He narrowed his eyes at me. “Even if it costs your mother a place to live?”
I shook my head and laughed. As if my mother didn’t have other options. “You let me worry about my mom.” I headed for the door. “If I were you, I’d worry about what your daughter is going to think when she hears this.” I reached the door and looked over at Simon. “See you later, errand boy.”
I shoved the door open and escaped from the house. I took one last look at it before I got in my SUV.
Poor Addison. All the money in the world wouldn’t make up for having a father like Brantley.
As I drove away, I picked up my phone and dialed.
“Hello?”
“Hey, baby. How’s it going?”
“Good. How are you? Enjoying your day off?”
I had to talk to her about her father, but I didn’t want to do it over the phone. “It’s fine.”
“Are you okay?” Her voice changed, now sounding concerned.
I smiled that she knew me well enough to know something was wrong. “Yeah, I just needed to hear your voice.”
“You’re so sweet.”
“Don’t tell anyone, okay?”
She laughed.
“You’ll be home tomorrow morning?”
“Yep. Bright and early.”
“Okay. Come say hi when you get back, all right?”
“Promise.”
I hung up the phone, feeling a little bit better but dreading the conversation I was going to have with her in the morning.
Thirty-Nine
Addison
I wish I were able to sneak into Maddox’s room like he was able to sneak into mine. I supposed I needed some military training in order to know how to do that. Instead, I pulled out the old spare key I had from when the Carson brothers had lived there. I had taken care of their dog a couple of times while they were on vacation. I just hoped the key still worked.
It worked but not without some jiggling.
Damn these old doors and old locks.
I pushed the door open and was greeted by darkness. It was only about ten at night, but Maddox must have already gone to bed. I was glad that I had used the key instead of knocking. I padded quietly into the room and shut the door.
The moment the latch clicked, a hand went around my mouth, and a hard body slammed me into the wall. I tried to yell out in fright.
“Addison?”
It was Maddox.
“Yes,” I said, but it came out muffled.
He dropped his hand and spun me around. My eyes had adjusted to the light. I could see a gun in one hand, thankfully pointed away from me.
I heard him flick the safety on.
“What are you doing here?”
“I came back early.”
He chuckled. “Yeah, I can see that. But why?”
I put my hands on his chest. Ooh, it’s bare. I dragged my fingers down, down, down. “I wanted to see you,” I told him.
He brushed his lips against mine. “What are you doing?”
“Checking to see if you’re naked.”
He pushed his pelvis into me. “Spoiler alert: I am.”
I gasped as I took his length in my hand. “You’re hard.”
He nuzzled my neck. “Adrenaline. Plus, a hot woman just snuck into my apartment.” He sucked on my skin.
“Wow. You’re so lucky. What are you going to do to her?”
He chuckled again and put his mouth next to my ear. “Fuck her, of course.”
Maddox set his gun down on the bookshelf next to him and attacked my shorts and underwear. He yanked them down my legs, and I helped by trying to kick them off. He picked me up, I wrapped my legs around his waist, and he slammed into me.
My head fell back and hit the wall. “Ah.” I hadn’t quite expected that.
Maddox used one hand to hold me up and the other to pull down the straps of my tank top and bra. When my breasts were uncovered, he sucked one nipple into his mouth.
My pussy clamped down on him in immediate reaction, and I felt him smile against my skin.
“Have I ever told you how much I love how you respond to me?” he asked as he gripped my hips and pounded into me.
I shook my head and tightened my thighs on his hips. I couldn’t move my arms any higher because my tank top and bra had them pinned to my sides. “I don’t know.”
He laughed. “Rhetorical question, baby.” He kissed me. “But I do.”
“Have I ever told you how much I love how you fuck me?” I returned.
“Only every time I’m inside you.”
I dug my nails into his sides as he shifted and entered me at a new angle. I opened my mouth as little gasps escaped.
“You close, Addy?”
“Uh…uh…” I nodded.
Maddox sucked my other nipple into his mouth and then let it go with a pop. “Yeah, you are. I can feel it.” He kissed between my breasts and up my chest. He kissed the front of my throat and around to the other side of my neck. “You want me to come inside you, Addy?”
I squeezed his cock with my pussy.
“Yeah, you like it when I come in you, don’t you?”
I could hear the grin in his voice.
I did. I really did. I’d always practiced safe sex, except with Maddox. If he ever tried to use a condom, I’d probably rip it off him.
“Yeah, I love coming in your bare pussy, too. I love knowing that my cum is inside you. I hope other males can smell it on you, so they know you’re mine.”
I screamed out and clutched Maddox to me as I came.
He pushed me hard against the wall, spread my legs out, and shoved inside me one last time as he exploded, filling me with his seed.
After we both caught our breaths, Maddox gently set my legs on the ground. I was grateful for the care, as they were shaking from having sex and the position they’d been in.
Maddox took my tank top and bra off and threw them behind him. “Better.” He ran his hand down my throat and to my crotch where he pushed two fingers into me. He was gentle but thorough.
I gasped and clutched his biceps.
He pulled his hand away and then stuck his fingers in my mouth. This wasn’t the first time he’d done that, and I loved watching the heat flare in his eyes when I seized hold of his hand and sucked his fingers clean.
He growled and kissed me, and I shared the taste of us with him.
He drew his mouth away, grabbed his gun, and picked me up under my knees.
I laughed. “What are you doing?”
“Taking you to bed.”
I sighed in contentment and rested my head on his shoulder. “Okay.”
He laid me down in his big bed, put his gun in the nightstand, and got in next to me.
“Why the gun when I got back tonight?” I understood he’d thought someone might be breaking in, but it seemed kind of extreme.
He put his arms behind his head. “It’s going to sound weird, but after I got back from working out this afternoon, I swear, someone had been in my apartment.”
I shivered. The whole thought of someone being in my personal space without my knowledge creeped me out. “Was anything missing or out of place?”
“Not at first glance, no. And I haven’t gone through everything, but I can’t shake the feeling. It might sound odd, but in the military, I learned to rely on my instincts.”