Page 55 of Lock Up the Darkness

It had her choking in the next second.

But she didn’t stop him.

Instead, her hands slid to the belt of his jeans and she tugged him against her, wanting it, getting off on the thrill of it.

Asher rose to his feet.

Thinking he was going to pull them apart, I was surprised when he just grasped Kill’s wrist and eased his hand from around her throat.

“Not while your head’s not clear,” he told him, before placing Kill’s hand on her cleavage instead.

Kill took the cue and scraped his fingers down her chest, making a pretty picture of deep-red scratches all over her throat, and across the tops of her breasts that had her moaning into his mouth and undulating against him.

Asher moved behind her and gathered her hair into his fist, holding her still for Kill as he ravaged her mouth. I palmed my rapidly hardening cock as I watched Asher nip her ear, then tell her in that sexy, gravelly tone, “Good girl letting him mark you.”

She sank against him and he grasped her hip, supporting her, as he wrenched her head back with his hand in her hair. Her eyes rolled back in her head.

And then they shot wide as Kill took the offering of her exposed throat and nipped at the column. Her hand slid down and palmed his cock, and he ground into it. She grasped his bicep, digging her nails into the skin and making him hiss. It set him off and his bites became more aggressive as he inflicted them all over her neck.

I almost lost my shit when Asher brought his very talented tongue into play and slicked over one of the bites. He followed Kill’s path, soothing all the abrasions with sensual, languid strokes of his tongue. It had Kill stilling for a moment, clearly as shocked as me that Asher was actually participating and taking some pleasure from her.

I shot to my feet, starting toward them.

But Asher threw up his hand, stopping me in my tracks.

And then he was pushing Kill back and ending the whole scene abruptly.

“Feel better?” he asked Kill.

So, that was why he’d stopped me.

He knew the moment I came into play, there’d be no more slow and easy, not just a tasting. And Kill was still too volatile right now to be allowed to be unleashed over Aurora, somebody who Asher was determined to safeguard now.

Still caught up in a pleasure haze, Kill could only nod and barely utter, “Yeah.”

“Good. I need to get Aurora home, then the three of us will talk.” He eyed me. “Sober him up while I’m gone.”

“Will do.”

And that was it, then Asher was wrapping his arm around an unsteady Aurora for support and leading her away.

“To free us all. I’ve finally found a way.”

His words rang through my head like a goddamn prayer.

After all these years, things were finally gonna change.

And the feisty troublemaker had a key part to play in that.

I couldn’t fucking wait.

14

~Aurora~

I was stuck.

I’d been staring between my laptop screen and the formulas and notes I’d made on my notepad as I tried to get a good start on the real-world based project I’d been assigned for my Economics class.

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