Page 169 of Restitution

Base and Barry leave in a couple of hours. Tylar and Dez are going to head home too, and Ewan and Aria are going to sit down with us to properly go over everything that’s happened. Aria’s excited that her daughter is pregnant – though I think she’s worried about the situation, and she’s worried about Kade and the effect all of this will have on him.

Kade is doing okay. I can see that, deep inside, he can’t quite believe it’s over, but his therapist is good. He’ll make sure he’s okay. We’ll go to couples therapy too, like we planned. We’ll work on our relationship, live our lives and then, if he hasn’t already knocked me up, we’ll move on to the next stage of our relationship.

Having a family.

One day.

I shiver as he wakes again and kisses under my ear, and I can feel how hard he is against my thigh. “Is that morning wood?” I whisper, careful not to wake Base. My eyes flutter shut as he sucks on my pulse, his fingers digging into my hip, the other hand moving under my shirt, tracing my ribs.

“Maybe.” He’s kissing down my throat. “Maybe I need you. I always need you.”

“Yeah?”

He nods against my throat, dragging soft kisses up to my jaw, taking my bottom lip between his teeth. “I always fucking need you,” he breathes, rolling his hips into me. A tingling sensation is already twisting up my thighs to my core.

I glance over at Base, who’s still snoring. Kade grabs my jaw, demanding my attention. “He’s asleep.”

I nibble my bottom lip, and he presses his thumb to pull it from between my teeth. He kisses me as his hand glides down to my throat, holding me there when his tongue slips into my mouth.

I let out a whimper, and he pulls back, the hand on my throat now clamped over my mouth. “I need you to be quiet, Freckles.” He grinds between my thighs, the underside of his cock rubbing against my clit. Watching me as he dry-fucks me, he keeps his palm where it is and lowers his chest to mine, licking and sucking at my throat as he keeps grinding.

My eyes roll, and I mumble against his palm, begging him for more as I rock my hips up to meet his cock – so hard, so thick and long. I want all of him every day and every night.

His gaze shifts to Base again before he looks back at me, watching my eyes widen as he slips his hand down my side, under my waistband,making me tense so deliciously as he cups my bare pussy.

Mine, he mouths, pushing a finger inside me and making me moan into his hand.All.Another finger pushes in.Mine.

I rock my hips against his hand, and his fingers curl inside, pumping dangerously slowly, making me wetter and needier. I drop my hand between us and grab him through his shorts, stroking over the material while his fingers plunge in and out at a steady, rhythmical pace.

He kisses my throat, dragging his mouth down my chest while his fingers go deeper, then captures the material of my top between his teeth and drags it up and over my breast. I gasp as he sucks my nipple into his mouth. Every few seconds, he’s looking over at his sleeping friend.

His fingers thrust, my hips move, and I eventually pull down his shorts and my own, positioning him between my legs. With my mouth still covered, I moan as Kade pushes the tip of his cock through my entrance, still a little delicate from all the sex we’ve had lately.

Each inch eases in, and Kade pays attention to my other nipple, capturing it between his teeth, marking me as his as he fully sheaths himself in my depths. “Fuck,” he mumbles against my breast. “I’ll never get used to this.”

I arch my back, taking him even deeper. “Fuck,” he breathes again, lifting his head and moving his hand to kiss me.

He hikes my knee to his hip and fucks me slowly, tenderly, making sure we don’t wake—

“Is it too late for me to sneak out?”

I scream at Base’s words and wince as Kade pulls out, thankful that the duvet covers us as he pushes his friend off the bed.

49

STACEY

Two hours later, after Kade and I finished what we started and showered, we stand in the driveaway and wave off Base and Barry. The latter will call us once he’s dropped Base off, then he’ll send pictures of his girls as soon as he gets home.

Tylar and Dez leave too, so it’s just me, Kade, Ewan, Aria and the dogs in the sitting room.

Kade and Ewan are at the laptop. Ewan is still looking into how they might rebuild the manor, but Aria rather likes how much smaller this house is. She even asks Ewan if he’d be open to selling the grounds and buying a three-bedroom house.

“Oh, sweetheart,” Aria says to Kade. “We wereable to recover one thing from your room. I think maybe it was in the back of the cupboard.” She rushes over to a large box and pulls out another smaller metal one – badly dented but intact – that has my eyes widening. “It’s locked.”

Kade’s spine straightens as she rests it in his lap. “I thought it might be important.”

Kade inputs the code, there’s a faint beep and the lid pops open to reveal a damp sketch he did of me when we were eighteen. He lifts it, and I can see the emotion in his eyes. He won’t want to fall apart in front of his parents, but the relief is there as I rub his back.