I knew I was signing my life away. But so be it. Archer was the missing piece to my puzzle, and now that I'd felt him slot into place, I would do anything to keep him.
Anything.
"Come on," he murmured, ending our way too emotional kiss with a lingering touch of lips. "Let's get out of here before you catch hypothermia."
Now that the high of our fuck session had eased, he was right. My whole body was trembling, and this time it was purely due to the bone-deep cold of rain and wind.
My legs shook as he helped me stand again, and I quirked a grin at the state we were both in. Our clothes were saturated, Archer's jeans coated from the knees down in mud, and my panties were nowhere to be seen.
Still, he didn't even bat an eyelid as he opened the passenger door for me to get into the car. Apparently, he wasn't bothered about the damage to his interior, and I appreciated that.
He didn't even bother doing up his pants before getting into the driver's seat, just tucked his dick away and left the fly open. It shouldn't have been sexy, but I found myself drooling a little. Yep, I was officially addicted.
"Where are we going?" I asked as he cranked the heat on his dashboard and turned on the seat warmers. We were nowhere near his house, so...
He shot me a quick smile. "Somewhere private."
Excited anticipation made my pulse race, and my pussy tightened. Wow. That had to be a new record for me that I was already craving more. Or maybe it'd just been too long since my reconciliation with Kody.
"We're not going home?"
His gaze turned dark and hungry. "I'm not ready to share you, baby girl."
I bit my lip, my heart thudding heavily as desire flooded my bloodstream again. "Then I suggest you do some deep soul-searching while we fuck, Sunshine. Because by the time we return to Shadow Grove, you’ll have either learned to share or you’ll file this away as a fun memory never to be repeated."
He quirked a brow at me, challenging, but I shook my head.
"Save the alpha-male, big dick energy for someone who cares, Archer D'Ath. You fucked up, and I fell for your two best friends while you sulked in the shadows. I won't give them up to appease your dominant nature, so wipe that thought from your mind entirely."
He just stared at me, his car idling but the emergency brake still on.
"You've fallen for them both, huh?" His tone wasn't bitter or accusatory, just curious.
I blinked at him, realizing what I'd said. Then I jerked a nod of confirmation because I had.
He blew out a long breath, swiping a hand over his short beard. "I'm glad. We heard Steele say it to you on the phone the other night, and... they deserve happiness."
"We all do," I corrected, my voice firm and uncompromising.
He met my eyes again, staring back at me a long time before giving a slow nod. "Just give me the weekend," he suggested, his tone hopeful. "Give me the weekend alone, just us. Let me have you all to myself for two days, and then..." He trailed off and my chest tightened, fearing what he might say next.
He surprised me, though. In a good way.
"And then I'll get on board with this dynamic. If it were anyone else, I'd kill them both to eliminate the competition. But seeing as it's them..." He exhaled heavily. "Fine."
My heart soared. No shit. It was like some anime crap erupting from my chest in an explosion of cartoon hearts and pastel colors. Not that I told Archer any of that, though. To him, I just grinned.
He rolled his eyes and shifted the car into drive, pulling out into the deserted road once more.
"How far is it to where we're going?" I asked, struck by a totally inappropriate yet totally intriguing idea.
Archer shrugged. "Around ten minutes or so. Why?"
I smiled, this time with a healthy dose of evil. "How good of a driver are you, really?"
His eyes narrowed in suspicion. "I'm incredible. Why?"
I didn't reply. I didn't need to when my actions answered for me. His pants were already undone, so it was no effort at all to tug his boxers down and free his dick. He was already hard again, and I licked my lips with satisfaction.
A sharp jolt of fear flooded through me, fear of car crashes souring my mood for a second. But I needed to start