I shake my head, trying to clear the fog he’s creating. “We can’t,” I whisper, my chest heaving with every word. I’m losing this fight, so ready to tumble forward into everything Kasen.
His bicep flexes, and with a look of slightly unhinged determination, he plunges his fingers, two of them, deep inside of me.
“Fuck you,” I cry out at the sudden movement, my head swimming, my body alight with fresh heat. I feel exposed and raw for him, but even though my words protest, I don’t care. My needy body wants so much more.
His chuckle is dark and rumbles from his chest as he toys with me, plunging his fingers in and out in a delicious kind of torture. Tingles erupt through my body, and my face glows with heat. I shove at his hold, still fighting for him to release my hands, but that only makes him smirk. His face moves closer to mine, his lips just a breath away. “Fight me, birdie. It’s so fucking hot watching you squirm in my hold, knowing there is nothing you can do about it. If I want to fuck you, I will, and you will cry my name when I make you cum.”
Frustrated, I shake my head from side to side, my mind searching for the words that escape me. The one I’m looking for is no. Or fuckno. But it won’t leave my lips because my body knows it’s a lie. What the fuck is wrong with me?
He pumps his fingers again, curling them in a way that gets my G-spot, and the moan that flies from my lips gives me away. This is too good, and even though I try to fight my body, a wave comes over me.
He knows it too by the way he pumps in and out of me harder, faster, working my clit at the same time. I close my eyes and try to regain control, but it’s too late. My pussy clenches around his fingers, and I cum in a rush.
A dark chuckle vibrates through his chest, and when I open my eyes, his are locked on me, a deadly smile painting his lips.
From the front of the bar, the door crashes open, and the chatter of the other two fill the silence of the room. I think Kasen will pull back from me, ashamed about what he’s doing, but he doesn’t. Instead, he twists his fingers, forcing a louder moan from my lips. It’s then I realize this is all part of his manipulation. Not just with me, but his mates as well. It’s him showing them who’s in charge. He wanted them to find us like this. And I fell right into his trap.
“What did you find?” he demands, his eyes still locked firmly in place with mine, even though I know it’s the boys he’s talking to.
I buck off the wall, but all that does is make his fingers hit a little deeper inside me and send a jolt of pleasure ramming through me. “Get your hands off me, fucker,” I seethe, glad the bitterness is back in my voice and I haven’t gone completely soft.
I can feel River’s eyes on us. Who am I kidding, I know even Bodhi is watching us. They wouldn’t be able to see exactly what he’s doing because his oversized shirt is covering his hand, but they get the idea. This is one compromising position I seem to have myself in. But when I cast my glance their way, I’m surprised to find the two of themwatching with interest, not jealousy or anger. Bodhi has that same dark lust-filled look in his eyes he did when I woke up with him staring at me a few days ago. And my fucked-up body sends a fresh wave of arousal through me. Them watching us together is a kind of hot I never expected to get off on.
River even goes so far as to throw me a cheeky-as-fuck smirk that matches his come-fuck-me eyes. “You’re going to want to see this, boss,” he finally says, placing my mother’s safe down on the closest table with a clattering of metal, crashing me back to reality. Fuck, when they open that, none of them are going to let me out of their sights again. It won’t be some threat, it will be my reality.
Kasen presses his lips to mine, stealing a kiss I wasn’t ready for. For a second, I’m momentarily frozen, but when his tongue invades my mouth, my brain kicks back into gear and realizes I’m kissing him back. Hungry, desperate, and filled with as much hate as lust. When I’m done with him asserting his power over me, I sink my teeth into his bottom lip.
He pulls back, licking the blood from his lip like a savage. “This will have to wait, birdie.” Kasen pulls his fingers out of me and brings them up to his mouth as I watch in horror as he licks my juices from them, humming out a satisfied moan of pleasure as he does. “See how difficult you make things for us? If you just told me about that safe earlier, we could be in my bed already.” He releases my hands, the blood flowing back into my numb digits.
I lean forward, my lips brushing over his ear. “Then you couldn’t have put on this power show for your buddies. Don’t think I don’t know what you’re doing. Just so you know, it’s not going to work, asshole.” I shove at his chest, needing space before I do anything else I will regret.
