Chapter 10

I jump up, moving away from him. “You let some girl touch your dick?”

His chuckles turn into a laugh as he grabs me by the hair, yanking me back to him. “Are you jealous, Princess?”

“No.”

“Liar.”

“Why did you get that?”

His eyes peer into mine, his finger trailing up and down my naked arm. “I missed you.”

“So you got your dick pierced?”

“I needed some sort of pain. A physical pain. My buddies beat the shit out of me too, if that soothes your anger in any way. The agony you delivered was unbearable. It’s been over a decade since I’ve hurt like that. I’ve blocked my heart from truly caring until you came around and changed that. I figured getting my dick pierced would hurt like hell and it’d keep my mind off you, at least for a short while. It didn’t work.”

I want to stay mad, but his words are bullets lodged in the center of my heart.

“Don’t be mad, baby,” he pouts, before he quickly adds, “I let a dude do it.”

I burst into laughter, hitting his chest.

“Figured it was only fair that I