Hers To Keep (Servite Academy #2)

Chapter 11

Chapter

Eleven

SCARLETT

T he comedown is hard, just like I knew it would be.

My body already misses the feel of him inside me. I don’t know why I still bother trying to convince myself that I don’t want him, that I won’t give in to him. My primal instincts go to shit with just looking at him, and now as he lays here beside me, breathless and manic, his tattooed chest rising and falling as he catches his breath, I’m in a trance of sorts, a reverie of lust.

I can see his sweat, like raindrops delicately placed upon his chest. The remnants of his cum still dripping out of my pussy and my thighs still vibrating from the intensity of his thrusts. The thrusts I begged him for.

I asked him to go rough and just this once—he didn’t fail me. This time he kept his word.

I turn and lay my head upon his chest. The warmth of his skin is too much for my overheated body, but I’m unable to move away. My fingers trace over the ink splayed across his skin, noticing one on his lower abdomen I hadn’t seen before, a heart with thorn covered vines wrapped tightly around it, cutting off its blood flow. It’s a real human heart, not a drawing of one. The details are so intricately illustrated it looks realistic. I trace the outline of the heart, following the left and right ventricles up to its aorta, and around the thorn vines that lead down to the succulent V-shape of his pelvic bone, his Adonis belt.

My eyes follow my fingers, as they roam down spotting his dick, thick and erect ready for more. I grin wickedly, licking my lips, imagining the taste and feel of his cock in my mouth. I reach my tongue out to lick the skin right under his heart tattoo, creeping my hand down slowly, wrapping my fingers around his length.

“Mhmm,” he moans, as I wrap my fingers around his length, rubbing my thumb along the tip and spreading the precum already seeping out.

“So eager and ready for more.” I whisper breathily. “Are you ready to go again?”

Though just as I’m about to lower my lips and take his cock in my mouth, we hear a set of voices inside the bedroom.

“How long do you think, till they realize we’re here?” Jade speaks, from somewhere behind me.

Sebastian speaks next, his voice just as loud and clear as hers. “I’d give them a few more seconds, now that your manly voice ought to have given us away.”

“Oh shut it, Bass, you love my deep rasp.”

“I love that rasp, so deep down in your throat.”

“Ugh, you’re a pig,” she sneers, her voice getting louder as the two continue bickering like always.

I nearly jump off of Ace, off of the bed naked when I realize they nearly watched me give Ace a fucking blowjob right in front of them.

Twisting my body around, I pull the sheet over my body, exposing Aces but making sure mine’s covered from their prying eyes. A bright light from the window illuminates two figures standing at the foot of the bed. My vision tries to focus on their face before me, but my head is aching so terribly, my eyes threaten to close, blinded by the sunlight.

Fuck, I drank almost half a bottle of whiskey, after all the beer we drank down by the lake. Not to mention the euphoria of crazy hate sex with Ace.

“Please let me not only be imagining their voices but also seeing shadows where there aren’t any,” I whisper to myself but Aces chuckle beside me only confirms my suspicions.

Jade creeps over to sit at the end of the bed, Bass standing beside her with a wicked smirk teasing his lips as he looks between his best friend, who’s buck naked and his closed, to me also naked but using the silk sheet as my shield.

“What the fuck, guys?” I shout, sitting up and pulling the sheet further up my chest.

“Rise and shine, sleeping beauties. Or should I say, you little lovebirds.” Bass winks devilishly, Ace’s raspy chuckle making me highly aware of him as he leans back against the headboard, his arms folded behind his head like he’s so fucking relaxed.

“You think this is fucking amusing, don’t you?!” I yell, and Ace laughs louder. “Fuck you, Ace, you probably called them in here.” I grab the pillow from behind me, whacking him over the head with it.

“Watch it, babe, they came in here on their own. But I’ll still turn you around and fuck you here and now with an audience if you hit me with something again.”

“Yeah, that won’t be necessary,” Jade says, rising from the spot she was sitting at the end of the bed, and walking over to my side. “Why don’t you boys head downstairs, I need to have a word with my sister,” she adds, sitting beside me, but neither guy moves a muscle.

“You heard what she said,” I say, scowling at them .

“All right,” Ace answers, getting up and flashing his bare ass at us. Fuck why do these boys have to take everything so literally.

“Woah, I did not need to see that,” Jade says, turning away from him as he turns to us, his morning wood saluting me.

“You asked, babe.” Ace turns and grabs his jeans from last night off the chair in the corner of the room, slipping them on not bothering to put his boxers on, before walking out and heading downstairs.

“Ugh, boys,” Jade mutters, aggravated by their childishness, rolling her eyes at the scene before us.

“Nah, baby, we ain’t boys, we’re grown ass men,” Bass says before following Ace out the door.

Wishing she’d left too, I slowly turn my head to look over at Jade who’s watching Bass’s every move as he exits. “Baby?” I ask curiously.

