drown me. “Now they’re
gone and all that’s left is hideous scars… more fucking horrific scars. I can’t
let him see me like that. It isn’t fair, he deserves more.”
“He deserves his wife!” Kade bit back angrily. “Do you
think he cares about how you look on the outside?”
“Yes! Yes, Kade. That’s what Mason is, he’s a man, a dominant
man and looks are everything to him, especially for sexual stimulant. And now
I’m…”
“You’re frightened he’ll reject you? Oh my God, Ava.” He shook
his head with incredulity but his gaze softened. “He loves you, he could never
see you as anything but beautiful, sweetheart. You aren’t just some… some piece
of meat that he sticks his dick into occasionally.”
I blinked at his bluntness but he cupped my face and
titled my head back. “Have you even asked him?”
I shook my head and looked away. “I can’t, I’m… I’m
sacred of what he’ll see.”
Kade’s mouth hit mine with an almost painful kiss, his
tongue fought to climb inside me, his lips bruised and crushed me as he pushed
me back against the wall. “Right, now tell me that wasn’t a kiss that tells you
how much I fucking desire you, how hard you make me ?” He grabbed
my hand and slammed it hard against his erection. “And I am not your husband,
the man who fucking adores you.”
“Are you still…”
He shook his head in confusion when I paused and lowered
my eyes.
“Still fucking Mason?” He bit into his lip and diverted
his eyes but I grabbed hold of his hand. “No Kade, I want you to. Don’t stop
because, well because Mason needs that. He needs… men as well and he’ll go
crazy without it.”
He sighed and shook his head as his eyes flicked over my
face sadly, “Jesus Christ. Why can’t you see what everyone else sees in you?
How amazing you are, how perfect you are, how fucking stunning you are!”
“What the fuck are you doing?” Steed asked as he flung
open the pantry door and stared at us.
“Talking about your dick,” Kade said as he walked back
out. “Remember, Ava.” He shouted before he shut the front door behind him.
I laughed at the shock on his face and leant into his
ear, “We need to be careful. The house is bugged.”
His face paled and I tapped his cheek, “Don’t worry,
Kade’s sorting it and I know a man who can disconnect everything.”
He sighed in relief as I finished texting who I needed
and pulled out food from the fridge to start dinner. “I presume, seems as
though you are now attached at the hip, that you’ll want feeding.”
His lips twisted and just before it left his mouth I
pointed to the ceiling alarm system sensor. He snapped his jaw shut and just
nodded.
It was rather a shame I had already text Marv, an old
friend of George’s who was a system expert and more importantly who Mason had
no clue of, but it could have been fun watching Steed try and hold back on the
innuendo.
Chapter Nineteen
Poltergeists
Ava
“I know they were in here, I’m positive they were.”
Grace huffed and rolled her eyes as she watched me
scramble through the entire shoe cupboard looking for my red wedges. “Ava, just
wear the white ones, they’ll go.”
“No,” I pursed my lips in frustration, moving numerous
pairs out of the way. “I love the red ones. The white ones pinch.”
“Then wear the black flats.”
I stared at her with wide eyes. “I can’t wear black flats
with a flowery dress, they won’t look right.”
“Jesus Christ!” She growled as she moved me out of the
way and chose a white pair of kitten heels. “Perfect.”
I sighed, “I don’t wanna go anyway. I told Lay I wasn’t
going.”
“I know,” she said as she rearranged her hair in the
mirror. “And I’m telling you that you are. It’s your friend’s wedding
anniversary. You haven’t been out properly in an age and everyone misses you.”
I pulled a face at her, her lips quirking when she caught
me in the mirror. “And I’m
James Kakalios
Tara Fox Hall
K. Sterling
Jonathan Maberry
Mary Balogh
Elizabeth Moynihan
Jane Hunt
Rebecca Hamilton, Conner Kressley
Jacquie Rogers
Shiloh Walker