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The fine lines around his eyes crinkle a little, but that’s all he gives me.
“Is Em really going to be safe?” I press. A subtle nod comes in reply.
God, there’s no telling whether my best friend will actually be protected under the watch of his people. But surely it can only be a good thing to not involve her in this world—to keep her as far away as possible from the Anguis.
Not that the man beneath me is giving an inch where my questions are concerned.
Ignoring his broodiness, I carry on. “I’m under no illusions. This isn’t a holiday. Are you planning to bury my body out here? Seems like a lot of effort to go to.” Digging my teeth into my bottom lip, I pick up a slice of fruit between my fingers.
Thorne still doesn’t reply but reaches up to grab my wrist. Holding me steady as his soft lips close around my offering. When his tongue flicks against my fingertips, that wonderful throbbing intensifies between my legs.
His hard cock presses against my core, and I’m fighting every urge to start grinding down on him.
“We don’t bury bodies.” Those azure blue eyes of his lure me in when I should really know better.
“Fuck, Thorne. Just tell her.” Ky says. “She should know.”
The man beneath me is a locked vault.
“Something needed to be handled. It was safer you weren’t around.”
It’s less than nothing to go on, but I stupidly glow a little at the notion that this man put my well-being somewhere high enough on his blood-soaked agenda to fly us halfway around the world. He could be lying through his teeth, mind you.
“Your friend is being guarded by the only men, outside of these two and my brother, who I would trust with my life,” he adds.
Cocking my head to one side, Thorne must hear my thoughts immediately protest in response. Hood. Gag. Handcuffs. Hardly looked like protection to my eyes.
“What you saw shouldn’t alarm you. In fact, your friend is being guarded while she continues to work and travel. They will ensure she can’t be targeted, I promise you that, Foxglove.” That’s all he seems willing to volunteer.
I’m fighting a smile. All I can do is take what he’s saying at face value, and if that’s the truth, then I’m more than a little relieved. Considering where we started out at the start of all of this…when he threatened her life as a means to keep me in line.
“What?” He glares at me in the flickering shadows of the fire.
“Thank you.”
“No thanks are required. I protect what belongs to me.”
Oh, god. Chalk this round up to Thorne Calliano. He took me by force, told me he owns me, and here I am thanking him for protecting me. When, in his mind, I’m nothing more than the equivalent of an asset to keep hidden away like a valuable painting until the moment I become useful.
“Well, even so, how can I thank you properly?” My breasts ache with the nearness of him. Thorne’s heat and scent overwhelm me, and it drives me to distraction the way this man will silently study me without touching my body in the way I want him to.
Thorne Calliano is a king when it comes to edging.
This time, he picks up a piece of fruit from the plate and bites half of it before guiding the other piece to my mouth, and I greedily take him between my lips. My eyelashes flutter heavily at the feel of him against my tongue.
Behind me, I can feel the dark presence of my wolf watching us. Even though he’s hidden by the dancing flames, I sense his intensity all the same. I might just be a slutty little possession to him—and I’d be a fool to forget he’s a complete asshole—but for whatever fucked up reason, I want to please him, too.
Even more so after the sight of him in command of a helicopter earlier today. If I thought Ky’s strong hands gripping a steering wheel of a car was hot, Raven has managed to level that up a few thousand notches.
The memory of what we did last time the two of us were alone together back at the compound lives rent-free in my mind at this stage. I’m pretty sure I spent the past couple of days wandering around in a trance replaying that night on loop. No one has ever treated me like he does, and I think I’m more than a little addicted to his brand of poison.
I want him to join us, and I want more between all four of us this time.
Maybe I’m officially out of my head, but the breathy words slip out before I lose my nerve entirely. “How can I thank all of you?”
Ky’s warmth appears behind me; there’s no question my naughty boy is on the same page, with his fingers stroking through my hair. Leaning forward, I suck Thorne’s fingers past my lips once more while my soaking-wet pussy presses against his cock.
“Doesn’t her sweet little tongue feel so fucking good?” Ky’s murmuring while standing behind me. I know he’s talking to Thorne, but the edge to his voice tells me those words are meant for Raven as well.
