I rubbed a hand over my face, racking my brain on how I was going to possibly explainthisaway.
Shep already had his doubts about me. He’d said as much when he found out about my tracker, and I couldn’t really blame him. Of course his mind had gone to the worst-case scenario. Why else would I take out my tracker?
It hadn’t been something I wanted to talk about, not yet, anyway. But it seemed I was going to have to whether I wanted to or not, thanks to whoever this fucknut was.
When my driver pulled in through the gates that surrounded the Libertine mansion, I looked up at the lit home and felt my chest tighten. This was the last thing I thought I’d be doing tonight, especially with Shep. But what other choice did I have?
I climbed out of the car, and told my driver he could leave before I shut the door. I didn’t really feel like going back to the palace tonight knowing whoever sent this to me had gotten it past security and into my bedroom.
As the car drove off, I steeled myself against the confrontation I was about to run into. But as I walked up to the front door and reached into my pocket for my keys, I realized I’d left them at the palace. I’d been in such a damn rush, I’d barely remembered to put my shoes on.
Great, now I was going to have to knock on my own home’s front door. Shep was just going to love that. I’d thought I’d at least be able to sneak in and then announce myself. After several knocks, I heard the sound of footsteps and braced myself for the confrontation to come.
But all that immediately disappeared as the door was pulled open and Shep stood in front of me in nothing but a towel.
Suddenly the flash drive wasn’t the only thing burning a hole in my pants. So was my cock at the sight of several droplets of water sliding down every rigid muscle of his body.
Fake video evidence be damned.
15
SHEP
“THEO? WHAT ARE you?—”
I didn’t get the chance to finish before he pushed me inside, slammed the door, and took my lips in a crushing kiss. The second his mouth was on mine, I forgot all about the unease I’d seen written on his face when I answered the door. That look had quickly turned heated, though, when his gaze traveled down my body.
He nipped at my lower lip, tugging so that my mouth parted and he could slide his tongue inside.
I had two choices here: I could push him away and demand he leave, or I could lean into it and enjoy the kiss currently blowing my mind.
Option two it was.
My back hit the wall, and I reached for his face, angling his head and holding him for a deeper taste. It should’ve been no surprise that Theo had a wicked mouth and knew just how to use it, but that talented tongue had wrenched an orgasm from me I was still thinking about the next day, so when he sucked mine into his mouth, I couldn’t help my moan.
He reached for my towel, ripping it off my body, but when he tossed it to the floor, something else fell with a bang and I pulled away.
The black box at Theo’s feet wouldn’t normally have made me look twice, but the anxious look on his face when he’d arrived had me pushing him back so I could pick it up.
“What’s this?”
“We can look at that later,” he said, moving back in to brush his mouth over mine.
But something niggled in the back of my mind, his deflection making me wonder what he was, yet again, trying to hide.
“Or we can look at it now.” I turned my head to the side, avoiding his kiss, and opened the box. The only thing inside was a single flash drive, and I frowned as I picked it up. “What’s this?”
Theo sighed and took a step back, but when his eyes lowered to my semi-erect cock, I grabbed my towel and tied it back around my waist. The man would take any distraction he could get and use it to his advantage, and right now I needed answers more than I needed his body.
And wasn’t that fucking unfortunate.
I held the drive up and arched a brow. “Theo? What’s on this?”
“Not you giving me a hot show, that’s for sure.”
“What?”
He ran his fingers through his hair and then shrugged. “The box was on my bed with a red bow. I figured it was your way of thanking me for a job well done.” When I only stared at him, he added, “For giving you the best blow job you’ve ever had, obviously.”
