Page 54 of The Truth Between

As soon as I’d assumed the position, he slammed his cock into me. My eyes widened in surprise as he filled me to the brink. I couldn’t control the shudder that passed through my body.

“Oh my—”

“But he’s not here, baby.”

He said it so nonchalantly that I questioned whether I’d heard him at all. I clenched the sheets between my fingers as I cried out, happy that things had gotten to this point. I knew I was guaranteed at least another orgasm, maybe more, because it was him and how sensitive I still was.

My body moved with his, creating a rhythm that only we knew, and it was perfect. He grabbed my hips and used them as an anchor before slamming back into me again.

My brain was scrambled. Each thrust into my body increased the fire until the intensity became too much to bear. I groaned loudly as another round of orgasmic bliss sailed through me.

But that didn’t stop him. “One fucking more,” he said, and it almost sounded like a growl.

And I was determined to give it to him.

How he had enough energy to pick up the pace again, I’d never know. I used my body to match his rhythm until I couldn’t do it anymore. Then I gave him what he wanted. I exploded.

I would have fallen forward onto my face if Soren wasn’t holding my waist as he pounded into me. When I heard a guttural groan leave his lips over the rushing of blood in my ears, he, too, went over the edge before collapsing on top of me.

Soren made sure not to completely crush me as we both tried to catch our breath and process what just occurred.

“Fuck,” Soren said as he ran a hand down my spine, making me shiver in response. He removed himself from me, and I immediately felt a sense of loss. I watched through tired eyes as he walked into his bathroom and returned with a washcloth that appeared to be wet and a dry towel.

He kneeled down between my legs and started to clean me off slowly and delicately. He took his time as he cleaned up all the evidence from our fucking before drying me off with the towel. Then he cleaned himself up.

Once he was done, he undid the lingerie I had on, leaving me as naked as him before he pulled me close to him so that I was resting against his chest. For a few minutes, we just stayed there while our bodies tried to recover from the intensity of what had just happened.

As I listened to the beating of his heart, I couldn’t help but think about how happy I’d been in his arms. However, in the back of my mind, I was waiting for the other shoe to drop.

33

IRIS

Acouple of hours later, I stepped out of the shower, but I couldn’t convince myself to finish drying off and move on with my day. I tightened the towel wrapped around me and rolled my eyes at myself for lingering in the bathroom. I tapped my fingers along the cool marble countertop, fighting the urge to open the drawer.

That drawer contained Aria’s phone, and I’d been checking it multiple times a day since she’d given it to me to see if there was an update on how we could get me out of here, but there never was. Now, it felt as if I was only setting myself up for disappointment.

The thought of opening the drawer filled me with a mix of dread and excitement. On one hand, I was scared of what I would find when I looked at the phone—or rather, what I wouldn’t find. But on the other hand, it felt like maybe this time something would be different.

I let out a sigh as I weighed my options. The desire to look was growing stronger by the second, but at the same time, I knew it would only lead to disappointment and frustration if there wasn’t a new message there.

But if I checked it, ripping the Band-Aid off, then I could move along with my day instead of thinking about it.

That was a lie. The only time I wasn’t thinking about Aria contacting me was when Soren was fucking me.

This wasn’t one of those times, and it was why the urge to look was too strong.

Over the last few days, I told myself I’d made the right decision in telling Aria about what had happened. But deep down, I was worried she might tell her brother, whom I had no doubt she had more allegiance to than she did to me.

I took a deep breath and finally made the decision to check Aria’s phone. I pulled it out of the drawer, feeling my heart race as I turned it on and unlocked it. I’d been doing my damnedest to save the battery as much as I could because I didn’t have a charger for it. I scanned the notifications, but there was nothing new. No messages from her, but there were a few from other people I didn’t know.

I sighed and put the phone down, disappointment washing over me like a wave. I was a fool for getting my hopes up again. As I was about to turn the phone off and put it back in its hiding space, something made me look at the screen a second time and I saw it.

A new text notification appeared on the screen from an unknown number.

I was shaking so hard I needed to put the phone down so I didn’t drop it and potentially bring more attention to myself from someone in this house. I typed in her passcode and read the message on the screen.

Unknown Number: It’s Aria. I have a plan that will get you out of there tonight, but we need to act fast. Are you ready?

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