Soldiers of Chaos- Chaos Abounds: Book 1 in the Soldiers of Chaos series by A.A. Askevold Page A

she parted her lips instead of opening her eyes and Trace didn't miss a trick. He sighed but slipped his tongue slowly into her mouth gently sliding it over hers. She let the moment take her over and her body relaxed into his her hands sliding up into his hair. Her chest ached badly and she knew Trace's medicine was gonna make her burn and break, exactly what she didn't want. Her body reacted to his touch in spite of the intense emotions crushing her and anyway she couldn’t tell him no anymore than she could tell Tex. They had history, the three of them, a long complicated intertwined history. Tex was that bad boy that fuelled all women’s sexual fantasies, rough, straight talking and sexy as sin, he was lust personified. Trace he was the good guy, as good as it got in her world anyway, sweet talking class clown, with a smile that would make a girl melt and who had always treated her like she was precious. She had been a sucker for both more than once in her life.
     
    His hand moved to cup her breast his thumb circling her nipple slowly drawing it out. Then his finger joined his thumb and he rolled her hardening nipple between them causing her clit to tingle and her muscles to spasm. He backed away from her slightly and smoothed her lips with his thumb. Then he removed both their shirts. He paused to lightly touch her bruised stomach then returned to his slow loving of her mouth with his. She kept her hands firmly buried in his hair and her eyes closed willing herself not cry. She felt him fidgeting with his jeans then the brush of his naked skin against her bare legs. Then the next thing she knew her panties were gone and Trace's weight was settled firmly between her thighs his hard length brushing against her moist folds. His mouth left hers and she felt his eyes on her face as he positioned himself. "Please baby" he whispered to her his tone pleading with her but she couldn't look at him, she just couldn't. He'd see how fucked up she was on the inside and they'd never let her go, him and Tex, they'd spend the rest of their lives trying to fix her. She didn't want to be weak, weak in this world was the equivalent of dead. He sighed again in defeat and slid into her slowly bringing his mouth back to hers. He worked himself in and out of her in an unhurried pace till the ache between her legs matched the ache in her heart in its intensity. They were both breathing hard and she could feel the sheen of sweat that covered their skin. She was so close to the edge when he whispered her name gently and lovingly against her lips. A tear slid out of her still closed eyes and her body answered his call falling hard over the edge clamping down on his generous length. His own body responded to hers as he thrust hard and deep, groaning quietly into her neck. Before she could collect herself his name slipped past her lips on a sob and Trace's arms immediately slid under and around her crushing her into him. Fuck no.
     
    She drew in a deep breath and squashed those feelings back down inside her. In, out, deep and slow. It was only once she had her shit together that she opened her eyes and looked up at him. Trace's face changed instantly. She knew that look well, regret. She'd closed herself off to him. He squeezed his own eyes shut and dropped his head, when his eyes came back to her he was all business and it was her turn to feel regret. He slid out of her slowly and rolled onto his back next to her. "Tex told me what happened. You gonna tell us who they were?" She stared up at the ceiling alongside him. She shook her head "No." "You gonna tell us where you were exactly not just in town but which club?" "No it's over, taken care of" at least she hoped it was and she had no reason to doubt that Marcus would've dealt with it. "By some guy who stepped in?" she felt his head shift towards her. "Yeah" she turned back to him "I'm fine Trace, I'm alive and kicking. Those guys didn't know who I was and they won't be showing their face on the