Free Xavier: (Indestructible) by D.M. Mortier Page B

touched her. Cass always
fight dirty. She had him on the floor, sitting on his chest with his hands
trapped beneath her knees in seconds. T couldn’t move.” Cameron chuckled at the
memory. “Every time he opened his mouth, Cass slapped him.” Cameron stopped
smiling. He dropped his shoulders and lowered his gaze. “I’m not like Cass.”
    “So learn how to fucking fight.” Xavier bent until he could
look him directly in the eyes with a hard glare. “Don’t put her through this
shit again.”
    “I—” Cameron started.
    “She is mine now. Don’t make me fuck you up,” Xavier growled.
    Cameron stared back at him and flinched. “Alright, alright, Cass
will get no more crap from me.”
    Xavier walked back to the driver’s side and got in the vehicle
again. He leaned over and caged Cassandra in, completely ignoring Cameron as he
climbed into the backseat.
    Cassandra frowned mutinously back at him.
    Her scent had already been playing havoc on him in the small
confines of the cabin, but this close to her was pure torture. She had an
alluring scent, ultra feminine, and it was making blood pool to his lower
region. So when he spoke to her, his voice may have been a little harsher than
he intended.
    “Just so we’re clear, I don’t give a shit if you don’t listen
to any other man. But that stunt you pulled tonight will never happen again,”
he told her.
    “I’ve known you all of five minutes!” She moved closer to him,
staring him down. “I don’t even know your last name. What in those five minutes
of knowing me makes you believe that I’m that girl?” Cassandra yelled.
    “I know how stubborn you are. But if you ever go into such a
dangerous situation again like tonight, I’m going to tan your ass.”
    “I—”
    Xavier didn’t let her finish. He knew she would only piss him
off further. She had come too close to being hurt. He covered her lips with
his. She was just as sweet as he remembered. She sputtered in indignation at
first, but he persisted and seduced her with his tenderness. Moaning in
surrender, she wound her arms around his neck and pulled him closer to her. He
sank into her softness and deepened the kiss.
    “Ew! Hey, man, cut that shit out. That’s my sister.”
    Xavier reluctantly released her lips. He placed his forehead
against hers and held her gaze, stunned that he was having so much trouble moving
away from her. It was like a magnetic force field was surrounding them, keeping
them in a drugged cocoon. She stared feverishly back at him. Their gazes locked,
they were drowning in their own private world. He started to lower his lips
back to hers.
    “Can we go home now please?” an irritated Cameron interrupted
them again.
    Xavier closed his eyes briefly and then forcefully pulled
himself away from her. He slowly eased back into traffic. With each of them in
deep thought, the remaining miles to Cassandra’s house was done in silence.
    As soon as the car came to a stop, Cameron jumped out and
stalked into the house.
    Cassandra sighed as she watched her brother march toward their
home. “Let me get in there before I have to kill one of them. Thank you for going
with me.”
    Xavier shook his head at her.
    “What? Why are you shaking your head at me?” Cassandra asked.
    “You’re not staying here tonight,” Xavier told her.
    “What? Why the hell not?”
    “Nado and his gang know where you live.”
    “So what? You think Nado, who is badly injured, and a number of
his men, who you totally incapacitated, are going to come here in such a state?”
Cassandra shook her head in disbelief. “Those guys aren’t stupid enough to come
here.”
    “After what we did to them tonight, on their home turf, they
will want to save face.”
    “Look, X, I know you’re probably aware of it, but my brothers
are drug dealers, armed, and extremely dangerous, despite how inept they acted
tonight. Besides, my sisters and their children are in that house as well. I’m
not leaving them if there’s