Page 76 of Serpentine
I smile. “Let’s.”
TWENTY-THREE
BRAXTON
Being dug in while waiting for parts usually brings me peace of mind, but since I lost her, it’s giving me a fucking itch in my brain that I can’t scratch.
In a short time, I got used to her being on my bed with a book and a smug little grin as she read the spicy bits. She became a present figure in my life. Now, she’s gone. Of course, I tell myself she’s not gone forever, but it doesn’t help.
She returned to me, said goodbye, and gave me something money could never buy. No, only loyalty could buy what she’d given me. She’s become something precious in my life—something I want to be present in the world for. I already feel the need to dig in less and less. Her proximity soothes the things that used to bother me.
I want her back, and I know Miles has contact with her. He’d have given her a burner phone to contact us. Half of me wants to beat his ass until he gives me the number. I need to hear her squeak and moan for me. Hear her small sigh before she drifts off to sleep beside me. I need her presence in my red dungeon.
She’s done more for me than she knows and is out there now, trying to take it a step further. I know she will be working for her father, but I feel we put her in danger.
If he’d do that to an innocent woman, make her disappear so cleanly even Father couldn’t find her, what could he do to Aella?
I’m ready to burst out of my skin when Miles comes down the stairs.
“Hey man, you good?” he asks, and I swivel in my chair to meet his stare.
I shake my head. “I need to call her. You got her number?”
He sighs and sits on the edge of my bed in her spot.
Get out of her spot!
I clench my teeth.
“We don’t need to contact her, man. She needs to contact us when it’s safe. We never know who is around her, you know?”
“I don’t like this, Miles. I feel like we’ve put her right in the path of danger. We shouldn’t leave her alone.”
He nods absently as he considers my words. “You want to follow her?”
Do I trust myself enough to follow her?
I bite my lip. Thoughts of her on the hood of that Lexus, my cock buried inside her, my hands on her head, slamming her down on me as her cries painted the surrounding night flicker in my mind.
“What’s that?” Miles asks, standing and coming closer.
I turn to my screen, shaking from the thought. “What’s what?”
He turns my chair, leaning over and looking at me. “That look that was plastered all over your fucking face. Like a little boy that just got back from Disney World…” He gasps and steps back. “You fucked her, didn’t you?”
I can’t help the honest chuckle before I clamp my hand over my mouth.
Miles grins from ear to ear. “You dirty asshole. It’s about fucking time, though. Wait…when did you… Did she come back here?”
His face twists into something angry. This face would’ve deterred me from fessing up when we were younger. Not anymore, though.
“She came back. She was safe, though. She told me how she watched for people following and shut off her lights as she turned into the property. She wanted to say goodbye to me.”
Miles thrusts his hands into his hair. “She can’t keep doing that, man. If you can’t control yourself, you can’t be the one following her, either. I’ll get Sully on her.”
Sully’s the most lethal tool we have in our toolbox. I want him to be the one on her.
Though, I can’t deny I’d love to sneak in her fucking window and ravage her pussy in the middle of the night when she thinks she’s alone. Take her illusion of safety and make it mine.