Before I pressed her down on the bed and shoved my cock in her like a madman, I needed to pleasure her, then stop this. My resistance was cracking. My body wanted her more than I’d ever wanted anyone.

  I slid my hand down her stomach and inside the front of her panties. The slickness from her arousal was already coating her bare mound.

  “Fuck, sweetheart. You’re so wet,” I groaned, burying two fingers inside her tight little hole.

  “Levi!” she whimpered, grabbing at my arm and rocking against me. “AH!”

  “That’s two this time. Let me make it feel good for you. I know how to keep this sweet pussy taken care of.”

  Her cunt quivered as I began to pump into it.

  “So tight. Does this feel good?”

  She nodded, gasping for air. Opening her big green eyes, she looked up at me helplessly. As if I was the only person she needed. The pleading look for that euphoria she wanted made my cock leak. What I wouldn’t give to be inside her when she started coming.

  “Levi, I need …” She was desperate.

  “What do you need, baby?” My voice sounded strangled.

  Her need felt like a damn vise around my throat.

  Shoving my fingers deep, I closed my eyes as the beast inside me pounded on his fucking chest. That was a goddamn hymen. It was there. I hadn’t been wrong.

  “OH! You,” she cried out. “I need you.”

  I slipped my fingers out to play with her clit. My blood roared in my head. She was a virgin. I should have fucking checked this afternoon and put myself out of this misery.

  The first of the tremors started to roll through her body, so I shoved my fingers back inside her cunt, and she jerked against my hand. Pure delirium was all over her face while wave after wave washed over her body. Unable to help myself, I jerked her panties down, then shifted over her slightly and shoved my boxers down, freeing my cock.

  The swollen purple head was dripping. I stared down at her glistening pussy and ran the tip of my cock along her silky, wet folds. I just needed her sweet juices on me. That was all. Just needed to feel it.

  “Oh my God,” she moaned and lifted her hips to press against me.

  “Easy,” I hissed. “Don’t … just let me rub against this hot little cunt.”

  “That’s, AH!” she cried out. “OH GOD!”

  “You like how my cockhead feels, touching you?” I growled, clenching my teeth. “No cock has touched this pussy. Just mine. Just my cum has been rubbed on it.” I wanted to fucking shout it. Mine. Just mine.

  “Yes, yes, oh God.” She let out a whine, tossing her head back and forth.

  I laid my dick along her wet pussy lips and pressed down to give her the friction she needed. Slowly, I began to rock my hips. Her eyes flew open, and my name came out as a wail. Her body spasmed under me, and then her eyes rolled back in her head while pleasure consumed her.

  The sight of her coming all over my cock was it.

  “FUCK!!!” I shouted as I exploded.

  Dropping my head, I watched as long streams of white cum shot out onto her stomach. Gripping my throbbing shaft, I pumped it, shouting out her name as the release continued. When the last of it left me, I hung my head and sucked in air.

  Jesus Christ, what had I done? That was the best fucking orgasm of my life, and I hadn’t even been inside her.

  Looking down, I soaked up the sight of my seed marking her perfect creamy skin. I wanted to rub it into her. I was losing my goddamn mind.

  I lifted my eyes to meet Aspen’s, and the small smile that touched her lips was a fucking relief. I had been afraid I’d gone too far. Scared the fuck out of her. My lips curled at that sexy little grin on her face.

  “Not gonna lie, baby. I like the sight of my cum all over your skin,” I told her. I wanted it there. I wanted fucking pictures of it.

  Her gaze flickered to her stomach and then back to me. “Can I touch it?” she asked.

  My fucking cock jerked.

  “What?” I asked, trying to calm myself down.

  “The … cum.”

  I should tell her no and wipe it up now. I didn’t need that visual. But I didn’t have that kind of strength. Not to fight the beast inside me currently roaring.

  “If you want to.”

  She ran her finger through my semen, making little circular motions, then held her finger up to look at it. Holy hell, was this some joke that fate had decided to play on me?

