I pull out of her slowly, the sensation shooting up my spine.
Freya winces and I smirk down at her. “Don’t go anywhere,” I say.
“Fucker,” she murmurs, her eyes closed.
I chuckle then go into River’s ensuite, clean myself up and come back with a warm cloth.
“Jesus fucking Christ, Eli,” she curses when I stroke the cloth through her folds. Her cunt is red and puffy and so very well used.Yeah, she’ll be feeling that for a couple of days. The sadist in me hums in satisfaction. Maybe I did want to hurt her, just a little.
Once I’ve finished cleaning her up, I untie Freya’s wrists. I help her take her now sweaty t-shirt off and replace it with mine, then I lie down next to her on the bed. I’ll need to get Oz in herelater to redo her bandages but for now I draw her into me and trail my fingers up and down her back. She’s all loose and floppy, the fight fucked out of her.
After a while she sits up, wincing again as she crosses her legs. “I want to tell you something.”
“You don’t have to-”
“I know, but I want to. Your mum talked about you,” she says. She picks up my hand and I let her fiddle with it as she talks. “She said you were older than me, that you thought you were already a man but you’d always be her little boy.”
My chest tightens but Freya isn’t finished. She studies the chest of drawers opposite the bed as she talks.
“She told me to run. She said no matter how long it takes, never give up on being free, because there’s a boy out there who’d do everything in his power to keep me safe.”
My eyes blur. I blink and let the tears fall.
Freya looks down at me. “She loved you so much, Eli.”
I nod. “I know,” I say. “I always knew.” I pull Freya back down beside me and hold her to my chest. I will never fully heal from losing my mother but in this moment, with Freya in my arms, I know she would be proud of me.
CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE
Jude
THE ELEVATOR BUTTON lights up under my finger as I press it.
Freya leans into me.
“Why am I scared?” she whispers as we ride up in the elevator to the top of Quantico.
I chuckle. Today is a good day. If you take into account all factors then logically the meeting we’re heading to could go very badly. But for once in my life I feel calm. Everything’s going to be alright. “You don’t need to be scared.”
Freya rolls her eyes at the silver doors. “Says the man who didn’t commit identity fraud and run from the FBI not once but three times.”
Eli snorts.
Oz takes Freya’s hand and gives it a squeeze.
Freya watches the numbers on the panel light up as we rise. River’s already up there, speaking to our boss. I’d try to reassure Freya more but the head of the SCU division is a formidable woman. The only one of us not at least a little bit wary of her is River and well, he’s a robot.
We got a call this morning summoning us all to a meeting, our ‘new asset’ included. No further details were given so I don’t blame Freya for being anxious.I take one of my stones out of my pocket and hand it to her.
She smiles at me and turns it over in her fingers. “What if she sends me to prison?” she asks.
Eli shrugs. “Then we’ll break you out.”
Freya looks over her shoulder at him. “Seriously?”
Eli raises his eyebrows. “You’re not going to prison, Kitten.” His gaze softens. “But yeah, I have a feeling we’d do a lot of stupid shit for you.”
I nudge Freya’s shoulder and grin. “What do you think? Wanna rob a bank with me?”
