Page 136 of Heartless

“I need...a shower.”

She scurried toward the bedroom and closed the door behind her.

“Fuck,” he muttered before turning to face me.“The motherfucker was gone by the time I got there.I’ve taken care of her car.”

My butterfly was hurting, and now she was scared of me.

I stretched my bruised fist.“She said you were the first and only man who protected her without asking anything in return.”

“But she called you, brother.”

While he headed out, Zook called.His tone was almost as pissed off as I was.

“Morrison hatched that moronic plan yesterday with out-of-town players, and we had to improvise.Edo put the word out that anyone who works for Morrison will be seen as an enemy of The Family.The heads of the man who hit her and the bike rider are now on Morrison’s dining table.We also found the other donor his son had lined up.And the man has moved his family to Florida with their newfound wealth.How is she?”

Scared.With a fucking bruise on her face.“Later, Zook.”

After washing the blood off my hands, I headed to my bedroom and threw my bloody clothes in the hamper.While getting changed, I stepped near the closed bathroom door.The shower was running.I went back to the kitchen to unpack the groceries.She’d been so excited about cooking.‘It’s the only thing I can make which is as good as what you cook,’ she had said this morning.I couldn’t have cared less about the food.She’d been happy.

I pulled an icepack from the freezer and made my way to the bathroom.

****

Sienna

I grazed my shaking fingertips on the tight skin over the egg growing on my cheek.I needed to wash off...everything.Keeping away from the mirror, I kicked my shoes off and turned on the faucet of the shower.I reached for the side of my dress, but my frozen fingers were uncooperative.I yanked, and the zipper stuck.

My first tear fell.Then the second, and I gave up on the dress.I stepped under the warm spray.My legs knuckled under me, and I collapsed on my knees.My chest hiccupped while I cried.

Sitting on the hard tiles, I hugged my shins and rested my forehead on my knees.

A cool whoosh of air entered the shower stall.I tilted my heavy head just in time to catch Jake’s legs.“Sienna?Fuck.Baby.”

Panic quickened my heartbeat when I thought he was going to turn off the shower, but he didn’t.He sat behind me with his knees cocked on either side of me before his arms banded around my middle, and he drew my back to his chest.I curled my arms over his and pushed my forehead against the side of his neck while the warm water blanketed us.

We stayed like this until the last of my tears had washed out, and I could breathe again.Then, Jake’s careful hand brushed my splattered hair from my cheek before touching his mouth to my temple.I pressed deeper into his touch, and his hold around my middle tautened.

I needed to feel.Him.Me.Safe and alive.

Breaking from his hold, I turned to face him before climbing astride his lap.As he grazed light fingertips under the bruise on my cheek, I curled my fingers around his wrist.The blood had washed off his hand, leaving the angry slashes on his knuckles.I raised our hands to my mouth and touched my lips to the thin gashes.

Jake’s big body hardened, and his low grunt triggered a shiver that blended with the warm spray.His arms curled around me while my hands curved around his face.I sleeked his wet hair back while the water beat on my back.

My steadier fingers traced his strong brows, his sharp cheekbones, and the length of his nose.The bristle of his strong jaw prickled my fingertips, and I shivered.His gaze flamed up, and I felt that sizzle wave through me and erase everything that wasn’t us in that moment.

I thumbed the cleft of his chin, and his low grunt brushed my nipples.Our open mouths met.Our tongues touched.I latched on to his hair, and our kiss deepened.

Heated shivers erupted under my skin, and I rocked against Jake’s erection.

Drawing out of our burning kiss, I scooted back and hooked my fingers around the waistband of his sweats.Jake managed to get the drenched skirt of my dress around my waist.Next, his deft fingers hooked around the gusset of my panties and shoved it to the side.

When two of his fingers strummed my clit, I whimpered.They slid inside me, triggering the first quiver of my sex.

I set my forehead on his and knelt up.While I curled my fingers around his penis, Jake curved his strong hands around the back of my thighs.I placed the head of his sex at the edge of mine.And he became my whole world.

With his eyes never leaving mine, Jake lowered me slowly onto him, stretching me, making me feel every inch of him until I was filled by him.I wrapped my hands around his nape, he wrapped his around my waist.Our open mouths meshed.My sex clenched, and his deep groan triggered another spasm.

He moved me up and down.Slowly.Again, and again.Panting in his mouth, my moans matched his grunts.When I was bursting out of my skin, he anchored me onto him, and I shattered into a million pieces while he groaned.