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She didn’t respond, her eyes widening and filling with tears. As her head bowed and sobs wracked her small frame, I panicked, thinking I had said the wrong thing. But just as I was about to close off again, she threw herself into my arms and thanked me.

I held her, unsure how to comfort her. My presence wasn’t enough—not this time. I had to give her more. Eventually, her sobs subsided, replaced by the sound of her uneven breathing.

“It won’t stop,” she finally murmured. “The images. The sounds. I—” Her voice broke, and she covered her face with her hands.

My hand hesitated in the air before settling gently on her knee. “What do you need?” I asked softly.

“Stay with me,” she whispered, her voice trembling. “Distract me. Please.”

Her tear-streaked face turned toward me, her eyes wide and desperate. I knew what she was asking—what she wanted.

I leaned closer, my hand moving to cup her cheek. “Are you sure?”

She nodded, her breath hitching, and grabbed me by the shirt.

I didn’t wait for more.

30

Elisabed

It was all too much—everything that had happened during the day. The things that I’d seen. The news of the pregnancy. Everything that had happened over the past few weeks.

My life had changed so drastically and so suddenly that it was impossible to understand. I couldn’t sleep and could barely think through the worry pulsing through my body.

Marshall was going to help me. After hearing about his father, the expectations that plagued him his whole life, I understood why he stayed so cold and detached. But I also saw the other side of him. The side that could give me what I needed. He was the only one whocouldhelp me right now. And I knew that he wanted to.

His hands were gentle when he cupped my face and brought our lips together in a tender kiss. I whimpered into his mouth,clutching at his shirt, and he gently guided us back down until we were lying side by side on his bed.

His lips moved against mine, almost too tenderly, and I couldn’t help the low growl that escaped me as I pressed closer to him. I needed a distraction. I needed him totakewhat he wanted from me and make it so I couldn’t think anymore...

Marshall gently nudged me away, and his expression was firm when I pouted at him. “I’ll take care of you, baby,” he said quietly. “Let me take care of you.”

Then he pressed our lips together again, and I forced myself to relax, letting him take the lead and guide me to a place where my mind was less chaotic and hectic.

My hands found the hem of his shirt, and I shoved them under the fabric, feeling the smooth warmth of his skin under my palm. I shivered a little as his hands slid down my back, and the low growl that vibrated against my lips helped me to relax even more.

We slowly divested ourselves of our clothes, taking off shirts and pants in between lingering kisses. Marshall was quiet and intense as always, and it was almost overwhelming to have that intensity focused solely on me. All the other times we had been together, the other two had provided enough of a distraction with their different energies that I hadn’t noticed exactly how complete Marshall’s attention was when it was all I had.

I loved it. I loved feeling like I was the center of his world and that there was nothing he wouldn’t do for me. His dark eyes gleamed at me when he rolled over the top of me and hovered,and I swallowed hard when my eyes slid down his body and finally landed on his hard cock.

His cock twitched, and he chuckled at my little intake of air. “Scared, baby?”

He was teasing, and the lightness of the statement made me giggle a little.

“I mean, a little bit,” I said, offering him a small smile. “Have you seen you?”

He grinned at me, and just as quickly as he had rolled over on top of me, he rolled onto his back and took my hand. He pulled me until I was on top of him, then gently nudged me until I was level with his cock, his expression soft as he tucked one hand behind his head. “Well, by all means, baby. Get acquainted. You won’t be scared if you know it as well as you know your own body.”

His eyes gleamed with the challenge, and I pursed my lips as I looked up at him. It was a play—something that would get me out of my head—and I knew it.

But I also wanted to touch him. I wanted to give him as much pleasure as he gave me, and he was giving me an open forum to do whatever I wanted to him. I wasn’t going to throw that opportunity away.

I swallowed and turned my attention to his cock, chewing on my lip before I reached down to wrap my hand around the base of it. He was thick and long, more so than the others, as I’d noticed every time he had fucked me so far. But there was a difference between being fucked by a cock, and having it right in front ofyour face, and looking at it only made my stomach squirm even more with intimidation.

“I would never hurt you, Elisabed,” Marshall said softly. I looked up at him, and his soft smile turned my insides to mush. “You know that, right?”

I knew that he wasn’t just talking about in the bedroom. The injury August had accidentally given me itched, and I had to move carefully so that I didn’t pull at it. The weight of his mistake weighed on all of us, and I could see a glimmer of regret in Marshall’s eyes as he looked down at me, as if he were sorry that he hadn’t been able to save me.

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