Page 85 of Cold and Broken (The Titans of Founder's Ridge 1)

Ivy and I hang back, letting the guys descend on the food like a pack of starving wolves. We each pour cups of coffee.

“So,” Ivy says quietly between sips of coffee, “you and Connor. Was he good?” She wiggles her eyebrows.

“I have no frame of reference to answer that,” I say with a slight curl to my lips.

“Did you orgasm?”

I nod and feel the creeping warmth of a blush coming on.

“More than once?”

A giggle escapes when I nod.

“More than good, then. My first time was awkward, painful, and over within a minute.” She rolls her eyes at the memory.

“You are red as a tomato, hood rat.” Levi slings an arm over my shoulders. “What are you two talking about?”

“Girl talk. Run along.” She shoos him away and grabs a bagel. The guys are spread around the living room so we grab two of the bar stools at the island.

“Did you have a good birthday weekend?”

“I did. I’m going to be a mess in a few hours when Z has to catch his flight. Going back to school tomorrow is going to suck, too.” I feel like I’ve been in my safe cocoon for the past three days where I have not heard a single nasty whisper or felt the sting of a jealous glare. After all the photos Ivy took this weekend and posted on social media I know I’ll be hit hard by Margaux and her drones.

“We’ve got your back.” Ivy takes a bite of her bagel and thoughtfully chews. “Plus, you and Connor are officially together. That should make you untouchable.”

I’m not sure at all about that. If anything I think I’ll have an even bigger target on my back now. The simple fact is that my life would be easier if I had never drawn the attention of the Titans. If they had just tolerated my presence on the periphery of their lives, no one would have even noticed me. That said, I’m falling in love with Connor so it’s worth it.

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Connor

Love.

I’m not sure I’m worthy of it, at least not from the beautiful girl asleep on my shoulder. Lilith is tucked in tightly between Griff and I on the helicopter back to Founder’s Ridge. Her hand is linked in mine but her other hand is tucked away in Griff’s hand. I reach over and flip her headset off so I can talk to the guys without waking her.

I point at Lev motioning for him to do the same to Ivy’s headset. She’s sleeping on his shoulder and his hand is braced on the inside of her thigh. It’s decidedlynotin a brotherly place but Griff and I learned a long time ago not to inquire about their relationship.

“I have something that might take care of both the Jameson and Margaux problems,” Griff says looking back and forth between Lev and I. “It’s a video of them in his class room. Margaux is giving him head.” He pulls up a video on his phone and hands it to me.

Sure enough at around the two minute mark Margaux drops to her knees and starts sucking cock. He’s facing away from the camera but it’s clearly him and there’s no doubt what she’s doing. Putting that camera in the air vent was the best idea I ever had.

“Good.” I hand the phone to Lev.

“By the way, I erased the video of what you and Lilith did.” Griff looks at me with an arched eyebrow. “You are lucky I’m the only one with access to that video feed.”

I smirk shamelessly. That was one of the hottest things I have ever done and I would do it over and over again. “Bet we looked hot as fuck though.”

“Wait, what?” Lev looks up at us. “What’d you do?”

“A gentleman never tells,” I grin at him.

“But he does eat his girlfriend’s pussy on a teacher’s desk in the middle of the day,” Griff deadpans.

“Fuck yes.” Lev holds out a fist for me to bump.

“Back to Jameson and Margaux. We’ll need to get the camera out of the vent before we go public with the video. I’m thinking we need to blast it over all social media and on the school list serve and call tree. Go for maximum exposure.” Griff takes his phone back from Lev.

“Agreed.” I nod.

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