I stared at him in shock, a beer halfway to my mouth.
He smiled smugly. “Baby, my contacts are much deeper and darker than yours—you say go, I say how soon?”
I nodded, overcome with elation that I was suddenly so much closer to bringing Cooper down than I ever imagined I’d be.
I pulled open my computer and the last window opened was my email. I was about to exit out and pull up the Warren specs when I gasped.
“Oh my god.”
I pulled open the email.
Hey Princess,
I would have reached out to you sooner but I was in a coma so I hope you can forgive me. This is the first I’ve had internet access and it will be the last for a while. I think you know what that means. I’m going to finish this—Chaos and Co are helping so don’t worry about me. I’m sure you’ve moved on with your life but to me it feels like just yesterday I left you and I haven’t been able to get you out of my mind. I know, I know—maybe the coma rattled this old brain around but it’s true. I’ll look you up when this is all over and if I don’t—well, you’ll know things went south.
All my love (because I don’t think what I feel for you can be anything less),
—G
My hand was over my mouth and tears were falling down my face as I reread it several more times. He was alive.
Kraven—Theron was on his phone typing away on it. By the time he was finished, I composed myself.
“You didn’t tell me Graham and you were like that,” he said lightly. I looked over at him warily.
“Is that a problem?” I asked slowly.
I didn’t know how I would feel if I had to choose between them even while I knew beyond a doubt that Theron wouldn’t let me go. He gave me an easy smile and shook his head.
“I don’t care what other relationships you have, darlin’.” Then his eyes darkened. “Just so long as they understand they have to share.”
I breathed out a sigh of relief and turned back to my computer with a small smile.
“It looks like he’s going after Cooper,” I said, my smile turning into a frown.
“Give me all the details you know on Graham, his team, and the Warren and I’ll do the rest.”
We worked late into the night going over all the details of the Warren and Theron spent much of it on his phone either sending out messages or jumping on calls working through details with his team. The food was gone and there were beer bottles strewn along the coffee table. We had tacked up multiple schematics on the wall and the place looked like someone upended a filing cabinet and shaken it viciously.
I must have fallen asleep while Theron was out on a call because the next thing I knew he was lifting me off the couch and carrying me into the bedroom. He put me in bed and I opened my eyes just long enough to see him disappear back into my office before sleep pulled me under again.
I woke up to the sensation of Theron’s cock sliding inside me and I moaned sleepily as I stretched and pushed my body back against him, taking him deeper. His hand was on my hip, tracingmy scars repeatedly and his lips kissed a path from my shoulder to my neck. He moved his hips, sliding in and out of me and I felt myself get wet around him as my body fully woke up to the sensations. I turned my head towards him with another moan.
“I like getting woken up like this,” I murmured.
His movements were slow and unhurried and I reached my arm around behind his head and pulled his lips to mine. I was soon panting, my hips moving with his as our movements became more deliberate. His fingers traced down my hip and grabbed my thigh, pulling it over his legs and his fingers trailed down and found my clit. I threw my head back as he continued his assault with his cock, slowly driving inside me so I felt every intentional movement. His breath quickened and mine with him as I gasped and tightened around him.
“Fall apart with me,” he whispered in my ear through gritted teeth as he neared the edge and I didn’t need any more encouragement as I felt him expand inside me and together we tipped over the edge and fell into oblivion.
A few moments later he slipped out of me and I turned and rested my head on his chest as his arms came around me. We were silent for a time before he spoke.
“I have to leave today,” he said.
I knew why and I knew where so it didn’t need to be asked. Part of me wanted to come with him, to be there when the teams destroyed the Warren. A part of me even wanted to be there when they killed Cooper. But I knew Theron wouldn’t let me and Graham would be pissed if he found out I was there, so I didn’t ask.
We had sex again in the shower, he lifted me into his arms and pressed me against the tile and we had sex in the kitchen after breakfast when he bent me over the back of the couch.
I didn’t think I had any more orgasms in me but he forced out a few more when he went down on me on the kitchen table, feasting on me like I was his last meal.