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I fucking need this.Wefucking need this.

Digger lifts his head, finding my gaze as he pauses, and then lines himself with my entrance. Eyes locked on his, I steady my breaths as he slowly pushes against my tight muscles, gauging my reaction to the discomfort. It's a little more awkward than usual, but the pleasure outweighs any pain, and before long, it's my hands on his lower back as I pull myself onto him.

"Fuck, Rae." He tips his head, frowning as he pulls back and relishes the re-entry—every agonizingly slow second. "You feel that?"

“Yes,” I breathe. God, do I feel that.

"Feel how much tighter you are like this?" His words strain as he looks down at where he pumps in and out of me. "Why a little mess don't matter?"

It fucking doesn’t. Really.

“You ready?” He lifts an eyebrow and pins me with the sexiest fucking stare from beneath his brow.

I nod like the mute rag doll I am and hold on as Digger thrusts harder. Sharper.Deeper.

I’m a veritable pile of jellied bones by the time my climax nears, an orgasm nipping at the heels of his release as he strains the most perfect question ever. “You gonna come for me, Rae?”

My inner walls choking the hell out of his dick is the answer.

One hand wrapped around the back of my neck, the other to my hip, Digger follows me into bliss.

And for that moment, life is exactly as it should be.

Me, one of my men, and the paradise that can be found when the rest of the world falls away.

42

DIGGER

“Where the fuck is my father?”

"Good morning to you, too." I lift my hands beside me, eyebrows raised at Maddie as she corrals me in the doorway to the main living area.

Her face is thunder, the tension in the room around her akin to a rising summer storm. “Don’t sass me with that aloof bullshit,Uncle." She spits the name as though it's a curse. Some days, it feels as though it is. "I know who was here last night, and I know why. Andnow,” she hollers. “My fuckin’ father is nowhere to be found. I’m asking you where the fuck he is.”

“What’s going on?” Rae says softly from behind me.

Maddie's gaze falls on her friend. "It ain't a coincidence, Rae, that the goddamn mafia showed up here last night, and now my dad has disappeared without telling anyone where he's gone."

"You think they took him?" Rae's sharp inhale is a thorn in my heart.

"Naw, baby." I twist a little to keep them both in sight and drop my initial playfulness. "It ain't like that."

“Then what is it like, Digger?” Rae’s eyes are wide, demanding an answer.Shit.

I glance at my niece and find her pinning me with a dead stare,daringme to lie my way out of this one. So much for a great start to the fucking morning. I should have locked myself and Rae in Tyke's room and buried my head under the covers with her like I wanted to.

“Look. You two can team up on me all you like, but I ain’t sayin’ what he’s doin’. It’s not your concernwherehe is, onlywhy.”

“Thenwhyis he out?” Maddie hisses through clenched teeth. “Alone.”

My brow dives. “What do you mean alone?”

Maddie jerks her head to the right, and I follow her directive to see Minion standing near the bar, hands to his hips and feet spread wide, engaged in what appears to be a terse conversation with Hammer.

"Excuse me." I cut across the room, wrinkling my nose at the smell of burned toast as I pass Harvey and pull up next to the officers. "What the fuck?" I whisper yell. "Why ain't you with him like I asked you to be?"

“You think it was a choice?” Minion growls back. “Fucker snuck out before anyone woke up this morning.”

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