Page 236 of Boys Who Taint

I lost.

“Please … forgive me. I can’t live without your love.”

“You hear that? Got the boy begging on his knees,” Apollo muses.

I frown at him. “Really?”

“Don’t start something again, please,” she says. “I don’t want you three to fight over me.”

“That’s hard because there’s a lot of you to fight over.” Apollo bites, then licks his lips and winks.

Unbearable. But also too damn hot.

“She just got railed after saving a killer, and you’re already foaming at the mouth.”

“She’s not the only one who can make me go hard.” He winks at me, making me blush all over just because I’m reminded of that night in his bedroom.

Fuck.

He chuckles. “I meant in an actual fight.”

“Sure you did,” Aspen says, but she’s finally showing a smile again.

Apollo points at her face. “Made you laugh, though.”

She shakes her head. “You guys will never quit.”

“Not on you, no,” Apollo says, folding his arms. “But you won’t find me begging for mercy. I know what I did, but I was honest in my blackmail, and I’d do it again.” He tilts up her chin. “Because it finally let me have you.”

She blushes and snorts. “You guys almost have me convinced romance actually exists.”

I chuckle, and Apollo bursts out into laughter. “My version of romance is railing you two nonstop. Whether it’s in my bedroom, on the couch, the back seat of her car, in the yard outside, or maybe the woods. Wherever you want, I’m ready.”

“Oh my God,” she mutters under her breath.

“Yes?” Apollo raises a brow.

“You’re insufferable,” she adds.

Apollo makes a lateral click with his tongue and sticks up both his finger guns. “At your service.”

I clear my throat. “I’m trying to apologize over here.”

“Oh right,” he says. “Whatever you want, pretty boy. Do what you need to do to get our girl.”

I sigh out loud and focus on Aspen. “Can you forgive me? For all those cameras and the lies?”

“I …” She looks away for a second. “I have to think about it.”

She glances at Levi, who remains standing near the front door, as far away from us as possible.

The yearning in his eyes is palpable, even from here.

Apollo places a hand on my shoulder. “You’ve got every day of the rest of your life to make it up to her, don’t you?”

“What?” I mutter.

“But you’re both gonna have to share,” he adds with a wink. “Boyfriend.”

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