Page 23 of The Devil After Dark

twenty-two

CASSIO

Liana sleeping in my arms was nothing short of amazing.

She had been nothing short of amazing when I’d fucked her either.

Now she was stirring as I kissed her awake.

I needed to get out of here, but I needed her again.

I should let her sleep, but I was too selfish.

I wanted to be inside of her. “Mmm, good morning,” she murmured sleepily as my lips trailed down her neck.

Her ass lazily pressing back against me told me she wanted me again too.

“Shower?” I asked softly against her skin.

“Mmm, yes,” she mumbled and stretched her body before rubbing her eyes with the heels of her hands.

I stripped the sheets off us and she groaned as I pulled her still half asleep with me into her bathroom and pressed my body against hers as I guided her into the shower.

She was still blinking the sleep from her eyes as I turned on the shower and pressed her against the tiled wall.

Taking her chin in my hand she smiled sleepily at me and kissed me back when I slanted my lips against hers.

Gods that smile would kill me. It was more than a physical surrender, it was an emotional one.

Liana actually liked me. That smile told me she was open to more than just me fucking her.

There was something so intimate about washing each other.

I hadn’t expected Liana to push back against my chest then run her soapy hands all over my body.

No one took care of me like this. I planted my hands on the wall on either side of her as her hands slid lower.

Pleasure washed through me and my dick hardened, rising to press against her stomach.

Her hands just continued downwards and grasped my dick firmly.

The soap slicked over me as she slid her hands along my shaft and I dared open my eyes to look at her.

The hunger on her face as she stroked me woke the animal inside of me.

I pinned her against the wall and she just squeezed my dick harder as she pumped it.

My eyes rolled back. I needed to be inside of her.

Right now. She let out a small startled scream as I grasped the back of her legs and lifted her, pinning her against the wall again with my hips and devouring her mouth with my own.

Her hands clawed at my back as my cock slid to her entrance and I thrust inside of her.

I swallowed every single one of her moans and whimpers as I fucked her against her shower wall.

Her pussy choked my cock as she came for me over and over before I filled her with my cum.

I could have stayed with Liana all day. I could have kept her in bed all day.

Unfortunately, after our shower, I had looked at my phone only to find a message from Jason that one of our warehouses had been broken into.

He had already sent Zac to take Liana to work and I begrudgingly got on my motorcycle to meet Jason and Remi at the warehouse.

Rome was there when I arrived—not that it wasn’t normal for Rome to be there, but I was irked by the way he had taken a special interest in Liana.

Jason had been following up with everything that was happening after the shooting.

He had taken it harder than I had that Kalvin had been killed and finding out who was responsible seemed to be his single focus.

I would let him have that. Jason needed that to heal.

He had even revealed the death of the other witness from the night of the shooting was blatantly unrelated, but that Rome had called for patrols for each of the living witnesses anyway.

I felt like Rome was hiding something, but was not about to blow up my best bought contact in the police force over a hunch.

“Well it seems like someone is really coming after you guys,” Rome said as we all stood in front of destroyed crates of drugs. Whomever had done this hadn’t stolen anything, just destroyed it. Which meant it was a message. “Who did you piss off?”

Remi let out a small snort of a chuckle. “Who haven’t we pissed off?”

He was right. We had a target on our backs.

Success always brought a target. Any number of the other council seat holding families could be responsible, but when I had looked them in their eyes after the shooting, it appeared none of them were responsible.

The way they had responded to my new proposals also made me think none of them had ordered the hit.

If it wasn’t any of them, then any of the lower level gangs could be to blame.

Maybe someone was trying to climb the ranks.

But why would they destroy the product? I would have expected one of the gangs to steal the product and sell it to fund their war against me.

“Do you have any ideas, Rome?” I asked cooly as I casually tore away scraps of crates to reveal more damaged product.

“Not a clue, Cassio. I have a few informants I can put the word out to, see if they can drum anything up,” Rome replied. Wood splintering filled the air as Remi tore the front of another crate off. Damaged drugs spilled onto the concrete floor.

“Don’t bother. We don’t need to broadcast that someone got in here,” I said, tossing a piece of wood onto the pile. “Just keep an ear out for us and I will let you know if we find any leads. ”

Rome nodded slowly before asking, “What are you going to do about the supply?”

I huffed a laugh to myself. One warehouse of supply ruined would not put a dent in our business.

I wasn’t sure Rome could actually wrap his head around the extent of my empire.

I had hundreds of employees ranging from street level dealers up to managers and a C-Suite for my legally acceptable endeavors.

Kalvin had been the one who oversaw the managers for the drug distribution and the warehouses.

Both Jason and Remi were versed in every aspect of my businesses.

Jason as my second and Remi because he was “me” for many meetings.

Remi had stepped up to fill in where needed after Kalvin died and Jason needed to recover.

They were both indispensable. Then there was Zac.

Everyone assumed he was just my driver, but he was probably the scariest motherfucker of all of us.

“I’m not concerned,” I responded and gave Rome a look that told him it was his turn to leave.

“Right,” he breathed. “Well, until next time.”

I watched Rome leave the warehouse then turned to Jason.

“Don’t fill him in if you find anything.

I’m starting to have a few concerns about our relationship with Officer Hawthorne,” I said.

Jason’s eyebrows raised, then he simply shrugged.

He knew about my concern regarding Rome visiting Liana and even if that was a motivator, I didn’t care.

We needed to keep this close to home. Merrick was too nosey and I didn’t want him finding out more than he needed to.

I really just needed him to leave my territory, but I wasn’t about to start a pissing match by kicking him out.

Plus, him being distracted in my club most nights meant my guys had more access to intel. Merrick was a loose lipped drunk.