door.
âYou thought your amateur performance was going to distract me while your fucking hit man killed me? Is that how you got those other poor bastards? Youâre the worst cocksucker Iâve ever experienced, so they should have known better, but I guess being old men they didnât care as long as they had a mouth around their dicks. Get the fuck out of my house before I change my mind and kill you.â He snagged her jeans as he pushed her past the dead man on the floor.
She knew she was in shock. His voice barely registered. She knew the things he said to her would be branded on her brain for all time, but right then, her horrified gaze was on the dead manâthe dead man she knewâthe dead man who worked for her grandfather.
âIf youâre going to be in the business of whoring yourself out for your grandfather, Siena, you seriously need to get someone to give you a few lessons in fucking. How could a woman possibly get to be your age and not even learn to suck cock?â The contempt in his voice lashed at her already raw emotions. âYouâre laughable. I had far better back in high school. Hell. Grammar school. I would never have bothered fucking you if I hadnât wanted to see how far youâd take it. Get the hell out of my sight and hope to hell I never see you again.â
He propelled her out the door, threw her jeans at her, then slammed and locked the door. She knew he locked it because she heard the bolt. Siena stood on shaking legs, blood and seed trickling down her thighs, her body in shock. Her brain in shock. Leaning against the door, she tried to put her jeans on, an automatic gesture, but she was trembling so hard she couldnât lift her leg up without falling down. She took several deep breaths, her movements slow, but she managed to make her way to her car and climb in, the jeans still crumpled in her hand.
The terrible things heâd said reverberated through her head.
The worst heâd ever had.
Sheâd been so caught up in their sexual encounter she had built entire fantasies about him. Sheâd
loved
him. Was making love to him. Worshiping him. She was so stupid. So naïve.
The worst heâd ever had.
Elijah had been her dream man, literally. She dreamt of him almost every night. She fantasized about him. She searched for pictures of him in magazines and articles about him in the newspaper. She knew when he left the country for South America. She knew when he returned.
Better in high school. Hell. Grammar school.
Heâd called her a whore.
Whoring herself out? Distracting him for her grandfather? She knew that man, the one who lay dead in a pool of blood in Elijahâs foyer. She knew Marco Capello. Sheâd known him her entire life. Elijah thought sheâd gone to others, went down on them, old men. Old friends, because theonly men sheâd ever taken her grandfatherâs reserve to were men she had known all of her life. Elijah thought she would get on her knees and suck their cocks to allow a hit man to kill them.
Elijah
thought that of her.
She clapped her hand over her mouth to keep from screaming. Tears ran down her face until she couldnât see. She wiped at them, knowing she had to do something. Wanting to run. Knowing she had nowhere to go because what happened, the things Elijah said to her, would go with her. This evening would be forever with her.
She became aware of her breasts heaving, pulled right out of her camisole. With a trembling hand she started her car and drove a little recklessly away from the house, down the long winding drive, her jeans still in one hand, her breasts exposed, her blood and his seed staining the driverâs seat under her.
She didnât care. She had to get out of his sight and she did, driving almost to the gates where she stopped the car, got out and was sick. She had to crouch down to empty her stomach. Her shaky legs barely held her up. The first time sheâd come