reached down to her neck.
“I want you. I want you so much,” she admits on a ragged wail, the sensations of her body and soul becoming too much for her to keep denying them.
“And,” I provoke insistently, pushing her to knock down all the walls she has built up around her heart, torching them until they are nothing but ash around us.
“I need you. Please, baby. I need you so much,” she continues to beg, slicing at my back, branding me with her nails.
“And?”
“I’m yours. I’m yours! Just keep loving me, Finn. Please!”
“I will, Stone. God, I will,” I promise, knowing that’s exactly what I’m doing, and will do for as long as she’ll have me.
“Baby, I’m cumming!” she yells.
No longer able to keep the earth shattering from under her, Stone reaches the peak of her orgasm. Allowing me to share the euphoria, I follow right after her, spilling her name from my lips as ecstasy wraps its warm embrace around us.
I collapse on the bed beside her, rolling onto my back and cradling her soft, sated body to my side. We’re both drained, physically, and emotionally, but along with the fear that comes from baring our souls, a certain calm washes over us both.
“So we’re doing this?” she asks after a long pause, her fingers once again drawing patterns across my chest.
“Yes,” I state plainly, not wanting any miscommunication to happen between us.
“Okay,” she replies with another soft smile that rips my heart to shreds.
I grab her chin softly and press another tender kiss to her plump lips.
“Sleep now, Stone. I’ll be waking you up in an hour to do that all over again.”
She lets out a little giggle and nestles herself closer to me. Within minutes, her breathing evens out, and her heartbeat becomes steady while my own heart feels as if it were about to burst with happiness.
But no sooner do I think that nothing could beat this feeling, a little ping from my phone alerts me of an incoming message. Without waking her, I pick it up from the top of her desk and see a text from an unknown number.
Do it now or face the consequences.
My body instantly turns cold, facing the one thing that could ruin us—The Society.
They don’t have to leave their trademark emblem for me to know this threat is theirs, which means they know where I am.
Fuck.
Just like Lincoln and Colt warned, these fuckers really do have eyes on my every move. Otherwise, how would they know that I’m over at Stone’s?
Shit!
After what Stone confided in me about her father, I’m more torn than I was before setting foot inside this room.
Stone couldn’t live a life loving someone just to have him be put away in a cage like the system did to her father. She’s strong and fearless, but I don’t think she could overcome something like that happening to her twice.
I only have two options, and neither of them is good.
I could go to the cops and come clean on what happened that awful night, betraying my best friends and ending their freedom in the hopes I could get a plea deal. But who’s to say that what happened to Stone’s dad wouldn’t happen to me? I’m not the calmest of guys, and if anyone came after me in the big house, I’d probably end up taking a life, too. By going to the cops, not only would I condemn my friends, the brothers I have vowed my loyalty to, but I would end up losing my freedom as well as Stone.
The second option is to follow The Society’s orders and let the chips fall as they may. But who knows what other horrors may come if I do what they want. I still don’t know why Stone is their target, why she’s gained their wrath. From what I’ve been able to verify, she doesn’t even know they have set their sights on her. After tonight, she would have told me if she sensed any kind of danger.
Stone is clueless to The Society’s very presence in her life. I’m positive of that.
If I do what they want and replace her phone with theirs, she will remain clueless. However, the repercussions of such an action will only cause trouble in her already screwed-up life. That’s the only certainty I have.
My anger, more than discern, is what fuels my next step—delete their damn text from the phone and make no move to take hers away.
I’ll protect Stone. I’ll keep her safe