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I let uttural moan before he slaedthat would get us arrested, I said, “Deal?”

“What happens if I don’t knock you on your ass?”

I opened my mouth to answer, but Eli interrupted me and said, “Shit, I don’t care,” he said as he stole another kiss “I come out on top either way”

I laughed at that “You’ll definitely start out on top, but it’s up to you if you stay there or not”

Eli growled and reached for the ?”

“To get a dao cup,” Eli barked and I watched hi as so I chuckled and settled my hand on Baby’s head when he rested it in my lap

Yeah, I was fucked all right In more ways than one

Because Matty wasn’t going to be the only one letting Eli win today

Chapter Fourteen

Eli

“You won!” Matty yelled in exaggerated delight and he held up his hand and gave me five

“I can’t believe it,” I said with a laugh as my eyes lifted to meet Mav’s My stomach dropped out at the look I saw there and I found it difficult to s after that I wasn’t sure, but it felt like so after I’d jerked hi – a quick, down and dirty actmore But that wasn’t how it had started and it definitely wasn’t how it had ended

As soon as I’d asked Mav to co to let Baby out, I’d sensed a profound change in hi me see the real hi those walls fall had come at a price too, and his vulnerability had made my heart ache The way he’d kissed ainst e of panic in every brush of his lips Like he was afraid to stop My instincts had taken over and I’d begun trying to ease his fear by bringing hiht it would be

Yes, he’d gotten off But I hadn’t missed the whimpers that had bubbled up fro and powerful as Mav was, he was plagued with the saht before Except my need had been sated by the way he’d made love to me, the way he’d held me and spoken to me and told me how beautiful and perfect I was I just hadn’t kno to give that back to him But when that sob of relief had slipped froht The way he’d lovingly washed my body in the shower, and I his, had been proof that whatever darkness had been rolling through him when I’d first woken up had subsided…for now

I’d been surprised to learn that Mav had been following me and then had turned that responsibility over to someone else, but it hadn’t bothered me as much as it probably should have Maybe because I was used to overprotectivewhat itwith had slipped away as soon as Mav had told ht of his entire life I’d ht for whatever this thing with Mav was, because every second I spent with hireat moments in life, but few compared to what I’d found in his arms, his touches, his looks

“Here,” Matty said as he handedletter E on the botto at his grandfather, Magnus, as sitting in the far corner of the rooot up and reached behind his chair

“Close your eyes,” Matty ordered softly and I quickly complied I heard some co close to Matty’s bed so I felt his little body shift on the mattress and then his hand touched ht dropped on my head, but I pretended not to notice as I awaited further instruction