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I bit my lip to hold in a moan as he finally slid out of me. I went to move to grab a tissue, but then he was there, a paper towel in his hand that he slid between my folds.
The act felt too intimate for what we’d just done, and I pushed him away before hastily pulling up my underwear and jeans.
No one knew better how to fuck with my head than Stellan.
But this time, I was pretty sure I’d done it to myself.
Chapter2
Cain
Iknocked on Aurora's door, which wasn't exactly my usual M.O. She'd been through a lot lately though. Aurora was tougher than any other girl I'd ever met. Hell, she was tougher than any of the men I knew too. But everyone has their breaking point.
And if Aurora had reached hers, I wanted to be there for her. As much as I was capable. If she was struggling, maybe I should tag in Remington. I’d prefer to kill someone for her rather than hold her while she sobbed.
When she didn't answer, though, my usual impatience kicked in. “Aurora, it's me.”
She didn't answer. If she were inside, she knew better than to think I’d tolerate being ignored. I turned the knob, already putting my shoulder into the door, expecting resistance. To my surprise, the door opened immediately. I frowned. I didn't entirely like that, although any of the men around here should know just how dangerous it would be to mess with Aurora. I would never tolerate anyone hurting her. Well, anyone but me.
Instead, I walked into her room to find that she was gone. I moved swiftly to the attached bathroom, already feeling my skin prickle from the sense of emptiness. She wasn't in the bathroom, which was dry. No sign of anyone taking a shower recently. I turned back to the room, where the sheets were still undisturbed. But a few things had been knocked off her desk onto the floor in the otherwise tidy room. Signs of a struggle.
My sudden sense of rage flowed like ice through my veins. Had Aurora run from me? Or worse, right after we'd gotten her back, had someone dared to steal her from me? To hurt her? We needed to find her. Now.
A new thought prickled in my mind though. I headed toward the stairs that lead down to the garage. Remington was in the hallway too, and he stilled at my face, whatever smartass remark he’d been about to say dying on his lips.
“Aurora’s not in her room. I need that big, ridiculous brain of yours.” I clapped his shoulder, pushing him ahead of me toward the stairs.
“She's probably with Pax or Stellan. Not an emergency.”
“Unless it is. I think there might have been a struggle in her room.”
No matter how much Remington might bitch about it, at least he was already moving, following me as I headed toward the stairs to the garage.
“We could start by looking in the house for her,” Remington said reasonably, sounding confused as to why our first stop was the stairs down to the garage.
But nothing about Aurora made me feel reasonable.
“Sure. But if someone took her, that's the biggest emergency. It'd be hard to get out of here walking out the door. Maybe someone took one of the cars. I don't really trust our brothers right now.”
I didn’t trust anyone but Pax, Stellan, and Remington to have my back.
Remington was already pulling his phone out of his pocket and tapping on it. ”I'm pulling up the video feeds from the past few hours now.”
The two of us reached the basement garage.
“What cars are gone?” I demanded.
Remington looked up from his phone with the dazed look he sometimes had on his face when he had just been thinking hard and working on some hacking. “Couple of boots. And... Stellan’s.”
He must have seen my face harden, because he said quickly, “That doesn't necessarily mean anything. Maybe he took Aurora on a date.”
“Maybe.” I felt stupid that I'd worried about her if that were the case. But given everything that had happened, Stellan should know better than to take her out of the house without talking to us first.
Given what I did, and who my father was, there were people out there who might try to hurt Aurora to punish me. I didn't like the idea of her being outside of my protection. Not for a single minute.
“Find Aurora.”
“You don't need to be so bossy,” Remington said lightly. “I’m already on it.”
