him. He’s the one that exposed you to Zodiac,” Kai snaps at me.
“I know. Worse still, he did it knowing exactly who I was, didn’t you, Jude?” I look over at him as he stands pressing his foot against Zodiac’s back.
“He was untouchable. I needed someone who could put a chink in his amour. But you became so much more than I anticipated.” He swallows.
“I forgive you. I know you kept your mouth shut about Megan, so for that at least I’ll let this all go. But this is over now. It has to be.” I step forward, cup his jaw and kiss him like it’s the last time my lips will ever touch his, because it is.
I pull back, wipe the stray tear from my face just as the cops start pouring in.
“I love you, Jude, but don’t come back.”
“And you, where do you stand?” Jude asks Kai.
“At her back, where I was always supposed to be,” he replies, making me swallow hard.
“Just like that? After everything he did, you’ll take him back?”
“He saved me, and when faced with an impossible choice, he chose me, so yeah, Jude, just like that.”
Kai slips his fingers through mine and pulls me toward the door. I feel a dozen pairs of eyes on me, but nobody tries to stop us. I turn one last time and find Jude watching me and his brother; the look of pain on his face is so stark it makes me want to run back to him, but I don’t.
I’m not the white picket girl who colors inside the lines.
I’m fire and chaos with a little bit of mayhem thrown in for good measure.
We walk down the twisted path to my waiting SUV. Climbing inside, I pull Kai in behind me.
Ben sits in the driver’s seat, waiting for us to close the doors. “Where to, V?” he asks softly, sensing the somber mood.
“Home, please Ben, take us home.”
Chapter Thirty-Nine
“You okay?” I stroke my fingers lazily over Kai’s chest as my head rests in the crook of his arm.
“No,” he rolls me onto my back and looms down over me, “but I will be.” He strokes his hand down the side of my face before dipping his head and taking my mouth in a blistering kiss.
I bend my legs and cradle his hips with my knees, feeling his hard cock press against me.
“I should have said this earlier, but I’m clean. I got tested when I moved out here because, you know, and well, you’re the only guy I’ve been with that way and—” He cuts me off with another kiss, sliding his cock up and down my slick folds, our earlier lovemaking doing nothing to dampen our arousal. It feels like we’ll never be sated.
“I’m clean too, and I’ve never been with someone ungloved. What about birth control?” he asks softly.
“I have the implant—ah fuck,” I gasp as he surges inside me.
“Shit,” he groans, dipping his head and burying it against the side of my neck.
I cross my ankles behind him and hold on tight as he fucks me in slow lazy strokes, working us both into a frenzy until I can’t take it anymore and I rake my nails down his back as I convulse around him. He roars out his own release and spills himself inside me before collapsing on top of me.
“Can’t breathe,” I mumble, making him laugh. He lifts his weight onto one of his forearms before gently pulling himself free.
I feel his cum run out of me and make a face. “You know they make this seem much sexier in my books,” I grumble.
“I don’t know,” he pulls back and takes the cover with him, scooting down my body, “seeing my cum run out of you, knowing it’s marked you where nobody else has been? Fuck, it’s making me hard again.”
I flush. “Jesus, you’re a caveman.”
“You might be right there, Red, but I don’t hear you complaining. Now let’s get cleaned up and eat. As tempting as you look right now, I don’t want to fuck you into a wheelchair.” He grins.
“No kidding. Your dick should come with a warning label,” I agree as he climbs off the bed and picks me up, carrying me to the bathroom.
“A girl could get used to this,” I tease as he reaches over and turns on the shower and climbs inside with me still in his arms.
I kiss him softly, before pulling back so he can lower me to my feet.