Total pages in book: 331
Estimated words: 315585 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1578(@200wpm)___ 1262(@250wpm)___ 1052(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 315585 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1578(@200wpm)___ 1262(@250wpm)___ 1052(@300wpm)
He reaches over, and my fingers automatically curl into his, holding his hand. It’s terrifying how good it feels to be wanted by someone you know will desert you when they find out who you truly are.
“How do you feel?” he asks, interrupting my internal rambling. He always knows when my mind slips away.
“Fine,” I answer.
“Eve.” He brings my hand to his lips and kisses my knuckles. “Talk to me.”
Laying my head against the headrest, I give him a reassuring smile. “Really. Just tired.” The sedative still lingers in my system.
“When we get home, I’ll have Jessie bring us some lunch and have Devin give you an IV. Afterward, we’ll take a nap. How’s that sound?”
Is he going to tie me up and make me wait to be played with while we nap? Fuck, I hope so. “Sounds good.”
THIRTY-NINE
EVERETT
“The guys and I have to go to Vegas. Will you come with me?” he asks, standing in the doorway of his bathroom with a toothbrush in his hand and a towel wrapped around his hips.
I roll onto my side, propping my head up. It’s been a week since he found me sitting on my kitchen floor, and we’ve been hiding out here at Carnage since. He’s tried to keep my mind off the Lords with sex. It’s working. I haven’t had much alcohol. They say those with addictions trade one for the other. He’s become mine.
Before I answer, I allow my eyes to travel over his chiseled abs and hard chest. The ink that covers his skin is mesmerizing. One of the sexiest things I’ve ever seen.
“Ashtyn and Charlotte are coming. I figured you could help keep them company while the guys and I take care of business.”
If he only knew how much I can’t stand Ashtyn, he wouldn’t have used her to try and convince me to go.
“You want me to babysit two grown adults?” My eyes finally find his. “Because I promise you, I’m not the most responsible one out of the bunch.” Charlotte holds that title.
“I wouldn’t call it babysitting.” He turns, giving me his back, and it’s just as beautiful as the front. Entering the bathroom, he finishes brushing his teeth.
“Then what would you call it?”
Coming back to the bedroom, he shoves me onto my back and straddles me. His towel is now long gone. He pushes hair off my face as his eyes run over my jaw and down my neck to my bare chest. A shiver runs up my spine when he licks his lips like he’s ready to feast on me. “Charlotte and Ashtyn…” He trails off.
I place my hands on either side of his freshly shaven face and force his eyes back to mine. “You can fuck me after you tell me why you think I’d want to go to Vegas with you only to stay in a hotel while you run all over the city.” I’ll do it, of course. Charlotte is just too sweet and needs me.
“Haidyn and Ashtyn have a past.”
It’s cute that he thinks I don’t know about their history. “Haidyn has fucked her,” I correct him. “And you think Charlotte is jealous?”
“I wouldn’t call it jealousy…maybe tension.”
“You’ve fucked Ashtyn. Should I be jealous?” I reach up and wrap my arms around his neck.
“Fuck no.” He chuckles. “It meant nothing.”
A man’s go-to words when he explains his last fuck to his current one. My fingers brush through his dark hair, my nails scraping his scalp. His lips part on a deep moan when I speak. “Well, it doesn’t mean anything when we fuck either. Going to tell that to your next fuck?”
“Take that back,” he orders, frowning.
“Make me.”
“We both know you’re going to be the only woman I fuck for the rest of my life, angel.” His large tatted hands wrap around my throat, and he squeezes. I arch my neck for him and he lowers his lips to mine. “When you take it back, you can breathe.”
I swallow against his hands, my pulse racing as I try to suck in a breath but am denied. My hands instinctively come up to wrap around his tatted muscular forearms and he smiles down at me. “Beautiful.” His lips gently touch my parted ones. “You want me to choke you out, Eve?”
My eyes grow heavy. My body shuddering and clit throbbing.
“It only takes seven seconds to render you unconscious. I’d rather you not pass out, angel.” His eyes search mine. “Does my cock mean anything to you?”
I give the slightest nod, my chest burning at the lack of oxygen.
“I can’t hear you.”
My lips move in hopes of speaking, but nothing comes out. The room begins to fade in and out, and my arms drop to my sides, no longer able to hold them up.
“Come on, Eve. You know what I want.” He loosens his hands, and I gasp in a shaky breath and blink rapidly.