Total pages in book: 156
Estimated words: 160192 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 801(@200wpm)___ 641(@250wpm)___ 534(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 160192 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 801(@200wpm)___ 641(@250wpm)___ 534(@300wpm)
Cleaning house had taken longer than anticipated. Moving the family business away from some of the more unsavory aspects, like human trafficking, had taken even longer again.
He’d had to take out every family member who’d opposed him.
Jared was no stranger to killing.
But he never harmed women and children.
Not like Beltran. Not like Fergus.
Now, though, they’d gotten word that Beltran had resurfaced. There were rumors. Sightings.
Two of Jared’s guys, Gunnar and Emiliano, had stayed in Colombia, opening up a security business. But now they were devoting all of their time to following up on these rumors.
They all wanted revenge.
“Jared?” North asked as Jared helped him up. “Are you all right?”
“You mean over the lies you’re telling me?”
He didn’t believe that North would betray him. He was his one constant. The single person Jared relied on.
North couldn’t betray him. Or Jared might just fall apart.
But even if North hadn’t admitted that there was something he was keeping from Jared, he’d known it in the way he was disappearing.
Sometimes he did that. But he usually told Jared where he was going and when he’d be back.
Not this time.
He’d been gone and Jared had had no idea when he’d be back or where he was.
Fuck.
He’d been worried about the secretive bastard. Even though North could take care of himself.
Jared was a possessive asshole. He knew he could be smothering. He tried not to do it to North, knowing that he didn’t like him taking charge around outside of play.
Jared had planned to just talk to him, but then he’d caught the scent of something sweet.
Like strawberries and cream.
And it had gone straight to his dick. Something he really hadn’t liked.
North smelled like he’d been holding something delicious.
Without permission.
And why did that smell turn Jared on so much?
Those were questions he’d had rolling around in his brain as he’d wrapped his hand around North’s neck, squeezing tight.
He knew that North liked that sort of rough play. But he’d also been completely intoxicated by that scent.
North wouldn’t cheat on him. North couldn’t tolerate most people.
Just Jared.
He was the only one that North allowed close.
Except this woman must have been close in order to get her scent on him.
So who was she?
Yeah. Those questions were going to burn a hole in his gut.
“I will tell you soon. And when I do . . . well, you might hate me. But you’ll also like what I have for you.”
“Jesus fucking Christ, North. What have you done?”
North shrugged. “What had to be done.”
“Why won’t you tell me now?”
“I’m not quite ready.”
Yeah. Jared didn’t like that either. But he decided to keep quiet.
For the moment.
With North, you couldn’t force him to do anything. And if you tried, it could backfire on you.
So he’d wait and he’d bide his time.
He expected North would cave soon. The guy couldn’t go that long without coming, right?
“Go shower,” Jared ordered in a harsher voice than he’d intended.
North stood with a nod and headed into the bathroom. Jared watched him for a long moment, studying his sexy sub.
He was all lean muscle and grace. North was a good actor. He liked to pretend to be mild-mannered and weak in front of others.
But Jared had seen him murder a man with his bare hands without breaking into a sweat.
He picked up North’s clothes and held them to his nose, sniffing. There was something about this scent.
Glancing down, he took in his already firm cock. He hadn’t recovered this quickly since he was a teenager.
That was interesting.
Dropping North’s clothes, Jared followed him into the bathroom. Stripping, he stepped into the shower behind the other man and grabbed his ass cheeks, squeezing before slapping them hard.
“Hands on the shower wall,” Jared ordered as he grabbed some lube they kept in the shower and squirted it onto his hand.
North groaned as Jared reached around and started to pump his cock.
“What is it, boy? Do you need to come?”
“Yes,” North groaned.
“That’s unfortunate for you, isn’t it? Because you don’t get to come until you tell me why you smelled like a woman had been rubbing against you.” Jared slapped his ass cheek with his free hand, making North stiffen.
Then he bit down sharply on the lobe of his ear.
“Fuck,” North said.
Yeah, his boy liked a bit of pain with his pleasure.
Not that he was getting too much pleasure.
“Bend over,” Jared ordered.
“Christ, you’re going to kill me.”
“That would be too simple. I’m going to torture you until you spill your secret.”
“And then you’ll likely kill me,” North muttered.
“North, for fuck’s sake, what have you done?” Jared demanded.
North just shook his head and bent over. Jared lubed his fingers again and pressed two deep into the other man’s ass, making him moan.
Jared knew that North could stay absolutely quiet if he wanted. That he could easily pretend to be unaffected.
That he gave him some real reactions was a testament to how much North felt for him.