“You’re enjoying this, aren’t you?” Thorin says after he’s stripped down to his boxer briefs and is shoving a leg inside the black pants.
“Very much,” Aurelia answers, her brown eyes gleaming with humor.
I slowly get up from the couch and try to ease out of the room, but Sunshine’s commanding voice stops me in my tracks.
“Stop right there, Seth.” I stand still as she walks over to me.
“I was just…” I scratch my head for an excuse. “Going…to the bathroom.”
“Please?” I feel her belly brush my arm as she reaches out to take my hand. “For me?”
Feeling myself cave, I raise our joined hands and kiss the back of it. “Of course for you.”
As soon as she turns away, I roll my eyes and reluctantly let her lead me back over to the couch. I undress and climb into thesuit that looks and feels nice but makes me want to tear free of my own skin.
The urge is stomped under her cute little heel though when Aurelia turns around from grabbing the boxes of shiny shoes and her jaw drops.
I know it’s a genuine reaction when the shoeboxes tumble out of her arms. She tries to bend and grab them but doesn’t get very far, so I step forward and crouch to retrieve them. I turn and shove them into Khalil’s hands before facing Aurelia again. “Like what you see, Sunshine?”
“Do I?” she says, hyping me up. “I didn’t think it was possible for you to get any hotter, Seth Cura.”
Forgetting we’re surrounded by people, I bend and kiss her neck.
I hear a few gasps, but Aurelia doesn’t push me away. Unbothered by their stares, she just smiles and adjusts her head to give me better access.
Our debut as Aurelia’s bodyguards happens a week later.
First, we trail her to meet with her lawyers and label. The following week, we watch over her while does her maternity shoot, which happens in two locations.
The first is in Washington state, starting by a waterfall and ending on the edge of a rocky cliff that makes us swear and grit our teeth while overlooking the evergreens wrapped in fog. She’s naked in those photos, her front covered in a simple white wrapping that becomes sheer from the pool created by the waterfall.
The second shoot takes place in a Los Angeles studio with far more dramatic outfits and poses and glamour.
It’s not until it’s over and Aurelia is in her dressing room getting redressed that it dawns on me why she did two.
One shows the haunting truth that will forever remain ours alone.
The other a pretty, digestible lie to fawn over.
“Why do they keep looking at me?” I lean over to ask Khalil when I notice for the third time a group of women whispering to themselves while stealing glances at me. I think they were the ones who did Aurelia’s hair and makeup.
Khalil still has his head on a swivel as we guard Aurelia’s dressing room when he answers tonelessly, “They want to fuck you.”
The women turn to stare at me openly when they notice my attention.
Suddenly, I feel like I’m about to be eaten alive. “No. No, they can’t. I won’t let them. They’re not Sunshine.”
“Seth, it’s all right,” Khalil attempts to console me. “Just don’t pay them any mind.”
“No, I don’t like it.” I shake my head as I back up against the door, grabbing the knob and twisting until I’m stumbling into the room and out of sight. I slam the door closed and lock it for good measure.
I hear a sound and turn to see that Aurelia is naked and pinned on the couch with Thorin’s hand over her mouth to keep her quiet while he kneels between her legs, eating her pussy and wrinkling his new suit.
I sigh with relief and lean against the door, resting my head against it and closing my eyes.
Much better.
When my heart calms and it no longer feels like I’m about to have a panic attack, I open my eyes to find Aurelia watching me.A moment later, she comes against Thorin’s mouth. Her skin is glistening from the body oil and gold flecks they painted her in for the shoot, and my gaze catches on her brown nipples that are puckered obscenely.
