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“Fifty-fifty?” she asks.
Lance bobs his head from side to side seeming to consider this. “I was thinking seventy-five-twenty-five.” When she glares at him, he laughs. “Fine. Fifty-fifty, but when I run The Daos, I want to use this as my base.”
She cocks her brow at him, disbelieving. “You’d want to run your empire from a business you share with your competition?”
He gives her a smooth smile. “A business I share with myally. And if I’m asking you to trust me, it only seems fair that I trust you.”
My heart is thumping. If she doesn’t agree to this, Lance has just laid his plan out to an enemy and is in even more trouble. I glance at the guard and then to The Talons leader, she seems to be considering her response carefully.
Lance is cool as a cucumber, waiting for her answer. I don’t know how he’s doing it, I’m a fidgeting mess. Give me a physical fight and I can zone out and knock a fucker out with no nerves whatsoever. Business deals, reading the room, and social politics have sweat beading on my brow and my stomach churning.
“Fuck with me, Preston, and I’ll put a bullet in your head myself.” Annika holds her hand out and Lance takes it with an amused smile, sealing the deal that will change all of our lives forever.
50
HAYDEN
Brent text me to tell me to take Elle home once we were finished, he and Lance were caught up with something. I want to know what is going on, but I am more than happy to be Elle’s chauffeur and entertainment for the night. We said goodbye to her parents at the club, she didn’t kiss or hug them, and they made no move to do so either. I shook her father’s hand and kissed her mother’s cheek with my most charming smile firmly in place.
Elle had a few drinks this evening and was amusingly giggly on the drive home. “How do you do that?” she asks me as we reach the hallway outside our apartment.
“Do what, baby-cakes?”
She rolls her eyes at the name. I smile at her in amusement, unlocking the door, and holding it open for her. “Get my parents to like you in three-point-four seconds. I’ve had twenty-four years and they don’t like me half as much.”
She’s joking, to an extent, but I don’t laugh. I know her heart breaks every time her mother tells her to change her hair, or disapproves of her clothes, or anytime her father dismisses her job as nothing but a hobby. But I saw something today that I hadn’t expected from the way Elle always spoke about her parents; they care. Her father watched me closely all evening, noting every brush of my fingers against her thigh or when I planted a kiss on her bare shoulder. He was polite to a fault, but he wanted to gage our relationship and I know it was from a place of concern for his daughter.
“Your parents love you, baby,” I say gently.
She shrugs and kicks off her heels, flopping down on to the sofa and stretching along the cushions to look up and me with hooded eyes and a hazy smile. “Thank you for tonight.”
Fuck, she looks beautiful. Smoky eyes, pink lips, body on display, and toes pointed as she bends one leg at the knee. She’sposing for me, letting me look my fill, and I do. I slowly roll my bottom lip between my teeth and gaze at her spread out for me like a fucking all-you-can-eat buffet. She tracks the movement and I see the way her thighs clench together.
“No need to thank me,” I say, my voice low and quiet. “But if you want to, I can think of a few things you can do to show your gratitude.”
She looks up at me through thick lashes and gives me a devilish grin that jolts my cock to attention. “I feel like we haven’t had any time just the two of us in a while.”
“Well, you’ve got me now, trouble. What are you going to do with me?”
“Why am I trouble now?” she asks with feigned innocence, clutching her imaginary pearls.
I lean over her, supporting my weight with my hands either side of her head, and slowly let my lower half press to hers until we’re flush. “You’ve been trouble from the moment we all met, baby. And I fucking love it.”
“I fucking love you, Hayden Pullman.” Her huskier than normal voice is a verbal stroke to my already thick erection as I lower my lips to hers. Our kiss is slow, sensual, and full of promise. Going down to one forearm, I stroke my other hand up the side of her body, taking my time when I meet the soft expanse of bare skin at her middle.
I suck her tongue into my mouth with her grunting approval, burying her hands in my hair and tugging harshly on the strands. I smile into her mouth, knowing that she’s not pulling me away but goading me to give her more. I want to savour her, to make this moment last a lifetime, but my desperation to have her is warring against my patience.
Elle’s sexy whimpers and writhing body has my movements growing more and more frantic, pulling my mouth from hers and bury my face in her neck to take a couple of steadying breaths.
“Hayden?”
“Hm?”
“Choke me?” Her breathy request shreds the very last of my self-control.
I sit back on my heels and peel her skin-tight leggings from her legs, along with her thong. Any plans for seduction are lostas I unbuckle my belt and free my dick from my trousers. I pull her up to straddle my hips, line myself at her entrance and impale her in one, pulling her down so her arse rests on my thighs. She’s wet, but still I give her a second to catch her breath, knowing that would have stung. She wiggles herself out of her top and I unclasp her bra, taking a peaked nipple into my mouth and sucking hard, until her head falls back, moaning my name.
I kiss up her chest, dipping my tongue in the hollow of her throat, and my hand tweaks her other nipple before trailing up to wrap around the front of her neck. I squeeze hard enough to limit the air she takes in, her ragged inhale shuddering beneath my palm. I band my other arm around her waist and encourage her to bounce up and down on my cock. She’s completely naked, riding me beautifully while I still have my whole suit on. It’s fucking incredible.
