Sold To the Grizzly Don (Alcee and Bruno) novel Chapter 169

Sold! To the Grizzly Don

Chapter 169

Alcee looked at Torq after everyone was gone and they were the only two left. She went to her desk and sat down. He’d immediately cornered her there, his large body looming over her in the chair.

“Uh, what you are doing?”

“You scared me today.”

“Okay.”

“We need to get you a firearm.”

“I think we just need to boost my security detail. I don’t want to shoot people.”

“Your brother literally plotted to send you away. Tank was able to get into your brothers group chats, and they were talking about how much they hate me and how I’m a danger to you. I am not convinced that since Pavlidis walked away from the kidnapping you they won’t try something else.”

“They sold it to him as a rescue operation. They actually believed I’d want to go!” she snorted. “As if I’d rip my son away from. his father.”

“Is this the only reason?” he leaned closer, his breath mingling with hers. His eyes dark and stormy with curiosity.

“Well, the d is pretty good.”

“Just pretty good?” he laughed at her teasing.

“Well, I mean it was a life changing experience for you. You’ve not had another woman since me. How could I rob you of a lifetime of me?”

He threw his head back and laughed loudly. “You’re doing it because of your altruistic nature then?”

“Definitely.” She grinned a mischievous smile, “out of the goodness of my heart.”

He kissed her mouth softly, “not because you like me?”

“Maybe a little bit,” she kissed his mouth back teasingly.

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“I like you. More than a little bit,” he let his tongue tease her bottom lip. “It scared the fuck out of me today to know you were taken. Made me realize how much you mean to me. I’m tired of almost losing you, Alcee. At first I was thinking, oh, it’s just Mercurio and he’s stupid but then Tank brought in the backstory and fuck if it almost didn’t put me on my knees.”

The idea of this large man being desperately worried for her safety made her heart flutter, “I don’t ever want you on your knees scared for me, Torg. There are far better reasons for you being on your knees but that isn’t one I like.”

He smiled at the joke and kissed her tenderly, “I care for you Alcee. More than I was ready to admit but, it hurt,” he took her hand and held it against his chest, “in here. It hurt in here to think of someone taking you from me.”

“Do you want to know a secret?”

“What?”

“I like you more than a little bit too and,” she flexed her fingers on his chest, “I wasn’t scared.”

“You weren’t?

No. I was fucking angry. I was so angry, Torq. Who would be so stupid as to dare try to take me and our son from you? It took everything in me not to throw punches. I didn’t go with him because I was scared of him. I went with him to see what he was up to. I knew you’d get me. I saw Tito out of the corner of my eye and knew he would call it in, I’m never afraid of you not getting to me. I’m terrified of what I would do, even to my own blood, for daring to make decisions for me where you are concerned.”

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