A shudder runs through him, and he bites his bottom lip only seconds before a groan escapes him. Cum spills all over his hand, making a mess, but all I can think about is how it would feel to have that heat spreading inside Pandora’s cunt.
I close my eyes again and give over to my own orgasm, jerking myself harder until I go over the edge and spill into my hand.
I don’t stop pumping myself until it’s too much, my sensitive cock protesting the touch.
For a few seconds, the only sounds in the room are our breaths, loud and heavy.
I sit up and grab a few tissues, then hand the box to Asch.
“Is this where I say ‘no homo’?” I joke.
He snorts, then starts to clean off his hand. “Yeah.Bro.” He tosses the tissues into the trash can, then turns to me, his expression more serious. “You know I can’t stay away from her.”
I wipe off my cock and tuck myself away. “Yeah. Neither can I. Not that she’d let us.” I shake my head with a smile. “If shewere the type of chick to give us space, I probably wouldn’t give a fuck about her.”
“Instead, we’re like moths to a fucking flame,” Asch remarks. He gets up and adjusts his cock before zipping up his pants. “Well. I don’t plan on being just a moth.”
“So what do we do?” I scoot forward so I’m sitting on the edge of the bed. “We can’t let anyone else hurt her again. I think…” I stop for a second, unsure if I should tell Asch, but who else can I possibly tell? “She’s putting up a good front, but after Tate got her with the piss balloons, she was really upset. I’m not sure she’s holding up as well as she’s pretending.”
“She’s not,” Asch replies bluntly. “River and I tried to talk to her last night about—” He cuts himself off, and I’m not sure whether he’s going to exclude me from what they were going to talk about when he continues, “About Ezio. He’s digging hard into this Zayden thing. Anyway, she got really weird. I was giving her space, but maybe I should text her.”
Zayden again.
“I don’t know how long I can hold them off on the Zayden thing.” I grimace. “Ezio’s not buying my lies anymore. The only saving grace is that he’s still dealing with all the insurance crap and figuring out how to move forward on the rebuild.”
“She’s got ammunition,” Asch says. “There’s got to be something we can use to make him back down.” He looks at me, taking in my expression. “Or is it too late for that?”
“I don’t know. My dad’s pushing hard, too.” I glance down at my hands. “It’s a fucking mess, Asch. I have no idea how to fix this shit.”
“I don’t know enough to help,” he says, his voice even instead of accusatory. “You know I don’t.”
I take a deep breath.
All of me is screaming at me not to, but I say, “You know Kappa Alpha isn’t just about networking. I mean, it is, but…there’s a reason we had to record ourselves saying some bullshit secret.”
“Yeah,” Asch says. “Blaze…” He gnaws on his lip, then says, “I’m not sure what to do about this. The knowledge that women are being trafficked, I mean. I’m not going to tell anyone, but I don’t want to be a part of it. You were right to keep me out. But Pandora knowing this shit, and Ezio and your dad being involved — it’s going to blow up at some point if we don’t get it under control.”
“Yeah.” I get up, go to my desk, and pull a folder out from the bottom of a bunch of papers inside the drawer. I hand it over to Asch. “I found this while I was looking through the shit recovered from the fire.”
Asch opens it up. After a few seconds of reading, his eyes widen.
“This is?—”
“Yeah,” I say quietly. “Rachel Turner’s file. The girl Pandora was looking for.”
“Fuck,” he breathes. “Is she…” He grimaces. “I don’t really want to know what exactly happens to the women, do I? I’m a coward.”
“Rachel’s dead,” I say flatly. “But after reading the file, I remembered. Zayden invited her to a few parties. He must have… It doesn’t absolve anything, but if the girl pissed Zayden off, he sometimes pulled them in even if they were unvetted.”
“Unvetted,” Asch repeats. He flips through the pages in the folder, then closes it. “All right. Well. When Pandora finds out about this, she’s going to burn the whole fucking campus to the ground.”
Yeah.
So how the fuck can I tell her about this? How do I stop her from destroying everything?
And why does part of me want to help her do it?
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