Page 140 of Lock Up the Darkness

“Fuck,” I rasped, sinking back against the wall as she clung to me.

I found myself reaching up and wrapping my arms around her, holding her to me, and relaxing into her, breathing her in, all that sex filling the air and her sweet scent of strawberries.

We stayed that way for at least ten minutes straight.

My phone buzzed in my jacket pocket and I groaned at the intrusion.

Still holding Aurora to me, I finagled my phone free, then took in a text from Asher.

Asher: Must’ve been a hell of a show, Hollis has reported what he’s calling “delicious depravity” to Carson. You’re good to go.

Before I could text back, he messaged again.

Asher: Is Aurora okay?

I smiled to myself. Oh, he cared about her, big time.

I decided to tease him.

Jonah: Because she’s an asset, right?

Asher: Watch yourself.

He didn’t miss a beat.

Jonah: She’s all good.

“What’s so funny?” Aurora’s dazed voice asked. She lifted her head and took in the shit-eating grin all over my face, then eyed my phone.

“Just Asher,” I told her.

She grabbed my hand over my phone and turned the screen to face her.

I could’ve stopped her, but I guess I didn’t want to. In all likelihood, he’d never fucking tell her the truth without a push. Plus, this might have her going a little easier on him with whatever he’d pissed her off with recently.

Her cheeks heated in a cute way none of us were used to seeing from her, something that only came out in rare moments. “Huh,” was all she said, before she released my hand, then pushed off me, my cock slipping free.

I put my phone away, then fixed myself back into my jeans and buckled my belt as she fixed her bra and shirt.

As she went to snatch up her panties, I grasped her wrist. “There’s something else we’ve gotta do before you head back out there.”

“All right,” she agreed, her tone all business.

“Yeah?”

“Just do it,” she said, a little tightly, giving a glimpse into her true feelings about it. As well as she was handling this whole thing, she hated it.

Fuck, so did I. So did Asher and, especially Kill.

We wanted her to be ours.

Not our pretend fuck slut.

Our woman.

I slid my fingers along the insides of her thighs and she stayed stock-still, like she was numbing herself now, as I gathered my cum that was leaking from her sweetness. I gathered more at her cunt, then spread it over her lips and cheeks.

Then I helped her back into her panties and pants.

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