Page 15 of Dark As Coal

But it was where his head was that was shocking to me.

On the night I touched the back of his neck after he told me that if I ever did it again, he would snap my neck, he whispered something to me. I knew he thought I was asleep, but I hadn’t been.

‘The moment I feel comfortable placing my face in your neck, all of me will be yours.’

His face was buried in my neck.

And I wanted to shout to the rooftops at how happy that made me. But something held me back. In sleep, yes, he was okay with doing that, but I was going to wait for him to do it when he was wide awake and full cognizant of doing the action.

Because I was here, in his room, a room I was rarely in, and because I didn’t often get the luxury of sleeping beside him, not after that happened with the nightmare… I closed my eyes and prepared to snuggle deeper into him, revealing something that had never happened to me before, until my bladder made its presence known.

I cursed quietly and then wanted to ask God to remove the offending organ for taking this from me.

Damn.

Alas, unless I wanted to cross a line which would be to pee on him and do the so-called marking of territory, I needed to get out from under him.

Carefully, oh so carefully, I moved his arm, and then slowly moved out of bed.

And when I felt the bed shift when I didn’t move, I froze and then let out a breath I hadn’t realized I had been holding.

The shift had been Coal moving onto his back.

Standing up fully, I debated on what to do.

Yes, I needed to pee.

However, Coal’s room didn’t have a bathroom in it, and well, I didn’t want to walk down the hall naked.

My dress… well… I couldn’t wear that either.

See, after he led me to his room last night, he then proceeded to make love to me again, my dress ended up being the thing he grabbed to clean both of us off.

Yes, we were messy, but it was in our contracts we signed as club girls that allowed us to be messy.

I didn’t know if other clubs did this, but ours did.

Asher knew of clubs where girls tried to trap the brothers, and he wasn’t going to stand for that shit. So, he had a doctor come and implant a birth control device that would last the entire time you were a club girl. And if you extended that time frame then your implant was replaced with another.

Sure, I should make Coal wear a condom so if he got something from someone else then I would be clear. But it was the night that I chose him to be the one that night.

After we finished, he looked at me and said, “Won’t risk you. Be only you.”

I knew what he was saying. And I had thanked my lucky stars that night. The night I had picked right.

He knew he didn’t have to worry about me, because it was again, in my contract. The club girls were only allowed to be with the brothers. You don’t want to know the penalty if you break that law.

But… anyway, hoping I wasn’t making a mistake, especially one that would make what happened last night and this morning of me falling asleep beside him, not being kicked out, and then waking up to him curled around me, I carefully walked over to the chair where some clothes were folded up.

Tagging a hoodie and a pair of sweatpants, I pulled them on and had to roll the band of the sweatpants four times to get them to fit. This would be good enough until I made it to the room I used when I stayed at the clubhouse for a little while.

After I used the bathroom, my stomach growled.

I headed down the steps, carefully walking down them so I didn’t take a tumble because I didn’t think my shoes would go well with what I was wearing, I had slipped on a pair of Coal’s Crocs.

And then… at the sight before me, I abandoned my stomach growling and moved to help Lizette and Sutton in cleaning up Coal’s mess.

But first, I wrapped my arms around Lizette, when she smiled at me, I knew that she was okay.

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