Tangled Web (10 page)

I slipped my arms around his neck but broke away when my
purse started vibrating again.
 
He
growled pressing me against the elevator wall, placing his lips on mine.
 
I opened my mouth for him and he quickly
thrust his tongue in between my lips.
 

“I’ve wanted you all day,” he whispered, kissing and
suckling my neck. “Feeding you that chocolate cake.
 
Fuck.” He roughly grabbed my breasts
underneath my jacket.
 
As the elevator
came to a stop, Nathan stepped back, adjusting himself.
 
I checked my appearance in the mirrored wall
before quickly leaving the elevator.

As we stopped outside the door to the apartment Nathan
brushed my hair behind my ears and softly kissed me.
 
“Looks like this is where I leave you, Miss
Johnson,” he whispered.
 

I went to open my mouth and he quickly thrust his tongue in,
holding the back of my neck, kissing me roughly.
 
As he pulled back, he bit my lip.
 
That was all it took.
 
I’d never been a fan of pain but Nathan
roughly biting my lip did the trick.
 
As
he went to pull back, I quickly grabbed him by his jacket.

“Don’t,” I whispered.
 
“Stay with me?”

He frowned, his eyes quickly darted to the door behind
me.
 
As he looked back at me, his lips
stretched into a killer smirk.

“Are you sure?”
 
I
nodded, smoothing my hands across his chest.
 
He bit his lip as I did this.
 

“If Chase finds out I took his baby sister in his
home...”
 
He chuckled as if the thought
pleased him.
 

I know the thought pleased him.
 
Just because we were together it didn’t mean
that he suddenly liked Chase.
 
They would
still hate each other.
 
He rubbed his
thumbs across my cheekbones.
 
My eyes
went halfway to closing when he did this.

“This is my home as well,” I reasoned.
 
“Chase has always said I can come and go as I
like.”
 

He grinned wickedly. “You’ll definitely be coming.” He bit his
bottom lip roughly and grinned when I blushed.

“He isn’t going to understand any of this.
 
You staying in my bed is going to be the
least of our troubles.” I chuckled.

“Fair enough.” He smiled.
 
“Lead the way then, angel.”
 

Fuck, I loved the way he was looking at me.
 
As we entered the apartment I was suddenly
thankful that Chase was out of the country.
 
I was determined to stop worrying about what others thought of mine and
Nathan’s situation.
 
There was a chance
that Nathan could be lying to me but I wasn’t going to worry about that.
 
I was going to take Nathan’s words as the
truth and enjoy our time while it happened.
 
At the end of the day, I was all too aware that Nathan was the hot
topic.
 
My own family would do whatever
it took to cause trouble and I’m sure his was exactly the same.
 
Even Sophie had made it obvious that she
wanted him and would do whatever she had to do to take him.
 
Sophie had designated herself the next Mrs.
Walker and I believed she wouldn’t let anything get in her way.

I quickly took my jacket off and left my shoes at the
door.
 
I turned to look at Nathan and
noticed him looking around.
 
He walked over
to the fireplace and picked up the photo of me and Chase at the Annual Charity
Gala from four years ago.
 
I was only
seventeen and was desperate to go.
 
I
thought it was going to be an amazing night with all the glitz and glamour but
I was bored out of my mind stuck at my father’s table.
 
The only kid there and I was forced to sit
all night at a table where everyone talked business.
 
I had quickly realized the Gala was more reserved
for adults for a reason.

Next to that photo on the mantle was Chase’s graduation
ticket for my ceremony.
 
The ceremony I
never attended.
 

“Why didn’t you graduate?” He fingered the invite.

“No reason.
 
I mean it
was nowhere important like Cambridge.
 
I
stayed long enough to finish my exams and came home,” I explained.
 

He took my face in his hands, making me look at him. “I know
there’s something you’re not telling me.” He pressed his forehead against
mine.
 
I began to pull away in a panic
but he held my face firmly so I couldn’t pull away.
 
“I’m not asking what it is but when you’re
ready…
 
I’ll listen,” he said, gently
kissing me.

I nodded, pulling away from him, leading him to the
kitchen.
 
“Can I get you something to
drink?”

“I’ll take a Scotch,” he replied, trailing me.
 

I poured us both a glass of scotch and before he’d even
brought his glass to his lips I was halfway to downing mine.
 

He cocked his eyebrow at me in surprise.
 
“Are you okay?”

“I’m fine.” I put my glass in the sink.
 
There goes that eyebrow again.
 
He didn’t believe me.
 
“I just don’t want to talk about it.”

“I see.” He nodded.
 
He quickly downed his glass of scotch and smirked.
 
“Would you like me to distract you?” He stalked
his way towards me.
 

I went to ask him what he had in mind when the landline
started ringing.
 

“Ignore it.” He placed his lips on mine.
 

I planned to do just that as I wrapped my arms around his
neck, opening my lips for his tongue.
 
Just as his tongue entered my mouth, Chase’s voice came through the
answer machine.
 
I ripped my lips from
Nathan in shock.

“Chloe, pick up.”
 
Silence.
 
“You had better be home.
 
If I find out you’re with that scum, I will
lose it.”
 
Angry silence.
 
“Look, I’m on my way home.
 
Obviously I can’t trust you enough to leave
you alone and not have you fuck everything up.”
 

How dare he?
 
I’m his
sister.
 
He didn’t own me.
 

“Be there when I get home.”
 
