Page 31 of Awakened and Betrayed
I sit up on my elbows and give him my best WTF face. “Uh...why the fuck not?”
“Because your first time and our first time is not going to be under his roof,” he states matter of factly.
“Well... what the hell, you tease,” I sulk, and yank my shirt down over my exposed breasts.
Bastien chuckles at my indignation. “I was going to make you come. See what I could do to make you scream my name, nice and loud so everyone could hear the proof that you’re mine.”
His words streak right to my clit, and I have to fight off a moan and the sudden desire to let him do just that. Fucking hell.
“Listen, I’ve had enough of all of you pussyfooting around my pussy. I mean, yay, for all your chivalry and consideration and shit. But let’s get this show on the road! And, so there’s no confusion, by show, I mean sex, and by road I mean, a lot of sex. You guys have been holding out on me since all the shit went down with the lamia. Now I’m stuck here in this house, and you guys don’t want to touch me, what the hell?”
I decide to shut the fuck up before my tone gets more whiny than it already is. Bastien cups my face and forces me to look at him when I try to look away.
“Bruiser, you had just been attacked and had to watch your friend die. We were all terrified and angry about what happened, and trying to help you through the horror show that you’d just experienced. Come on, you know that wasn’t the right time to take things further. What’s going on? Why the sudden urgency?”
I look back and forth between Bastien’s hazel eyes and try to read what’s hidden inside their depths.Why do I feel so pressed about this?I could easily blame it on my magic; there’s definitely a pull there whenever the guys are around. Losing Talon could easily be a factor, too. Everything feels so finite in the wake of his death, and there’s a lot of sadness and pain that I’d like to chase away with orgasms and mindless pleasure. But this need is more than that.
“I don’t know. As weird as it might sound, you guys feel like home. There’s so much chaos right now. I just want to feel settled, anchored in some way, I guess.”
I try to cover my face with my hands. I’m not making any sense, and I sound like an idiot.
“Bruiser, don’t do that. There’s nothing to be embarrassed about.” He softly kisses the back of my hands. “I get it. I never realized that you were a piece of me that was missing. Not until you were here. Until you fit into me in a way that made me realize that I wasn’t really all of me, without you. I’mmorein a way that’s hard to explain. But I’m more with you, and now that I realize that, I don’t want to go back to the way things were before.”
I spread my fingers and peek through them to watch Bastien as he’s talking. His expression and his words brand his name into my soul. And I know he’s just marked me as permanently as I’ve marked him.
“We all hate that you’re not with us, Bruiser. Trust me; we’re doing everything we can to fix it as soon as possible.”
“Even Captain Cockblock?” I tease, as I drop my hands from my face.
Bastien laughs and gives me a sweet kiss. “Even the Captain.”
Bastien starts to say something else and then stops himself suddenly.
“Oh, you better dish it, Bastien. If you want to hear everything that went down last night, and trust me you do, you better spill whatever your holding onto.”
He shakes his head at me, but his chest vibrates against mine with his laughter. “Fuck, the guys are going to kill me, but what am I supposed to do when your pushing for sex and calling ushome.Who can stand up to that?”
I laugh and tighten my thighs around his hips.
“We bought a house yesterday. That’s why we all went radio silent. We wanted to surprise you.”
I sit up so fast that I almost headbutt him. “Are you serious? Was it one of the ones you guys showed me the other day?”
Bastien mimes locking his lips and throwing away the key. I squeal in excitement, not even caring that he’s not going to give me any more details.This is huge. This means that even if I get stuck being forced to live with Enoch and his coven longer, I can still go be with the guys inourhouse.
Holy shit, it feels weird to say that.We’re anourand anusnow.I bounce up and down on the bed.
“When do you guys get to move in?”
He shakes his head at me, and I glare at him.
“Oh, come on, you can at least tell me that.”
He chuckles again and gives a relenting sigh. “This week. But I’m not saying anything else. I’m going to get my ass kicked enough as it is. Now your turn. What’s all the shit that went down last night?”
I run my fingers through his hair and down the back of his neck.
“So, remember that blond lamia, Sorik, that I told you about? The one that seemed like he was trying to help me in some weird way in the cellar? Well, he and I had the craziest fucking chat last night. You are never going to guess the mental shit that I found out.”
