“Why, man? They ain’t worried about us.” I smirked and she frowned even more, so I decided to play nice. I rested my hands on her stomach and lowered my chin onto her shoulder. “You know I’m wearing your ass out as soon as we get in that room again.”
“Really?” She sucked her teeth and I chuckled.
“Yeah, really. Fuck you thought? It’s been almost a week, baby girl. I don’t think I ever went that long without sliding up in something. Shit, you wanted me to behave, well I did, so now you need to behave and take care of this.”
I thrust up against her ass and she shook her head.
“Is that all you missed?” she pouted and I chuckled.
She knew better, but always wanted me to confirm we were more than just sex. Her ex really had her head all fucked up, but I was cool with that. It was just now my duty to repair anything he’d damaged.
“You really asking me that, Madeline?”
My hand moved to her chin and I forced her head back a little so she was looking up at me. After my lips connected to hers for a brief moment, I looked into her eyes, and with all the seriousness in the world, spoke calmly and clearly so there was no mistaking what I was about to say.
“You know what this is, and I get why you’re constantly questioning, but when you do, it’s like you’re doubting me. I don’t appreciate that because I’ve never been anything but honest to you. Do I need sex from you? Hell yeah because that shit is lethal and I can’t get enough, but is that all I need from you? Hell no. This is more than that and I need you to get that in your head because I’m not going to keep trying to convince you. Either you believe it or you don’t, aight?”
She searched my face for a minute before she smiled and placed her hand on my face.
“Okay.”
“Ay, Troop, what time we heading out in the morning?” I yelled across the deck, causing him to open his eyes and look my way. His ass was seconds from being knocked out.
“Shit, early, I guess. That’s up to y’all.” He looked down at Sophie, who laughed.
“Don’t look at me. I’m in no hurry. All I wanted was you here with me, and now I got that,” she said with a shrug.
“We need to get back as soon as we can,” Story said, shooting both me and Trooper a look. I instantly knew what that was about. He still had to deal with Prescott and Trooper still had to find and kill Willis’ snake ass.
“What’s the rush? Can’t we stay for a few days? We’re all here together now,” Alana said, turning to face Story and sliding her arms around his waist.
His expression softened for a second, but went neutral again. “We can come back. There are a few more things that need to be handled right now. After that, we can come and stay as long as you want.” He kissed her on the forehead and I saw the tension in her body. She knew something was up, but offered a half smile and nodded to agree.
“So you just inviting yourself to shack up at my spot?” Trooper said with a chuckle.
He was just trying to switch gears with the conversation. I was pretty sure Alana and Sophie still didn’t know about William and Lincoln, and now was not the time.
“Hell yeah I am,son, now act like you got a problem with that,” Story said, making sure to put emphasis on the word son as he looked Trooper’s way with the rest of us.
“Nah, you good. If I got it, you got it,” Troop released with a nod.
“So we taking off when everybody’s up then?”
“Everybody?” Maddie said then looked at me.
“What’s all that?” Sophie questioned.
“He wakes up at the crack of dawn. If it’s up to him, we’ll be on the plane by five,” Maddie said with a frown.
“You damn right, money never sleeps, but you good though. I’m about to put it on your ass, so I’ll let you sleep in tomorrow.” I winked at her and she rolled her eyes. “But we out though. I’ll see you good people in the morning,” I said, nudging Maddie to stand.
After she was on her feet, I was on mine.
“I think that’s it for us too,” Story said, looking down at Alana. I could tell from the look he gave her that she was about to be right where Maddie would be.
“Aight, night y’all,” I said, taking Maddie’s hand and heading toward the door.
“If I ask you something, do you promise to tell the truth?” Maddie asked, propping her chin up on the back of her hand so she could look at me.
