The Peer and the Puppet (When Rivals Play #1) - B.B. Reid Page 0,68
I’m doing, and I don’t think she’ll be done up there anytime soon,” she grumbled.
I had the feeling it was more than just the unfinished cake that upset her. “You don’t approve.” When she shot me a quizzical look, I gestured upstairs. “Vaughn and your little friend.”
“Her name is Tyra, and I don’t trust him.”
“You don’t know him.”
“Which is obviously why I don’t trust him,” she countered.
“Doesn’t matter if you do or don’t. They’re having fun, and it’s not any of your business.”
“It will be when she’s crying on my shoulder.”
“You assume she’ll be the one hurt. Why?”
She shifted her weight onto her hands planted on the countertop. “Last week, two girls were suspended for fighting because they thought they had a claim on him.”
“Vaughn never promised them anything.”
“Like he never promised my friend?”
“If she makes assumptions, that’s on her.”
“Well, maybe he should be upfront with her. Don Lemon once said, ‘There’s a degree of deception in silence.’”
“So you’re taking relationship advice from a news anchor?”
“It’s not about love, moron. It’s about honor.”
“She’d think he was an asshole if he told her not to expect anything.”
“You don’t know that.”
My head fell back onto my shoulders. Four was the most fearless girl I’d ever met, but she was also the most naïve. “I do know that, Archer.”
I knew all too fucking well. Taking advantage of what I thought was a harmless crush and sleeping with Olivia haunted me every fucking day. I knew what everyone assumed, and I didn’t bother to correct the rumors. The truth was she had come to me. I didn’t stop to consider who she was or why she offered herself to me. I was fourteen and only concerned about winning a stupid bet. Jamie, Vaughn, and I had been competing to see who could ditch their virginity first and I had won. Surprisingly, Jamie had been the most reluctant even after his fallout with Bee while Vaughn had been too chicken shit. Not to mention, I was technically in a relationship with my cousin’s ex-girlfriend but sleeping with Bee was the one line I couldn’t cross. I will never know why Olivia chose me to sleep with and why she chose me to watch her die. I only know her family will never let me anywhere near her to ask. I don’t blame them. I had once been a plague on this town and everyone in it.
“Because you’re such an expert on women?”
I stepped behind her, leaving no space between us. Her round ass pressing against me had my dick rising from slumber. “Would you let me inside you if you knew there would never be anything else?”
“If it’s what I wanted.” Her rigid body told a different story.
Not in a million years would Four let me have her without owning a piece of me in return. She wasn’t that kind of girl, but I’d play along anyway.
“Is it what you want?” My hands curved her hips as my lips brushed her nape. “Me inside you?”
“You’re twisting my words.”
“What if I told you,” I said I as I slipped the button on her jeans free, “that it’s all I can think about?” It was the most honest thing I’ve said to her since her return. While she’s been plotting to ruin me, I’ve been imagining ways to get her on her back. To start.
“I would tell you it will never happen…” She drew a sharp breath when my fingers slipped inside her panties. “…with or without the commitment.”
“Is that why you’re so wet?” Her whimpers as I circled her clit sounded so sweet. “Because of all the sex we’re not going to have?”
I told Vaughn this was how I’d make her pay for trying to humiliate me and foil my plans, but as I toyed with her pussy, I found myself wanting to make her come for entirely different reasons.
“Absolutely,” she said, panting. “Ever McNamara not getting what he wants for once is my favorite fantasy.”
I dipped my fingers lower, drawing another gasp from her lips. “I hear you, Four, but it’s five minutes to midnight. Do you know what that means?”
“No,” she whined.
Cupping her pussy, I kept at her clit with my thumb. I didn’t want to miss a fucking thing when she came. “It’s time to blow your candle out.”
Her body shuddered, and then she pressed her ass against me when my finger pushed inside her. Fuck, she’s tight. I wrapped my arm around her waist to keep her still. I didn’t want the