Watch Your Back (Devil's Backbone, #2)
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“Fuck, Spark,” he gasped. “You’re so wet already.”
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“I’m sure I meant to say, I rigged us to be on the same team because I’m completely in love with you.”
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He’d said it plenty of times over the last few weeks, but I was yet to say it back. I was still scared of having my heart broken, despite knowing full fucking well that saying it out loud would change nothing. I knew I was falling way too hard, and if things fell apart, I would be utterly crushed.
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“Can’t it? You’re my obsession, Ashley. Every minute you’re not touching me, my heart aches. I love you so
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much, it literally hurts sometimes. Does that scare you?”
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“Yes,” I admitted ...
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“Oh w...
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“Too bad, because that’s just how it is for me…and deep down, I think you’re only scared beca...
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“Do you and Carter ever talk, or is this whole thing just about sex? Actually, don’t answer that. It’s a Portia Levigne Couture dress, Ashley. Portia is Carter’s mother. He changed
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all the sample size specs to your measurements last semester, so literally all her new concept gowns are perfectly made to measure for you.”
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“Christ, Roycey, for a man so good with his fingers,
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I expected you to know how to use chopsticks.”
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“And there goes my appetite,”
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“He’s just cranky because he hasn’t gotten laid in ages,”
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“And now that he’s fake engaged to you, none of the other girls at
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Nevaeh are an option or it’ll get ba...
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“Oh yeah? Have fun?”
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“Not really,” he admitted, sounding irritated. “Because apparently I can’t get my fake fiancée out of my head.”
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“I must have heard you wrong. It sounded like you’re looking at an apartment with my Squirrel, but
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that can’t be right because she lives here. With me.” “Oh, really?”
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“Squirrel, if you don’t get in the damn car in the next ten seconds, I will bend you over the hood and fuck your ass right here in broad daylight while all the nice people passing by watch.”
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“Oh, you totally wanted me to do it, didn’t you? Dirty little Squirrel. If it helps, I don’t have any lube on me, so probably would have only fucked your cunt.” “Ah, I see, so you deal in empty threats now? Good to know.”
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“Right. Now I need to
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start carrying lube in my glove box. And maybe some handcuffs, just in case.”
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“Cameron McIntyre?” Royce repeated, sounding nauseated. “That’s the girl who took Squirrel’s room in the dorms, right?” Well, fuck. That…was a good reason to panic.
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“Fuck, you’re already so wet. Spark, you were totally thinking dirty thoughts about my body that whole time.”
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“Yeah,” I agreed, “you’ve got a nice body, Sir Carter. I think dirty thoughts about it a lot.”
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“Do you want Heath to join in?”
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“Do you want us both to fuck you at the same time?”
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“Yes,” I admitted without any hesitation. “I really, really do. But only if you’re okay with it.”
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“I am,”
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“If anyone was curious. I’m okay with three-ways....
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I think, maybe, I regret agreeing with the guys that she’d have to choose between us at the end of the school year. Maybe this thing could
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actually work? God knows I can’t fathom losing any of my friends, but at the same time, I don’t think I’d survive losing her.
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“We believe Miss McIntyre was murdered, Ashley,” Max said softly, picking up a sheet of paper from the coffee table where it had been sitting face down. “We have reason to believe someone intends to hurt you, sweetheart, and Miss McIntyre was a message.”
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Watch your back… You’re next.
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“Jocelyn’s father worked for the military on a project called Hyperion. I remember it because Mike suspected she was using her father’s military connections to conduct research on her own master’s thesis.”
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“I think you already guessed, Ashley. Jocelyn was deeply involved in exploring the limitations and uses of hypnosis.”
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“I know,” he replied with a sexy smirk. “Still in love too.” Fuck. Same.
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“Anyway, I had a really hard time trying to think what I could get you for your birthday since you have everything
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you could possibly want already.”
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“Not every...
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“Oh, it’s a watch?”
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“It’s… I mean, yes. It’s a watch. But obviously not like the watches you guys wear, so don’t feel like you have to ever take it out of the case
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or anything, but it was my grandfather’s watch. Um, Mom’s dad, I mean. He used to say it was his lucky charm and that all the best things in his life happened while he was wearing that watch. He wanted to pass it down to his grandson, but I was it for Mom. Until she met Max.”
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“This is… No one has ever given me something so thoughtful.”
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“You don’t have to wear it,”
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“Yes. I do. I want to see if your grandfather’s luck is still lingering.”
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“What, um, what do you mean?”
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“Layne,” he murmured softly, “I wish⁠—” I cut him off by closing that gap between us and crushing my lips to his.