  I grabbed her wrist. “Baby, that’s enough. I can’t take any more.”

  Her eyes widened, and I could see the uncertainty. I wasn’t handling this right.

  “Aspen, I’m gonna end up slamming my dick into that virgin cunt. That’s why I need you to stop. I can’t handle seeing you play with my cum, sweetheart,” I groaned, looking down at her open legs and pussy on display. “I want to scoop up every drop and shove it inside your cunt.”

  The shocked look on her face told me I had gotten the point across. Finally, I stood up, needing to get some distance from her.

  “Let me get something to clean you up.” I pulled my boxers up, but it did little to hide my erection she’d caused again.

  Taking a washcloth, I soaked it under warm water and went back into the room. Aspen was lying there with her legs together, but other than that, she hadn’t moved. Her panties were still at her ankles. I wiped off my mess, then went and pulled her panties back up.

  Finally, I looked her in the eyes. “I need to take a shower and get rid of this erection before I climb back in bed with you. Go on and sleep.”

  She swallowed hard, then nodded. I covered her back up.

  “Levi.”

  “Yeah?”

  “Thank you for the clothes.”

  “You’re welcome,” I told her.

  The urge to bend down and kiss her was almost too much. I had to get the fuck away from her. This was getting complicated.

  “We’ve got to head to Atlanta today. It’s gonna take a few days,” Huck announced. “Boss called early this morning. Hendricks’ and Wards’ loan payments are late.”

  I nodded. This was a good thing. Space from Aspen to get my head on straight.

  I had woken up early and gotten the fuck out of that room. I hadn’t trusted myself to stay if she woke up all snuggly and wiggling against me. We needed to cool off. Or I needed to cool the fuck off.

  “Who’s going?” Kye asked.

  “Blaise, Gage, Levi, Trev, and me. You’re staying here to run the shop. Sax is coming in to help you. He needs to know more than just the horses.”

  My grip on my coffee cup tightened. I didn’t like the idea of Kye being here with Aspen.

  “Kye can take my place, and I’ll run the shop.” The words came out before I could stop them.

  Sure, I needed some distance from her, but I didn’t want Kye around her with me gone.

  Huck scowled. “You know the situation we are dealing with, it can get violent. Blaise wants you as backup at the door. You have more experience, dealing with issues like this.”

  Dammit. I stabbed my eggs with more force than necessary.

  “I’m not gonna touch her, I swear. Sure, I was thinking about it, but I heard loud and clear whose name she was screaming last night when I got home.”

  Kye’s words eased me some. It was the tight feeling in my chest when he reminded me that she’d been screaming my name that worried me now. I had pushed it too far. Taken it too close to a level I shouldn’t have. It was supposed to be about making her feel good. Meeting her needs. Not me jacking off on her.

  “If I’m leaving her, then she’s gonna need a phone with a tracker on it. That’s the only way I won’t worry,” I admitted, not looking up at the two bastards who I knew were staring at me.

  “Have Six drop one off. We don’t have time for you to go fucking phone shopping,” Huck replied.

  But what if she needed me to show her how to use it? Fuck, I had to stop this. She wasn’t a child. She’d had a phone before. She didn’t need me for everything.

  “Good morning, Aspen,” Kye called out with entirely too much fucking cheer. He was doing it on purpose, but it still pissed me off.

  “Good morning,” she replied.

  I looked up to meet her gaze. It killed me when she looked so fucking unsure. But she was innocent and naive. I was fighting off my urges to do things to her and teach her things she wouldn’t be able to handle. Last night, I’d come real damn close to sticking that finger of hers, coated in my cum, into her mouth. Then making her suck it.

  “Get some breakfast,” I told her when she stood there, frozen.

  The way she sought my approval and direction was not good for me. It was beyond liking when she needed me. I wanted to tell her what to do and control her. Which was fucked the hell up.

