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“Yeah.” Her voice is drowsy.
I cover us both up and curl my body around hers protectively. I can’t go back in time to save her, but I can do everything possible to give her comfort and safety now. I hold her as her breathing deepens and her body fully relaxes back against mine. Feeling her sleep next to me brings back all the memories of the nights she’d come over to study and then we’d end up passing out together in my bedroom.
“Liv, did you figure out the answers for section four?” I ask without looking up from the blurring lines of text in my Calculus textbook. “Why the fuck am I taking this course? I’m going to be an attorney.”
A soft snore mixed with a snort draws my attention away. When I look over at Liv, she’s passed out on her textbook. Her hair is up in a messy bun with pieces sticking out everywhere. I laugh when I notice the tiny puddle of drool beneath her mouth. It’s gross but also kind of cute.
When I check the clock, I see that it’s already two in the morning. It’s late. I’m not going to wake her up and make her walk across the lawns to her uncle’s house. I pull the covers down and walk back over to pick her up and put her in my bed. I get everything closed and turn off the lights before climbing in beside her.
The light from the moon cuts through the dark and illuminates her profile beside me. It’s creepy to stare at her like this while she is sleeping, but I can’t help it. Three years of friendship and love have carved a spot for her in my heart unlike anyone else. She’s so unassumingly beautiful. It’s effortless. She is always kind to everyone, she gives zero fucks about money, and she is so smart.
I can’t resist reaching over and tracing her full bottom lip with my thumb. I just want to know what it feels like. Is it as soft as it looks? My question is answered as I swipe across the soft expanse. Her eyes flutter a few times, like she’s coming awake, but I can’t pull my hand away. Part of me wants her to wake up, wants to taste her.
My dick swells when her eyes flutter again, and she gently kisses my thumb. She lets her head fall to the side, her brown eyes locking onto mine as she nuzzles her cheek against my palm. I swallow nervously as the air charges between us. I’ve kissed plenty of girls, but for some reason I’m incredibly nervous to kiss her.
She scoots toward me until our bodies are pressed face to face against each other and brings her thumb to my lips. I can feel her breathing quickening and bite back a moan when she shifts against me. I beg anyone above who’s listening not to let me come in my pants like I’ve never had a hard on.
“Sawyer,” she whispers as she drags her thumb from my lip and down my chin, “will you kiss me?”
I want to give a victory yell because HELL FUCKING YES I’ll kiss the shit out of her. Instead of that though, I just softly press my lips against hers, moving them slowly. Her lips part, and I take advantage, sweeping my tongue against hers. My dick throbs as we continue to kiss. The press of her body against mine while tasting her mouth is all it takes to make me lose it.
Kissing her is by far the highlight of my seventeen years on this planet, so much so that I don’t even care that there’s a mess in between us. She must not care either because she’s made no move to stop. I just want to kiss her for the rest of my life. Fuck school, fuck following in my dad’s footsteps, I just want this feeling forever.
The dip of the mattress behind me pulls me out of my memory. I know it’s Nolan because Lake would never plop down beside one of us like that and Grant is being weird as fuck about being near Liv. My instinct is confirmed when I look over my shoulder and see Nolan sitting there with a stupid ass grin on his face.
“Cuddle puddle with Livvy? Sign me up,” he whispers.
“Don’t wake her up, she just fell asleep.” I point toward the door and start to extricate my arm from beneath her. I roll off the bed as gently as possible and make sure she’s covered up and tucked in. “Did you get her a phone?”
“Yeah.” He slides it across to me. “I put everything on it. Our contact info, a tracker, a recording device.”
“So it’ll track everything, conversations, locations, what she looks at online, et cetera.”
“Yeah, she won’t be able to hide anything from us,” he says with a nod.
A part of me feels shitty for this, she’s never done anything to make us doubt her, but there are things happening in our world, and we need to make sure she’s not a plant, even unknowingly. Her trauma is clearly real, and we will be keeping her protected at any cost, but our business is important too.
5
OLIVIA
I wakeup slowly in the dark. I blink a few times, my heart begins to race as I see it’s pitch black, and I can’t figure out where I am. I toss the thin blanket off me and stumble groggily to my feet, bumping my leg on the frame of the bed.
Did Tripp find me?
Did the guys send me away?
Is he finally going to kill me?
I was so close to freedom.
The panicked thoughts spiral in my mind as I walk blindly toward what I think is the door. I find the knob, and as soon as it’s open, I breathe a sigh of relief. Taking deep, calming breaths, I stand in the doorway.
I’m safe.
I’m at Sawyer’s house.
I can hear all the guys talking as I walk down the hall toward the kitchen. There’s low laughter, and the din of the television in the background. Nolan and Grant are on a video call with a red-haired guy in a suit. Their backs are to me, but the guy they’re chatting with notices me and brings it to their attention. Grant looks over his shoulder once and turns back to the conversation. Nolan tells him goodbye and stands to walk toward me.
