Total pages in book: 181
Estimated words: 181613 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 908(@200wpm)___ 726(@250wpm)___ 605(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 181613 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 908(@200wpm)___ 726(@250wpm)___ 605(@300wpm)
His tongue dips out to trace a line from the top of my ear to my earlobe. “That’s my girl.”
I smile as all three boys lavish my body with kisses. Levi’s tongue trails my neck, while Grey suckles on my nipples, and Apollo kisses my inner thighs. I have never felt more content than I am now despite having zero energy left.
My heart has been ripped to shreds and remodeled into their making.
A disheveled mess of a situation is what we’ve created, but now that I’ve experienced what we could truly be, how could I ever want anything less?
Levi
I crawl out from underneath her and pull her up into my arms. Her eyes haven’t opened in a while, and I wonder if we fucked her so hard she passed out.
“Aspen?”
She smiles. “I’m … here.”
She sounds exhausted.
Apollo leans up and slaps her thigh. “We fucked the resistance right out of her.”
“She’s so beautiful after being completely ravaged,” Grey says, licking his lips after just sucking his own jizz off her body.
I cradle her and get up from the floor, waltzing out of the cage with my girl in my arms.
“Goddammit, I’m still hard,” Apollo says.
“Save it,” I growl back. “She needs to rest, and I’m not letting any of you fuckers touch her.”
“Whoa, whoa, relax with the possessiveness, Loverboy,” Apollo replies.
I throw him a look but don’t reply as I saunter out of the room. He knows how I feel about her, and nothing will ever change that. Not even the fact that they managed to steal a part of her heart.
I swallow back the lump in my throat as I take her to my room and lay her down on my bed.
She’s completely spent and already snoozing by the time I put the covers over and tuck her in. I sit down beside her and gently curl her red hair around my finger, admiring her freckled nose and cheeks for a few seconds longer.
I don’t want to leave.
Even though I know I should let her sleep, a part of me can’t stop staring at her, wondering if this is real.
If she’s really here in my bed, sleeping off the after-sex glow.
If this pretty girl I could never take my eyes off truly is mine.
And for how long.
“She’s even prettier when she sleeps.”
I turn my head toward the sound of Grey’s voice, which grates on me, but his presence no longer makes me want to grab the nearest knife and plunge it into his heart, so I guess that’s progress.
“What do you want?”
“Nothing.” He shrugs. “I’m just adoring our girl.”
Our girl.
Ours.
For now.
“We really fucked her good, didn’t we?” Apollo plants his arm against the doorpost above Grey’s head. “Three dicks might be too much, even for a vixen like her.”
“You don’t have to worry about that for much longer …” I mutter, gazing at my beautiful girl again, realizing I have zero seconds to spare.
Every single one of them, for however long they last, must be spent adoring her.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” Grey asks.
Apollo sighs. “It means her Ghost is not sure he’s going to live to tell the tale.”
CHAPTER 57
Aspen
I wake up to a scent I don’t recognize drifting into my nostrils, and I turn to smell more of the pillow encasing me. God, this musk is intoxicating enough to make me smile.
Until I open my eyes and realize I’m not in my own bed.
Fuck.
I throw the blankets off and look around the room. There’s a bunch of clothes on a stack in the corner, a ton of seemingly unread dusty school books on a desk, and a rack full of metal and alternative rock CDs next to it. Old school. Black curtains in front of the window block out the sun, and the longer I look around, the more I realize this looks like a hole someone would hide in when they want to disappear.
Levi’s room.
Gloom settles deep within my heart from the state of his room.
He was in so deep, and no one ever noticed because he didn’t want anyone to see.
He was ready to throw it all away because of the accident … because everyone assumed he’d killed Mavis.
God. I wish I had known the truth sooner. I wish I had seen him sooner for the broken man he really was. And I wish I hadn’t believed all the lies he told me.
But I guess he was just that good.
I suck in a deep breath and get up from the bed, only to realize I’m still naked. The last thing I remember was that cage and getting fucked into oblivion, and the mere memory makes me blush for a second round.
A knock on the door makes me panic, and I swiftly grab a pair of his sweatpants and a black shirt, which are way too oversized for me, and put them on right as someone walks in.