“Hell no. I figured we have to decide what the hell to do,” Parker said. “So I called you.”
Sebastian didn’t miss the fact that Parker had turned to him for a solution. He ran a hand over his hair and groaned. “We get the full story of what went on here, and then we bring it to Ethan, no speculation involved.”
Ashley’s eyes gleamed with approval.
“Agreed,” Parker said. “Sierra doesn’t want to hurt him, either. So we’re all sworn to silence until you two figure out their relationship. Any ideas how to do that?”
“We’ll head over to that club tonight and have a talk with Mr. Nichols,” he said with no respect in his use of the man’s name. “I’ll get back to you when I know more. Hopefully this is a lead on what is wrong with the locks, too. I’m going to meet with Greg Munson this morning. Discuss the Sparrow components with him. I should know more then.”
“Thanks, Sebastian. You’re doing great out there,” Parker said, taking him by surprise.
His heart warmed at his brother’s praise. “Thanks, man. I’ll be in touch.” He disconnected the call and met Ashley’s gaze, her expression disturbed.
“This is awful,” she said.
He couldn’t deny the obvious. “Listen, I want to take you to buy a dress for tonight’s trip to Marquee. Something you don’t normally wear, that won’t look out of place. We don’t want to stand out. I want Nichols to talk to me, not run the other way.”
“You want me to buy a sexy dress?” she asked in a husky voice, running her fingers through his hair as she spoke.
His entire body responded to her teasing touch, his cock now tenting the white covers. “One that’s going to make every guy in the place look twice. At which point I’m going to have to kick the ass of anyone who glances at you sideways,” he muttered, suddenly not liking his plan all that much.
“I’ll need a pair of fuck-me heels,” she murmured. “The kind that’ll let me swivel my hips and make you drool.”
He curled his hands into the covers. “As long as I’m the one who gets to bring you home and fuck you in them later, I’ll live with it,” he said.
She lowered her head, brushing her lips back and forth over his before lifting her head. “I don’t want to think about Mandy cheating on Ethan.” Pain flashed in her eyes.
“Me neither.” Not until they had to. “So let’s do something to make us forget.” He pushed the sheets down to his legs and kicked them the rest of the way off. “C’mere,” he said in a gruff voice.
She pushed herself up and straddled his lap with her naked body. His erection stood proudly between them, just waiting for her to act.
She slid her fingers over the droplets of come on the tip and his cock twitched at her sensitive touch.
“Condoms?” she asked.
He reached over to the nightstand where he’d stashed some and handed her a packet. Eyes gleaming, she tore open the foil and pulled out the latex covering, placing it over him and rolling it down his shaft.
“Ready?” he asked.
A seductive smile pulled at her lips as she rose and positioned herself over him, teasing him by gliding down oh so slowly.
“Oh God,” she said and, without waiting, released her tight hold and took him inside her completely.
“Fuck.” He gritted his teeth at the amazing feeling of being clasped in her wet heat.
And then she began to move, a seductress, gliding herself up and down on his shaft, as she rode him, head thrown back, her moans uninhibited.
He grasped her hips and held on as she took her pleasure. He didn’t know how he held on as she built higher. She was gorgeous, cheeks flushed, breasts bouncing, the sounds of ecstasy filling his ears.
And then her tone changed, her eyes closed, and she let out a shuddering moan that undid him, sending him spiraling into his own climax. They came at the same time, his entire being lost to the woman holding not just his cock inside her body but his heart in her hands.
Chapter Nine
Ashley didn’t believe in cheating, which was why she was so upset about Mandy and Ethan. Love might not be something she understood, but commitment was. And Mandy had violated the most basic of understandings between two people. Even Ashley, for all her faults when it came to deep relationships, would never cheat on someone she cared about. And she certainly wouldn’t want someone doing it to her.
She glanced down at her hand, firmly clasped in Sebastian’s bigger one, and her heart flipped over. If another woman laid a hand on him, her claws would definitely come out, she thought. She understood that much about their relationship.
A few minutes later, as they walked into Knight Time Technology, her phone rang, and seeing Jonathan’s name sent her reeling.