Page 53 of A New Era

I shrug. “I don’t know how he did it, but, babe, she didn’t look like she was frightened or unhappy. She was happy. And according to Wyatt, this isn’t the first time she’s run from him.”

“But that doesn’t make sense. I saw how low she was, there was nothing in her eyes. She was desperate.”

“Tonight she’s a different person. My advice, leave it alone.”

“Leo, I don’t understand. She… maybe it’s a front she’s putting on?”

“I don’t know, babe. I like to think I’m a good judge of character. It seemed real to me.”

The crease between her brow deepens and before she can twist her mind any further trying to work it out, I slam my mouth onto hers. I don’t want her distracted by something she can’t change. A distraction of my own making is the only way to go tonight and what better distraction than my dick?

Sweeping my tongue across hers, she sits up fully and straddles my lap, pushing me back into the couch. Rolling her hips, she grinds against me, and my dick begs to be freed.

“I know what you’re doing but I’m not complaining,” she murmurs between kisses.

“Get your hand around my dick then.”

I trail my kisses down her neck as she works my belt and pops my jeans open. I pull her sweater up and over her head, tossing it to the floor. Yanking her bra down around her stomach, I pull her closer as she grips onto my shaft. I suck on her nipple and squeeze her breast as she pumps my dick. She greedily takes my mouth and arranges her entrance at my tip. As she lowers herself taking all of me inside her, I let my head fall back on the couch. Holding onto her hips, I go with the flow as she rides the shit out of me. Her rhythm fastens and her cries are music to my ears.

“Oh god, fuck,fuck, fuck.”

“That’s it, take what you need, baby,” I tell her, quickly adding, “You’ve got about five seconds before I blow.”

I get an extra ten seconds before I fill her with everything I’ve got, and she cries out her final scream of pleasure.

She falls against me, and I bite into her shoulder as we try to get our breathing back under control.

“You did a good thing helping Beth, her coming back with Jonah is on her. Don’t stress yourself about it any longer.”

“I’ll try.”

Chapter Fourteen

Holly

Ican’t shake the news that Jonah tracked down Beth and brought her back to the club. He had to have forced her and she’s putting on a brave face. There can’t be any other explanation. Leo wants me to put it behind us, but I can’t stop thinking about it, it running through my mind on a constant loop. Rayna’s running around with Sebastian, and I’ve been sitting on the front porch waiting for Jonah to leave the main house for the last hour. I need to speak with Beth and see for myself she’s ‘happy’ he found her. I remember the darkness between me and Leo before we got together, I couldn’t imagine living in that same darkness after we’ve both admitted our love for one another. I know they’ll be hard times and marriage takes time and effort to make it work, but I also know it shouldn’t depress you to the point you don’t feel alive anymore.

Ten more minutes pass before Jonah walks out of the main house and I stand, only to sit back down when Beth follows him out and they walk in the direction of the bar together. A glimpse of her is too brief to gauge her happiness. Orla leaves Alannah’s opposite and smiles my way. She’s taller than any woman I’ve met before and though, I’m guessing in her late forties, she’s strikingly beautiful with her fiery red hair. She also looks like she has lived a life of adventures. I heard from Bonnie that Orla goes on the road with Wyatt a lot. Leo doesn’t talk much about what happens when he’s on the road, but I can guess it’s dangerous and wild and no place I want to be.

“Hey, can I ask you something?” I call out and she comes over and sits beside me.

“Sure, honey, and I can already guess what it’s about. Beth?”

“Yes. Leo said she was happy Jonah found her, but I believed her when she asked for my help. She was not happy being with him.”

“So did I, and Wendy, when she came to us. This is the sixth time she’s run, and it won’t be the last.”

Six times? I can’t believe what I’m hearing.

“Why? She was empty when I spoke to her.”

“Yeah, she gets like that the more he openly sleeps around but now he’s going to be making it up for it thinking how close he came to losing her. You’ll see a huge change in her.”

“So she ran knowing, no,hoping, he’d chase her?”

She nods. “It’s a game for them. It’s messed up of course but we’ve all gotten used to their ways. I should’ve warned you to watch out when we saw how down she was. We just put it down to the trouble back home.”

I shrug. “I guess it’s a lesson learned. What lesson I’m not so sure of yet though.”

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