Page 28 of His Obsession Her Cure

“How you been, my boy? Andreas said as he embraced me in a brotherly hug. We had all been close throughout our teenage years growing up here in Brookview. We had even worked for his father doing a few odd jobs here and there. His brother was younger and more sheltered than us, so we didn’t really hang out with him.

“Doing well, I just had to bring my wife here to enjoy some of your fine food. This is Leila,” I introduced him using Pepper's middle name like she insisted with strangers. As he smiled at Pepper, I caught the lustful gaze his brother was giving her out of the corner of my eye.

Andreas seemed to notice it too because he hurriedly introduced his brother to me to try and distract him from Pepper who was enjoying her dessert without a care in the world. But I know her ass could feel how the little brothers stare burning a hole into the side of her head.

“Gunner, this is my younger brother Samuel. Samuel, this is Gunner, my friend from high school. You remember him and Aren from when we used to hangout before college, right? Charlotte is their cousin,” He said.

Samuel broke his stare from Pepper just in time for me to make eye contact with him.

He looked at me nodded and then he held his hand out with a smirk on his face like he knew something I didn’t.

He was out of his mind if he thought I was about to shake the hand of the man that wanted to fuck my woman.

Fuck out of here.

“Samuel.” I said evenly. I’m not sure what your brother has told you about me, but you got about three seconds to remember your place before I put you through this wall in front of your brother.

” I prided myself on holding my composure because normally I would have knocked his head off of his shoulders but out of respect for my relationship with Andreas I would give him a pass just this once.

“Excuse me for my rude behavior. There’s no need for violence, Gunner is it?

Leila and I are in med school together. I apologize for staring.

It's just that I never get to see her in anything but scrubs and as you can see the view is magnificent,” he said, turning back towards Pepper like I wasn’t sitting there.

“Leila, nice seeing you here you look beautiful as usual.” This lil nigga had the nerve to say to her before leaning forward to take her hand in his and was inches from kissing it before I reacted.

Before he even knew what was happening, I had him gripped by his shoulder and wrist, twisting it behind him at an odd angle before slamming his head onto the table.

Pepper didn’t even flinch as she sat in her seat, eyes wild and filled with lust as she watched the scene before her. She leaned forward and placed her hand on my wrist.

“Gunner, I understand that a lesson must be learned here but be mindful that he is still my brother, " Andreas said, watching me with his hands in his pockets. I wasn’t worried about Andreas doing anything to me. He knew about me just like I knew about him.

“Him being your brother is the only reason that he is still alive.” I gritted.

“Samuel, when a woman tells you that she is not interested because she is seeing someone you leave her alone,” I told him, emphasizing each word with a twist of his wrist, making him wince.

“And you should never, and I mean never, underestimate a man that you know nothing about.

Now repeat after me. Leila McKinney is off limits. "

“Leila McKinney is off limits,” he seethed through gritted teeth.

“Excellent, now I'm sure we won't have to have this conversation again after tonight. Right Samuel?”

“Right.”

“Good, now run along and let the grown ups speak. Oh, and nice meeting you. I wish we could have met on better terms.” I said, releasing his arm but didn’t step back from my position.

He stood up quickly, almost falling trying to straight himself in our presence.

I looked over at Pepper and could see the rise and fall of her breast as she took in the scene before her.

I could see the change in her eyes that has to be Nyx devouring the show of power before her.

“Fuck you.” Samuel said holding his wrist and coming forward like he wanted to prove his manhood, but his brother gripped his shoulder keeping him in place. He shook his head with an amused air before pushing his brother behind him.

“Samuel, don’t you have better things to do than temp the beast? Walk away, before you end up as his meal.” Pepper said, her voice dropping lower than usual, it was sweet but off, coated in something cold.

Samuel froze as his smile faltered. His eyes darted to me, then back to Pepper.

And then out of nowhere she started humming.

I couldn’t make it out at first. It was soft at first, almost under her breath.

But then I heard it clearer. I knew the song, Unthinkable by Alicia Keys.

It was a love song but the way it slid off her tongue, low and broken, it turned into something else entirely, disturbing, eerie and beautiful like a siren song.

Samuel’s face drained as he started to mutter.

“Yeah, okay. I’ll… I’ll see you around Leila.” And then he backed away, eyes wide, nearly bumping into his brother on his way out.

Andreas and I looked at Pepper and then at the retreating figure of his little brother. When Andreas turned back to me, he was looking almost as unnerved as his brother.

“G-Gunner, don’t worry about the bill, everything is taken care of. Enjoy your evening. Leila, it was lovely meeting you. I hope you can visit again soon.” Andreas said with a smile that didn’t meet his eyes.

“Nice meeting you too. Teach your brother some manners before I do it for you.” She smiled that same wicked smile she had given Samuel. And then went right back to singing. I watched as they exited the dining area.

“Are you alright lil baby?”

“We’re fine daddy.” Her fingers toyed with the rim of her glass, like nothing had happened and then she spoke again but this time it was definitely Pepper.

“I told you,” she whispered, “there are pieces of me you don’t know yet and you might not like.”

I reached across the table, catching her hand, running my thumb across her knuckles, trying to smooth out the tension in them. “Then let me meet all of you, every version.”

She looked at me like I was insane for asking and maybe I was. But I meant every word.

“Come on lil baby. I want to get you home so I can reward you for such good behavior tonight. But don’t you think for a minute we won’t be circling back to what just happened here.

” I said as I helped her up from her seat, then guided her to the exit.

We were gon talk about the switch in her personality for sure but right now all I wanted to do was get my woman naked under me.