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How much longer is this going to drag on? How many more greedy extended family members are going to lay claim to Alexandra and Ryker’s money when it all belongs to their only daughter?
I slam into the attic bedroom, my feet pounding up the steps, and I look at the canvas I’ve been agonizing over for the past four weeks.
We’re going to lose her!
My hands reach up and slam down the easel, my painting crashing to the ground.
No matter how hard we fight, she’s going to disappear.
Another canvas smashes to the ground, my emotions welling too high and too strong to stop the tidal wave of destruction forming inside me. What was all this for if there was no one to pass it on to? We do it all for Lily.
“Pike!”
I don’t hear Aspen at first, my frenzy overtaking me, the paints spilling into a bleeding pool of black together. I smash another brush, but as I swing my arm upward, Aspen grabs me. “Stop it!”
I whirl around, the distress in her eyes snapping me out of my fugue.
“What are you doing?! What’s wrong, baby?”
“They’re going to take her,” I say dully.
“What are you talking about?” she demands, looking around at the destruction in awe. “Take who? Are you dreaming?”
I dig through the mess to find the summons. Now stained with splattered paint, I hand it to her, devastation flooding my soul.
“No!” Aspen gasps. “They can’t do that!”
More and more, I’m coming back into myself, and I stare at her. “How are you even back here?”
“We were just up the road, and Lily realized she forgot her plushie,” Aspen replies. “It’s a damn good thing, too. Look at this place.”
“What does it matter now, anyway?” I mutter. “It’s all for nothing.”
“Don’t do that,” she tells me, guiding me toward my bed and sitting me down to cup my face. “We will fight this together. Don’t spin out, you hear me? We need you. I need you.” She crouches at my knees and peers up at me imploringly. “I need you.”
Slowly, my nerves calm, and I swallow the stone in my windpipe. “I need you, too,” I admit as she rises up to kiss me softly.
Anxiously, I return her kiss, her hold on my face tightening as she draws me toward her.
“I’ve got you,” she murmurs. “Always.”
Her mouth moves along my chin to find my neck, hands working to pull off my t-shirt, now covered in sprays of red, black, and orange.
She lays me back on the bed, my neck craned at the wall as she pulls off my pants, head cocked to meet my eyes.
“Aspen—”
“Shh, don’t speak,” she tells me. “Lily is with Zoe. Just let me make you feel better.”
My jeans come off next, boxers entangled, and she has me in her mouth, sucking me down along the depth of her throat. I groan loudly as her fingers caress my balls, my hands falling into her mound of dark hair.
“You’re amazing, you know that?” I growl, her movements becoming quicker, wetter. The suction of her mouth is making me crazy, and I moan again, my hips rising to allow her free hand to cup my ass.
In and out she takes me all the way, her hot, damp mouth driving me right to the edge and back as I struggle to control myself. But it’s impossible. Her fingers tease my sac, and her tongue works over my shaft. I’m there, exactly where she wants me.
“I’m going to come down your throat,” I warn her.
She doesn’t stop, and now, neither can I.
