“We were so worried King would find you before we did, Angel,” I sigh, breaking the silence of our little bubble.
“I’m sorry I ran. I just didn’t know what to do,” she says, sitting up in my lap again. “Then, when Ella explained everything to me, I was worried about how angry you would be at me.”
“Oh, he was plenty angry. I thought Mr. Growly Pants was going to pop a vein in his pretty forehead,” Maddox chuckles from my side, earning a glare from me. Raena stifles her giggle as best she can but fails miserably.
“Don’t worry, Angel. I am still going to spank your ass and tie you to my bed when we get home for this little stunt,” I say, raising her chin to look into her emerald pools. I don’t miss the way her pupils dilate with desire at my words.
“You wouldn’t!” She gasps out sarcastically.
“Oh, I would. I told you what would happen if you put yourself in danger. I don’t make empty threats. I thought you learned that this morning,” I growl into her ear, my hands coming up to tangle in her hair at the nape of her neck, angling her head back.
My tongue traces down her throat, moving to her collarbone before going up the side of her neck. She lets out a cry that goes straight to my cock when my teeth sink into the flesh there. It’s not hard enough to break the tender skin there, but hard enough to leave my mark.
She squirms in my lap, a moan escaping her when I suction my lips around the bite, bruising the skin. Pulling back, I see the imprint of my teeth and the beginnings of the purple mark around it.
“Fuck. You look good wearing my mark,” I tell her, soothing the sting with my tongue.
She lets out a louder moan, grinding down in my lap, making my cock twitch against the backside of her thigh, and a groan vibrates through my chest.
I need to be inside her.
I need to feel her dripping pussy clenching as she comes on my cock.
“Let’s get our girl home,” Maddox says, standing from the couch and grabbing Raena's riding bag from the floor. Alek follows him up, reaching for her, but my hold tightens. The resounding growl coming from my throat has him backing away with a smirk.
“Okay, Mr. Growly Pants, you can carry her out,” he says, his smirk widening. I just can’t let her go yet. If that makes me a growly pussy, so be it.
With her tiny body cradled to my chest, I stand from the couch and follow them out of the office and into the dark hallway.
“I need to tell Ella I’m leaving,” Raena says, raising her head from my neck to look down the end of the hall that leads to the main dining room.
Turning that way, her friend steps into the hallway, pressing a bag of frozen vegetables to her injured hand. The ache in my jaw is long forgotten now that I have my Angel back in my arms.
“You good, Rae? I will deck the other two if you need me to,” she asks, a cocky smile on her face.
If it would have been anyone else, I’d be pissed that she hit me. But as it stands, I’m proud of her for standing up for her friend. At least I know our girl has someone else in her corner.
“I think you should deck them just for good measure,” I tell her, giving her a smirk of my own.
“I think they learned from just the one,” Raena says laughing. “I’m good though. We’re gonna go. Thank you for everything.”
“I’m always here for you, you know that,” Ella says. “Let me know if I need to knock some sense into them again.”
Once they say their goodbyes, I press my lips to Raena's temple before turning around and heading back down the hallway. My brothers head out the door first, the bright sunlight flooding into the darkness before we emerge into the alley.
As we approach the truck, Raena perks her head up again. “I’ve got to get my bike.”
“I’ll drive it back. Where is it?” Maddox asks.
“I hid it in an abandoned building a little ways down.”
She must be talking about the old furniture store that closed down a few years ago. “Come on, we’ll drop you off,” I tell him. “Angel, can you grab the keys from my left pocket?”
She reaches down, digging into the pocket of my pants to take the keys.
“Alek, you drive,” I tell him, and he takes the keys from her hand before I climb into the backseat, keeping Raena in my lap.
Maddox and Alek climb into the front seats, and we are backing out of the alley a few moments later. When we come to the loading dock behind the old store, Alek pulls to a stop.