”

She let out a soft whimper and I knew right then that she liked the idea.

“Later, Angel.”

I turned her around and smacked her on the ass. She looked over her shoulder and grinned at me. I smiled back. I never knew happiness could be like this. So playful, so erotic, so heady.

I led her out of the room and up the stairs, making sure she found her way to our room before grabbing a new shirt for myself.

“I’ll be down in my office. If you get lost exploring, I’ll come find you in a little bit.”

I gave her a quick kiss as she nodded her head in response.

“I think I’ll have a bath before going to find you.” She gave me a wicked grin and winked as she stripped off her scraps of clothing and walked seductively to the bathroom, sashaying her hips.

She heard my growl of frustration and let out a tinkle of laughter. A ghost of a smile came to my lips as I left the room, closing the door shut behind me before descending the stairs and making my way to my office.

The smile was wiped off my face when I saw the red blinking light on my office phone, indicating that someone was still waiting for me to pick up. A surge of irritation came over me at the thought of someone waiting for me to finish f*cking my Angel.

“What?” I roared as menacing as I could make my voice sound.

“Mr. Stone, thank god I finally got to you. I was worried you were never coming to the phone but your assistant, Logan, said you would, but I was so afraid you’d forget...”

“What is it, Sheila? We made our arrangement. We agreed until tomorrow night.” I was angry but in truth, this worked out well. I needed to go ahead and make the deal permanent to keep Annabella.

“Yes, Mr. Stone, we did, but somehow Miss Annabella’s original buyer found out that she was sent to you by mistake and now he wants her back. He knows you and said that he is on his way to claim his bride. I’m so sorry, Mr. Stone, I will send a full refund immediately.”

“Excuse me? Someone is on their way here to take my Annabella?” I shouted into the phone. I was beyond giving a shit about pretenses. Bella is mine! “You call the other buyer. Now. And you tell him that there has been a mistake. She’s going to be my wife. I took her innocence. She belongs to me!”

“I’m sorry, Mr. Stone, but the contract spec—”

I hung up. I was getting nowhere with that bitch. I had a situation on hand to handle here.

“Logan!” I shouted through the house, storming from room to room, shouting for him. I could use the cell in my pocket but I felt like shouting right now.

He came around the corner and I barely stopped myself from slamming into him.

“Yo, Boss. What’s up?”

“Someone is on their way here now to take my Bella. Get all the security in place. Seal the gates. I want this place on lock-down. Right now!”

I saw his eyes widened but only for a fraction of a second. He acted instantly and started rattling off orders into the headset. I didn’t bother trying to make out what he was saying. I had no idea how much time we had before someone arrived. I needed to find my Angel.

Running back through the east wing, taking the stairs two at a time, I burst through the double doors to our suite and strode directly to the bathroom. I gave the door a hard shove and it slammed against the wall behind me with a loud thud. I expected to find a surprised and naked Bella in the tub but what I found was an empty bathroom.

I turned and ran through the master room again, thinking that maybe I had missed her in my hurry to get to the bathroom.

“Annabella!”

“Angel! Answer me!”

I tore through the room and closets, panic slowly beginning to set in. I ran back through the hall and down the stairs. Maybe she was in the kitchen, cooking up dinner like she said she would. I called her name as I stalked through the house, searching for her, every possible grim scenario flashing through my mind.

As I was running back through the main entrance of the house, I saw him. The man who had come to take my love from me. The man who has starred in every single one of my nightmares for years. The man who gave me my scars. I knew instantly why he had come for my beauty. And today was the day I would finally have my revenge.

I stopped in my tracks and turned to face him fully, allowing him to see me in all my rage.

“Where is she, Vincent?”

The motherf*cker had the audacity to smile at me.

“Calm down, Griffin. Wouldn’t want you to hurt yourself.”

I growled low in my throat and took one slow step towards him. I knew what he did to my family. I knew he was the one who had tampered with my parents’ car the day we left to go on vacation. I knew it was him who caused the crash that had killed my parents and left me in a scarred heap on the side of the road. I saw him, that day, walking away from the wreck. Thinking I was dead and that he was going to inherit everything my family had. I was young, no one wanted to believe me. Everyone convinced me that it was all in my head. So I played along, even though I knew. I knew what that bastard had done to us.