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He starts to move a little faster, going deeper using his thumb to toy with my clit.

“Stop.”

“That’s not the safe word.”

I’m trying not to melt and give in to the building orgasm. “We have a safe word?”

“No?”

I wrap tight about him, sinking my teeth into his shoulder as I come hard, body bouncing as my insides clench his fingers.

Then he kisses me, deep and hard, his tongue taunting mine.

When he pulls out, he wipes my juices on my lips and licks it off. “I love you, baby bunny.”

“I love you too, Calamity.”

“Such a fucking whore.”

“Such a fucking fuck boy.”

He laughs and holds me to him, pulling at my skirt. “Nice haircut.”

I have the back and sides shaved and it’s now ice blonde, dipped in purple on the long pixie part.

“Nice face and nicer work there, big boy,” I say.

“I try.” Then he sighs. “Did Nikolai mention I’ve got a meeting here before you open?”

“No, he just stole Violet.”

“I’ve got a meeting.”

Not that I care. He’s carved out his place, and I’m carving one, too.

Bunny Munroe is mine and Rose’s and Lucy’s. That’s the deal he worked out with Lucy and then with Rose and had it stamped approved by Nikolai.

It’s a place that anyone’s welcome, but where women can come and start over. An extension of Rose’s first place.

We don’t make any money from it, as all profits go to women in need, and into keeping the bar going. It’s not even any kind of laundering scam. It’s real, and it’s protected because if you’re part of organized crime or a gang and you support places like this, the network it’s spawning means they’re more trusted. More trusted means more money.

And women with nothing, women like Rose’s mom and mine, get a chance for a new life. For people like my mom, who seemed to want her slice of a drug and sex fueled life, there’s a system for unwanted or neglected kids.

They go into loving homes all over.

Honestly, it’s so…good it makes me want to puke, except it’s…good.

And this man, my husband, was there with me on any decisions I made.

But the best one?

Him.

Hands down.

Rush Rhodes is one hell of a man, and I’m glad he didn’t take no for an answer.

But if he had, I’d have come after him. One day.

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