Page 84 of Vengeful Guard

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PAIGE

Kael is already up when I wake, and I can’t help but be a little disappointed. I know what happened last night can never happen again, but god, it was fun.

I’ve never had so much fun in all my life. If I’d known that was what I was missing, I would have done it a lot sooner.

I’m not sorry that Kael was my first, even if it’s messy and complicated. He’s a friend of the family, so I can trust him, and since my brothers would kill him if they knew, I know he’ll be discreet.

It was a one-time thing, right? So, there’s no need to get all worked up about it.

As I get up from the bed, I feel slightly sore all over, muscles I didn’t even know I had seem tight.

I make my way to the shower, feeling deliciously sore down there, and when the water hits me, I moan with the pleasure of it.

I stay in the shower for a long time, enjoying how the water feels on my skin, and by the time I get out, I check my phone, and it’s nearly ten o’clock.

My stomach rumbles, and I walk downstairs, hoping to find some fruit or something in the fridge. Instead, Kael has ordered breakfast—just some of those biscuits with meat and egg on them, but they smell delicious.

Kael himself, though, is nowhere to be found. I wonder if he’s working out in the basement.

I sit down at the kitchen table, stuffing my face, feeling ravenous for some reason.

Is that because of the sex? Or just because I haven’t been eating well?

I don’t know, but either way, I’m glad he’s ordered food.

Just as I’m finishing up, Kael walks into the kitchen, sweaty and shirtless.

My breath catches in my throat, and I nearly choke.

“Did you enjoy your breakfast?” He goes to the fridge for a bottle of water, drinking half of it, gulping it down.

“I did. Thank you for ordering it.”

He shrugs. “We’ve got to go grocery shopping.”

It strikes me what a domestic thing that is, going grocery shopping together, but I don’t mention it out loud.

“Kael,” I start. “About last night?—”

He holds up a hand. “Don’t even worry about it. I won’t tell anyone.”

I huff out a breath. “It’s not that. It’s just... Everything with my brothers, my family?—”

He nods. “We shouldn’t do it again.”

I sigh. “Exactly.”

But part of me is bitterly disappointed. I can’t imagine never doing it again. Especially with Kael.

“Do me a favor, aye?” He looks deeply into my eyes.

I swallow hard. “Yeah?”

“When you do find someone,” he murmurs, “I don’t want to know the details.”

My heart skips several beats, and I have to breathe deeply before I answer.

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