Page 67 of Victorious: Part I

We’re frantic for it.

And as he thrusts again, he murmurs against my ear, “You’remine.” His tone is undeniably dominant.

But this time, I’m done playing the game.

This time, those words are all I need to send me flying into oblivion.

The wave of euphoria slams into me like a freight train. Pleasure consumes my entire being, his cock pulsing inside me, letting me know he’s as close while my body grips him for all he’s worth.My muscles are tensing so tight I’m not sure if I’m ever going to be able to walk again.

“That’s it,” he growls through clenched teeth. “That’s my girl. My loaded gun and beating heart.”

His words send me over the goddamn precipice.With a final thrust, it’s like my vision turns black, my breath nonexistent, and it feels like everything is spinning. Then, the explosion hits with such terminal velocity that I can’t even tell if I’m alive anymore.

Alpha loses it the second I do. His body shudders violently above mine, buried deep, when he lets out a strangled curse, collapsing against me on the hard Chapel floor.

It takes me a good moment before I find the strength to open my eyes to see if I made it. To draw in a breath and notice that at some stage, Alpha must have rolled off me, and is lying beside me on the floor, staring up at the Chapel ceiling, trying to catch his breath too.

We lie here for a second—sweaty, breathless, completely ruined in utter silence.

Until Alpha somehow finds an ounce of strength and slowly slides his hand over to grasp mine. The gesture is simple, yet somehow so fucking romantic.

Especially after what we just did.

Especially after what we’ve just been through.

A slow smile crosses my lips, and I’m the first to speak, “I’m gonna get termite bites from that damn table,” I mutter, my voice hoarse, clearly needing a drink.

He laughs, breathless. “Worth it,” he mumbles, then slowly rolls to face me, pressing his forehead to mine. “Next time you mouth off—”

“You’ll spank me?” I snap back.

He grins. “No, I’ll marry you. Then and there. On the fucking spot. I don’t want to waste any time, Haven. If the past few days have shown us anything, it’s that we can’t take anything oranyonefor granted.”

I stop breathing altogether, my eyes meeting his, trying so fucking hard to stop them from watering. With everything that’s going on at the club right now, a wedding is the very last thing we need to be thinking about. It doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t drop everything and marry this crazy asshole right now, naked on the Chapel floor, if I could, though.

I open my mouth to reply, but the sound of a ringing cell catches our attention. Our heads snap up to look over at his jeans lying on the floor. Alpha groans in annoyance as we’re still trying to catch our breaths. “It fucking never fucking ends,” he mumbles while I shift away from him playfully, and he slowly jumps up from the floor, stretching out his muscles.

I smile as I sit up, admiring his completely naked body, before he grabs his jeans, lifts them, and reaches for his cell in his pocket.

He looks at the caller ID, and his brow scrunches. “The fuck is he calling me for?”

I sit taller, wondering who he’s talking about while he moves back to the floor, sitting beside me, and he swipes the call, putting it on speaker. “Garver? It’s usually me calling you. Actually, I don’t think you’ve called me once since we’ve left the Army, so this isn’t giving me good vibes at all.”

“Probably because when the Warden of a Women’s Correctional Facility is calling, it’snotgood vibes, Landry.”

My insides twist as Alpha clenches his eyes shut, his fingers instantly threading through his hair in frustration. “Fuck, okay, just lay it on me. What kind of meeting am I gonna be having with Montana about his mother after this phone call?”

My heart races harder as I stare at Alpha, watching him try to hold his panic at bay.

We’re being hit.

One blow after the other.

And right now, weneedValerie to be okay.

Garver sighs down the line. “Listen, we’ve got a situation brewing here that absolutely concerns Montana’s mother.”

Alpha clenches his jaw, wracking it from side to side. “To be honest, we already knew something was happening in there. Val told Montana last time he visited, and we’ve been trying to look into it on our end. But we’ve had some pretty intense shit going on here too.

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