“Not yet,” he finally says. I can tell he’s thinking about Dmitri and the Assembly.
He’s thinking about how he has to make sure this is truly over, that this one last thing is taken care of. He won’t allow himself to do anything until he knows.
“I have to go,” Aiden says quietly. “I have to meet my brothers and deal with this. But I wanted to make sure you were taken care of first. I’ll have guards watching the house, just in case. You’ll be safe.”
He’s undressed, and I can see his cock pulsing, hard and ready for me. It would be so easy for us to give in to the need between us. But instead of settling between my legs like I know we both want, he pushes off the bed. He gazes down at me, then nods once.
“Stay like that while I’m gone.”
“Like what?” I swallow hard. I know what he wants. I just want to hear him say it.
Aiden’s eyes darken, one hand trailing over my leg. It makes me shiver, goosebumps rising on my skin.
“Naked. Ready. Waiting for me,” he growls softly.
I nod, my heart racing. As if he can’t resist, he drags one finger slowly through my folds.
“Don’t touch yourself. Leave that for me,” he adds. “I want you soaked. Desperate. I want you to ride that line of arousal until I get back. Until I sink into you.”
I swallow hard.
“Okay,” I say, my voice husky.
Biting my lower lip, I watch him dress and then stride from the room, a determined set to his shoulders. I don’t know how long he’ll be, how long his business with the Assembly will last. But I meant what I told him.
I can wait for Aiden.
Part of me always has.
CHAPTER38
Aiden
All I want is to stay with Rose. As I get into my car, all I can think about is her—the way her skin is flushed pink from the hot shower, the way her nipples hardened with arousal. All I can hear is her shallow breathing, the moans in her throat as I kissed her.
I keep wanting to turn around and drive right back to my wife. She’s the one I did all this for, the reason I risked everything. I should be with her right now.
But I know I have to ensure that this is all over. I have to go to the Assembly and tell them everything.
I drive up to the meeting place where my brothers are already parked. They step out of Lachlan’s car when I turn my engine off and I stand with them there for a moment, in a nearly empty parking lot. The sky is worse now, not just overcast but threatening rain.
It’s a fitting end to this shit show.
“How are we doing this?” I ask.
Lachlan evaluates me silently for a moment. I know he’s thinking about Dmitri, how I killed him. He’s thinking about the line I crossed, the line we all try never to touch. There’s a way to do things, a civility to our business. There are people that do the killing when it needs to be done, when it’s a last resort.
What I did is unheard of. I got my hands dirty. They’re bleeding red onto the ground like a trail behind me, and if I don’t do anything, that blood will make me slip and fall. It will bring us all down.
“You’ll tell them what you’ve done,” Lachlan finally says. “Then we’ll show them why.”
“Is that a good idea?” Finn asks, incredulous. “The second he says as much, he’s dead.”
“Not necessarily.” Lachlan holds up a stack of folders. “We have our evidence. We can prove it.”
I look at the folders. Will they really save me? Us?
I know just how stubborn the Assembly is. They didn’t vote to move when we first told them about Dmitri. Willow changed her story, and without that corroboration, they couldn’t see the truth, couldn’t see past Dmitri’s slick facade.
