Page 22 of Double Dare
Laken gives us each a guilty look, knowing Mom is asking so she doesn’t reveal all Dom’s secrets. Fucking Dom. That dipshit should know he can come to us with anything. “Yeah, they’re both here.”
“Okay. I just need to know when…the last…when you gave him the last…”
“Oh.” Laken clues in. She closes her eyes, and the little minx actually rocks back on Jed’s cock like it helps her concentrate. “A bit before I came to get you. Maybe twenty minutes before then.”
“Perfect,” Mom says. “Thanks, Lake. Coming back in the morning?”
Laken nods, her eyes fluttering shut again. “Yeah. I’ll be there.”
After Mom tells her to sleep in, continues to be evasive, and tells us she loves us all, she hangs up and I’m two seconds away from demanding answers from Laken again.
Laken must see that in my expression because she growls a quick, “Don’t.”
Jesus fuck. I’m out. I leave the shower and set Jed’s phone on the vanity, ready to bolt and…I don’t even know what.
“Wait, Kade.” Jed calls me back. “I have to…fuck! I have to go to the airport. Can you stay with her?”
Fuck. Oh no. “Yeah.” Stupid mouth.
“Sorry, Lakes,” Jed laughs. “Hate leaving mid-fuck.” He kisses her neck. “I’ll be back in a few hours. You good, love?”
“Yep.”
Jed hops out and I throw a towel at him so I don’t have to look. Tugging his pants on, he keeps his voice low. “Guess it’s your turn.”
He better not say what I think he’s going to say.
“To get her mind off it.”
He said it. “No.” I scoff at him. “No. Don’t trust me with that.”
Jed shrugs like this is no big deal. How the hell isn’t he freaking out? “Don’t fuck her yet, but…”
But what? Jesus.
When the door clicks closed behind Jed, the tension in this bathroom goes up so high my head feels weird and the steam from the shower constricts my chest. Laken’s just standing under the water and I’m just glaring at her silhouette. Typical.
“Kade,” she goads.
“No.”
“I won’t touch you,” she promises.
“It’s not you I don’t trust.”
She mutters something, and when I demand she repeat it, she speaks clear as crystal. “Never expected you to be a pussy.”
Willpower gone. Clothes gone.
Chapter 10
I have to be careful. Things are changing, and as much as we all want them to change, new boundaries are being tested and pushed, and Kade hasn’t learned all of his yet. He’s the kind of guy who appreciates bluntness, so I’m not going to tiptoe around him. I’ll push until he tells me to stop. I’ll taunt out his darker side until it gets to be too much for him. I’ll play a game that doesn’t at all feel like a game because my heart is invested in this as much as his is. He’s not ready to believe that yet, so a push-and-pull style is what it’s going to take.
When he steps into the shower, dressed in nothing but tattoos and lean muscles, I make sure he watches when I eye-fuck the hell out of him. Dark hair, dark ink, dark soul. So hot.
“Don’t look at me like that, Bossy.” He glares.
I run my fingers through my wet hair. “Like what?”