Page 126 of Reclaiming Adelaide

“Yeah. It makes me want to murder everyone that comes your way.”

I gulped.

He withdrew his fingers from my pussy, then touched my bottom lip. “Open.”

I kept them closed—the taboo thought driving me wild.

“Don’t think; just do as I say. Now open.”

I rolled my eyes like the brat he said I was, then opened my mouth.

He pushed his two fingers in. A burst of salt and tang spread across my tongue, coating my mouth. “Good girl. Taste what it’s like when we’re together.”

I hollowed my cheeks and sucked his fingers into my mouth, my fingers wrapping around his wrist like he did in the limo.

His cock twitched against my damp thighs. “I think I could go for another round.”

I pulled his fingers from my mouth and pushed against his chest before plopping to the floor. “You’re gonna have to wait.”

There was a bank account with their name on it that needed a quick reintroduction to inspections and taxes. Maybe an accidental transfer of funds to an unmarked account, and I couldn’t wait to watch it all burn.

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Iwasn’tupset.Atleast that’s what I kept telling myself as I stared at Fruity swimming in his fish bowl. But somehow, the dirty feeling that I’d betrayed him crept along my brain with wicked tendrils spreading doubt deep down into my very substance.

Jake popped an M&M in his mouth as he stared at the code on his screen, passing by at a blistering rate. As much as I loved what I did, there wasn’t any way I’d be able to watch the lines like that.

My stomach twisted, making stomach acid burn the back of my throat. I turned my gaze back to my screen and gulped. I needed to find the words to show him the three perfect lines on my computer. If—not if, when—I gave them to Jake, that was it. Game over. For everyone.

That was a good thing, right?

This was what we’d worked countless hours for. We’d spentfour weekswith our eyes on our screens and hands on the keyboards, my mind and body numb to everything but the task at hand.

“I found him,” I said, my voice barely a whisper.

As I turned my chair towards him, Jake leaned forward and turned his music down.

“What?”

“I said, I found him.”

Jake pushed his chair in my direction and rolled to a stop in front of my screen.

“Holy shit.” He laughed, a smile brimming across his face, and pulled me out of my seat into a spinning bear hug. “Do you know what you’ve done?”

I shook my head, but of course, I knew. I’d sentenced a man to death who was only trying to do the right thing.

“You just put everything in motion.” He put me back on my feet, grabbed his phone, and pressed it to his ear as he seized my nape and kissed me full on the mouth, his tongue swirling with mine. He broke away only when the deep, garbled voice on the other end interrupted us.

“We’ve got him.” His eyes bounced back and forth as he stared into mine, his hand still clenched around me. “Be ready to go in thirty…” He flicked his tongue across his lower lip. “Yeah. Get Dante.”

Jake pocketed his phone and tipped my chin up with his pointer finger. “This is good. If we didn’t find him, we couldn’t destroy them. Do you understand that?”

I nodded, even though my stomach fought the very agreeableness he asked of me.

“Why don’t you seem too happy then?”

“Because he was only trying to do the right thing. He doesn’t deserve this, and I don’t want anyone else to die.”

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