Chapter 21 Jack #2
He shook his head, the metal decorations he put in his braids clinking against one another. “I’m good, thanks to Rocky over there.”
Both of their eyes landed on me, heavy with questions I didn’t want to answer.
I lifted my shoulders and tucked my hands into my pockets. “Alora always taught me to be prepared.”
“Uh-huh.” Tate watched me, tongue flicking his lip ring.
I tore my eyes away from his searching ones only to find Kyren gone. “Where did he…?”
Tate waved my question off. “He does that. Part of the whole shadows thing.” He reached for my wrist and drew me away from the crowd. “Come with me.”
Letting him lead me through the trees, I kept my eyes down on the ground as I walked. I might have a lot of heightened senses, but night vision wasn’t one of them.
The sounds of the party faded away, falling into background noise. My heart still raced from the fight, adrenaline pumping through my veins. I took a deep breath and blew it out, trying to calm myself down.
“Quite a first date, huh?” Tate commented with a chuckle. “And here I thought dinner and dancing would blow you away.”
I huffed a laugh. “That guy was a dick. It wasn’t your fault.”
“But you…” Tate blew out a breath. “You were such a bad ass. Whipping out those… silver?” I nodded. “Silver knuckles and POW! At least I know my girl can take care of herself.”
“Your girl?” I arched a brow.
Tate stopped and turned to me. “Uh… yeah.” He cupped the side of my face, moving close. “When you’re willing to beat the shit out of someone for the other, I think that officially lifts us out of the situationship, right?”
I smiled slightly. “Yeah, I guess.”
“Or maybe…” Tate crooned, backing me up against a tree. “You want a reward. Is that what you want, princess?”
I licked my lips. “Um, no?”
Tate tipped my chin up. “Oh, I think you do, and you did say that I only had to wait until our date.” His mouth brushed against mine, but he didn’t capture my lips with his own.
My brows furrowed. “Wait for what?”
Tate lowered to his knees, his hands skimming down the sides of my body, thumbs brushing teasingly across my nipples before finding the edge of my skirt. His eyes glowered yellow as they peered up at me, his voice low and husky.
“Another taste.”
I gaped at him. “Tate, now’s not a — I didn’t mean —”
His thumb stroked me through my tights, making me choke on my words. “Now’s the perfect time. And don’t worry, no one will see. Only you, me, and the dark.”
The growing need between my thighs kept me from protesting further. My hands reached back and pressed against the rough surface of the tree, my heart in my throat. This wasn’t a first for me. Julian had been thorough during our one and only time together.
It didn’t make me any less nervous.
Tate pushed my skirt up slowly to expose my tights. “You’ll have to apologize to Xinyi for me.”
Before I could ask why, Tate ripped a hole in the tights right at the crotch, where the thin material of my panties covered my mound.
“You didn’t have to rip it.”
Tate’s nose brushed along my panties, inhaling deeply. “I know. Nor do I have to do this.” A slight yank and burn against my skin before he ripped my panties through the hole he made, stuffing them into his pocket.
He didn’t touch me at first, he only lifted one of my legs over his shoulder. He breathed me in, letting out a low growl. “Oh, fuck, you smell so good.”
My head fell back against the tree at the first lick of his tongue. He circled my clit in tight little circles as his fingers spread me open wider for him.
Hips bucking up, I grabbed at his braids. I needed more. “Tate, please.”
“What do you need, princess?” Tate murmured against my core. “Tell me and I’ll give it to you.”
“I need…” I breathed, whimpering as his thumb dipped inside of me.
Something slid up my thigh and pressed my legs open wider. My eyes flipped open and met a figure in the dark. For some reason, I didn’t need to ask who it was. I knew that intense stare.
Kyren.
He didn’t move closer. Or touch me again. Kyren simply lingered in the trees, watching.
Instead of telling him to go away, which I should have done, I kept my eyes on him, barely able to make out his form. “Harder. I need it harder, deeper.”
Tate’s thumb bobbed in and out of my entrance, never giving me enough, just making me burn for more. “That’s my good girl, asking for what she wants.” His licked a long deep line up from my entrance to my clit.
I gasped, pressing into his face.
He replaced his thumb with his fingers, curling them deep while he sucked down on my bud. My leg shook and almost collapsed, but something tightened around my waist to hold me up.
I knew it couldn’t be Tate since both his hands were occupied.
Everything inside of me liquified, tightening and throbbing, begging to get past that one final push.
My moans turned to cries of, “Please. Please. Please. Please.”
I begged and pleaded, my fingers jerked on Tate’s hair, and my hips ground into his mouth, all while staring down Kyren. Then Tate nipped at my clit, and everything exploded.
If the party didn’t know what we were doing, they surely knew now. I screamed so loud that my throat felt raw. Kyren’s shadows were the only thing holding me up while Tate lapped at me, cleaning up every drop until I quivered and jerked at his touch.
“Please, no more,” I whined, pushing his head. “I can’t.”
Tate hummed against my core. “Oh, I think you can, but this is supposed to be a reward. I’ll stop… for now.”
Kyren let me go, and I sagged into Tate’s arms. He wrapped his arms around me, adjusting my clothing back in place. Tate tilted my chin up, and his lips brushed against mine.
“Now, we can go back to the party, or we can go back to our room for round two.” He brushed the side of my face. “We can see how many times I can make you come before the sun comes up.”
My eyes lifted to the moon, barely over halfway across the sky. “That’s hours from now.”
“I know.” Tate smirked.
Even still catching my breath, my body tingling in the aftermath, the thought of Tate doing that again was far more tempting than going back to a party filled with supernaturals who didn’t like either of us.
Him for being with Kyren, and me, well, if they knew who I really was, no one would be offering up a drink to me.
Decision made, I licked my lips.
“Round two please.”