Page 16 of Snake

“Yeah. Get this shit out of my hair.”

“Okay,” she murmurs, her eyes looking wounded when I tip my head back to stare at her.

“Look, it’s great you found out. I’m happy for you.” Christ, I don’t even know what I’m doing here. I want to be pissed, because I thought Nim was still in the dark. I thought we could figure out this shit before she did. Somehow, it made me happy thinking that we’d win.

What the fuck the trophy is for bullshit like this is anyone’s guess. I’ve always had a competitive edge—I guess sometimes I can’t help wanting to be the first to the finish line.

Nim rinses my hair out, and as I start to stand, she suddenly slides onto my lap. I grab her thighs out of instinct more than anything else, and she tenses against me with a small gasp that makes my cock twitch in my pants.

Licking her lips, she leans forward and drapes a hand towel over my head. Her eyes latch onto mine as she dries my hair. As if she can’t reach all the way back, she shifts on my lap, squirming and writhing.

Fucking getting me hard on purpose.

I grab her wrists, yanking her hands away from my head. “The fuck is your game?” I snap.

I can’t help it. She’s up to something, and it’s driving me mad that I can’t figure it out. Did she honestly just come here to drop that bombshell and see how I respond?

But wait...

I push past the headache threatening to engulf me and turn my thoughts to mush. The way she phrased it...

Do you know Vicky Pellegrino?

That doesn’t make any sense.

…Unless she doesn’t know Vicky is my mom.

I stroke my thumb over her lips, and she shivers against me. “You can’t believe I just want to do something nice for you?” she asks.

“We treated you like shit.” Keep treating her like shit.

She cocks her head again. “You’re really stuck up on revenge, aren’t you? Is that why you killed that guy in the woods? Was it for revenge?”

I grab her waist, grinding her down into my lap as I buck my hips up. She’s made me fucking rock-hard with her dubious intentions, and I can tell she feels it by the way her eyes flutter as my cock pushes along her cunt.

“If I were you, I’d back away carefully, love,” I murmur. “Because you’re in dangerous fucking territory right now.”

Nim studies me for a second, and leans in. I groan when that forces my cock harder against the heat in her center. “Don’t you think I know that?”

Then she kisses me.

And fuck it if I don’t grab her ass and haul her up with me as I stand, carrying her into my bedroom while her legs wrap around my waist. She mewls when I push her onto the sofa, her thighs gripping me tight. Her mouth moves furiously against mine, like she’s trying to draw out my fucking soul with her tongue.

God, it feels good.

She feels good.

My headache is clearing, and so are my thoughts.

Nim doesn’t know everything. Vicky’s significance is lost on her. And even if it wasn’t, there are still two other anonymous sponsors out there. Two families who were involved in Nim’s mysterious arrival at Cinderhart.

That knowledge will be ours long before Nim. Perhaps she’ll never know.

I graze my teeth down her neck, and she pushes her hands into my hair. “It’s so soft.”

I rumble against the curve of her throat and kiss her again. When I push my hand between her legs, she gasps. “Knox, wait.”

“What?” I sound grumpy, but that can’t be helped. My dick is aching for her, and there’s nothing she can do or say to stop me from fucking her.

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