The Debt 5 by Kelly Favor Page A

scent.   Even though it was clean, she could
still smell him on it.
    It was such a relief to be with him right
then, even though she knew that nobody could truly protect her from Club Alpha.
    Are
you sure about that?   Maybe Jake
could protect you, if you’d trust him .  
    She wanted to, but another part of her
wasn’t so sure.   Jake was a soldier,
and his first instinct was to attack, as he’d done the other day in the
restaurant, or when he’d punched Kurt in the jaw for calling her a nasty name.
    The problem was, sometimes going on the
attack wasn’t the solution.   Club
Alpha was an enormous, powerful organization and they weren’t going to back off
because Jake beat someone up.   And
what would he do when she told him about Zeke’s threats, Max tossing her out of
a car?
    He
might kill somebody.
    He
really might kill someone.
    Raven didn’t know what to do.   She certainly wasn’t going to feed Club
Alpha information about Jake’s military service or what he’d done in
Afghanistan.   She wasn’t going to
spy for them.   But maybe she could
pretend, lie to them, hold them at bay for a while
until some other solution presented itself.
    You
know that will never work.   They’re
not going to believe it, they’ll know if you lie to them.
    Raven decided to stop thinking and
obsessing over what to do about Club Alpha.   Right then what she needed more than
anything was to relax, have a hot shower, and fall asleep.
    Maybe
in the morning things will be clearer.
    She got into the steamy, hot shower and
luxuriated in the water pouring down on her, massaging her skin, as her
shoulders dropped and her entire body loosened.
    She’d begun shampooing her hair when
there was a noise.   Someone was
opening the door.   Her heart went
into her throat.
    What if some assassin from Club Alpha had
killed Jake and was now coming to kill her?
    “Hello?” she said, her voice shaking
slightly.
    “Hey,” Jake’s voice floated into her,
echoing.
    “What’s up?” she called out.   “Is everything okay?”
    “I kind of need to shower too,” he said.
    Raven’s heart sped up again, but for a
different reason this time.   “I’ll
be done in a couple of minutes.”
    “Good,” he replied, and then he walked to
the glass door and opened it, already naked, his heavily muscled body a
revelation to her, as he stepped inside the steamy shower with her.
    “That was quick,” she said.
    “I didn’t want to waste any time.”
    “Or water,” she smiled.
    Jake looked at her and his brown eyes
were intense as he looked her body up and down.   The steam had already made his skin
slick and glistening, and Raven found that she was slick too, between her legs.
    Just looking at him made her want to
moan, made her want to come.   That
was the effect Jake Novak had on her.  
    He stepped closer to her, his naked
shoulder touching hers as he playfully fought for position under the
showerhead.   He let the water run
over him, like a waterfall it fell down over his amazing body, and Raven could
only stare.
    His eyes were closed, and he looked like
something out of a magazine.
    “I’ll never forget what you’ve done for
me, Jake,” Raven said.    
    Jake opened his eyes and then his hand
was reaching out, wrapping around the back of her head and pulling her into
him.
    His mouth was on hers again, only now
there was nothing to separate their bodies.   No clothes, nothing in between
them.   His hard shaft pressed
against her belly as he kissed her.   She ran her hands down his taught chest, then his stomach.
    Finally, she dared to touch his cock with
one trembling hand.
    He continued to kiss her, more deeply
now, allowing her to gently stroke him, and she felt his hardness increase.
    As she stroked his shaft, she got more
and more wet.
    I
want him to fuck me.    I’ll
take him inside me right here, right now.   I would give anything to have him right this moment.
    Instead, she stroked him faster, her hand
sliding