Page 80 of Liars and Liaisons

He doesn’t seem in any hurry to acknowledge them though.

“Your pulse isracing,” he says, and I realize a beat too late that he can feel me throbbing. As he shifts, the hood of his cloak falls off, revealing his dark, disheveled hair as it tumbles over the horns of his mask. “Do you like being covered in me?”

I don’t answer. It seems rhetorical.

“Give me one more.”

I shake my head, still practically vibrating from the last. A delicate ache appears between my legs, and I try to move away, but he comes with me.

“I can’t.”

“You can, and you will.” He presses harder, and I feel that pulse in my throat. “One more, Violet. Please.”

My brows lift at that. “I thought you said you wouldn’t beg.”

“That was before I knew I’d grow addicted to the way you come.” He climbs backward, his fingers not losing their rhythm, even as he drops to his stomach. With his elbows in the dirt, he inches forward,crawlingto put his head between my thighs.

An orgasm tingles at the base of my spine at the sight of him in such a position. Vulnerable and wanton, willing to crawl through dirt for this.

Forme.

He presses a palm to my right thigh, pushing so my knee is touching the ground. A hoarse sound shudders out of me when I feel his mouth on my skin, doubling the assault on my pussy as he drags his tongue up my slit.

Shame skitters at the corners of my lucid thoughts—I’m soaked in several different body fluids, and I don’t know if that’s appealing or not.

But when I try once more to wriggle away, Grayson just wraps his arms around my legs and props them on his shoulders, pinning me in place.

“I have never in my life had the pleasure of tasting something so sweet, sodelectable. I want to spend the rest of my night devouring you.”

And he does.

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“Break up with him.”

Violet pauses her disrobement, glancing at me over her shoulder. “Excuse me?”

I take a step toward her, tugging the black cotton material the rest of the way off so she’s completely naked before me. I couldn’t very well bring her back to a house full of drunk partiers after ruining her dress, so I wrapped her in the cloak and carried her back.

If we could have gotten away with staying in that field all night, I would have pitched my tent between her thighs and not worried about the demons lurking among the flowers. But the orgasms and the heavenly musk of her on my tongue didn’t completely erase the memory of hiding out in those stalks as a child.

When I think of my father and what he beat into me back then, it makes me think of Sydney, then Nathaniel, and I’m vehemently angry all over again.

Now, I take a second to admire what the moonlight didn’t reveal—soft, smooth skin, now marred by red fingerprints and even redder stains; smeared makeup from the tears that accompanied her third orgasm; pink-hued cum on her thighs from where it mixed with my blood.

And hers, presumably.

Christ, I hadn’t expected her to be a virgin. At the very least, I thought Nate was just unadventurous and maybe she’d not had much opportunity to explore. Turns out, I’m just the first to have her.

The only, that dark, primal voice within my chest rumbles. As if I need the reminder.

My hand roves over the firm curve of her ass and the gentle swell of her tits, both dotted with teeth marks because I just couldn’t help myself. If she wound up going back to my brother tonight, I wanted him to know who she really belonged to.

Instead, she’s in my bathroom, and I’m not letting her leave. Arsen and Priya can handle any casualties tonight, and if Nathaniel happens to be one, I wouldn’t be too mad about it. Sure, I’ve been waiting for the chance to watch the life drain from his beady little eyes, but I would give all of that up just to spend my night soaking in Violet.

Pulling the glass door open, I wrench the shower on and cross to the vanity on the other side of the room. After a moment’s hesitation, she climbs in and steps beneath the spray.

She washes her body first with short, unhurried strokes and some goat milk soap Micah gave me months ago that smells like lavender and sage.

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