Page 64 of Mercy
Flashing her a glare, “This is not open for discussion. You will stay away from him, Mercy. He’s on drugs. He keyed my fucking car, he’s angry. I do not trust him with you.”
She stands and gasps as she jerks her head back, staring at me with wide eyes, “Nash does not do drugs, Liam.”
I take a deep breath and pull her closer. “Maybe not before Mercy, but he is now. He asked me for five-thousand dollars to pay a drug debt. I’ve never seen him like this. He’s not the same Nash as he was before. The drugs have taken over.”
“Liam, we have to help him,” she says as tears stream down her cheeks.
“No. You are going to stay away from him. I will help him.”
She nods, and I breathe a sigh of relief.
“Come here, baby girl. I need you.”
Straddling me she pushes me, so I land with my back on the mattress, hovering over me her lips ghost mine.
“Tell me what you need, baby. I’ll give you anything you desire,” she whispers.
What do I need? I don’t have a clue, other than her in my arms, that’s what I need more than anything, always. But she said anything I wanted.
“Anything?”
She sits up on top of me, “Liam Lexington, don’t you know by now? I will give you anything you want. Whatever you wish, it will be granted.”
I’m terrified to utter the words that run around in my mind.
“Jesus, Liam you’re scaring me. Would you just say it?”
I grab her hips, “I want you to marry me.”
Her eyes go wide, her mouth forms an ‘O’ but her words are silent. This is definitely not the ‘yes’, I hoped for. Minutes go by, and she doesn’t move, her expression now stoic. I don’t know what to do with this.
Fuck. It’s too soon—you idiot.
“Baby girl, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have said that. Can we just forget I said that?”
She gets off me and stands beside the bed, arms across her chest, glowering at me. “So, you didn’t mean it? Why would you say something like that if you didn’t mean it? That’s mean, Liam.”
“I meant it,” I say quietly.
She puts her hands on her hips, she’s so fucking adorable when she’s angry, “Then why take it back?”
“Were you going to say yes?”
Shaking her head she says, “No.”
“There you go.”
Rolling her eyes at me, she explains, “Maybe, it’s all the damn princess movies I’ve been exposed to recently. But I want more Liam, and I think I deserve more than a bedroom proposal with your hard cock pressing into me.”
I get off the bed and pull her against my chest, “I’ll do better, baby girl. You deserve everything. Come take a shower with me.”
“I thought you’d never ask,” she says with a grin.
“Baby girl, I wasn’t asking. Get naked.”
Walking away I get undressed and turn the shower on.
She comes into the bathroom and runs her nails down my back.
