Chapter Forty-nine — Trinity
CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
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TRINITY
Theo waited for me outside the elevator.
I didn’t even have time to say hello before he had me up against the wall.
“Theo?” I gasped as he kissed my neck.
“I’m supposed to bring you straight into the living room so we can all hear what the hell you were thinking, but I’ve decided to fuck my toy first.”
He shoved my purse off my shoulder and pushed my jeans down around my ankles. There wasn’t much room, but he didn’t care, lifting me just enough to slide into me. With my jeans around my legs, I couldn’t move. He thrust into me slowly, the tension easing from his shoulders.
“I was thinking—”
Theo took my face in his hands. “Trinity, gorgeous, we’re all barely holding our instincts in check. You’ll get a chance to talk. But right now, shut up, or I’ll find something better to do with your mouth, and I’ll still fuck you after.”
Heat streaked through me. This was the agreement. Free use. Every piece of me loved it, but I also liked pushing back.
I lifted my chin. “Blue.”
He paused, searching my face, checking for what I was feeling. Then he smirked. “Nice try.”
Hard and fast, his piercing hitting me so deep I saw stars. “We should keep you here and knotted at all times,” he muttered. “Then you won’t go off to dangerous places on your own.”
“I didn’t—”
One hand came around my throat and pinned me to the wall. “I told you to stop. You’ll already be lucky not to be rutted into the floor when you go in there. Don’t make it worse.”
Perfume filled the tiny vestibule, my mind blissfully blank. And Theo took what he wanted. Pleasure coiled inside me, ready to spring. It tasted like honey and sunshine and every second drowned me further.
Theo moaned in my ear. “I will never have enough of you. Never. The way you melt and submit makes me so goddamn hard.”
He came, pulling back far enough that his knot wasn’t inside me, and I… wasn’t close.
I blinked at him. “But…”
Giving me a warning look, he tucked himself back into his pants and pulled mine up, making me presentable. Another wave of arousal hit me. That was a part of it too. Taking what they wanted didn’t always mean I would come.
I still struggled with the fact that I enjoyed being used like an object, but I did. Ocean’s words hovered in my brain, and I clung to them. If it makes you happy, then it’s no one else’s business.
Aiden paced back and forth in the living room. The twins had wet hair from showering. Bastian’s fight was tomorrow, so they were at the gym all day like they’d been since I met them. Logan seemed the most relaxed, but he still watched me carefully.
“Do you remember not even two days ago when you agreed to be careful while working on this story and to minimize your digital footprint?” Aiden asked. “Because I do.”
I looked at him. “I was careful. No one saw me except the gate guard and the guy who thinks I was a clueless blonde who was lost.”
“And what about this?”
He picked up his phone from the coffee table and turned it to face me. It was a frozen image of me, clearly from a security camera, pointing my phone and taking pictures. My face was clearly visible.
I pressed my lips together. “I perhaps… may not have thought about that. But you can delete the footage, right?”
Aiden took a slow breath and pinched the bridge of his nose. “It’s already done. But you can’t do things like this. I’m not saying it to be an asshole or to exercise my power as your dominant. It is dangerous.”
I slowly sat down on the floor. All my adrenaline had drained out of me on the drive home. Between that and getting fucked just now, I was tired. “I honestly hadn’t even planned on going. At least not alone. I was just so fucking mad.”
A little chirp came from behind me as Cinder sped into the room and leaped onto the coffee table and back off again so she could come to me. She meowed in greeting. “Hi. Did you miss me?”
“She did,” Logan said. “Pretty sure she was looking for you all day. And when she couldn’t find you, she found Aiden. Fell asleep on his desk.”
I looked at my Alpha who was still glaring at me. He softened the tiniest bit. “She’s cute, and she wasn’t hurting anything, so I let her stay. But the minute she starts chewing on wires, that’s it.”
“Why were you mad?” Brooks asked. The energy in the air was still tense.
The whole thing came out, and I finally told the rest of them about the story.
I’d meant to tell them before, but we’d all been busy or occupied.
“I pitched the story to my boss today. I already wrote most of the thing and he completely shut me down. He wouldn’t even consider it.
And he had the audacity to say that one of the ‘heavy hitters’ would pick the story up, as if I’m somehow not good enough to find the truth and write about it.
“The schedule said they were doing a load of cars today, so I didn’t think about it, I just went.
Because this is my story, and I’m going to find a way to fucking publish it, with or without Edgar’s cranky ass.
” They chuckled at that. “Besides. Tracy did a lot of really good work on it. It would be a shame if no one gets to see it.”
Silence took over the room, except for Cinder pouncing after Logan’s fingers as he dragged them over the carpet.
“I promise I wasn’t trying to do anything dangerous. I just wanted to get what I needed for the story.”
“I’m still looking into everything,” Aiden said. “A certain Omega has been occupying my time.”
I smirked. “Guilty as charged.”
Aiden came to where I sat on the floor and knelt in front of me.
I enjoyed the sight, because I imagined Aiden Fletcher on his knees was rare.
“Promise me you won’t do this again. Going by yourself.
I’m not telling you not to go, but this was reckless, violet.
” His voice was so quiet at the end I barely heard it.
“Yeah,” I whispered. “I understand. I’m sorry.”
He slid a hand behind my neck and kissed me. I ended up fully stretched out on the floor while he consumed me with kisses that felt like fire. He jerked away, hissing in pain, and a second later Cinder peered down at me from over his shoulder while everyone else laughed.
Still, Aiden kept his eyes on mine. “I still don’t believe in coincidences,” he said. “So please keep this promise.”
“I will.”