“Ugh, don’t ask,” she answers, not explaining further, and I don’t ask. Don’t think I have the energy to dissect whatever’s going on there. “Anyway, it looks like you had a good night, it’s nearly noon and I swear you only woke up because we came in.”

“Noon?” I ask, surprised I slept in so long. After the night I had I needed a break. “Fuck,” I fall back, my head landing harshly against the pillow beneath me.

She tugs my arm lifting me back up. “No, no, no, it’s time to get out of bed, sleeping beauty. We’ve got swimsuits to wear and a hot tub to visit.”

“Hot Tub? It’s almost winter, Jade.”

“Like I said, hot tub , duh.”

“I didn’t pack any swimwear,” I whine, sitting up but keeping the sheets held against me.

“I knew you’d forget, so I packed you a few options. Come on, Scar, live a little, we’re teenage girls in a cabin in the woods with the hottest guys in school.” I shake my head, cursing her for somehow always making me cave into her demands .

“Fine, but you need to tell me what all that was about with you and Bass.”

She scoffs, rolling her eyes walking over to the doorway. “And I say this with the utmost respect, you couldn’t fucking handle it,” she says, storming off as I jump out of bed, slip on my clothes, and rush out behind her.

After changing into our swimsuits, and grabbing something quick for breakfast, well lunch technically, since it’s afternoon, we head out toward the yard of the cabin, where there are two hot tubs on the right side of the large deck, one currently occupied by the Horsemen and another empty I’m assuming for us.

“Damn, look at you babes,” Kai hollers, whistling from behind us as he, Jax, and Ruby follow us out of the cabin. Ruby scoffs, pulling Jax away from us and toward the empty hot tub causing Jade and I to laugh. Jade coquettishly twirls around showing off her perfect figure in the white two-piece swimsuit, while I turn and flip him off. Stella, however, hunches forward slightly trying to shield her body from his view.

I hook my arm through hers leading her toward the picnic table about ten feet away from the hot tub the guys are in. From the corner of my eye I can see their gazes follow us, as we sit down on the bench. “You okay?” I whisper, making sure only she can hear me.

“Yeah, I’m good. It’s just, I can’t help but get intimidated when he’s around,” she says, looking up at Kai who grabs a beer from one cooler with Jade. “Especially after seeing the type of girls he goes for, and you two, even Ruby looking the way you do. And then Kinsley and Carrington and them, you are all perfect and his type, and I’m just…”

I stop her, bringing my hands to rest atop her shoulders, as she looks up at me. “Stella, how many times do I have to tell you that you’re fucking gorgeous? I mean look at you,” I say motioning to the hot pink and white polka-dot bikini she has on under her lace coverup .

“I’m an A-cup at best, have absolutely no ass, and I’m stick figure thin. Have you seen what Casey looks like?” she asks, mentioning Kai’s go to girl. “She’s an hourglass figure, the perfect 36–24–36. And I…”

“You have this,” I reach my hand out, placing it over the left side of her chest over her heart. “No matter what we look like, what they look like, what any of the girls he goes for look like. None of them are close to being anything like you because you have this, a heart. A warm-blooded, beating heart. You are kind, you don’t judge us, although you’re sort of judging him unfairly right now,” she scoffs, turning away from me, but I quickly pull her face back to me. “Kai, he’s a one-of-a-kind guy, I can’t with words explain why he sometimes does the things he does. But if you really like him, and if there is ever a chance that you want something more than a friendship with him, my only advice is that you be patient. He’s going to fuck up, a lot, it’s just how he deals with his emotions—he doesn’t. And they bubble and boil inside of him until they erupt in some totally reckless and impulsive way that will hurt you. But deep down he’s the perfect guy.”

“I don’t know if that’s something I’d ever be able to handle,” she admits.

“Then that’s the choice you have to make. Is what you feel worth it?” I ask her, but somehow, I feel that deep down, the question isn’t for her, but for me.

“You two just gonna sit out there in the cold or are you coming in?” Bass shouts out as Jade comes over to stand with us. She rolls her eyes and flips him off as she looks to him, turning back and handing us each a beer.

“I’m gonna head over to the other one, no way I’m getting in a hot tub with them, you coming, Stella?” Jade asks.

“Yeah, I’m not getting in there either,” Stella says, standing and walking over to the tub.

“What about me?” I ask, and they both give me their best you’re kidding me looks .

“Um, yeah, good luck with Ace letting you go anywhere that isn’t with him.” At her comment, I can’t help but remember everything that's happened the last few days and how he’s the last person I should want to be with. I have to keep my distance. It’s essential to my survival and to remind myself that as much as my body craves him, as much as I ache for his touch, my mind should remain wary. He’s dangerous.

The temptation to fall into his clutches are too strong for my weak-willed self to resist. But I will prevail.

“Oh trust me, he won’t get a choice.”