I can see in his eyes that he doesn’t believe me yet, but he wants to. His face is taut with tension.

“I begged for you because I love you,” I say. “I’ll scream your name until my voice is hoarse if you need to hear it. Whatever it takes for you to trust me again. Just tell me what you need for me to do.”

He stands there quietly looking down at me while his mind tries to work out whether to believe me or not. I hold my breath and wait, almost afraid to push him too far. This is something he needs to decide for himself. I can’t make him trust me.

Conflicting emotions flash across his face.

Words aren’t going to be enough. Sam needs more so he’ll understand how deep and lasting my feelings are for him.

“Come with me,” I say.

I take his hand and pull him toward my bedroom.

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Sam

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I want to trust Lila and believe everything she’s saying. And yet Flint’s voice keeps ringing in my head, “Don’t trust her.”

Her house is filled with boxes of evidence against the MC, and she expects me to believe that she can make it all go away with a snap of her fingers. She has to be lying to me still.

But why?

There’s no point in keeping up the charade any longer.

Maybe she’s afraid of me.

After all, I pointed a gun at her when she walked in the door. I didn’t mean to scare the shit out of her. I didn’t know who might be walking through the door, so I was prepared for anything. It didn’t occur to me that she might think I was planning to harm her.

I could never hurt Lila and would protect her with my own life if my brothers tried to.

Now she’s looking up at me with those big green eyes and saying she loves me. Right after I fucked her up against the wall and made her beg for the experience.

There’s nothing to say she’s not playing me now. She’s certainly capable of it. She’s proven that a million times over.

My insides are being shredded.

And yet my cock is already rock hard again with an insatiable thirst for her.

Will I never get my fill of this woman? Why can’t I fuck her out of my system like every other girl I’ve ever met?

She’s tripped me up, and I honest to God don’t know what to do.

I love her desperately and I am completely, totally fucked.

Everything in me says she loves me too. But if I’m wrong, my whole family and the MC are going down with me.

I can’t take the chance. Too much is at stake.

Don’t trust her.

She reaches for my hand.