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Nerve endings quiver from my clit back to my entrance. The shake of my orgasm builds with momentum and intensity deep within my core, my breath catches in my throat, and then that blissful feeling of descending release sends me over the edge. “I love you,” I cry out, unable to control myself as my pussy pulses with sweet relief. Kieren’s cock gushes hot cum inside me a second later, and slowly, once the chaos around me settles, I come to a stop. A genuine smile spreads across my face as I plant soft pecks against his lips. I’ve never thought myself the type to enjoy sex in public, and yet I’ve never felt so liberated.

“I love you Kieren,” I whisper against his skin, my mind still effervescent with elation.

But he doesn’t say it back.

Seconds pass, and he doesn’t say it back.

A sobering tightness constricts in my chest. My palms are still pressed against his cheeks. His flaccid cock twitches inside me, expelling the last drops of his release. Cum leaks from my pussy, soaking through my thong. Confused and dizzy, I pull back to look at him, the expressionless, bottom half of his face is all I can see. His lips are pressed together in finite resolve, and it occurs to me… He’s not going to say it.

The beginnings of a smirk tug at one corner of his mouth. I watch, frozen, as his hand lifts to pull his mask back in place. But, he pauses. His mouth opens to speak, and each beat of my heart thunders in my ears.

“I know,” he says.

And with those two words, that beating, foolish heart of mine shatters.

17

GABI

Present Day

“Viv, turn that light off! Someone might see us,” I scold.

“Seriously Viv, it’s Saturday night. You don’t need to do homework right now,” Ele agrees.

Viv huffs her annoyance. “We’ve been here five nights already, and nothing has happened! I don’t know why we had to come back after the first night, when you didn’t find anything. You’d think breaking and entering one time was enough. Now you’re just asking to get caught!”

“I told you Viv, something felt very off in that house. There were zero signs of life, and the one room I needed to scope out was locked.”

“It was also three in the morning on a Tuesday,” Viv argues.

“Yeah, but why have your basement locked?” Ele debates. “The basement at DG isn’t locked.”

“Maybe they have expensive DJ equipment down there they don’t want stolen,” Viv suggests.

“Viv, whose side are you on?” I snap.

“I’m sorry, I’m just tired! And completely behind on classwork. Also, why are you giving me a hard time about my minuscule reading light? Do you see that full moon?”

I glance up at the saucer of brilliant light and have to admit Viv is right. The road in front of us is illuminated with silver moonlight, which is both helpful for our mission and harmful.

I sigh a grumble. “You didn’t need to come tonight,” I remind her.

“Oh sure, leave me behind to miss all the action.”

“Reconnaissance isn’t for the weak of heart, Viv. You can’t have it both ways. Besides, Adrianna said that Kasey was gone every weekend, so maybe that’s when whatever messed up shit they’re doing at Sigma goes down.”

“Nothing happened last night,” Viv reminds us.

“Does Friday night count as a weekend, though?” Ele ponders, bringing a pair of binoculars up to her eyes. “I don’t know. One could argue either way.”

“Are there any more snacks?” Viv asks.

“Some Takis,” I offer.

“Not in the mood,” Viv grumbles. “Can we all agree that if nothing happens in the next hour, we’ll go for a snack run? I could kill for a bag of Nerds Gummy Clusters right now.”

“Yes, I second this motion,” Ele adds.