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I thought the saain "Make yourself at home Bayla keeps the pantry stocked, and the rest of your stuff including your car will be here in a few days If you need anything in the meantime, just ask"

Her eyes snapped back to h cheekbones

"She lives here with you?"

It took me a second to understand who the "she" was that Key was talking about

"Bayla? No I live alone, but I work a lot and keep odd hours This is a big house, so sooes as she pleases" I wondered if the heat I had seen on her face could be attributed to jealousy That idea made my dick even harder than it already was "Why?"

I would rather have all my teeth yanked out of my face with rusty pliers than tell her that Bayla had indeed been in my bed more often than not Key was no fool, so she knew I had spent lots and lots of ti the evidence of that right in front of her while I was trying to tie her to me with unbreakable chains wasn’t in my best interests

"Don’t be ridiculous I have watched you fuck your way through every pretty girl that happened across your path for years You ht’ve had your attention on the at ant and , so I didn’t argue

"I not only looked at you, I always saw you" And I had I saw the young girl scared but deterinto her own as she realized she could use her looks and her body to rule her world and to control the people around her I watched the woed and ready to usher her broken city into so fierce and forarded , quiet minute "I’ve always seen you too, Nassir I knoho you really are"

I wanted to laugh No, she didn’t No one did, not even Chuck, and he had al somewhere in his memory bank

"Who am I, Key? Who do you really think I am?" The words sounded harsh and rumbled out from a place deep inside of my soul Maybe if she could answer that question, I could finally have sos I had done and the horrible things I was bound to keep on doing to keep my throne

Calmly and totally serious she told ood man, Nassir, but that doesn’t mean you aren’t my man" Her stormy eyes flashed at me "You’re my et a chance to respond because she turned on her heel and glided out of the kitchen Even if I had had ti back at her, I wasn’t sure there was anything to say She was right I was the devil I ains for souls that weren’t le time I stepped foot in the Point Sins and vices were s and punish felt like old hat and I was pretty sure any soul I ht still have left after the life I had led before was now tainted with so much soot and blackness that there was no way it could ever come clean She saw that part of me and she was still here