Page 48 of Vengeful Union

"You know what I've just realized?" she begins. "I have no idea how old you are."

I run my hand up and down her spine. "I'm thirty-four."

Her eyes widen comically. "What?" she whispers. "You don't look that old."

I blink. "Old?"

She cringes slightly. "I just meant—" She shakes her head, her cheeks turning a dark red. "I'm gonna shut up now."

I chuckle. "I'm messing with you."

She pushes at my shoulder. "Ass," she says, scrunching up her nose.

"Get it now?" I ask her after a few moments of silence.

Her brows knit together as she looks at me. "Get what?"

"That this is more than sex."

Her teeth capture her bottom lip, and she tugs on it. It's her tell that she's nervous. "Finn," she whispers.

She's scared. I get it. Her da's a dick. "Yeah, you get it. Don't worry, baby, you'll realize soon enough that you're staying."

She shakes her head, but I see the shy smile on her face. She wants this, but she's not willing to let me in. She doesn't trust me. That's fine. I'll wear her down, make her learn to trust me, and then I'll make her fall in love with me. I'm not losing her. Ever.

"Sleep, baby," I tell her, still running my hand up and down her back.

"Mmm," she murmurs, snuggling into my body further. "Night, Finny." Her words are slurred with sleep.

I blink at the nickname. She's never called me that before. It's something only Jade calls me, something she's done since she was a child. I don’t hate it. In fact, hearing it come out of her sweet mouth is probably the best thing I’ve ever heard.

I fall asleep, my cock still inside of her. It’s always semi-hard whenever Destiny’s around. Being inside of her is the best place to be. For the first time in a fucking long time, I fall asleep with a grin on my face.

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“I haveto go back to Philly tonight. I have some work I need to do. I want you with me,” I tell her as I approach her from behind and wrap my arms around her waist.

She leans into me, her hands entwining with mine. “I would love that, Finny, but I have a meeting with my uncle tomorrow. He and Levi have some news they want to talk to me about.”

I can tell by the hesitation in her voice that she is nervous about what they have to discuss. “You want me here for it?”

She scoffs, shaking her head as she reaches up on her tiptoes and kisses the underside of my jaw. “They don’t know about you,” she said hesitantly.

“What do you mean they don’t know about me? Destiny, you realize their men are here too, right? They report back to your uncle and cousin. Everything that goes on inside of his house, they know about.”

She pulls out of my arms and spins to face me. Her eyes are wide, and her face is pale. "What?" she hisses. "They can’t know about us.” She groans. “That means they know that we've…" she says as she flushes, her cheeks burning bright red. "You know,done it.”

I chuckle. God, Dest really knows how to make me smile. “Done what exactly?"

Her face flames bright red, her eyes narrowing at me as she brings her hands to her hips. "Now, now, Psycho Boy, you know exactly what I’m talking about. Do not be obtuse. I do not need my family knowing that you and I are doing the nasty.” She shakes her head at me in disgust. “You may be a whore, but I ain’t.”

I grin at her. She’s so easy to wind up. "I’m pretty surenastyis too tame for what we did this morning."

She slaps my chest, her face growing redder by the second. It's so cute to see her get so flustered and embarrassed whenever we talk about sex.

"Baby, you’re an adult. What we do together between the sheets is between you and me. No one else has a fucking say. Anyone calls you a whore, I’ll put a bullet in them.”

She rolls her eyes at me. “And you wonder why I call you Psycho Boy?”

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