Page 94 of Edge of Control

I was free. Finally free from the shadow of my father. I had dismantled Pressure Point, the group my sister had made it her mission to take down. I finished it for her. Honored her memory. Made the ones responsible for her death pay.

And I was able to keep Jace in the process.

That had been one of my biggest fears. Bigger than going to prison for the rest of my life.

Irrational, yes, but when was love ever known for being rational?

Jace Holloway had shown me a side to life that I never wanted to give up. And seeing him tied up, his life only a trigger pull away from ending, was a horror I never wanted to experience again. I’d seen death. I’d delivered death.

But witnessing Jace at death’s doorstep changed me.

I ended lives to find my own meaning,he thought.Now, with him, I finally see what living truly means.

This was a second chance I couldn’t fuck up. And I wouldn’t. I’d prove to him that he made the right decision. Every day, I would work hard to make sure Jace knew that he was right in saving me.

It began tonight.

The water rushed into the tub. Jace was silent as he folded his clothes and set them on the bathroom counter. He stripped down to his black briefs. His muscles shifted in the light. I dimmed the lights from my phone before I rummaged in the cabinet and grabbed a bath bomb I’d gotten as a white elephant gift.

“Pulling out all the stops, huh?” Jace asked. He was teasing me.

Good. It felt like things were slowly shifting back to normalcy. It would take time, but time was all we had.

Thanks to Jace.

“Only the best for you,” I said, winking. The bath bomb smelled like lavender with rose petals set inside it. I dropped it in the water, creating an immediate fizz effect as bubbles began to form. The soft, rosy scent filled thebathroom. I pulled off my sweatpants and set them next to Jace’s clothes. I was completely naked. Bare.

Jace’s eyes raked across my body. The familiar flame I’d been so used to feeling around him sparked to life. I stood there, allowing him to drink me in. It wasn’t long before I began to get hard. I didn’t touch myself or hide myself. Just continued to stand there, letting Jace come to me on his own time.

He finished undressing, revealing that I wasn’t the only one who was getting hard because of this.

Jace motioned to the tub. “Should we?”

“Yeah, looks about full.”

Jace got in first. Some of the water sloshed out of the side. He apologized, but I waved it off. I didn’t care. We could get water all over the apartment, and I wouldn’t give three fucks. All that mattered was that Jace was here, with me, and there were no more secrets between us. He knew everything. And he accepted everything.

I got into the tub so that I faced him. It wasn’t a large bathtub—we lived in New York, after all—so I had to bend my legs a bit. Jace stretched his out so that they fit on either side of me. I reached under the water and gently grabbed him. The water was deliciously warm and helped ease the coiled tension that wrapped around my muscles.

“I never thought I’d enjoy a bath as much as I do right now,” I admitted to Jace.

“You’re okay being in here, right?”

I closed my eyes and nodded. “I am. You being herehelps.”

“Good,” Jace answered. “Because I feel like I want to stay in here for hours.”

“Don’t you think you’ll get bored after all that time?”

Jace shrugged, creating ripples in the water. “I’m sure we could figure out a way to keep things interesting.”

I grabbed my still-hard dick under the water. His gaze dropped. The bubbles were covering me, but I had a feeling he knew exactly what I was doing. He smiled and did the same. “You’re special to me, Jace. In ways I can’t even begin to describe. You know that, right?”

He took a moment to answer, his eyes searching mine. I wondered what he was thinking about. I wished I could read him like a book. I wanted to be able to highlight his thoughts as if they were my favorite passages in a worn-out book. One I carried with me everywhere I went. “I do. And you’re the same to me. Clearly, you make me act in ways I never imagined I’d act. You… you surprise me, and change me, and make me happy.”

“That’s all I ever want to do.” I moved my leg so it was between his and gently moved my foot next to his dick. He let go of himself and grabbed my foot instead, gently massaging it under the water. I let out a deep sigh, dropping my head back, stroking myself under the water as Jace continued to massage my foot.

A low groan escaped my lips as his hands moved up my leg, his fingers tracing patterns on my skin beneath the water. My grip tightened around my own hard cock, the warmth of the bath and his touch igniting every nerve.

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