  Being the obedient beauty she was, she walked over and picked up a plate. I jerked my gaze off her and glared at my eggs. I’d just suggested she get some food, and she was getting it. That wasn’t something to get a damn boner over.

  I was going to have to get fucked. I needed to take my belt to some asses, get this need to dominate out of me. Use women who knew the game and liked to play. Not exercise this kink in real life with a fucking woman child who didn’t realize what she was doing.

  The compulsion to call her a good girl when she obeyed me and wrap my hand around her neck when I ordered her to do things was becoming a fixation. I’d gotten off to it more times that I wanted to admit. Especially last night.

  “What are your plans for today?” Kye asked her as she walked over to take a seat.

  She chewed on her bottom lip, then glanced up at me. “I was wondering if I could start volunteering on the pediatric floor at the hospital. I used to do that back home, and I miss it.”

  Dammit. She wanted to go out of the compound while I was gone. I couldn’t let her do that. Not without me here.

  “We are leaving for some business today. Should be back in a few days. I’ll help you get that set up when I return.”

  She blinked, then looked down at her food. “I can handle it. I know how to contact the right people and set it up.”

  “I don’t want you out from under the safety of this home until I return.”

  “Okay,” she replied, looking disappointed.

  Fuck. She was bored. Before she had moved to live with her sister, she’d had all those damn charities and shit she helped with.

  “Soon as I get back, I swear.”

  She nodded.

  “I’d offer to take you, but he might slam me against the wall and put a knife to my neck,” Kye drawled.

  I scowled at him. I didn’t need him making this a big deal. He chuckled, standing up with his empty plate.

  “I can wait,” she replied.

  My obedient good girl. She was going to have to stop doing that. For my sanity’s sake.

  Twenty-One

  Aspen

  After Levi left with the others, I helped Trinity clean the kitchen and put away food. Then, I returned to the bedroom that I never slept in to get my iPad, then took it down to the living room. If I was going to be here any longer, I needed to start doing something with my life. I found the contact at the local hospital, two food shelters, and a home for women and children for volunteer work. If I couldn’t have a job yet, I could at least do this.

  The house was so quiet that when the chime went off, alerting us that someone had come through the security gate, it startled me.

  Trinity came in from the pool almost immediately. “Six is here. I didn’t want it to scare you when someone walked in. Levi just texted me and said he was coming.”

  I was a little on edge with Levi gone, and I wished I could get over that. Staying here all the time wasn’t helping. He was becoming the center of my world. That wasn’t a good idea. I was certain Levi did not want me thinking of him in that way.

  “I was thinking of having Six take me to the stables to see Maddy. Want to go?” she asked.

  “Yes, that sounds nice.”

  I loved the horses, and getting out of the house would be good. While I was here, all I thought about was Levi.

  The front door opened.

  “Aspen,” Six called out.

  “In the living room,” Trinity replied.

  Six was here for me? I turned to see him walk through the door.

  His gaze swung from Trinity to me, and then he held up a phone. “Got you something.”

  He walked up to me and held out a new, fancy-looking phone.

  My eyes lifted back to his face. “That’s not mine.”

  “Yeah, it is. Levi ordered it. He wants to be able to get in touch with you. It’s set up and ready to go.”

  Levi wanted me to have a phone? I reached out and took the phone and studied it closely.

  “It has everyone’s numbers in it. He wants you to keep it on you at all times. Any questions, his number is in there, but text first. Don’t call.”

  Unsure of what to say, I just nodded. “Okay, uh, thanks.”

  “We need a ride to the stables, Six. Do you mind taking us?”

  “Not at all. I’m headed there next anyway.”

  Trinity touched my shoulder. “Text Levi and let him know you’re going to the stables. That thing has a world-class tracker on it, and he’ll know the minute you step foot off this property.”

  I frowned. “Why?”

  Trinity grinned. “Because they’re all alike. Possessive, twisted, controlling, and we love them.”

