Page 33 of Sweet Possession

Fuck.

Hoping the knock hadn’t disturbed Cora, I headed to the front door tosee what Lily was playing at. On my way, I peered up the stairs, checking to see if Cora had emerged from her room.

The coast was clear.

“Lily, what are you doing here?”I said after opening the door andscrubbing a hand down my face in frustration.

She looked how she used to whenever she came over for alate-night booty call. Her hair was scraped back in a high ponytail, her face thick with makeup.She wore a long trench coatthatcovered her entire body, trailingdown to her ankles where her feet were clad in shiny black stilettos.

“Hey, can I come in?”she asked, hope tinging her voice.

“Now’s not a good time. We can speak tomorrow, I’ll come to Onyx.”Ihadn’t been near or by the casino since Cora had arrived. At some point, I was going to have to leave the little bubble we’d created, and go to work.

“Please, Fox. I need to talk to you, it’s important.”

I sighed. My gut was telling me to send her on her way, but I knewhow stubborn Lily could be. It was one of the reasons why she would never have been more than a fling. I wouldn’t have put it past her to cause a scene right there on my doorstep, and I wasn’t going to take the risk of waking Cora.

Against my better judgment, I opened the door wider, and indicatedfor her to follow me.

Her heels clacked on the marble floor, each step sounding like nailsscraping down a chalkboard. The sooner she said what she had to say and got the hell out of my house, the better.

“What’s so importantthatyou had to turn up at my house,unannounced in the middle of the night?”I said, keeping my voice low.

She stared at me for a few seconds before suddenly tugging her coatoff and letting it fall to the floor. Anger flashed through me as I took her in, including the satisfied smirk she wore.

She’d dressed up thinkingthatI’d fall at her feet. She’d crammed hertits into a black and red corset which was done up so tight, itwas a miracle she could breathe. On her bottom half, she wore matching panties with stockings and a suspender belt.

Fuck sake. She just couldn’t accept that we were over.

“I miss you, Daddy,”she purred, fluttering her lashes at me andrunning her hands over her curves, doing her best to entice me.

In days gone by, her calling me Daddy while dressed as she waswould have made my cock hard in an instant, but rightthen, there wasn’teventhe slightest twitch.

There was only one person I wanted to call me Daddy, and it sure asfuck wasn’t her.

I glowered at her.“What the fuck are you doing, Lily? I’ve told youtime and time again, we’re done.”

“Come on, Daddy. I know you’ve missed me.”She took a stepforward, placing her hands on my chest.

My entire body tensed, and the need to rip her hands off me and burnmy shirt took over. Instead, I stepped back, her hands falling limply to her sides.

“Don’tevercall me that again,” I growled.

Her eyes flashed with hurt, but I saw the second she connected thedots. Internally, I kicked myself for showing my hand. I didn’t want her to know about Cora, I didn’t trustthatLily wouldn’t have done something spiteful to hurt her.

“There’s someone else, isn’t there?”she said, her voice cracking.

I let out a heavy exhale. I didn’t want to hurt Lily, I knew she’ddeveloped feelings for me, and I’d ended things before they could get too deep.

Evidently, I hadn’t ended things soon enough.

“Look, Lily. It doesn’t matter whether there is someone else or not,you and I both agreedthatall it was between us was sex-”

“We had more thanthat, Fox!”she cried, growing hysterical.

“Keep your voice down,”I warned sternly, narrowing my eyes on her.

Her brows arched.“Oh, god. She’s here, isn’t she?”