Deceptive Truce (Bay Ridge Royals Book 3) by Heather Long

Author:Heather Long [Long, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-01-23T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Twenty

ADAM

Isank my hands into Lainey’s hair and devoured her mouth. My lips were still tingling from the kiss Ezra hit me with. My jaw ached from the bruise from his fist, and my mouth from the taste of⁠—

Fuck. Agony exploded through me when Lainey’s knee slammed into my dick. Fuck.

I staggered backwards. All the breath left my body. Fuck.

Fuck.

Fuck.

Grimacing, I doubled over and squinted up to where she glared at me with her kiss-swollen lips, flushed cheeks, and shining eyes. Wearing nothing but Ezra’s shirt with his cum sliding down her legs, she’d never looked more goddamn beautiful.

“You with me again?” The damn near-dry observation pulled a pained laugh out of my breathless lungs. “I’ll take that as a yes. We need to go and find Ezra. If you don’t want to go, fine. I am.”

With that, she turned to the sofa and began to pull her clothes out from under a blanket.

A blanket, really?

Fuck, I limped over to a chair to sit. The pain had helped, actually, shocking clarity back into my system.

“Lainey…”

“He’s your best friend,” she said, her voice notching upward in a way it only did when fear hit her. My fearless girl. She didn’t panic. She didn’t rant. She just—did. “And he just bared his soul to us and then ran. How could you stop me?”

I sighed. “Lainey…”

When she flipped through the clothes with a frenetic energy that worried me more than Ezra’s outburst, I packed away the pained response.

She needed me.

“Elaine.” I infused her name with every ounce of command and she whirled to face me. Pallor had sapped all the flushed color from her face. “Come here.”

I’d go to her if I had to, but it was better for both of us if she did what I told her. If she listened. Especially with that wild look in her eyes. My girl didn’t deserve this; if we broke her, we had to fix it.

I had to fix it.

“Now.”

The last syllable actually galvanized her from frozen to stalking over to me. She had a pair of leggings in her hand and her panties. They were a lovely shade of lace. I tugged them from her and hauled her onto my lap.

“Adam,” she said, and my name came out an aggrieved groan.

“Yes, Adam,” I reminded her and ignored the throbbing from my aching cock. Damn thing was still half-hard despite how fucking well-delivered her knee had been. I wrapped her up and held her close. “Listen to me…”

“Ezra…”

“Will. Be. Fine.” I stressed each word, tightening my arms around her. The trembling was coming as the adrenaline crashed. “Trust me, Lainey.”

The impatient look she shot at me was way more her. “Why?”

“Because he is my best friend,” I told her. “He has been since we were children. Long before there was a you. Or a you and me. Or a you and him. There was—an us. I know him. He needs to run. Until he stops running, he won’t be ready to talk. If you chase him—if I chase him, we’ll just make it worse.

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