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want to press charges, but I’d never get rid of him the way we need to.” He glanced in the direction Tom had gone. “He doesn’t have a gun, right?”
    “No, you’re safe for now,” I told him. “But…what about later?”
    “I wasn’t kidding about having him watched. I have more resources than you know. I can afford to keep someone on staff whose sole job is to watch Tom.” His hand stroked over the side of my face. “I need to get you out of here. Do you think you can stand—hell, you should probably be in an ambulance and on your way to the hospital. If you go there, you’ll have to report him. Fuck!” he swore.
    “So…what? Your extensive resources don’t include a doctor?”
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    Actually, his extensive resources did include a doctor. After I’d gathered the few things I insisted I needed, Jayson took me home and she met us there. Jayson and I never discussed that I’d run away or why. I knew it was coming, as was a punishment, though I suspected I might get out of that after the Tom incident.
    Jayson refused to leave the room while the pretty brunette doctor examined me. Truly, I wished I was as good looking as her. Beautiful and smart. No.00mm;
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    Then she smiled. “You’ll be fine. Jayson should keep an eye on you tonight since you two wouldn’t go to my nice little hospital and let me use the CT machine, but you look okay. Nothing to raise red flags.”
    “I’ll keep a very close eye on her,” he promised.
    “I bet you will,” she laughed. She gathered her things. “I’ll just show myself out. Is my grandma still here?”
    “Yeah, she’s pacing the kitchen. Let her know Mal’s okay and that she can take a few days off—with pay of course. Malory and I are gonna have some quiet time alone.”
    I bit my lip. What did that mean?
    “Well, go easy on her. If I know you, you probably bowled her over which is why she ran out of here in the first place.”
    “How did you…?” He trailed off and shook his head. “Never mind. You know entirely too much thanks to your grandmother. Lock the front door on the way out, would you?”
    “Consider it done.” She disappeared down the steps.
    Jayson turned his turbulent eyes to me, and I trembled. “Be thankful I have doctor’s orders to go easy on you, or I’d have you over my lap while I paddle your ass. What were you thinking!”
    “I—”
    “You’re mine, Malory. I won’t allow you to leave me.”
    “And I don’t have a choice,” I demanded. I felt rather at a disadvantage, staring up at him from bed. “And don’t you say some crap about me making a choice when I said I was yours. It was what you wanted, and it was meant for the moment in which it was said.”
    “Really?”
    Oh, I didn’t like how he said that, as if he meant to challenge me. He crawled onto the bed and loomed over me on all fours, caging my body. “Tell me again,” he said. “Tell me how you don’t belong to me.” His lips brushed mine. “Tell me how you haven’t started tingling just from me being over you like this. Tell me how you don’t want me to touch you; how you don’t want to be in my bed.”
    “You never gave me a choice,” I said again weakly.
    “Okay.” He sat back on his heels, keeping my legs trapped beneath him. The shrewd eyes of a lawyer stared down at me. “Was it hard for you to leave here today?”
    I took a shuddering breath and nodded.
    “So you didn’t want to leave?”
    I stared at him.
    “Malory,” he prompted. “Remember I don’t allow lies—another thing you’ll be spanked for later.”
    “No,” I growled between my teeth.
    “And you didn’t like the sex with me?”
    “Of course, I liked the sex,” I snapped. “I think there’s plenty of evidence I did.”
    “You don’t like me? You think I’m ugly and dumb as a stump?”
    This was getting ridiculous. I huffed out a breath. He raised an