"Do you want to run that by me again, baby girl?" he asked coldly, voice so chilling it sent a shiver down my spine. "Daddy's an alpha male. Better do it right if you're going to threaten me. Do you understand the stakes, Miss Hunter?"
His hardened facial features had me faltering, but there was no way I could back down now. Something in the way I moved made his shoulders drop. He sighed, watching me close the distance between us.
"You want to f**k me again, Harmon. No one has to know. Not Billy. Not Macy. No one," I said, turning up the charm as I reached for his tie, desperately hiding my nervousness behind a sultry, seductive voice.
"I'll know. If you tell him, if we happen and it goes south, I won't just lose my job, I'll also lose him. I'll lose you, Olive," he said, his voice dropping low, eyes cast down as he watched my fingers play with his tie.
I might have been mistaken, but I swore I heard his voice break on the word you. He had me transfixed. Rooted to the spot before him. Getting lost in drawing closer. The scent of his cologne. How quickly he'd dressed himself again, not a hair out of place. So taken in by him. For a moment there my heart convinced me he cared about me like a lover should.
I was wrapping my arms around his neck again before I knew what I was doing, but did I want a f**k or to just be in his arms again?
"Harmon, can't we just—" I spoke with trembling lips as my mouth neared the collar of his shirt.
"Daddy doesn't think with his d**k, baby girl. I decide who I f**k and it's not going to be you. I won't tell you again. You're staying in LA," he said sternly, grabbing a firm hold of my arms and dragging them away from his body. "Now leave. I have preparations to make for my trip tomorrow."
Later that night, I decided to join my friends at a frat party to drown my sorrows.
"Graduation body shots!" I screamed out into the crowd.
Harmon and I had been buried under work lately so I didn't have the chance to celebrate my graduation. Now seemed as good a time as any. My pride wouldn't let me keep arguing after he flat out said he wouldn't f**k me. Back to basics. I had heard the words so many times before. So why did it hurt so f*****g much this time?
My declaration from atop my makeshift stage - a coffee table - was greeted with coos, wolf whistles and cheers of affirmation from beefy f**k boys and girls. Was I completely wasted as I laid myself down on the table and lifted up my shirt? Why yes, yes I was.
"Is this what heartbreak feels like? It sucks ass," I yelled out into the crowd, replaying his words in my head over and over as the crowd I was drawing cheered.
I decide who I f**k and it's not going to be you.
The crowd around me didn't feature the friends I came with. Still I wasn't about to back down. One of these pretty boy jocks would do nicely for tonight. He wouldn't be Harmon, but then that would be half the fun. A revenge f**k of sorts. The only thing that would get me off more than some random f**k boy sticking it to me tonight was if I could make Harmon watch it happen.
Fuck. Please don't tell me…
"s**t. Did I call Harmon… Or not?" I blurted out, my index finger squishing a pair of soft lips as they approached my alcohol laden navel. "You might want to reconsider if I did."
Harmon was number two - number one was obviously Billy - on my speed dial. Without fail, Harmon was the one I would call when I was in trouble. This was such a time. The last person I wanted to see was him, but old habits die hard. Did I drunk dial him? I was so wasted I couldn't be sure.
"Harmon can wait his turn, just like the rest of us," f**k boy number one of the evening declared, his peers cheering their agreement.
"I'm not really the patient type," said the man of the hour, his broad shoulders effortlessly forcing their way to the front of the crowd. Harmon held out a big hand to me and said, "Come."
Laying eyes on him gave me butterflies in my tummy. I broke out into a fit of giggles as a mixture of joy and sadness crashed down on me.
Then, still beaming from ear to ear, I said, "Don't you remember, daddy? It takes a little more work to make my p***y do that."
With a snide smirk, f**k boy number one bumped his shoulder into Harmon's. His group of friends came to surround Harmon and he said, "Sounds like the lady wants to stay and have a good time."
I shook my head faster than a drunk off her ass person should and rambled, "Time to goooooo," knowing, even in my inebriated state, how this ended if I didn't leave with Harmon.
I hated myself for wanting to take Harmon's hand. I wanted to go with him. No persuasion needed.
"Sounds to me like you're looking for a f**k toy for the night. Look elsewhere," Harmon thundered, turning to face the f**k boy of the evening head on despite being surrounded.
The harder the men glared at each other, the more space the spectators gave us. The crowd I drew thinned. Less and less people were looking to get with me as the vein on the side of Harmon's forehead became engorged. My revenge s*x plan was not Harmon approved.
My drunken brain didn't register when the beefcake jocks and Harmon started trading blows. I only knew we were leaving because I recognized the sequence of events that followed Harmon knocking out the pushy twenty something asshats one by one. Before the stranger whose bed I was not making it into tonight could hit the floor, I was tossed over Harmon's shoulder like a sack of potatoes.
Deep, harsh strides soon carried us outside, my face rubbing up against Harmon's toned back muscles through his fitted shirt. Was this why I came out tonight? To give him a reason to come after me? Long before we f****d, the feeling of being thrown about by his strong arms never failed to get me all hot and bothered.
"Harmon, you're c**k blocking me," I screamed from my upside down posture, getting dizzier with every step Harmon took as I threw my tantrum.
He set me down on my feet gingerly, then opened the door to the passenger side.
"Maybe when you start selecting companions with d**k sizes that indicate some form of maturity, I'll stop. Get in the car." Harmon growled, barely able to contain himself.