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“One, don’t call me Rubes. Two, I don’t need any man’s fucking protection. But by all means, continue spouting sexist bullshit and we’ll see how far that gets you.”
She's already a legend
She’s fucking toxic, and there’s something lingering under her words and touch that sets me on edge in similar ways that Dom does.
5€ she's in that fucked up cult
Ruby is actually the first one to drop her bag and head into the kitchen, immediately taking the dip in her hands and jumping her ass on my counter. Her ass is on my counter. I’m both annoyed and slightly turned on by it.
Miss "I'm straight"
“Besides, I’m surprised you’d even entertain the idea of kissing her after how The Nation raised you.”
Shut the fuck up bitch
That would taint their vessels before ascending. They wouldn’t risk it. And the fact that I’m even thinking like this again is what’s scaring me the most. I haven’t used those words—vessels, ascending, rungs, recruits—in so fucking long.
“But lucky for you, crazy is my favorite.”
“I’m not fucking good for you. You should have never stepped inside my club tonight.” “I don’t care,”
I watched you almost shoot your fucking boyfriend and best friend in the fucking head tonight. I saw that, and I was the one who woke you up after you were crying and begging not to do it.”
“Good news for you, big boy. I have no intentions of stealing your plants.”
“I’ll let Aura take care of those when she dumps your ass and moves in with me.”
“Excuse me?” I ask incredulously. Because he cannot be saying what I think he’s saying. “You heard me. If you fuck her, I get to be there. I get to watch. I’m her fucking boyfriend.”
Bethie and him are a fucking match made in Heaven, I’ll give them that.
Hawk and me. Me and Hawk. Comfortable. Typical. Conventional.
I just want to breathe again. I want to feel alive again. God, she's like my fucking drug. One hit and I was already addicted.
It’s an art, this form of entertainment and while I know there are dark and dangerous things that happen here, there’s also something so magnetic about the energy in this place.
She’s fucking sexy, a flawless embodiment of everything that will ruin me.
I do believe her actually, but she doesn’t get to know that. Not yet.
“First of all, there is nothing for you to fix because there’s nothing wrong with me.
It's such a constant pull of emotions between us. We're either fighting or fucking, but I'm sick of it. And I need to leave Hawk, that's perfectly clear after this.
I lean forward until I'm only inches away from her ear, "Are we friends now?"
I watch her. Fucking flawless, that's what she is. A perfect downfall to everything I've been manipulated to believe.
"I can't fucking leave her," I whispered so that only K could hear me. "I can't leave her with him." "You have to. Tonight, you have to."
I'm a little braver, a bit stronger, and I think Ruby is the one who's been pulling that strength out of me.
She can't fucking dance in that. But she will. That's one thing I've learned about Aura. Give her the taste of freedom, the tiniest bite, and she'll take all of it.
"You wearing that for me? Or because you honestly think you'll be able to swing around a pole in it?"
"You like plants?" "It's a recent discovery I've fallen in love with," she says quietly.
I come up against her, gripping her jaw with my hand as I force her to look at me. "Say it again." "You're a fucking bitch,"
"Stop saying you're sorry and fuck me.
"It's like three in the morning. Do you ever fucking sleep?" I rub my palms against my eyes,
“Do you want to know how she is?” I ask him, my voice quiet and low while his wild eyes bounce back and forth between my own. “How she fucks when you’re actually giving her what she likes.” Another hit, this time harder, and the burst of metallic coats my tongue while a smile pulls along my face. “God she’s good. The best I’ve ever had. You know how she does that thing with her tongue on your clit? Or the way her moans sound when she’s crying your name?”
“But you can call her daddy.”
We all know nobody's gonna call Aura daddy. You're probably the one who gets called Daddy, let's be for real Ruby😭
“Get up here and sit on my fucking face,”
Excuse me Miss? Murder and smut goes hand in hand it seems
For some reason, I think this club holds far deeper secrets than even we’re aware of.
She's the other half of my soul. The piece they believe corrupted me. But she's the only one who's ever set me free.
"You guys in here?" Bethie's voice sounds out from the room and Ruby drops her forehead against my shoulder, sighing out in frustration as her fingers tighten around my waist.
