Page 36 of When the Last One Falls
Holy fuck.
It was a dark emerald-green shade that pushed her tits up, clinched her waist in, and hugged her hips before dropping into an elegant waterfall with two slits that ran up her legs all the way to her fucking neck. Not really, but it seemed that way with each step that she took.
“I’m going to fucking kill her,” I swore under my breath.
“Yeah?” Onyx drawled out. “Before or after you take Shera home?”
I deserved that.
I deserved a lot of shit.
When Keris spotted me, she immediately made her way over, and I shouldn’t be surprised. The woman was not a coward, and I wouldn’t be surprised if she were only here just to corner me after ignoring her for a full week. With that much determination in each step, it finally dawned on me that she was probably here because of her sister. Something must be going on with Lindsey, and since I had promised to cover all of her out-of-pocket expenses, I could see Keris refusing to let me shy away from that particular commitment.
Stopping only a few feet away from me, she looked over at Onyx and gifted him with a tentative smile. “Hello, Onyx,” she greeted. “It’s nice to see you again.”
Onyx looked like he might choke, but he still managed to greet her back. “Good evening, Keris. It’s lovely to see you again, and I have to say, you look absolutely beautiful.”
“Thank you,” she replied graciously, unlike the last time that they’d met.
Knowing how to read the room, Onyx said. “Uh…I’m going to go check on a few pieces, and…yeah…I’ll see you guys later.”
As soon as Onyx was gone, Keris’ green eyes looked up at me. She was so fucking beautiful that it almost hurt to look at her. It also didn’t help that I didn’t see this perfect picture of her whenever I looked at her. Whenever I looked at her, I saw the mess that she was in my bed. I saw her lips swollen from sucking my dick, I saw her makeup worn from the tears, I saw her hair a matted mess from how tight I fisted it, I saw her big tits bouncing with each thrust, I saw her pussy and asshole stretched open around my cock, and I even saw love in her eyes when I’d been too high to know the difference.
“What do you want, Keris?” I asked coldly, an alcoholic faced with his favorite beer.
“Would you like to dance?” she asked, and that had my head rearing back.
“What?”
She gestured towards the dance floor. “I asked if you would like to dance?”
“So that you can leave me stranded on the dance floor like a putz? Yeah, no thanks.” I had no idea what she was up to, but this woman had nearly accused me of rape not even a week ago. Yeah, I was treading carefully on this one.
“I just…I just thought that we could talk if we-”
“Can’t see what we need to talk about, Keris,” I reminded her. “Besides, we agreed to let our lawyers do the talking for us, remember?”
If I didn’t know better, I’d say that she looked hurt and unsure, but Ididknow better. There wasn’t a meek bone in this woman’s body.
“How about a drink-”
“So that you can spit in it? Yeah, again, no.”
Letting out a deep breath, she said, “Look, Brantley…I know that I-”
“Brantley, I found the perfect piece.”
We both turned to see Shera saddle up next to me, and while I knew that the glowing look in her eye was because she had a hard-on for whatever she’d found, to the outside world, she looked like she was adoring me with that gaze.
“It’s perfect,” she went on. “You have to come see it.”
Turning from Shera, I looked back at my wife, but her green eyes were focused on the lovely raven-haired beauty standing next to me. It wasn’t lost on me that we probably looked like a very powerful couple together. Shera had that kind of confidence about her.
“As you can see, I’m busy,” I said, my gut tightening with the cold words, but I refused to let KerisBishopsend me to my knees. At least, not in front of the entire world. Not where Ares Cormac and the rest of my enemies could see.
Without looking back up at me, Keris said, “I can see that.” She took a step back, giving Shera more room. “I hope you guys get that piece,” she added. “The bidding can be brutal at these things.”
“Luckily, I have enough money to outbid anyone for whatever I want,” I reminded her, and that’s when her shoulders straightened, though she still refused to look at me.