  I didn’t respond. I didn’t love them. Or him. I liked him. Not love. I mean, I was sure I didn’t. I missed him, but that wasn’t love. I felt anxious when he was gone, but again, that wasn’t love. It was just me being dependent on him, and I was going to fix that.

  The phone dinged as the screen lit up, and Levi’s name appeared. He’d texted me. A smile curled my lips as a warm feeling spread through my chest.

  Levi: You good with the phone? Understand how to use it?

  Me: Yes. Thank you. I don’t have people I need to call or text, but I do appreciate it.

  I liked that I had this little bit of connection with him today.

  Levi: You have me.

  The fluttery thing my heart did when Levi walked into a room was showing up over a simple text. I pressed my lips together and wondered what I should say.

  Me: Trinity said I should let you know that we are going to the stables.

  Levi: Alone?

  Me: Six is taking us.

  He didn’t respond, but Six’s phone made a noise. When I looked up, he was staring at his phone. He chuckled, then started tapping on his screen.

  My phone buzzed with another text. I looked down to read it.

  Levi: Have fun.

  I lifted my gaze to see Six studying me as he slipped his phone into his pocket. Had Levi texted him about taking me? Did he think I was lying?

  “Gotta say, never thought I’d see the day Levi got protective over a woman,” Six said, then winked as he walked out of the room.

  I looked back down at my phone, feeling all kinds of things that I worried I shouldn’t.

  Standing in the hallway, I looked back and forth between Levi’s bedroom and the room that was supposed to be mine. Today had gone by fast, being at the stables. Now that I had to go to bed, I wasn’t sure where I was supposed to go. This would be a test for my nightmares. If I didn’t have them, then we would know I no longer needed to sleep with Levi.

  That thought brought me down. I wanted to sleep with Levi. I wanted Levi, as impossible as that was. I couldn’t help it. Getting to sleep in his bed with him was one of the few things I did get to have, and I didn’t want to give it up. But he hadn’t told me to sleep in there while he was gone.

  My phone dinged, and I pulled it from my pocket.

  Levi: Are you in bed?

  This was the opening I needed.

  Me: Not yet. I just got up to my room. We watched Dirty Dancing.

  Levi: Go get in my bed.

  It shouldn’t surprise me that his texting could also make me ache.

  Me: Okay. I wasn’t sure since you aren’t here.

  Levi: My bed, Aspen. Always.

  I let out a long breath. Wow. The things this man could make me feel.

  Me: Okay. I’ll take my shower and get my pajamas on, then go to your bed.

  Levi: Shower in my bathroom and wear one of my shirts to sleep in. No panties.

  My body felt flushed. I placed my hand on my stomach and tried calming the butterflies going crazy. He was even possessive through text messages. Suddenly, I was very excited about my new phone.

  Me: Okay.

  I stood up, taking my phone, and went into Levi’s room, closing the door behind me. His scent instantly hit me, and I stood there, breathing it in. I’d missed him today. This wasn’t him, but it made it easier.

  Levi: Are you in my room yet?

  Me: Yes. I’m going to take a shower.

  When he didn’t respond, I set down the phone and went to the bathroom. The plush, large black towels that were rolled in a basket by the shower made me smile. He was so neat. Everything was always in its place.

  Slipping off my clothes, I turned on the shower and stepped under the warm water. His body wash and shampoo would make me smell like him. That would be nice. I could smell him all the time. I used both of them and finished my shower, then stepped out onto the black bath mat and took one of his massive towels.

  Unable to help myself, I walked over to my phone to see if he’d texted. He had.

  Levi: Tell me when you’re out of the shower.

  Me: Just got out.

  He said nothing more, and I dried my hair and went to his dresser to get a T-shirt. Slipping it over my head, I wrapped my arms around my waist and enjoyed the feel of the soft cotton. I liked wearing his things.

  A phone started ringing, and I spun around, confused, staring at my cell phone lying on the bed where I’d tossed it. I hurried over to it, and Levi’s name lit up the screen. I was glad he couldn’t see the ridiculous smile on my face.