Chapter TWENTY-SEVEN

JOSEF

I was going to have to kill everyone who stared at her, I realized when I saw Meredith in that dress.

My heart had been beating double-time ever since I’d sent that note home with Mario for the housekeeper to put inside our bedroom.

We had a cleaning service that came daily, and I requested someone to stick around to arrange the clothes I ordered for Meredith in our closet as a surprise.

Not like I would allow Mario or any of my men to put one fucking foot inside the room where my wife slept, ate, showered, dressed, and fucked.

I was the only man who was allowed in that space.

Me. Only me.

And yeah, I did not give two shits if that made me a fucking barbarian.

All damn afternoon I’d been picturing my sexy Little Red in one of those dresses I’d picked out.

Jesus. Christ.

The reality was so much better than my imagination. And I could daydream like a motherfucker.

“We’re not going,” I said, shaking my head.

“What?” she asked, shocked.