“Me.” Panting, I feel another climax on the heels of the last one.
“And who the fuck do you belong to, Sabine?” A rough demand and nip at my throat sends devastating shudders through my body as his dick demolishes me.
“La Serpiente,” A keening cry is my answer as wave after delectable wave of bliss shatters me.
“How are we doing, beautiful?”Jerking up at the rumbling sound of his voice, I look around to see he’s brought me up to my loft.
A couple of things register. I’m nude. He’s taken my top off at some point. He’s clean, and I’m still covered in both of our mess.
“What did you do to me?” I screw him a mean look, dropping my feet to the side of the bed.
“Take care of you in every way possible.” He murmurs, rubbing my back in soothing circles.
“Humph. You got a funny way of showing it, ghosting me for days.” My wobbly legs ruin my intention to stalk off.
“That’s not what happened, and even if you think so, it won’t happen again.” He vows, his gaze unrelenting as he regards me.
“What happened then? God forbid you tell me what’s going on.” Screwing him with a stony expression, I wait, wanting to hear about it from him.
“God forbid a motherfucker try to make you proud by putting down these grimy-ass creeps trying to take advantage of kids.We’re getting close. Got a mission planned to take one of these places. They process the kids in a couple of days.”
Emphasizing his assurance with a kiss to my brow, he carries me into the shower.
Making me stand still, he tucks my hair into a shower cap and begins washing my body. I hear his breathing pickup, and he touches all the little nooks and crannies of me.
“If you weren’t sore —”
“Who said I was sore?” Gazes meet over my shoulder, then I’m pressed against the warm tiles as he glides into my soap-slick body again and again driving me to my tip-toes as he fucks me.
Washing away the evidence of our desire a second time, he wraps me in warm towels, then rubs moisturizer into our skin.
“Hadrián, I have something to tell you. Many things, actually.” I start, then hesitate when he turns startled eyes on me.
“Are you carrying my child?” Shaking my head ‘no’. I’d be upset if I didn’t see the genuine fear in his eyes. Losing his child still sits heavily with him.
“No, I have an IUD. I’m not ready for that right now.” I say more for myself than for him, and it’s true. “Not sure if I even want kids. Hell, Ezekiel-Jane will probably have enough for all of us.”
That breaks whatever worry that was threatening just minutes ago.
“No, ti bebe.” Resting my chin on my hand, I look up into his somber gaze and tell him everything Peace shared with me about my parents.
chapter twenty-four
MAN ON FIRE
SNAKE ~ UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
The building is nondescript. When our team pulls up, the facade is cloaked in darkness. “The intel we have says there are at least two dozen bodies inside.” Oz says over the comm.
“How many are guards? And where are they stationed?” Angel asks as we watch the two other teams take their positions.
“Eight. Two at the four different access points, but I wasn’t counting them since they’re dead men,” Oz quips over the line.
Catching Angel’s eyes, we both shake our heads at his crazy-ass. He was determined to show-up for this mission. He’d monitored the mission to rescue Kandie, and a man like that — a man like me doesn’t ever want to sit idly by when people they love come to harm. So despite his obvious antipathy towards us, he insisted on joining us, representing The Savalle Syndicate.
The Seven Bastards Syndicate, as they like to coin themselves, has made its particular interest in the Love family known since one of the brothers — Oz — is also a cousin. Instead of war raging between us, we have now forged a tenuous bond at Ezkiel-Jane’s insistence that, working together, ourorganizations can do more to stop child trafficking than fighting each other.
“No matter how noble his intentions may seem, I don’t trust that motherfucker,” I told Angel after he arrived. Ezekiel-Jane and her grandparents were over the moon when he showed up. Saban also didn’t even attempt to hide how happy she was in that cheeky way of hers.
