Page 69 of Shadow Master
I cleared my throat. “Kash helped with the band on your wrist. He helped get you back to me.”
Kash grinned up at Brady. “I’m pretty helpful.”
Brady gave him a flat look.
Kash’s throat bobbed. “It’s good to see you back.”
“Is it?” Brady asked, his tone as hard as stone.
Kash’s smile wavered, then dropped. He ran a hand through his thick, dark hair. “Look, big guy. I get it, you’re mated to her, and she loves you. But Indigo and I have a connection too.” He glanced at me. “She may not be in love with me yet, but she like-likes me, you know? I’d really like the chance to take that somewhere because …” He took a deep breath. “I’m fucking head-over-heels in love with her.”
What? He was in love with me? And he was telling Brady first? Irritation was chased by rational thought. What would I have said if he did tell me right now? Thank you? He knew I wasn’t there yet, but he was letting Brady know thathewas. That he was serious.
A weird tangle of emotions swirled in my chest, ones that involved squishing Kash to my breast and hugging the crap out of him or shoving him onto the ground and fucking his brains out. Maybe a combination of the two?
The guys were doing a strange eye-lock communication thing. Kash was the first to drop his gaze.
Brady exhaled. “You hurt her, and I’ll break you.”
Kash’s smile was back, tentative but warm. “Sounds like a fair deal.”
Brady nodded. “Then we have an understanding.”
Kash grinned. “And to illustrate…” He handed me a keycard. “Feel free to use my room to get … cleaned up.”
Brady’s brows shot up. “I think you and I are going to get on just fine.”
* * *
Water beatdown on us as we joined, our bodies slick and wet in all the right places. I held on, legs wrapped around Brady’s waist, my back to the tiles as he thrust into me. Hard, deep thrusts that tore primal sounds from the back of my throat. This was mating, this was rutting, and our bond demanded it.
Kash had given us the use of his room, the immense shower, and the … Oh, God, that felt good.
I raked Brady’s back with my nails, digging in, moving against him, wanting more. Needing more. Our mouths were locked, tongues stroking and tangling, teeth nipping and grazing. I breathed for him and him for me, and as we came together, the world finally clicked into place and righted itself.
Brady’s huge hands spanned my waist, and his mouth trailed kisses down my neck and across my collarbone. I licked at his pectoral, biting down gently to elicit a groan from him. The orgasm was still coursing through my body, evident in the tremble of my thighs as I tilted my chin, offering him my lips.
He kissed me with soft plucking pecks, lingering to suck on my bottom lip, drawing a line right down to my core.
“I fucking missed you,” he said.
“I missed you too.” I kissed his jaw and then his neck. “We have tonight, and then he’ll be back.”
Brady nuzzled me. “I know. Let’s make the most of it.”
He claimed my mouth in a searing kiss, his arousal swelling inside me with intent, and then he began to move inside me, and the world was devoured by sensation.
* * *
Showeredand back in our armor, Brady and I made our way down the main staircase toward the exit. We needed to get back to base, but I had to find Kash first. Voices and music drifted out of the ballroom. I shot a frown at Brady before making my way to the arch.
Three long tables had been set up, and council members and their families were gathered, eating, drinking, and laughing. They were fucking having a get-together.
While my men toiled and fought and slept on the hard-packed fucking earth out in the mist, these fuckers were sipping on wine and eating roasted meat.
“What the fuck?” I strode into the room, anger choking me.
No one batted an eye. In fact, no one even looked my way. The music continued to play. I spotted the stereo in the corner of the room. Unsheathing my blade, I strode over to it and brought my steel down over the plastic, plunging the room into silence.
