Page 69 of Savage Queen (Blood Empire 3)

“Trust me, mountain man. There's gonna be a lot of things that happen in your life that you never planned.” She laughs. “That's the fun part.”

“ARE WE JUST GOING TOact like we don’t plan on finding a man and forcing him to come with us before locking him up in your basement?” I tease, taking a bite of my steak.

“Nope.” Harlow grins. “I just thought we could use a full belly and a nice conversation first. Need to fuel the body, who knows how much running we are going to have to do.”

After Harlow told us the plan for tonight, we had a pretty relaxing day at home. I took a few business calls, happy to see our old clients slowly returning to us. I guess having Ruby Snow backing us proved to them that we are good enough to do business with again.

I’d almost forgotten that Harlow uses that name for anything legal she needs. I’m so used to the world knowing her as Queenie. But I guess she would need a name for things outside the criminal world too.

“You dressed for the occasion, so I think you'll be fine.” I grin, taking a sip of my beer. She flashes a dangerously sexy smirk my way that has me hoping tonight ends with me inside her.

We’ve only been together once since she's been back. She crawled into my bed and woke me up while riding my morning wood. When she asked me the night before if she could help me start my morning that way, I assumed she was joking, but I was very grateful that she was indeednotjoking.

But all of our schedules have been picking up more and more with each passing day. Plus, with her having so many people that she has to deal with and keep happy, I’ve been okay with stepping back to let everyone else have her.

“Don’t think I don’t see what you’ve been doing,” she tells me, placing her fork down on her now empty plate.

“And what do you think I’ve been doing?” I ask with a raised brow.

“You’ve been there. I see you everyday when I wake up and right before I go to sleep. But you haven't beenthere.Why have you been keeping your distance?” she questions.

“Because you have more important things to do,” I acknowledge, hating the self doubt that washes over me right now.

“Dean,” she growls, my cock seeming to approve of the tone she's taking with me. “You are just as important to me as they are.”

“Neo is dependent on you. Evie is your best friend, and now your girlfriend. Sam needs you a lot more than us in a different way. Cass was your first everything, and you’ve just started to get to know Axel again.” God. I sound like a whiny attention seeking child right now. I hate it. But I can’t help feeling like I bring nothing to the table when she has something special with everyone else.

She glares at me. The longer she stares, the more I start to sweat. I swallow thickly as the silence starts to make me squirm. Then she stands up and slides into my side of the booth. These booths are bigger than most, giving them a more social feel to them.

Harlow straddles my lap, and my cock fully reacts to her contact. “Dean, I need you to hear what I’m gonna say next, and I mean every single word, okay?”

“Okay,” I agree with a nod.

She cups my face, looking deeply into my eyes and right into my soul. The feeling is so intense a shiver shoots down my spine, spreading throughout my body. “I love you.” She says those three words with so much feeling, my heart picks up a little bit. “I need you,” she says before rolling her hips. I groan as I force my eyes to stay open. “You mean the world to me.” She moves back and reaches for the buttons on my pants. “I want you,” she states. Reaching into my pants and boxers, she grabs my cock, making me hiss out a breath. “There is no us, no family unless you are a part of it.” She slides down under the booth and onto her knees.

A thrill sparks through me at seeing this powerful woman looking up at me with so much lust my balls ache. She starts to move her hand up and down with a good grip. I clench my fists as the muscles in my legs flex, fighting the urge to thrust up into her mouth when she bends over to lick the bead of pre cum off the tip of my cock.

I don’t give a damn that we’re in a public place, they know who we are. We could fuck in the middle of the damn restaurant, and no one would say a word.

“Wanna know a secret?” she asks me, licking my shaft from base to tip.

“What?” I ask through gritted teeth. I moan as she takes me fully into her mouth until I hit the back of her throat before pulling back, releasing me with a pop.

“I knew you used to follow me home everyday,” she says. “Everyday after school.”

My eyes widened as I realize what she means.

“I loved it. I loved the fact that you cared so much about seeing me get back to my foster home safely that you would go in the complete other direction from your house. You would leave your car at school so that it didn’t draw attention to you.”

My breathing picks up.She knew?Fuck, she knew that whole time.

“Why didn’t you ever say anything?” I ask, my eyes falling shut as she takes me back into her warm, wet mouth. This time she bobs her head a few times, sucking me hard as she grips me harder.

“Because, I was afraid if you knew I had caught on, you would stop. I didn’t want you to stop. Dean, you made me feel safe for once in my life, when I wasn’t directly with one of you. That time to and from school was the only real time I ever felt truly alone. Like I was open season for the monsters of my past. So having you there, it gave me a sense of peace.”

She starts sucking me off again, driving me absolutely fucking mad with her mouth.

“And yes, I knew about the mornings too. So, you wanna know where you fit into everything? That's how, at least it's part of it, because you were and are so much more to me than you think. You were my first real protector. I knew all of you cared about me in some way. And if it came down to it, I know you would have been at my side. But no one else but you went out of your way to make sure I was safe when I was too stubborn to take it willingly. Don’t doubt my love, Dean.”

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