The dial tone signalled he ended the call.
 

I looked back at Nathan who was staring at me.
 
I looked down at his hands and noticed he was
repeatedly clenching them into fists.
 
Nathan looked so angry.
 
He was
grinding his teeth.
 
Seeing him so
restrained had me rubbing my legs together.
 
As I did this his eyes narrowed and he leaned in towards me so that I
was trapped between him and the worktop.

Nathan was so much taller than me.
 
I only came up to his chest and usually I
hated being around tall people.
 
Due to
my shortness tall people usually made me feel inadequate and I often felt like
they were towering over me.
 
With Nathan,
however, I liked that I was so much shorter than him.
 
I’d never say it out loud but on the few
occasions we’d had, I loved it when I was in his arms.
 
I enjoyed being surrounded by him.

“I want to strangle him for thinking he can speak to you
like that.”
 

Looking up at him I had to stretch my neck. “You’re angry,”
I whispered.
 

He narrowed his eyes when I said this and his jaw
clenched.
 
“Really angry,” I added. “I am
pissed.” He seethed.
 
“I’m torn between
wanting to snap every bone in your brother’s body or taking you into the
bedroom and losing myself in you.”
 

Hot as hell and I blushed.
 
At first I thought Nathan went after me because of my last name.
 
I know that was the original reason but now I
felt it was so much more.
 
I believed
Nathan when he asked me to give him a chance.
 
That combined with the way he was looking at me I knew what we had could
be real.
 
We just needed to give it a
chance.
 
I wrapped my arms around his
neck and rubbed myself against him.

“Then what are you waiting for?” I slid my fingers into the
back of his hair.
 

Nathan quickly leaned forward and placed his lips on
mine.
 
He hoisted me up by placing his
hands underneath my ass and thrusting his tongue into my mouth.
 
I quickly wrapped my legs around his waist
and squeezed my arms around his shoulders.
 

“Don’t drop me.” I panted against his lips.
 
I felt him smile and chuckle against my
mouth.

“I’ve got you, baby.” He squeezed me to him.
 
“Where to?” he panted.
 

I pointed to my bedroom, the only white door in the
apartment.
 

He walked me slowly towards my bedroom, never taking his
lips off mine.
 
Shutting the door, he
turned and pressed me against it.
 
Nathan
leaned back to look at me.
 

The way he was looking at me made me feel vulnerable.

As I began stroking the back of his neck his eyes
closed.
 
When I first met Nathan he was
all confidence and cocky attitude.
 
Right
now, he looked just as vulnerable as I felt.
 
He opened his eyes and bit his lip gently.
 
This made me clench my legs tighter around
him.
 
I rocked myself against him and his
teeth bit tighter into that lip.
 
He
pressed me more forcefully against the door and held me there with his
hips.
 
He quickly took my face in his
hands and pressed his forehead against mine.

“The first time we were together was rushed.
 
I desperately needed to have you and I had to
have you as fast as possible.”
 
He sucked
my bottom lip into his mouth.
 
“Right
now, I’m not desperate for you.
 
My need
for you is still intense but I want to enjoy you.”
 
He leaned back to look at me.
 
As he did this he rubbed his thumbs across my
cheekbones.
 
“Today you agreed to give me
a chance.
 
To be my girl.”
 

My girl.
 
I felt all
warm.
 
I’d never been anyone’s girl
before and I was surprised how much I liked it.
 

“I’m going to enjoy you right now, Chloe. Because my girl
looks sexy as hell.”

That was it - all it took.
 
I grabbed the back of his head and pulled his lips towards mine.
 
I took his mouth with a hunger I didn’t know
I could possess and he moaned out loud as I did this.
 
He quickly walked backwards and as the back
of his legs met the bed he flopped backwards, taking me down with him.
 
He grabbed the back of my head and crushed
his lips to mine.
 
I began rocking on top
of him.

“Fuck.” He gasped, placing his hands on my ass and grinding
me against him.
 
He sat up and ripped his
jacket off.
 

My hands rushed to the buttons on his shirt and began popping
them.
 
I got halfway down and he must
have gotten impatient.
 

He ripped his shirt up over his head and threw it to the
floor.
 
In no time, his hands were on the
hem of my top and roughly pulling it up over my head.
 
He placed his hand on my stomach and began
kissing in between my breasts.

Nathan made short work of my bra and it was soon on the
floor with the rest of our clothes.
 

I grasped his belt and began undoing the buckle.
 

He pushed me back so I could stand and began pulling my
jeans down my legs.
 
His hands skimmed
over my ass cheeks and cupped my sex.
 
“Fuck, you’re wet,” he whispered, kissing and sucking my hip.
 
He slipped his fingers underneath my panties
and began rubbing me.
 
He pulled me onto
him so that I was kneeling over him.
 
I
grabbed his head and placed his lips on mine.

“I want you.” I was breathless, grinding against him.
 

Nathan stood up and toed his shoes off.
 
He placed me down on my feet and quickly
pushed his trousers to the floor, pulling his socks off at the same time.
 
He had something in his hand, placed it on
the bed and I noticed it was a condom wrapper.
 

“Came prepared, did you?” I smirked.
 
I suddenly worried that I was making it too
easy for him.
 
If he is only in this for
my last name am I making it too easy for him?
 
“Am I that obvious?” I may have been naked on the outside but I felt
completely naked on the inside.
 
He must
have sensed it.