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Doubling his efforts, he focuses solely on her pleasure. It takes about ten minutes of sucking and licking and nipping to build her orgasm when it normally only takes a few minutes at most. It's another way he knows how much weighs on her mind and how she's more stressed out than she lets on.

"Colt," she moans, her voice low but still loud enough to echo in his ears.

Her pussy clenches around his fingers, and he runs his teeth along her clit until her hands push him away rather than pull him closer. Licking his lips, he steps up the ladder with a smile on his face. "One happy ending complete."

"I needed that," Lex whispers, and he helps her up to sit.

He makes quick work of stripping out of his remaining clothes before adjusting his leather for him to sit with Lex on his lap. Her hips grind, sliding his cock between her lips but not sinking onto his length.

"Talk to me, Nichols."

"For what it's worth," Colt says, "I think every conversation should be had this way."

Her teeth nip at his neck, and she mumbles an agreement.

"Baby, I need to know what our plans are when whatever we're dealing with is over. Are we going back to Summerville?"

All movement stops, and he regrets saying anything before entering her. At least they could be still while he’s buried deep inside her. "What?"

"Do you want to leave again? When you're done handling whatever it is you're doing?"

She sighs and looks at his chest. "We can't leave."

"Sure we can."

"We have two teenagers who have had more than their share of trauma. They don't need a move to another town added onto it. Hailey told me more than I think she ever wanted to about their homelife. It just wouldn't be right."

He strokes her face, and she smiles and tilts her head into palm. "We can make other arrangements for them to stay here."

"That's not fair to them, either. We made a commitment, and we need to honor that. Besides, I think Lucas is a lot like Noah. Big hearted, but I'm scared of what will happen to him if he has to go through another huge change. I don't want him to harden like his sister. We should give him everything he deserves, and that's being here in Griffin's Beach."

"What about Hailey?"

"That girl would burn a fifty dollar bill you tried to give her out of spite because she's hell-bent on not owing anyone anything. I can't really blame her, but she's already hardened. I hope we can break through a little bit, but it might be too late."

Okay, we're staying. Who would have thought that would be the easy part of the conversation? God, I don't know what I'll do if Lex tells me she doesn't think I'm cut out for the President spot.

"What?" Lex asks. "Where'd you just go?"

Swallowing, he lets out a deep breath. "I talked with Jennings tonight."

"Oh, shit, I was going to ask you about that. I'm sorry, baby. What was that about?"

He can't meet her gaze and focuses on her collarbone. The light from the moon gives him enough sight to see her hard nipples in the slightly chilled air, and he hopes they share a celebratory fuck instead of a pity one. "This can't leave the two of us, okay?"

"Of course. What's wrong?"

"Jennings, your dad, and my dad are planning to step down."

"What?" she gasps. "Are they sick?"

Laughing, he looks up into her wide blue eyes to see even more worry than she had before. "I'm not sure about our parents, although I'm sure they would have told us, but I asked Jennings the same thing. He says it's time for the new generation to step in and take over."

"Oh my God."

"What?"

Her jaw drops as she blinks at him and leans back, and his stomach flutters. Of course she put it together. "He wants you to take his seat, doesn't he? He wants to give you the President patch."

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