Page 209 of Soul So Dark

And being a master of angles and lighting, he never lets anyone see our faces or any identifying features. His tattoo is always covered with a square of black exercise tape and he’ll mute the sound or replace it entirely.

“Show me the best part, baby.”

I flex my abs and a moment later, Alex grins with satisfaction.

“There it is,” he drawls as his cum drips from my pussy. “So fucking beautiful.”

He tosses his phone back on the side table and leans over to kiss me.

“I promise, if I’d known I just had to fuck you in the ass every day for you to say you love me, I would’ve done it a long time ago.”

“No, you wouldn’t have.”

“No?”

I shake my head, peering up at him playfully. “Because you’re theniceone.”

At that, Alex grabs my knee and rolls me over. Then he takes a swing and his palm lands with a loud smack across my ass. I let out a shriek and try to wriggle away as he climbs out of bed. I should get up too, but I don’t have class until later today.

“You still like it here?” Alex asks as he pulls on a pair of his usual black pants.

“It still feels like I don’t belong here,” I reply, curling under the soft comforter, “like it’s too nice for me.”

“You belong somewherenicer,but aside from that, you belong where I am.”

I don’t argue, because I never want to leave here. Alex is my home now. He’s the one I waited six years for and didn’t even know it. He’s the reason no one else ever came close to the feeling I have right now. And now that I finally have him, I want to stay with Alex Barrera forever.

“Are you mad?”I asked Shelby, Carter, and Maddie the day after GalactiCon, after I told them the entire story of what transpired the night before.

“No!”Shelby replied.“As long as we’re allowed to come hang out in your swanky penthouse, that is.”

“I say we switch movie nights to Dallas’s place,”Carter chimes in.

“Dallas,”Shelby eyed me with suspicion,“back in high school, did you and Alex…”

It only took a couple of seconds for me to realize what she was asking.

“No,”I shook my head.“I wished we did, but no.”

Shelby accepted my response, but she wasn’t done.“How’s the sex now?”

“He fucks like a porn star,”I replied without missing a beat.

They erupted in laughter, banging their palms on the table with glee.

“Alex Barrera…”Maddie mused,“doesn’t he have brothers?”

“So we can be sister wives?”I grinned with excitement.

“I think that’s only if she marries Alex, too,”Shelby snickered.

“Oh,”I scrunched up my nose,“in that case, back the fuck off.”

I was worried they’d be upset that I decided to move out of our campus house, but I’m sure it helped that I assured them that I still planned to fulfill my portion of the rent until our lease is up at the end of the summer.

I love living with Alex. I love looking out the floor-to-ceiling windows and seeing nothing but the city and the sky. I love coming home from class and seeing Alex lounging on our sofa or walking around our kitchen, cooking something amazing for dinner that I’ve never had. I love everything, except for the bitchy look the woman in the front office gives me every time she sees me walk by. But it doesn’t matter, I stopped noticing after a couple of days, because when I’m with Alex, nothing bothers me.

Because with Alex, I’m safe.