Possession so strong it physically rolled through me took over then, and as I circled my thumb over Theo’s weeping slit, his breath hitched.
“Shep…” he started, but he didn’t have to say the rest of what I knew he was feeling. He dropped his head back, beginning to jerk as his climax hit.
Hot jets of cum exploded from his cock, coating my hands and my own dick. Theo’s French curses of satisfaction and his guttural moans set off my own orgasm, and as it rocketedthrough me, I shouted the name of the man who owned me now. I didn’t think he even understood the power he held as he reached for my thighs and squeezed, urging me through the waves of ecstasy raining down over me.
“Putain. You’re so damn hot when you take what you want, you know that?” Theo said.
I was still breathing hard but managed a grin. “Looks like you’re rubbing off on me.”
“Uh, pretty sure that was you rubbing us both off. Damn.”
Fuck yeah I did, and I had to admit that Theo was right—that was exactly what we’d needed. The adrenaline that had been riding me had burned out, and now I felt the exhaustion setting in.
I let go of our softening dicks and moved up over Theo, pressing a kiss to his lips. “Don’t go anywhere.”
“Couldn’t even if I wanted to.” His eyelids were heavy as he smiled up at me and stretched his legs back out.
I went to the en suite and quickly cleaned up before returning to Theo’s side with a warm washcloth. He was barely awake as I wiped him down, but then I felt his hand cover mine and looked up.
“Lie with me.”
I’d never heard him sound so sweet, so vulnerable. Usually he’d try to deny wanting to spend all night together or make a joke about it, but he tugged me toward him, and I slid in behind him under the sheets.
“Always,” I whispered, tucking him under my arm and holding him close where he wasn’t bruised. He rested his head against my shoulder and inched closer, his breathing growing slower and steadier.
Just when I thought he was asleep, I heard, “Shep?”
“Yeah?”
His voice was thick with sleep. “Let’s get the fuck out of Brazil.”
I couldn’t help my burst of laughter then, because damn if I hadn’t been thinking the same thing. It was once a place of sanctuary, but there was nothing safe about staying here any longer.
“Tomorrow,” I promised, pressing a kiss against his temple as he curled in close.
It was time to get the hell out of the jungle and back to the city.
8
SHEP
THE FAMILIAR SOUND of our brothers’ voices drifted through the hallways of the underground rooms of Libertine, as Theo and I came to a stop at the bottom of the large stone stairwell that wound down to the tunnels below.
It’d been a couple of days since we’d landed back in New York City, and tonight was the decided-upon time that we would finally meet up with the rest of the Kings to discuss what had gone down.
If it were up to me, Theo would’ve been resting another week, at least, before venturing across town to relive the nightmare that had happened back in the jungle. But with the threat still at large, and a new piece of intel in our possession, we couldn’t sit on this much longer.
Our brothers deserved answers, and to more than just what happened in Brazil. We owed them the truth about us. It was going to come out one way or another, and after the shitshow that happened with King, I wanted it to come from us.
Whoever was behind this threat had no compunction about using our relationship against us, and the only reason that worked right now was because no one knew. So it was time to take that piece off the table.
I’d be damned if I let anyone use what Theo and I had as a weapon, and the best way to take control was to own it. Theo was mine and I was his, and if anyone had a problem with that—including our brothers—then they could fuck the hell off.
“You okay?” Theo’s voice filtered through my irritable mood and landed right at the heart of my main concern.
WasI okay? I wasn’t sure. Every time I closed my eyes, the image of Theo on his knees, a second away from death, flashed to the forefront of my mind, and the red haze of anger that always followed made me feel on edge, seconds from exploding.
But as we stood at the base of the stairs about to go and meet up with our brothers, I knew I needed to get my shit under control.
