Page 42 of Broken Embers

“When are we going?” Ivan asks.

“We’ll leave in five hours,” I answer.

“Wouldn’t it be better to wait for nightfall?” Syd asks.

“That’s what they’ll expect,” I reply. “Besides, we’re not leaving through the front door.”

“How?” Ivan frowns.

“We hike through the forest. When we reach the edge of the village, there’s a system of tunnels that will take us to a small village. One of Nikolas’s contacts will meet us there and take us to the safe house.”

“And the others?” Ivan asks. “Galina, Carla, Elena, Lev, Mark?”

“They’ve been alerted. We’ll reconnect later. Right now, we move in silence.”

They nod and start to disperse.

I head back to the room, sliding the SD cards into a small pouch and tucking them into a secure part of my travel bag.

I strip out of my clothes and climb back into bed. Sabrina stirs.

She reaches out and presses her hand to my chest, her eyes cracking open. “Where did you go?” she whispers.

“I had to say goodbye to Nadia and Valeska,” I tell her.

Her eyes widen. “They’re gone?”

She sits up, and the sheet slips down her body, exposing her bare breasts.

And that’s when I see it. A bruise. Right on the curve of her left breast. Finger-shaped.

“What the fuck?” I breathe, voice low and lethal as I gently trace the marks.

Sabrina looks down, then back up. She tries to wave it off. “It’s nothing.”

“Sabrina…”

“No.” She moves toward me, placing her hand over my mouth. “No talking tonight, remember?”

I watch her ruby-red lips approach mine until they make contact, soft and insistent. I can taste the exhaustion mixed with desire in her kiss.

My cock is visibly hard beneath the sheets as she continues kissing me passionately while moving a delicate hand over my chest and down my abdomen until she reaches my pulsing erection.

Her fingertips press along its length before gripping it firmly at the base. “Are you sure you want to do this again?” I whisper between kisses. “You’re exhausted.”

“Oh, I want to.” She nods and stifles a yawn. “Sorry. I’ve been so tired lately.”

I place my hand gently over her stomach. “That’s because someone else is sharing your body’s resources now.”

I lean down, pressing tender kisses on her belly. Her breath hitches. As I move lower, I part her thighs to expose her glistening, swollen folds. I press my tongue against her clit, circling it slowly and deliberately.

She moans and arches into me, the sensations intensifying with each lick. I glance up at her face contorted in pleasure as I take her clit between my lips, softly sucking.

Sabrina grips the bedsheet tightly with one hand while her other reaches down to tangle in my hair, guiding me as I continue to pleasure her.

Eventually, her hips buckle, and she cries out, “Oh God, oh God—” She gasps for air, and her entire body is trembling. “Fuck, Oleksi, that...that was?—”

I rise above her, feeling her pulse quicken all over again as I push my cock against her slick entrance.

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