The Sinners - Ruby Vincent Page 0,65
did that for me?”
He carded his fingers through his hair, messing it up as a groan tore out of him. “It’s not damn obvious by now that I’d do anything for you? Your ass does have me whipped. Happy now?” He actually sounded a tinge angry asking that. Emotions other than rage and more rage were not what my dark prince did.
Leaning over, I kissed him on the cheek. “You know what,” I mused, “I bet if I was pregnant, you’d marry me.”
“Shut up.”
“Get down on one knee, spouting your undying love.” My grin split my face. “You’d whisk me off to New York with Cassius and Clay in the backseat and spend the rest of your life being my sweet house husband—”
Royal threw open the door. Stalking around, he got me out of the car and tossed me squealing over his shoulder.
He avenged my teasing by putting me on my knees and pounded my throat with his cock. I happily took my punishment. Because Royal told me in every way but one how he truly felt about me.
“DID YOU HAVE FUN?”
“Yeah. We sprung for a nice hotel since it was Cam’s gift. We met some people on our floor and hung out with them on the beach.” Cassius brushed his lips on my temple. “It would’ve been more fun if you were there.”
Cassius and I were ambling through the halls to homeroom. Thanksgiving break ended much too soon and brought Monday on its heels. My brother and I indulged the free time by putting off our homework, playing tennis, and chilling with the streaming service DoubleFeature. Our only two interruptions were when we went over the list of the people Mom and Dad defrauded, and exhausted every possibility for what the key might open. Royal drove me to seven different post offices and none of the PO boxes fit the key. My next stop was the lake house.
“We should do it again. All of us,” I said. “I can’t think of anything better than getting away from this town for a beach vacation. Spring break?”
“Did no one tell you? Seniors don’t get spring break. We have senior week instead.”
“Senior week?” The phrase tickled my memory. “I remember Hart mentioning it, but she didn’t explain.”
“We get the week off classes and the teachers take us on field trips, hold events, throw parties. For last year’s seniors, they held a concert on the soccer pitch and flew artists in to perform. The rest of us got as close as security let us trying to see.”
“That sounds amazing.”
He licked just under my ear. “We’ll have to put the beach sex on hold.”
“But not sex,” I twisted and stole a kiss. “Do you have plans during lunch?”
“I was going to eat lunch.”
“Not anymore.”
“I’d rather eat that pussy anyway.”
I giggled. “Literally just every naughty thought that enters your head, comes out of your mouth.”
“You like that about me.” He put his mouth to my ear. “It’s why you picked me first.”
Dropping my head on his shoulder, I said, “Picking makes it sound like there was a choice. Everything happened the way it was meant to. My relationship with Royal unfolded slowly and difficultly because everything with Royal has to be. Clay and I connected at our own pace, creating something that is just ours and you...” I pushed him against a locker, brushing his nose with mine. “You were what I needed exactly when I needed it, Cas. Just like you promised you’d be. Keeping promises—there’s nothing more important to me.”
Cassius’s jewel-tone eyes lit with a tender smile. “A thought is entering my head right now,” he said softly. “If I’m not careful, I might say it.”
My breath caught. “Tell me.”
He pecked my nose. “I’m going to hold on to this one for a little longer.”
Cassius loped away, drawing ahead though we were going to the same place. I caught up to him in Geske’s class. The other Angels were seated and messing around with homework, notebooks, or phones.
Royal held up the prepaid phone. Time to text the dealer.
Forcing the guy to make a move. Would it work? I wasn’t sure but they had to do something. The guy, or girl, was covering their tracks too well and asking around was getting us nowhere. I’d seen what happens when Rio runs out of patience.
I pushed thoughts of the gang leader aside as I surveyed my class. Most of them were children of people my parents defrauded. Unsurprising since they told me so in the