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forehead and tucked them behind her ear. “Yeah, which is probably why I am not in a relationship now.” Shit, he hadn’t meant to say that out loud, but the words had just come from him on their own. He found it really easy to say things to her, things he normally wouldn’t say to anyone, even though he hadn’t even spent an hour in her presence. But then again from the moment he held her in that parking lot with the rain pouring down he had felt off balanced with this woman. There was something different about her, and that drew Malice in.
    “Looks like we are both pretty screwed up them.”
    If anyone else would have said that to him he would have taken offense and then beaten their ass, but with Adrianna all he could do was nod and pull her close again. “Yeah, I suppose we are.” They stayed in that position for several seconds, but he liked just holding her. It felt good to have someone close for comfort alone, and not because he needed to get off.
    “How does someone get a nickname like Malice anyway?” Her voice was soft, and he could feel her warm, humid breath through the cotton of his shirt.
    “I got the name Malice from my brothers.”
    That was all he was going to say about that, because even though he felt comfortable and different around this woman even after this short time, he also didn’t know her.
    “You have a lot of siblings?”
    At least she didn’t probe him. It wasn’t like his nickname was some kind of secret, but until he knew more about this woman he did need to remember that she was an outsider.
    “I don’t mean those kinds of brothers.”
    “Oh.”
    She didn’t say anything else after that, but he had seen the way she looked at his cut and his Sergeant at Arms patch. Even if someone didn’t know much about the MC lifestyle he didn’t doubt they would have seen something on TV with all those reality and cable shows on. “Adria nna, how about we get back to what happened?” He felt her tense under his hold, but this needed to be brought to light and the sooner the better.
    She did pull away then, and he let her. She shifted so they were now facing each other, and although she didn’t speak right away, he didn’t press her. Clearly she had gone through a traumatic situation. He didn’t know much about her, but seeing her beaten face pissed him the fuck off and made him want to hunt down the motherfucker that had thought it was okay to raise his hand to a woman.
    “I’ve been with Phillip for the past several months. The first month was great. He was charming, was everything that I had never experienced in life, and so I latched on because at the time it felt like the only good thing that had ever happened to me.”
    Malice knew these types of guys, the bastards that preyed on women because they wanted to control them in the worst of ways. He forced himself to not rush her in telling him where he could find this asshole.
    “I never thought of myself as a stupid girl. I mean, I have done things that were questionable. Being with Phillip was the biggest one, but the things he gave me, the affection and comfort when I had never gotten that before , had me wearing these blinders.” She sighed and moved back on the bed so she would rest against the wall.
    Malice forced himself to keep his gaze on her face, even though he could see out of the corner of his eyes that her shorts were obscenely pushed up her thighs. Was he that much of a sick bastard that he was even remotely thinking of anything sexual given the situation? He scrubbed his hand over his face and exhaled. When he looked back at her it was to see her now watching him intently.
    “Long story short, he wasn’t who I thought he was. He was this master manipulator. He had me fooled and latched on before I could even realize what was happening.” She rested her head on the wall and stared at the ceiling. “He sells and uses drugs. I guess he saw how weak I really was, and knew he could twist me into this pathetic