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Valentine gave a broken cry and pulled out.
He reared over me, ripped the condom off, and came over my chest.
I gasped, lips parted at the dark desire in his expression. The groan of pleasure he gave.
Strings of cum decorated me, and Valentine sank to press his mouth to mine. He kissed me. Then he dropped onto me and breathed, his shoulders rising and falling and his heart pounding fast.
I hugged him, not caring about the mess. Not caring about anything but how free and alive I felt.
“Thank you,” I whispered.
Valentine squeezed me. “You’re thanking me? Christ, sweetheart, it should be the other way around. That was insane. I lost all control with ye.”
But I didn’t just mean the sex.
My life had been a small one, and I knew I’d needed more. This only went to prove what I’d been missing all those years.
Hours later, the cheerful beeping of my phone’s ring tone woke me from a heavy sleep. After my eventful evening with Valentine, I’d taken another shower then hidden myself away when he had his turn.
I didn’t know how to do the return-to-normal thing. The acting like sex was no big deal. So I’d climbed into my bunk, killed the lights, and slept hard.
I reached for my phone, the bright screen lighting up my narrow room.
Molly, read the caller ID.
My heart skipped a beat. It was after three AM. A phone call in the middle of the night from the woman looking after my child couldn’t be anything good.
I fumbled to answer. “Hello?”
“Mia? I’m so sorry to wake you, but something happened.”
I was already throwing back the covers and climbing up. “What is it? Is she okay?”
“Tobi’s fine. She and Jess are sleeping top to toe, and I haven’t heard a peep from them all night. No, this is something else. I woke with the baby crying, and I got spooked, so I was watching the doorbell camera on my phone while I fed him. I scrolled back through to yesterday, and I saw something.”
On the edge of my bed, I perched, gripping the frame. “What was it?”
“A man posted a big envelope into my parcel box by the gate,” she whispered back. “I haven’t checked it in days because we weren’t expecting anything. He didn’t ring the doorbell, so I didn’t get an alert, but the camera still picked him up.”
“Did you recognise him?”
Her pause sent a chill down my spine.
“It was Greg. According to the time stamp, he was here right after you saw him at the library.”
Shit. I closed my eyes, panic chilling me to the bone. He knew where Tobi was. He’d been there. Seeing his car hadn’t been a coincidence after all.
I forced my lips to move. “What’s in the envelope?”
“I don’t know. I’m too scared to go outside.”
Clothes. I needed to get dressed. To get my daughter away. “Stay there,” I told Molly. “I’m on my way. Whatever you do, don’t answer the door.”
Chapter 10
Mia
Moving with shaky haste and under the cold white light of my phone’s torch, I pulled on black jeans and a dark sweater, then my shoes. At the door, I wrestled my long blonde hair into a ponytail, freeing my hand to twist the handle.
