She ground her hips against me on every inward thrust.“I love you,” she whispered.
I leaned forward and kissed her.When I pulled away, I looked into her green eyes.“I love you, too, Trouble.”
She rose up and kissed my collarbone.Then I felt her sucking on my skin there.
“Trouble,” I growled.
“Yes,” she said, dragging her lips down to my pectoral.
I kept pounding into her.Sweat beaded along the small of my back.I felt my balls growing tight.
She dragged my nipple through her teeth.
“Oh, shit.You’re gonna send me over the edge,” I whispered.
She reached between us and rubbed her clit.
As much as I wanted her to come twice, I couldn’t stop my release.I groaned and just as I thrust one last time, I felt her pussy spasm around me.
I thought I would collapse, so I wrapped my arms around her and flipped us so I was on the bottom.Somehow, we stayed connected.
After our breathing evened out, Ivy lifted her head.“That’s a great way to start a Monday.”
I chuckled.“I’m glad you liked it.”
Her alarm went off.She reached out and smacked the clock into silence.
She cocked a brow at me.“You going to shower with me, or did you wear yourself out?”
I wheezed out a laugh.“I’ll let you shower alone since you’re headed back to work today.”
Lark had assigned me the early shift today.I’d expected him to make me pull a double considering all the time I’d missed over the past several days.I wandered in at eleven o’clock and saw Beast go into the office and shut the door.
Mickayla was taking chairs off the tables and getting the floor set up.I joined her at one of the tables and set a chair on the floor.“What’s the deal?Do we need Beast here today?”
My sister didn’t exactly frown, but she had a similar expression as me when I wasn’t pleased.“I’m not sure.I know he has experience managing a dance club and bar at one of the Biloxi casinos, but that was over a decade ago.I can’t imagine he wants to work here.”She shrugged.“I don’t know.Maybe Lark’s been more stressed than he let on over the past ten days.”
I nodded.“You need me to do anything more strenuous?Do we need kegs moved?”
She shook her head.“Nope.That was handled last night.You can see if Adam and our new cook need anything.”
There wasn’t much I could do in the kitchen, and I went behind the bar.
Beast and Lark came out of the office.
Lark leaned against the bar.“I know you think you’re ready to run this place on your own, but I’m not gonna be comfortable with that until we all spend some time training with Beast first.”
Mickayla nodded, but I could see she wasn’t pleased.
“How long is ‘some time’ going to last?”I asked.
“As long as we say,” Lark said.
I shook my head.“Most businesses give employees – especially managerial employees – an idea of how long their training will last.We’ve been doing the work for over four months now.”I tilted a hand toward my sister.“She’s got a business degree.Asking how long it will be before the brothers have confidence in the three of us isn’t an unreasonable question, Lark.”
Beast twisted his hands out in acknowledgment.“It isn’t a lack of confidence in any of you three, Nickel.I’m going to share efficiency strategies.We should have done it back in May, but Volt sent me and Tundra out to Gainesville and then other crap was going down.There’s been steady growth, so it needs to happen sooner rather than later.”
Mickayla nodded.“That’s understandable.Can we get started now before we get the lunch rush?”
