Page 93 of Boys Who Taint

“Fuck yes,” I reply, and she laughs out loud.

“We should do it again soon,” she says.

I’d die if I could have this every day.

She grabs her phone and checks the time. “But we gotta catch some sleep. It’s late, and I have classes tomorrow.”

“Oh right.” I try to get up, but she pushes me back down.

“Where are you going?” she asks.

“Don’t you need sleep? I’m a distraction,” I reply.

She rubs my chest straight through my shirt. “Stay the night. Please.”

I smile.

How could I ever deny her?

I nod and hold her hand. “Okay. If you’re sure.”

She presses a kiss to my cheek. “Positive.”

I cup her face and press a real kiss to her lips, deepening my stroke with my tongue to show her how much I love her. I don’t care that I can taste myself on her lips. She is everything I could ask for and more.

“I love you,” I whisper.

Her eyes burst open, and she pecks me back on the lips. “Good night.”

She wraps her arm around me and lies down on my chest, while I pull up the blanket. But while she closes her eyes and slowly falls asleep, I’m left staring at the ceiling.

She didn’t say it back.

Aspen

In the middleof the night, I wake up to a revving sound. I sit up and look around to gather my bearings. Grey is still beneath me, snoring while fast asleep. But I can’t help the impending dread wash over me from the nightmare that I just awoke from. A nightmare where Grey was actually Ghost all along and has been watching me, even during the night Mavis fell.

I throw the blanket off me and walk to the window to get some much-needed fresh air. But when I scoot the curtains aside, the motorcycle parked outside makes all the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

His helmet hides his identity, but there’s only one motorcycle rider I know of who would choose to hang out underneath my window in the middle of the night.

Levi Torres.

I can’t see his eyes, but his visor is pointed directly at me, and it’s enough to make me feel the burning-hot glare of his rage.

He’s waiting.

Waiting for Grey to leave this house so he can kill him when I’m not there to protect him.

Shit.

CHAPTER 22

Aspen

Levi revs the engine again,still looking right at me as though it’s some kind of warning. A threat that one of these days he might just drive right into our door and come drag Grey out himself.

He wants me to suffer. It wasn’t enough that he made my half sister jump. He now wants me to feel the pain. Why?

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