I was no different.
I swore I could hear whispers seeping from the crack under Marty’s door. Seductive promises of dreamless sleep, quieted voices, blissful numbness-
The bed creaked and dipped under Courtney’s weight as she crawled over me, dressed in her tights and leotard for rehearsal. She skimmed her lips across my cheek to my ear.
“You’re distracted.”
“I’m sorry,” I murmured. She nipped my earlobe.
“Should I ask Jack to walk me?”
I shook my head. After hearing her account of that asshole ambushing her in the preserve and subsequently filling her in on the gym confrontation, I didn't want her out of my sight. Even worse, Serina traced the texts to a burner phone, giving us another dead end. The ever present threat of attack hanging over our heads pushed me closer and closer to the edge.One pill wasn’t the end of the world, right?
“Lost you again,” Courtney sighed. I sat up, rubbing my eyes. She wove her fingers through my hair. “Tell me how to help you.”
My sweet angel.
I wrapped my arms around her, squeezing her body flush to mine and burying my face in the crook of her neck.
“I’ll be fine.”
“You keep saying that.”
I sighed, kissing up to her jaw. “Because I will be.”
She huffed, clearly not believing my lies. She stood, holding her hand out to me. I grasped it, hoisting myself up and grabbing her dance bag as she slipped into a new pair of slippers.
We took the long way to the theater, hand in hand. My head on a swivel, I scanned anyone who looked at us too long or any car passing by too slow. I was so focused on surveillance that I didn’t realize she’d led me around the back of the building into a brick alcove, shielded from the door by a whirring AC unit on one side and the heavily wooded preserve on the other. I arched a brow.
She spun me around so fast I didn’t have a chance to react; shoved against the brick wall, her hands burned a trail down my chest.
“Baby-”
She silenced me with a finger to my lips. “Let me take your mind off everything.”
I blinked at her in disbelief.
Her dance bag dropped from my shoulder.
“I want to take care of you,” she whispered and knelt on it in front of me. Her fingers dipped into the waistband of my pants, a deliciously devious glint in her eyes as she freed my cock. Her tight grip made me gasp, my head falling back to the wall as she stroked me roughly, twisting her wrist.
I choked on a moan.
“I love that sound,” she murmured, hot breath teasing my tip. Sipping air, I looked down at the gorgeous sight of her on her knees before me, her wet tongue scouring up the vein under my shaft. A shudder of ecstasy jerked my hips forward. Her dark grin curled around the base of my spine, wicked tongue licking precum off my head before pushing me through the seam of her lips.
I bucked into her perfect mouth.
Not that she minded.
Her free hand wrapped around, nails biting into my ass as she took me straight to the back of her throat.
I was completely at her mercy.
She didn’t bother teasing as she guided my hips into a rhythm, fucking her throat until tears streamed from the corners of her eyes. As much as I wanted to grip her hair, I couldn’t risk messing up her meticulous bun, leaving me grappling at the bricks. Then she swallowed around me.
“Fuck, don’t stop,” I gasped, tension building, rushing at me like a tidal wave. That wave threatened to crest with each heaving breath, each thrust, each scrape of her teeth, each bite of her nails.
Her eyes met mine, shimmering, violet in the dusky light-
