“You could pour some of that wax on me if you like,” I teased as he slid in next to me. This was all so sexy, pulling off a heist, and now Charlie was all shirtless and delicious beside me. We were in a new place, and it was fun to think of having sex in a fancy hotel.
Charlie kissed me with a smile and whispered, “Later, when we get back home. Then I can fuck you as much as I want.”
Oh, he was teasing me, drawing out the suspense. I was a little disappointed, but not much, because my eyes were already drooping shut. I wasn’t sure how much energy I had for sexy times, anyway. I was out like a light in a matter of moments.
Loud noises from the room next to us woke me up a while later. I rolled over— Charlie was still fast asleep next to me. I checked the clock and saw that it was three in the morning.
I wearily wiped my hair away from my eyes and listened closer. What was goingon? It sounded like someone was pounding the headboard against the wall as hard as they could.
My suspicions were confirmed when a few moans, one feminine and the other masculine, drifted through the wall next to mine. I scowled and put a pillow over my head, but it still didn’t block it out.
Geez, Chancey and Ivy are really going at it,I thought irritably.Can’t they quiet down? It’d be nice to get some sleep around here.
You and Charlie aren’t the only ones who copulate from sunrise to sunset,Oberi grumbled back. Apparently, the noise had woken him up, too.How do you think I feel?
I didn’t respond, because I didn’t feel like it. The noises were still going. For fuck’s sake, did nobody around here know how to have ninja sex? There were other people in the penthouse, too.
The moans only got louder, but I grunted, ignored them and went back to sleep.
After getting dressed the following morning, I went to the hotel’s lobby to get coffee from the barista downstairs. In less than an hour, the heist would begin and we’d take the key from Salvatore. I couldn’t wait to get on with it and be done. One step closer to fulfilling our destiny, we just had to kick in the balls of a vampiric mob boss. Easy enough.
When I arrived downstairs, I saw Kallie sitting at a table in the hotel’s café. The hotel was all but deserted except for the staff, since Dorian had reserved the whole place for us. Kallie was dressed in her black heist suit, but was slumped over the table, looking at a cup of coffee that had certainly gone cold. Both hands were in her hair, and her eyes were bloodshot and haggard. She wore a strained, disturbed expression I’d never seen on her before.
“Hey,” I said, and I rolled up to the other side of the table. “Are you all right?”
Her lip trembled. “Marcus and I had sex last night.”
I didn’t know whether to be shocked or elated, but either way, a huge grin spread across my face. I realized that I hadn’t overheard Chancey and Ivy last night— it’d beenKallie and Marcus.
“Oh my ancestors, for real?! How? What happened?” I asked. “You need to give me details! Girl, I’m so happy for…”
My joy faded, and my words fell away as Kallie begansobbing.She folded her arms on the table and her head fell into them as tears cascaded from her eyes. “I don’t know what happened! Everything’s just…”
She couldn’t finish, and started crying harder. My heart fell to pieces, and I hurried to roll around the table to give her a hug. “Oh, Kallie! Did something go wrong? Did he hurt you?”
I couldn’t imagine Marcus ever doing something like that, but Kallie was clearly upset for a reason.
“No,” she wept. “It was everything I hoped it would be, but now it’s all awful?—”
“Start from the beginning,” I encouraged, and I reached out to take her hand. “Tell me everything.”
Kallie sniffed, and her tears slowed. “Okay. So last night, after we arrived at the hotel, neither of us could sleep. We were both really excited about the heist, and just kept talking about it. Everyone else went to bed, so Marcus suggested we go to his room to keep talking, so we didn’t wake anyone up.”
I could see where this was going. “You didn’t want to leave.”
“No. And he didn’t want me to leave, either.” She wiped her eyes. “We were up talking for hours, and I got really tired. He said if I wanted to crash in his room, I could, so we both laid down.”
“More went on than just that,” I stated doubtfully.
“Yeah. It was like, two in the morning when we finally stopped talking. I figured we were going to sleep. Then Marcus just said my name, and… kissed me.”
Oof.“You guys didn’t have a conversation or anything?”
“There wasn’t any time! I just wanted him to kiss meso badly.He hasn’t in months, Ava. I wanted him to touch me again, and I think he wanted the same thing. Next thing I know, clothes are coming off, he’s got me flipped over… and we did it.”
She looked down at the table. “I don’t regret it. At least, I didn’t when I was in the moment. Now, I’m not so sure.”
Well, from what I’d overheard, it didn’t sound like anyone was having a bad time. Quite the opposite, in fact. I shrugged. “Okay, how was it?”
