Page 80 of The Midnight Order
“I didn’t mean to cause all this. I swear, usually I’m not even like this… I don’t know what’s gotten into me.”
“Venom has gotten into you. The effects will wear off, eventually.”
She removes her ripped leggings and deposits them in her trash can.
Her panties are made of silk and are dark green. The back of them has the drying evidence of Asher’s release, and my cock swells in my slacks again.
Fuck.
Why things with Silver are so much more real and overwhelming than they were with Valentina, I’ll never know. But she’s more.
I’ve never once worried that Asher loved or desired her more. Never once wanted to rip his hands from her flesh. If anything, I wanted him to sink inside her and come down her throat while he filled her.
It’s unnatural; this feeling.
It has me off-kilter, if I’m honest.
Silver stands at the island in her kitchen, panting as she leans over it, both of her hands white-knuckling the edge.
“Hey.” I move behind her, crowding her back as I lean over her. “You alright?”
“I don’t want to come between you two. Shit, I don’t want to ruin some ancient relationship. What you two have is older than I am!”
I laugh, and she turns in my arms.
Her blue eyes are glassy with unshed tears, and I hope they don’t fall.
They’ll make me murderous.
“Hey, you’re not ruining anything.”
The first tear falls down her cheek, and I hiss at it. Reaching up, I wipe it away.
“He’s so upset. I know he started it, but I’m sure he didn’t know how he’d feel until he was in the throes… now he’s hurt, and I don’t want him hurt. I don’t want any of you hurt. I don’t want any of this.”
Her words about Asher have respect growing in me towards her, but the way she denied wanting anything to do with us makes anger swell and overtake it.
“You didn’t want what just happened? We don’t want you doing anything you don’t want to, Silver…”
“No!” She cuts my words off. “I wanted what just happened so much. I don’t even have the words to tell you how much. If I’m honest, I wanted more.” Her teeth sink into her lip, and I brush my thumb over her chin.
“So did I.” The admittance startles us both, but I let it settle between us anyhow.
“You did?” she whispers.
I nod. “I wanted you to sink onto his cock so I could watch him fill you up and stretch you…”
“This isn’t helping,” she whines, grinning at me as I break into a laugh.
“Sorry.”
“I don’t understand any of this. Asher said I should stop trying to make sense of everything and just live in the moment, but then I feel guilty for doing that.”
“I understand that. But you need to know that if you ever utter the word stop toward any of us, it all ceases, Silver. We’ll do nothing you don’t want.”
She tugs my shirt and rises on her tiptoes before meeting my lips with hers in a kiss that’s entirely different from the one we shared before.
This one’s heartfelt and warming.
