Page 60 of The Fire We Crave

I shake my head again. “No. I’m taking you to Ember’s, and I’m gonna have some food and a beer with Atom, then I’ll drive you back. I’ll take Bones with me, so he doesn’t stay cooped up in here all night.”

“I thought you didn’t like Bones.”

I stand and walk over to her, taking the leash from her hands. “Said I don’t like dogs on my sofa.”

“Oh.”

I brush my thumb over her lip, then tip my finger beneath her jaw to close her mouth. “I’ll get Bones. You go get in the truck. It’s unlocked.”

She looks at me like I’ve grown a second head.

“Go, Quinn. Before I spank you.”

Her eyes go wide, and she hurries to the door, grabbing her light jacket off the hook.

And I wonder how I’m gonna get through the ten-minute ride without pulling over to touch her.

“Not that I’mnot happy to see you,” Atom says, “but why the fuck are you here?” We’re sitting on the porch of his ranch house, just outside the main living room.

“Protection,” I say. “Didn’t want Quinn coming out here on her own.”

The ice-cold beer Atom gives me, does little to ease the dryness in my throat that has been there since I walked in on Quinn with her finger knuckle-deep in her pussy.

Atom points the neck of the bottle from the east to the west of his property that looks out over Oakum Ridge Ranch land. “Who, exactly, are you protecting her from? And why do you think I wouldn’t be able to keep them all safe?”

He has a point.

“More a precaution.”

Atom chuckles. “You forget, I saw what happened last night. Helped her get you to your room so she wouldn’t have to deal with your drunken ass on her own.”

“It’s not what you’re thinking.”

“If it’s that you’re worried about falling for the little sister of your missing ex, it’s exactly what I’m thinking. Life’s too hard to not find your happiness where you can take it.”

I shake my head and sip more of my beer. But in trying to play it cool, I find my head whirring with the thought of how her fingers must have smelled after. Covered in her own juices. What it would have been like if she’d wiped it on her mouth and let me kiss it off.

The slam of a truck door tells us that Wraith has arrived. Ever the gentleman, he steps around the truck to get Raven’s door. But instead of letting her step out, he leans in and lifts her out, so her legs end up wrapped around his waist.

Raven laughs as he attacks the side of her neck, and I’m grateful that the truck door hides what’s going on below the waistline, because from the look of his upper body, he’s grinding his dick against her pussy, which does little to ease the ache in my cock.

Because I’ve been wondering what it would feel like to have Quinn grinding against my cock instead of her own hand. And I wonder if she’ll ever take me up on the offer of coming to find me if she wants to get off in my house.

The Quinn I thought I knew would likely never do it. But the Quinn I just met in my spare room? I feel like she would.

“Put her down,” Atom yells finally. “Nobody wants to see that.”

“Except Wraith. He always liked to watch. So does Raven,” I say.

Atom does a double take. “And you know this how?”

“The two of them got down and dirty while watching me and Nola in the woods at one of the cookouts.”

Atom shakes his head. “You guys are freaky. You fuck anywhere, and he likes watching.”

“Says the guy who likes it when his old lady plays Nurse Deeks. You got one of those short little nurse outfits and matching heels for her to wear?”

He shakes his head. “I didn’t need to. Ember surprised me with it.”

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