digging,” he says. “I haven’t found
anything yet, but if you can get me the passwords to the archives,
security clearance to look at the old records...”
“I heard someone say
they keep all the old documents in a storage facility out in Queens,”
I remember. “They were finding things for the gala, old photos.
I’ll make a call and get you access.”
I turn away, but Vaughn
reaches out to grab my arm. “Be careful,” he tells me, his voice
low with intensity. “You can’t trust a single person in that
place. Anyone could have pushed you.”
“You think I don’t
know that?” My chest twists, just thinking that someone hates me so
much that they’re capable of causing me harm. “I’ve been over
it a hundred times, trying to figure out who it was. Brent, Carter,
Isabelle, even Cam.”
Vaughn’s face
changes. “What about me?” he asks. “Did you ever think it was
me?”
I stare at him. “What?
No. Not for a second.”
Relief crashes over
him. “How could you be so sure?” he asks, sounding hollow. “You
just found out I’d been lying to you all along, that I wanted
revenge for my father. I should have been top of your list.”
I shake my head firmly.
“Even when you broke my heart in two, I knew you would never lay a
hand on me like that. I may not have known much about you, but I know
that for sure.”
“Thank you,” Vaughn
murmurs. He brings my hand up and presses it against his chest. Over
his heart. “I promise, Keely, I won’t let you down again. You can
trust me now.”
I look into his dark
eyes, and I believe him. I know he won’t ever betray me again.
“And you can trust
me,” I whisper. “You let me in now, Vaughn. Don’t ever shut me
out again. The only way this is going to work is if we do it
together. Total honesty. I can’t take it if you pull away again.”
He chuckles softly.
“Never going to happen, baby.” Vaughn leans down and kisses me on
the lips. A searing promise of a kiss. “You’re stuck with me now.
We’re going to figure this bullshit with Ashcroft Industries out.
And I’m going to fuck you hard every night while we do it,” he
adds, with a wicked glint in his eye. “You don’t even know the
things I’ve been dreaming up for that body. I’m going to make you
come screaming for every second we were apart. Every part, every inch
of you.
“ Everywhere .”
6
VAUGHN
We spend the next days
trying to unravel Ashcroft’s fucked-up past -- and figure out a way
to shut down the new threat of a takeover. I spend hours out in the
old archive facility, digging through records and papers, and my
nights claiming Keely’s body again. Branding every inch of her
tender flesh with my tongue, my hands.
My ravenous cock.
It’s different
between us now. I’ve always gotten bored of a girl’s cunt after a
few hard go-arounds: abused it mercilessly, then moved onto the next.
But I want Keely more every day. My lust only growing. My appetite
for her unsatisfied, no matter how much I gorge on her dripping pussy
or blow my load into her hungry, eager mouth.
She’s changed. The
nervous, cock-shy girl I met at the start of this all has been
replaced by a confident woman. She still blushes to hear me talk
dirty, but there’s a new power to her now. She’ll call me up in
the middle of the day and tell me how she’s rubbing her clit,
imagining my mouth on her, driving me crazy so that when she walks
through the door at night, I don’t wait a minute before throwing
her down on her hands and knees and fucking that wet slit until she
screams.
And at work, she’s
finding her feet. Determined to save the company. I have to admire
her for it. Any other girl would have taken the money Brent offered
and run, but Keely cares about saving jobs, protecting her father’s
legacy.
A legacy I had wrong,
all along. One I’m doing my best to help her save, despite the
years I spent cursing his name.
There’s movement
across the street. I snap to attention, picking