Page 69 of Secrets & Desires
When they got home,Odelle was there, and Nox told her gently about the discovery. Odelle nodded calmly. “It’s him,” she said, “I know it in my bones. Nox…I think we need to start looking for somewhere elsetostay.”
Nox’s eyebrows shotup. “Why?”
“I don’t feel safe here. Do you feel it, Liv?” Odelle looked at her and Livianodded.
“I do, but I don’t know why. Maybe it’s the confusion over the DNA, or that the body—if it’s Roan’s, it means he didn’t kill Amber… But until we have confirmation that Sandor’s DNA is in the all-clear…”
Nox stared at them both. “You honestly think Sandor might have something to dowiththis?”
“Let me be clear,” Odelle said, “it’s just a feeling I have. I have no proof of anything, just my gutinstinct.”
Nox turned to Livia. “Andyou?”
“The same. There’s just been something off lately about Sandor—or, to be fair, it could be paranoia on my part given what’s been happening. The only people I trust right now are inthisroom.”
Nox sighed and Livia could see him struggling with the idea that his friend may not be who he thought he was. She put her hand on his arm. “Look, we’re not saying Sandor has doneanythingwrong. Just becautious.”
“That’s fair enough.” Nox thought it over for a while. “Okay, look, we’ll tell him we’re going to move out because… God, I don’t know, to give him his privacy back. I’ll look into renting somethingshortterm.”
In the end,it was Livia who told Sandor they were moving out. He came to find her one morning while Nox was at work. Livia was packing a bag when she heard a step behind her. She spun around, startled to see Sandor there. He smiled at her. “Sorry, I didn’t mean toscareyou.”
Livia, her hand on her chest, tried to smile. “It’s okay, I just didn’t expect to see you. I thought you were at work with Nox.” Her heart was beating uncomfortably against her ribs. Sandor sat down on the edge of the bed without being invited and nodded atherbag.
“Goingsomewhere?”
Livia felt awkward. “Has Nox spokentoyou?”
“Aboutwhat?”
“About us moving out? We just feel that we’re giving into the killer by huddling together.” A thought occurred to her and she half-smiled. “Nox and I don’t want to put you and Odie in the line of fire anymore that you already are. I couldn’t bear it if anything happened to either of you.”That’s it, lay it onthick.
Sandor touched her face. “You’re very sweet, Livvy.” He stood and, to Livia’s surprise and unease, took her face in his hands. “Every day,” he said softly, “I see more and more why Nox fell in love with you. You are beautiful, inside and out, Livia Chatelaine. Is it inappropriate to say that I wish I had met you beforeNoxdid?”
Livia was about to brush off the compliment, but then Sandor gently, quickly, brushed his lips against hers. He immediately dropped his hands and stepped back, making a good show of looking horrified. “Gosh, I’m sorry, Liv. That was so inappropriate. I’msorry.”
There was a curl of fear in Livvy’s stomach. What the hell was going on here? “It’sokay.”
“I’ll leave you alone. I will miss all of you, but I understand why you’removingout.”
He left her alone, stunned and feeling weirdly tearful. She sat down on the bed heavily and wondered why she felt so upset. The kiss had beenwildlyinappropriate, but it wasn’t even that which upset her. It was the expression in Sandor’s eyes the whole time he was speaking. Cold. Dead. Not the eyes of the man she had hoped—had assumed—hewas.
Her gut instincts were kicking in again as she closed the bedroom door and called Nox. When he answered, she burst into tears and it took her a minute to calm herself before she said what she wanted to say. “Please, Nox. Come get me outofhere.”
They movedinto a hotel to begin with, although Odelle simply went home. “I’ve hired extra protection,” she assured them, “and I don’t want to play the third wheel, as much as I loveyouboth.”
At the hotel, Nox and Livia ordered room service, took a long hot shower together, then made love. Livia hadn’t felt comfortable having sex at Sandor’s place, so now, reveling in their privacy, Livia clung to him as he fucked her slowly and tenderly. She smoothed his dark eyebrows as he moved above her. “I love you somuch,Nox.”
He grinned as his pace quickened and she gave a little cry of pleasure. “As I love you,prettygirl.”
Livia tightened her legs around his hips, squeezed her vaginal muscles on his diamond-hard cock. Nox groaned. “God, yes, just like that, baby.” He slammed his hips against hers, and Livia took him in deeper each time, tilting her pelvis so his huge cock could drill ever harder into her. “God, I love fucking you, Livia Chatelaine…your body was made forfucking.”
Livia grinned then arched her back as her orgasm hit, pressing her belly against his. “Nox?” She was gaping as his pace grew rougher and quicker. “Come on mybelly.”
Nox, panting for air, drove himself to the peak then withdrew, shooting thick, creamy white cum onto her belly, fingering her clit as he did and making her comeagain.
Afterward they caught their breath as Nox massaged his cum into her skin. He circled her navel with his finger. Livia gazed up at him. “I’m thinking about our Christmas getaway, all those dirty games weplayed.”
“Youenjoyedthem?”
