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She’s saying everything I have wanted to hear for so long, but I can’t let myself believe it’s real because I know this girl better than she knows herself, and there is so much more she’s not telling me. “If you fuck with me, Piper, there will be hell to pay.”

She pushes her shoulders back, trying to act tough, but her body shaking gives her away. I can’t tell if it’s because she fears me or she is just so worked up with sexual energy. “The only fucking I’m interested in with you is your cock inside my pussy. Fuck me the way you have always wanted. I need it. And I know you do too,” she begs me. Her eyes are luring me into her lies because they make her look so sweet and innocent, when I know she is anything but.

Moving my hand around to lace in her hair, I pull her toward me, taking hold of one of her nipples in my mouth. I suck on it hard. She moans, and I feel the vibration right through her body. I go to the other, doing the same, and am rewarded with the same sensation. My cock throbs to be back inside of her, but I don’t know if I can trust myself when I am. It’s just like last night, she's cast a spell over me. She pushes her body forward into mine, and I know she’s desperate for more. She wants to fuck me, that much is very clear, but her intentions are murky.

I pick her up by the waist and her legs wrap around my body. I walk with her over to the plush rug in the center of the room, and I lay her down. She smiles back at me like she has won me over yet again, and I smirk back. She can believe whatever she wants. I’m not ready to give her exactly what she wants just yet. Not after that comment.

I move over her until I’m at her side. “Why don’t you show me how much you want me.” She turns her head and licks the tip of my cock, swirling her tongue over the most sensitive part. Then she opens her mouth, taking me as far as she can in the position she’s in. “That’s it, sweetheart, take as much of me as you can.” She moves back and forth, sucking me with a new determination. The warmth of her mouth feels amazing sliding over me. I could come like this. It would be safer, but it’s not her tight pussy. And I’m desperate to be back in there.

I pull out of her mouth. “On all fours,” I demand, knowing I can’t look at her while I fuck her. It’s too dangerous when I know I can’t fully trust her. I still feel like she is playing me tonight.

“Who is messing with whom now, Leo? Are you going to give me what I want or are you going to keep teasing me?”

“Maybe I’ll keep messing with you until you tell me the truth about what you want from me.”

“See, it’s not me playing games tonight, it’s you. You take me to a show and dinner then tell me everything you know I have always wanted to hear. But just as quickly as you give it all to me, you take it back by putting your walls up.”

“I meant everything I said earlier tonight. I want to give you everything you deserve. If you were mine, I would. But you’re not mine really, are you? Even in this moment I can see the deceit in your eyes, Piper. I know you, and right now you’re hiding something from me. Something big, I would say.”

She swallows hard. She has to know how guilty she looks. “You're right, Leo, there are things I can’t tell you just yet. We both have our secrets, you can’t deny that. But right now, this is about us, not anything else. I can promise you I’m giving you me. All of me for the rest of the night.” I see the rapid rise and fall of her chest; she’s panicked.

Fuck if it’s not everything I want to hear from her. She is giving herself to me. Her body, anyway. I know I can’t ask for anything more, not when I’m not willing to give her anything more of myself.

“On all fours,” I tell her again. This time she complies. I find the small strip of hair between her legs and stroke her, sliding my fingers through her slick folds. She isn’t the only one who is shaking. I can feel the tremble in my normally stable hands. She pushes her ass back toward me, and I line myself up with her dripping pussy and push in again, filling her but staying still. I lean over her body, and I drop my mouth to her earlobe, taking it in my mouth and sucking. “You're wrong, Piper. It’s you who is teasing me. By giving me your body tonight, I’m claiming you as mine forever.” The words leave my lips before I can stop them. I’m so fucked up when it comes to her, I can’t even be truthful with myself. But with my cock buried deep inside of her, I can’t deny what this is to me.

I feel the goosebumps rise over her skin. “I know,” she agrees, like it’s what she wants as well. She pushes her body back into mine to show me just how much.

And I lose control. I move inside of her slowly, my hands roaming over her breasts as I claim her over and over again. My movements get harder and more aggressive as my carnal need for her takes over, and I can no longer hold myself back. “Come for me, Princess,” I demand, knowing I won’t last another second.

She cries out a whimpered moan as she lets go, and her tight pussy spasms around me, pulling me over the edge with her. “Mine,” I tell her as I fill her with my orgasm, knowing I shouldn’t but not caring either. It’s a promise I shouldn’t make, but it’s one I already know I will never take back. She has always been mine.

I scoop her up in my arms, carrying her to my bed. Tonight, I get to do something I have only ever imagined before—take her to my bed for the night.

Chapter 18

PIPER

Secondsafterwalkinginthe front door, my phone rings. Not my normal phone but the one Tony gave me. I left it at home in case Leo did any snooping of his own and discovered it. I make a run for my room, not wanting to miss Tony's call, knowing how much it would piss him off. When I go to pick it up, though, I can see there has been a number of missed calls already, and I’m sure, knowing my brother, he is growing impatient to talk with me, but he knew what I was doing last night.

I brace myself for his mood. “Hi.” I wince, not really wanting to talk to him right now. I’ve had such a pleasant night escaping my reality with Leo, and I don’t want it tarnished so soon by Tony.

“I can see you stayed the night. How did it go? Did you get the information I needed?” I don’t know why, but I scan the room behind me, looking for him like he might be hiding in here somewhere. He doesn’t seem to be. I’d like to know what he meant by he can see I stayed the night. Has he got people watching me? Or did he just mean because I’m finally answering the phone he gave me.

“The house was locked up tight, Tony, and so was Leo. He’s not dumb enough to just tell me what I want to know,” I answer. There are things I could have told him, small things I noticed. I could also ask him why Leo doesn’t want me going to the fight next week, because if there is something to know, I’m sure Tony would be on to it. But for whatever reason, I keep it to myself.

“You’ve gone soft. The old girl I knew would have done whatever it took to get the information I needed.”

“A lot has changed since you left. It’s not that easy anymore. Our family name doesn’t hold any power here. People don’t just do what we say. We’re on the bottom,” I admit, but strangely, that thought doesn’t make me feel as sad as it once would have.

“Don’t fret, Sister. We won’t be for long. Soon you can take your rightful place back on the throne. That’s what you want, isn’t it? To be on top once again, dishing out the orders.”

The more I think about it, the more I realize it's not. I never wanted it in the first place. It was thrust upon me, and I had to learn how to deal with it. But it’s not what I want. I wish I could have a little more of what I had last night, the attention of only one man making me feel like I’m the most important person in the world, whether it's true or not. I want to be Leo’s whole world, not the leader of this one. But even admitting that to myself is dangerous, so I’ll keep the truth to myself. “Tony, that’s what you want.”

Silence. It’s like he’s not even there, even though I know he is. “I’ll get someone else on this if you can’t handle it,” he seethes, making it damn obvious what he means.

“I can and I will. It’s just I’m doing this for you. To help you,” I say all too quickly. The last thing I want is for someone else to be trying to weasel their way in with Leo. For so many reasons but mostly because I’m starting to feel strangely protective of what we've started. I’m not ready for it to end just yet.

“And I’m doing this forus. For our family name,” he says, his voice laced with poison. He goes from calm to fucking fuming in seconds these days.

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