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I wrap my hands around his neck and bask in his kisses and the feel of him moving inside me. I can feel it all. Every inch of him.
His breath grows as shallow as mine as we move together. Loving each other.
“Baby, fuck.” He groans in my ear. Kisses my cheek. Takes my mouth. Lingers.
I want this closeness. I want him closer. I press at his back, at his ass, needing him deeper. I never want to know where the one of us begins without the other. He’s everything to me. Everything. “I love you so much.”
“I love you.” He stares at me, solemn, sincere. “I’m never going to stop.”
I guess I didn’t feel this climax building. It comes from nowhere. Sweet and soft and full of emotion. It rolls through me slowly. Steals my breath.
Steals his too. His chest hitches as he stills deep inside me with a rusted groan. His cock pulses. Heat spreads. “Fuck, baby.”
We share quiet kisses and lingering touches as we catch our breath after. Long minutes of nothing but the connection between us.
Eventually he pulls out. I’m wet and messy. He heads to the bathroom to fetch a washcloth. Tenderly wipes me clean with the warm cloth. “You okay?”
“Better than.”
“I’m never going to be okay with what happened last night,” he says. There’s so much shame in his eyes. “I won’t stop trying to make it up to you. My days of drinking like that are so fucking over.”
“What are we going to do?” I ask. That video is everywhere. Did Alec realize he couldn’t shake my convictions? Is that why he put it on the socials? “I need to t—”
His phone rings, the sound drifting down the hall from the foyer. He ignores it. “What is it?”
My phone rings too, much closer.
His stops first. Then mine.
My senses heighten. Energy crackles on my skin, making me feel sick. “It’s about my brother.”
“Baby.” He touches me and it takes everything to keep me from bursting into tears. It doesn’t matter which way I turn I have to betray someone. “And Adira. And your—”
His phone starts again. Then mine.
The sound of the door opening and someone letting themselves into the apartment puts the kibosh on any discussion.
“Bro?” Rebel’s familiar voice rolls through the apartment. “Christ. No wonder you’re not answering your phone.”
“My underwear,” I whisper. Cringe. They’re at the front door with his phone, which means his twin has probably copped an eyeful of them by now.
“Shit.” Rogue gets up and moves to his closet before coming back with a pair of boxer briefs. “I’ve always wanted to see you in my underwear.”
I pull them on while he drags sweats up his carved thighs. I pretend to model them for him for all of two seconds.
He eyes me appreciatively as he snags a fresh T-shirt. His lips twitch.
“Tell him Ivy needs to join us too.” Summer’s voice gets closer and then veers away. “I’ll start the coffee machine.”
“You heard Red.” Rebel raps on the bedroom door. “So get your ass out of bed. And if that girl of yours is with you, better wake her up too.”
I slip my arms through my bra straps and clasp the hook behind my back. Rogue shoves his head through the hole in the white cotton and smooths it down his torso.
“The timing is bad.” Rogue gives me a look that says he has so many things to be guilty for. “Less than a week until the next edition ofHollywood Juice. We agreed, we’d keep things low-key. Keep the focus where it needs to be. This is supposed to be about public justice for Ro.”
I pull last night’s dress over my head and smooth it down. Can’t help the visible panty line from Rogue’s briefs. So Alec shifted the focus. Tried to break me and cast doubt on at least one of the Maddoxes. Probably assumed he could convince people Rogue has a skewed moral compass. “I’m sure Summer will know what to do.”
She’d certainly seemed on point last night, but then she’d clearly had a couple of drinks too. In the cold light of day things might not be so simple. I try to quash the feeling down; the little voice that tells me it’s all my fault.
