I placed my lips to her ear and whispered, “Convince me to let you come.”
Ava bent her elbows, reaching behind herself to grab my hair in both hands. She tugged hard and whispered, “Ineedthis. I needyou.”
Hell, we both needed it. I positioned myself and slammed into her aggressively from behind. Ava and I tugged on each other’s hair. The deeper I went, the harder she tugged. The pain was exhilarating, heightening my senses and grounding me to the moment so that all I could possibly focus on was her— the high flowing between our bond as our bodies connected.
We reached the peak of orgasm together, and Ava contracted around me as I buried myself deep inside of her.
I rolled off of her as I came down from the high, then helped Ava roll onto her back again. We panted as the buzz of the scene wore off.
“You were averygood girl,” I told her.
Ava broke character and started laughing. I joined in. That had been way more fun than I anticipated.
Ava curled into me. “Out of all the times I’ve been arrested, that was the most fun.”
I created an illusion of a key and reached for her cuffs.
Ava drew away. “What are you doing?”
“Taking the cuffs off.”
“I really like them,” Ava protested. “They were a gift from you. They’re the prettiest bracelets I’ve ever worn!”
I knew if she didn’t get out of them now, she’d never take them off. She was the kind of girl who’d go to Work-Study cuffed just to show them off. That was nothing but a recipe for trouble. I didn’t want her sleeping in them, either, because wearing them too long could damage her wrists.
“Ava, take them off,” I ordered.
Like my good girl, Ava offered her wrists to me. I undid the cuffs, then cleaned up and put them in the drawer next to the vibrator. We weredefinitelyusing those again. The Warden couldn’t pry those cuffs from our cold, dead fingers.
I returned to the bed, and Ava was sitting up. “Should we finish that song we were working on?”
“Absolutely,” Ava said brightly. “I have a lot of inspiration now.”
I grabbed a notebook and crawled into bed with her. I leaned against the wall and pulled her into my lap. Her skin felt so soft on mine.
We worked on the song for an hour, and we were almost finished when we heard Oberi open the door and enter the apartment. Ava and I sat up straighter, and I quickly grabbed the blanket and pulled it over us.
Is that all you guys do when I’m not around?Oberi huffed as he trotted into the bedroom. He jumped onto the bed, and his tail batted against the mattress.Is that blanket necessary? I’m naked around you guys all the time. What you’ve got ain’t that special, Charlie.
I scowled. “Don’t act like you’re upset about this. You feel everything we do through the bond.”
Yeah, so much fun. Here I was, running around the Institute, trying to save Thaddeus’ poor soul, and there you two are, having a no-pants party.
“Sorrywe were having fun,” Ava said. “What’d you find?”
Nothing, he grumbled, laying his head on his paws.This is concerning. We have to do what we can to convince Marcus to send Thaddeus back, because if this continues, it’s not going to work out the way we are hoping.
“I understand where you’re coming from, but this is a necessary evil,” I said.
Evil is never necessary, Oberi replied.
Oberi and I had very different ideas of evil. He could see the gray areas, but his gray was more defined than mine. I was leaning more and more into the darkness every day. What once seemed evil didn’t seem so bad anymore.
Though maybe Oberi was right, and we’d gotten ourselves into something we couldn’t turn back from.
CHAPTEREIGHTEEN
AVA-MARIE
