Total pages in book: 115
Estimated words: 107376 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 537(@200wpm)___ 430(@250wpm)___ 358(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 107376 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 537(@200wpm)___ 430(@250wpm)___ 358(@300wpm)
He hits me with those bedroom eyes again. “We can’t have that now, can we?” he murmurs, bracing his elbows on the bar and leaning in. “I’m sure there’s something we can do that will help you forget all about that wallowing and self-pity.”
I lean in toward him, bracing my hands on the bar as I hold that wicked stare. “This is very counterproductive,” I tell him. “How am I supposed to sulk while you keep looking at me like you’re about to eat my pussy right here on the bar?”
Those wicked eyes sparkle. “That what you want, Savage? My tongue rolling over that pretty little clit?”
My knees tremble beneath the bar. I’ve never wanted anything more. “Oh, I don’t know if you’ve got what it takes to get me there with just your tongue.”
Maddox laughs, that delicious smirk stretching across his lips, and damn it, there’s no denying it now. I really am in love with this man. “Oh, baby. You don’t have to worry about that,” he vows.
I climb up onto the bar, settling myself right in front of him, and he takes my thighs in his big hands. “Is that so?” I murmur as he steps right into me, pushing between my spread legs while I’m more than aware of the few lingering customers.
The wildness of this man thrills me like never before, and as he leans into me, his lips brushing along the curve of my neck, that thrill turns into something wilder, something animalistic. His hands creep higher on my thighs, his thumbs brushing inward and sending my heart rate soaring. “You want me to take you right here?”
A subtle groan slips from my lips, and I close my eyes as his tongue works higher up my neck, right to the sensitive spot beneath my ear. When an almost inaudible beep sounds from Hunter’s phone on the bar beside me, all three of us pause.
Our stares collide with the notification showing on the phone, and just like that, the atmosphere shifts.
Gone is my wild, bad boy who was about to devour me on the bar. He’s all business now. As for Hunter, well, he’s always all business. Except for when he’s coming, but even then, there’s a controlled way in which he falls apart inside me.
The boys share a subtle glance, and if I weren’t so in tune with both of them, I might have missed it.
“Fuck,” Maddox grunts, his gaze shifting back to me, regret shining in those hazel green eyes. “Rain check? Promise, we’ll only be gone for a few hours at most.”
I groan and shove him away as the girl equivalent of blue balls sets in hard and fast. “Oh sure,” I say, pushing off the edge of the bar and dropping to my feet. “Leave me all hot and bothered. I’m sure I can find some other sorry sucker around here who’ll help me scratch this itch.”
Hunter grins and pushes off the bar stool before grabbing his phone and jacket. “Ahh, too bad there’s a city-wide curfew. All of these sorry suckers are about to leave. You’re just gonna have to rely on all those vibrators in your bedside—oh wait. They were destroyed in the explosion. I guess you’re on your own.”
I give him a hard stare. “I hate you so much.”
“Mm-hmm. Whatever you say, princess.” He winks, and I hate how everything clenches inside of me. When did I actually stop hating him? And when the hell did his raw attention become something I craved with every bone in my body?
I sigh and lean back against the bar, watching the last of my bartenders start closing up for the night and reminding the customers that they need to get home before ten.
Maddox steps into me. “Sorry, Savage. I’ll see you later tonight.” He drops a kiss on my temple, but my gaze remains locked on Hunter.
“What’s the job?”
Hunter’s brow arches for just a moment before he glances back at me, a strange curiosity in his stare. “Youngest son of a wealthy family. Been quietly draining money from the family accounts to finance a competing business venture.”
“Competing?”
Hunter scoffs. “Let’s just say his family doesn’t appreciate discovering they’ve accidentally funded their biggest rival.”
My brows fly up. “Oh shit.”
“Uh-huh. And there’s nothing a billionaire won’t do to protect his money, even if it means eliminating his own son.”
“Wow, okay. Well, I guess . . . have fun?”
Maddox grins. “Oh, I will.”
I stare at him, and then at Hunter before shaking my head. “That’s so fucked up.”
Hunter just sighs. “Occupational hazard.”
And with that, the boys stride out the main entrance of Black Velvet, leaving me more alone than I’ve ever been. The bar is just about dead now. The few customers who were getting in their last sip of beer before curfew are clearing out, and now, there’s a strange silence that makes my spine tingle.