Kasen’s chuckle vibrates through the room. “Dear, sweet birdie, that’s where you’re wrong. This wasn’t for them. It was for you, and now I know just how to have you eating out of the palm of my hand. Or is it cumming on it? No more running, you’re mine.” His grin twists, his handsome face lighting up. He looks almost happy for the first time since I came back. Almost, but he is too evil for that. “If the boys want to share, I’m sure we can sort out some type of arrangement.”
My heart hammers out of my chest. I want to thump him or blow his fucking house up, anything to fuck with him how he is me. They will share me? What in the actual hell. “I will never be yours.” My voice is quiet, my words just for him, but I see the way he stops walking and almost flinches as I say them. He’s not immune like he would have this town believe. I’m the one thing he wants and can’t have. And I might have just had a small slip-up, where I thought with my pussy, but my mind is crystal clear now.
That will never happen again.
Chapter 23
River
“What are you going to do about it?” I throw back at him.
Kasen has made all of us put our lives on hold for Dove. He shut down my bar yesterday and all. It was a hunch, a fucking feeling that she was still in trouble from a few dodgy things Bodhi saw on her surveillance, and what do you know, the fucker was right. The shit we emptied out of that safe she had hidden in the combi had my blood running cold. It explains why she and her dad ran for it after her mum was murdered. Her dad must have known the two of them were in trouble and her mum had some deranged stalker sending her threatening blackmail. Looks like Dove might still be in trouble.
“Every man I know is out looking for the guy Bodhi described. Including the cops. He’s armed and dangerous. We will catch him, but until then, Dove’s to be with one of us at all times. We don’t know exactly what he wants with her yet. For all we know he might even be the man who killed her mum, and we can’t take any risks. He hasn’t actually asked for any money like he did with her mum, not yet anyway, but the threats are very similar, and perhaps this is how it started with her. Threats that turned into blackmail. Is he after money? Probably. But any blind fucker can see she doesn’t have adollar to her name, so maybe there is more to it.” Kasen’s mind is in a panic, words vomiting out of him as fast as he thinks of them. He is driven by an erratic energy, worse than normal, pacing his office that he has all of us holed up in while Dove sleeps upstairs. She was supposed to make him better, but instead of being a zombie, he’s now fixated on a sole purpose. Her.
When we got back here last night, she cursed every profanity under the sun while they locked her back in her room. Bodhi didn’t give a fuck, he plucked her up and carried her over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes, dumping her on her bed like she weighed nothing. The deranged fucker was probably getting off on the thrill of the catch. He’s sick like that. Me personally, I don’t want to see the poor girl locked up, no one should be, especially a free spirit like Dove, but even I had to agree with K on this. She’s not safe out there in the wild, and I have been quite enjoying having her around. Selfishly, I need to know where she is and that she is safe. Even if she hates us for it.
“What did you extract from her phone? Her socials?” K asks Bodhi.
“Not a lot. She had quite the following as Elsie, but she hasn’t posted in a while, like she knew she was going to be leaving that life behind for some time before she left. There’s a guy who keeps calling her, Talon. I looked into him, and he owns a psychiatry business in Breakers Point. Looks harmless enough, and from the messages he’s left, it sounds like she’s missed a couple of appointments, and he’s concerned.”
K’s brow pops up. “Maybe pay him a visit, he might know something we don’t.”
“Could it be a copycat?” Bodhi asks, his forehead creasing in a way that makes him look even more psychotic than normal. He’s just as on edge as Kasen, standing by the security monitor, watching Dove. He has been for quite some time. Not that he would admit it to us.He would make up some bullshit about being head of security and it being his job to watch over her. But I can see the truth; the big guy’s got a soft spot for her, he wants to keep her just like we do.
I nod, agreeing with him. It’s what I’ve been thinking since last night. Someone who knew her mum was being blackmailed might be trying to do the same thing to her. It’s the only logical thing that makes sense, unless the original blackmailer is still around. Then we have a murderer on our hands, and that option is far from ideal.
