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I teased his lips open withthe seam of his mouth, and dipped inside when he finally opened up I licked across the curve of his lower lip and darted inside to twist ue around his He tasted like coffee and a faint hint of toothpaste He tasted real and clean He tasted like everything thatfor

In typical Titus fashion he only let things be soft and sweet for a second before he took over One of his hands found my ass as he jerked me closer and bent his head closer to mine so he could devourand had dirty, sexy things floating around in our eyes I could seeback at ood look for me It was a better look on him

He pulled open ers across the front of his jeans and the straining hardness that I kneaiting for me there

He got behind the wheel of the car and gave me a hot look out of the corner of his eye “Did you see Honor?”

“Keelyn,” I corrected autoetting shot”

“Anyone would”

I nodded absently “She’s looking to es”

“NassirI didn’t think it was a serious threat I didn’t think he would let her leave He has wo all over him, but for some reason she’s the only one he treats like an actual hu Typically he treats everyone like they are just a nuisance and a waste of his time”

I fiddled absently with s and broken sidewalks flew by in a blur If you squinted just right it was almost pretty, like abstract art Almost

“I don’t think he’ll know she’s gone until it’s too late She knows he wouldn’t let her leave and she would let him convince her to stay She needs to see what it’s like out there She needs to see that nowhere is like the Point, and that isn’t always a good thing”

He reached out a hand and settled it on estures between us that were tearing er and traced the heavy veins on the back of his hand around the clean bandage I had wrapped around it after our sexual acrobatics on the bed earlier He was lucky the stitches hadn’t pulled open, as aggressive and handsy as he tended to get when he let loose

“Is that what you figured out in WITSEC? The grass isn’t always greener?”

I gave a bitter laugh and rubbed rass until WITSEC I wasn’t one of those girls that chased boys on the Hill I wasn’t trying to date outside ot used and abused I was always the one that was doing the using I learned grass is hard to keep green and you need a lot of idle tirow it I’s, so I’ll take the concrete and the asphalt any day You don’t have to keep it alive, you just have to hose it off”