Corrupted Queen - Nicole Fox Page 0,61

palm.

Gabriel kisses me back hard, pushing me roughly against the doorway. What was a tentative exploration a second ago is now a blazing inferno, as we fight each other with lips and teeth and tongue. He jams his pelvis against me. His hands come to the side of my face and hold me as his tongue pillages my mouth.

I give myself over to the passion that threatens to burst me open at the seams. It shoves away all thoughts of purple heroin, of betrayal, of the losses yet to come, and leaves only thoughts of heat and pleasure and Gabriel. He is my end and my beginning. My undoing and the only thing keeping me together.

Gabriel leans down and hikes my legs around his hips, holding me up with a hand on each of my ass cheeks as he walks us into the kitchen without breaking the kiss. I cling to the front of his shirt. His hardness strokes against my core and sends shivers of pleasure down my spine.

Gabriel sets me down on the cold stone island and leaves just enough room for his hand to come between us. He rubs over my mound, sending my eyes rolling to the back of my head.

“Are you wet, Tiger?” Gabriel asks in a low hum against my lips. “I bet you are. You always are for me.”

He bands an arm around my waist and lifts me, jerking the leggings and my panties over my hips. I think of the lockpicking tools in the small pocket and my chest clenches. I hope that he doesn’t feel them.

He tosses the leggings to the floor and I breathe a little sigh of relief. My thoughts are swiftly redirected a second later when Gabriel pushes me onto my back and slides a rough finger inside of me.

“Just like I thought,” he growls approvingly and bends over to press a bruising kiss to my lips.

My body aches to be filled. The need pulses through me like a low bass beat, and I kiss Gabriel hungrily to let him know just how badly I need him. I feel him work his pants open and a second later, his cock slides into me, stroking my inner walls and making me see stars.

Gabriel doesn’t hold out. He fucks me hard and fast, fingers digging into the flesh of my hips. I close my eyes. The sensations paint colorful swirls on the backs of my eyelids, and I feel a rubber band stretch slowly but surely inside of me. When I flick my eyes open, the glorious sight above me takes my breath away.

Gabriel is fully concentrated on the task at hand, his handsome face rippling with pleasure. Locks of black hair fall over his forehead, and his pupils spill out like ink, making his already dark eyes look black. He leans forward and nips at my earlobe, whispering huskily into my ear.

“I will never get tired of fucking you.”

This is what pushes me beyond the point of no return. Bliss cascades over me, and I sink into it like a warm bed of feathers. I shake and curse and float, and a second later, I feel Gabriel join me.

For one perfect second, we are the most honest with each other that we’ve ever been. The most connected.

But one second spills into the next, and I feel both of our shields begin to grind back into place. As perhaps they always will.

20

Alexis

I hang up the phone, massaging my forehead as I look at the typed notes on my laptop. I’ve spoken to quite a few heroin addicts now, some from treatment centers, some from phone booths on the street, and together their testimonies paint a bitter picture. The safer, purer heroin was pushed off the streets several weeks ago, and their dealers have been unable to source anything other than the deadly purple variety. A couple of those I spoke to tried different dealers, knowing that this new heroin, albeit cheaper, could kill them, but faced the same issue everywhere they turned.

The woman I just got off the phone with, Naomi, is in her first shaky few days of treatment after having watched her best friend die of an overdose last week. I hope she manages to stay clean.

I have it all now. I have everything I need to expose this epidemic for what it really is—an intentional, hostile takeover of the narcotics industry in the city perpetrated by a highly unusual alliance of two rival Mafias.

I check the time