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“You can have them bring your car around the back alley, take the girls out that way so they don’t have to witness this mess.” Josie snaps to attention and immediately sends the two men back out before her and the other woman head to the back. She catches Scar’s hand and squeezes as she passes. A silent goodbye.
“Adam, you finish things here. We gotta get out of here. You good?”
“Always,” he answers immediately. “We know the drill.”
She nods and before I know it, she’s led me back to the car and climbed into the backseat with me. Kade drives like a bat out of hell, tires squealing as we peel out of the parking lot.
“Where are we going?” I ask, a tremble in my voice.
What the fuck is happening to me?
Ryder is crashing.
Adrenaline can be a real fucking tricky thing. A line we’ve been riding all night, having to be on edge. Working with the utmost efficiency even as that addictive feeling has stormed through all of us. We’ve all had practice breathing through the high, keeping our focus and not letting that feeling get the best of us.
Ryder is still greener than Kade and I are. It was a lot to ask of him tonight. The back to back runs would be a lot for any one of us. I could feel even myself starting to get antsy, which is why I played a little bit more with that last kill. That wasn't on the agenda but we had the time, and we needed the outlet. Both of us did.
We would have been okay until our guard went back up with Josie showing up with some unfamiliar faces. I lost my cool and Ryder immediately reacted. He’s more in tune with me than anyone else I’ve ever worked with. I should have known better, but I was taken aback that Josie even showed up. Let alone with people I didn’t know.
I place my hands on his cheeks and force him to look at me. I climb into his lap, straddling his hips and pressing our bodies together.
“We are going to get somewhere isolated so we can watch the fireworks,” I joke, running my thumbs over his cheeks. My touch grounds him. I can’t even recall how many times Luca or Kade have had to do this for me.
It used to only be after kills where I started to get lost in the whirlwind of emotions that crashed through me every time. When I started to lose control. It started happening more and more often where I got so used to disconnecting from them, I started doing it in everyday activities.
Declan has become my tether to reality. Never allowing me to run away, to hide anymore. But Kade and Luca have had to ground me as I got swept away in the high.
It’s why Kade and I were both so quick to realize what was happening to Ryder. We’ve had to deal with it before.
His eyes track the way he’s still trembling, even as I plaster our bodies together. “What’s happening?” His voice almost sounds detached, but there’s real fear and confusion shining in his eyes.
“It’s the adrenaline,” I explain to him. “The surprise faces were the last straw, and your body is going into shock and crashing.”
“I’m sorry,” he whispers. I can see the shame he feels over it. He feels like the weak link, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. It was my own panic that triggered his. Had I stayed calm, so would have he.
“Why?” I ask before pressing my lips against his. “Do you know how many times this has happened to me?” I try to reassure him. I keep one hand on his face, the other I stroke down his neck, over his shoulder, and run it down his arm. “Why do you think I always fuck or adrenaline chase after a kill?”
Kade turns on the music in the car andXby Kxlly starts playing. I grind in Ryder’s lap, bucking my hips ever so slightly. His hands grip my hips and squeeze tightly and his mouth pops open.
His surprise is cute.
I move in his lap to the beat of the song. Keeping it slow and sensual. It doesn’t matter that we both still have blood splattered over our skin. Touching each other, feeling each other, the way he hardens under my touch. That’s all that really matters.
Kade curses from the front seat and I can’t help but laugh as I gyrate into Ryder. He’s fully erect under me and it makes my blood rush in the sweetest way.
His hands stop trembling as he moves them up my sides and lifts my shirt off over my head. One hand falls back to my hip and encourages my movements while the other unclips my bra, baring my chest to him.
He growls in the back of his throat as he leans forward to catch one pert nipple between his teeth. I moan at the contrast of sensations of his bite and the soothing caresses he’s giving my other breast.
“God, you’re perfect,” he whispers, sounding more like himself.
“Fuck you both,” Kade curses just as he slams on the brakes and hops out of the car. Before I can even process where we are, he’s yanking open the door and pulling me off of Ryder’s lap.
Ryder immediately starts cursing and I throw a glare at Kade who is completely unfazed by the both of us. My eyes drop down to find he’s just as hard as Ryder.
“You know damn well what your sweet little moans do to me.”
I look around while Ryder climbs out of the car behind us. We are up in the mountains, a pull off area with no one around for miles. It’s not a bad view either.
