Page 61 of Explode
“Are you close?” I asked, popping my mouth off his throbbing length.
“Yes, baby. Fuck, I need to come down your throat so badly.”
I let a wicked smile take over as I peered up at him, before rising tomy knees, earning a confused look from Kai.
“Maybe you can ask Rafe to finish you off when he comes to finishmeoff,” I said, jumping off the bed.
“Riley, what the fuck?” Kai roared, his mood instantly souring.
He glared daggers at me as I grabbed my clothes and threw them on,the feeling of satisfaction growing stronger as he tugged against the restraints, cursing as he tried to free himself, his cock still standing proud, waiting to get its happy ending.
“Karma’s a bitch,baby. You might want to remember that next timeyou play with me.” I blew him a kiss, grabbed the handcuff key from the sideboard, and walked out.
“Riley!” Kai bellowed, making my smile grow wider.
“Oh, hi, Ash,” I beamed when I found the man mountain sitting at thekitchen table, a puzzled look on his face.
“Do I want to know?” he said with a raised brow.
“If you want a good laugh,” I replied, grabbing a bowl and pouringmyself some cereal.
Ash thought about it for all of a second before he stood from thetable, and walked to where I’d left the bedroom door open. Taking a mouthful of my cereal, I watched Ash freeze in the doorway, taking in the sight of the big bad wolf chained to the bed, naked as the day he was born.
Expecting Ash to tell me to undo the cuffs and grow the fuck up, I wassomewhat surprised when he threw his head back and let out a deep, hearty laugh that reverberated throughout the cabin.
“Fuck you, Ash!” Kai barked. “Let me out of here!”
His words were followed by the sound of the cuffs scratching againstthe headboard, no doubt from where he was tugging against them. Milk dribbled down my chin from where the laughter bubbled out of my mouth.
Ash twisted to look at me, amusement evident under his beard. “Say,Riley. If I don’t let Kai out of those cuffs, will you forgive me for not telling you this asshole was alive for all those months?”
On any other day, the mention of Kai’s betrayal would have darkenedmy mood, but I was having too much fun. Besides, Ashhadapologized, he’d been the only one to say he was sorry, and that went a long way. Plus, me forgiving him would only piss Kai off even more.
“Sure. You’re forgiven.”
Ash smiled at me before turning his attention back to Kai. “Sorry,dude, I tried to warn you that kidnapping your wife would only end in disaster. You reap what you sow,” Ash said jovially, before closing the bedroom door and muffling Kai’s pointless threats. “You know it won’t be long until he breaks out of them, right?”
“Yeah,” I replied, knowing it would only be a matter of time before Kaibroke the bed in order to break free. I knew without a shadow of a doubt there’d be consequences for what I’d done to him, but I didn’t give a shit. I was sure I would later when he was tanning my ass, but I’d worry about that then.
“Want to get out of here? There’s someone we need to see,” Ash saidcryptically.
At the almighty bang that rumbled from the bedroom, I put myunfinished cereal in the sink and gave Ash a nod. “Let’s go.”
It wasn’t long until once again, we found ourselves driving throughtowns. Ash filled me in on the research he’d been doing overnight. There wasn’t much to go on. Like all the files relating to the Browns, Michael Tucker, and John Anderson, Ash and Miles had struggled to find any information on Simon Evans. No doubt records had been hacked by Max and deleted to stop us from finding out the truth.
But Max could delete all the files in the world, it wouldn’t stop the truthcoming from the horse’s mouth. At least, that’s what we were hoping for from Stephanie Knight, the girl who’d resided with the Browns when Michael, Simon, and John lived with them.
Ash had found her working at Jacksonville University, lecturing inpsychology. He’d compared the picture Leonard had given us to her photo held on the uni website, and Ash was certain we had the right person.
Miles then worked his magic and obtained her financial records,phone records, and social media accounts, and found she’d been living in England for the past ten years. On the face of it, she'd had no contact with either John or Max during that time.
Miles was as sure as possible that she didn’t have anything to dowith her former foster brothers, so we were hoping like mad we’d be able to get information from her without it getting back to Max.
Ash warned me that if we got even the slightest hint she would reportback to Max, it wouldn’t end so well for her. It lay heavy on my shoulders at the thought that yet another innocent person might get caught up in this war. As much as I hated to accept it though, we couldn’t risk our secret squirrel mission to Florida getting back to Max.
Ash had called ahead to make arrangements for us to meetStephanie. He’d changed the sob story I was to give from John being my brother to Michael being my brother, in hopes I could play on Stephanie’s heartstrings.
It worked on Leonard so maybe I wasn’t a bad actress.
