Total pages in book: 160
Estimated words: 151097 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 755(@200wpm)___ 604(@250wpm)___ 504(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 151097 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 755(@200wpm)___ 604(@250wpm)___ 504(@300wpm)
It happened during the aftermath.
“I still can’t believe he said I didn’t need a man since I had you.”
“Fuck him,” Hunter snarled. “Darius didn’t know shit.”
“Yeah, but he wasn’t the only one. What about Justin? He broke up with you because he thought I was around too much.”
“Insecure little bitch. He’s lucky I didn’t shoot him when I had the chance.”
“And Levi?” I challenged. “You broke up with him because he wanted to move in.”
“It was too soon.”
“You dated for over a year.” Hunter rolled her eyes but didn’t reply. “I’m just wondering…”
“What?” she snapped.
“I’m just wondering if they had a point? Our relationships crashed and burned because we were too close. Closer than best friends should be.”
Hunter sighed. “What’s your point, Coby?”
I looked down at my hands smeared with blueberry frosting and clenched tightly around the T-shirt I’d worn to bed.
Ocean’s T-shirt.
It smelled like him, so I’d worn it to bed. His expensive cologne gave me courage even now, as if he were wrapped around me, ready to protect me from anything.
“What if we were meant for more? What if we just needed someone who wouldn’t mind having both of us around?”
Hunter leaned her head back, resting it against the side of the island as she stared at the ceiling. “Here we go,” she grumbled. “Why are you pushing this, Coby?”
“Why have you been walking funny all week?” I shot back.
Hunter’s gaze pinged around the kitchen while avoiding mine. “Abel is an asshole,” she answered after a while. “And he knows his shit. I’m learning a lot.”
“Training?” I mocked. “Is that the only reason?”
Her head swung toward me this time, and she stared me down with a furrow between her brows. But the worry in her eyes made the knot in my stomach tighten. “What other reason would there be?”
I shook my head and decided to let it go. “Forget it.”
Something big had happened between Ocean and Hunter, and they were both trying like hell to keep me from knowing. I could see it all over their faces after the three of us had dinner together for the first time.
I guess it was our bedroom now.
“Coby—”
“I said forget it.” I stood and started to leave the kitchen when Hunter grabbed my hand and forced me stop.
“Tell me what the fuck you meant by that,” she demanded.
“You want to know what I meant?” Hunter didn’t get to respond because I shoved her into the kitchen island behind her, but instead of slapping her for lying to me, I trapped her there with my body and pressed my lips against hers.
Hunter’s eyes were wide, and her lips were unmoving as I kissed her—as I broke the rules.
The boundaries we set after Darius broke up with me. And then Hunter, desperately seeking to comfort a friend out of guilt, had thrown us into murky waters. Later, when I tried to tell her how I felt, she made me swear we wouldn’t let it happen again. She said we had to protect our friendship no matter the cost.
And now here I was, shattering that promise with one reckless kiss.
Finally, Hunter’s eyes lowered. I felt her lips moving under mine and my hand drifting between us to untie her robe. She moaned into my mouth while I curved a hand around her breast, smearing her dark nipples with blueberry frosting before bending my head to lick them clean. All I could think about was doing the same to her pussy. I wanted it more than air. Instead, I forced myself to end the kiss and rest my forehead against hers.
“Maybe you were right, Hunter.”
She was still panting with her eyes closed when she asked, “About what?”
“If you hadn’t fucked me and then broken my heart two years ago, I never would have met Ocean. I never would’ve known what it felt like to be owned by him.” I shifted my head to kiss her again. “And neither would you.”
Moving my hand down her belly and between her thick thighs, Hunter made a sound of shock when I circled her swollen clit.
“Coby… what are you doing? You can’t.”
“Can’t I? I know your pussy is as sore as mine right now, and I know that training didn’t do it.”Holding her gaze, I swished my fingers through her fat lips and her wetness, knowing it wasn’t just her arousal I was feeling. “You’re hoarding my husband’s cum in your pussy. I can do whatever I want with it.” Bringing my fingers coated in Hunter, Ocean, and blueberry frosting to my lips, I licked them clean.
“I’m sorry,” Hunter said as she watched me taste her. Taste them. “He…we—”
Dropping my hand with a scoff, I backed away and drank in the sight of Hunter, dazed and undone. She stared at me as if I had slapped her. “I know exactly what you two have been doing, Hunter. No need to explain. You can fuck Ocean. You can fuck me. But you can’t be with either of us, right?”