“Don’t you, though? I see how you try to hide how wet your pussy gets when you’re scared. Your nipples get so fucking hard, and you clench your thighs tight as if that’s going to lessen the need to feel my cock inside of you.” She gasps, a quiet inhale of breath. I grind my teeth against the raging urge to go to her house and bring that noise out of her some more. “Did you do it?” she asks suddenly, as if the question burst out of her. Her breathing escalates. “Did you kill Arch?” I bite my bottom lip, a smile forming. I’ve been waiting for this question. Surprised it took her so long to work up the nerve when she’s got plenty of it to disobey me. “T think you already know the answer to that, Adeline.” “I do. His family is dead, too.” I’m not surprised to hear that she knows. It made national news, after all. Bodies are gone without a trace, and a bit of a war has begun now that there’s a power vacuum. “Do you know what that caused, kitty cat?” I chuckle at the nickname. III correct that little bad habit of hers soon. “It gained me some pretty fucked up enemies.” My smile fades. I’ve been keeping an eye on Arch’s friends. But apparently, I haven’t been keeping it close enough. “Max?” I guess. I’ve heard he’s been strong-arming his way to the top. “Yup,” she says sassily, popping the P. “Hmm,” I hum, my mind wandering to all the ways I’m going to teach Max and his crew a lesson. I had hoped they would be smart enough to leave Addie alone with her police reports disappearing. She listened and didn’t report the hands to the police. In retrospect, Max has no reason to target Addie. Which means he had to have found out about the hands. “That’s it? That’s all you have to say? Humm? Some pretty dangerous men are after me because of you, ya’ know? If I end up dead because of your psychotic jealou—” “Let me stop you there, baby. Because you seem to forget that I had a gun in your pussy not too long ago. Did you think teaching you how to act right is the only lesson I’m teaching with that?” She quiets. “If you think low-life criminals are scarier than me, then I haven’t been clear enough, have I? Next time you place them above me, I'll be sending their heads to your doorstep next.” I crack my neck, the flare of anger residing now that Addie has closed her pretty little mouth. She’s starting to learn, but I hope to God she never stops talking back. I do like to punish her.