“We just have to play the part for now,” he said. “Just give me some time to figure it out.”

The hour passed by too quickly, and before we knew it, the guard was opening the door again to get us both. Michael was escorted off the campus with Julian, and I was ushered into a private dinner with my father. I would have rather eaten glass than have been made to sit at a table with that man again. My father ate like a hound, shoveling food into his mouth as though he were using it to fuel his evil. He wasn’t an obese man, but I wouldn’t have called him fit either.

“Marta filled you in on what you’re going to do for me?” he said.

“Smile and look pretty?” I said with sarcasm.

“Perfect.” He said, looking pleased with himself at my response.

After an hour of sitting with him and not eating, he eventually dismissed me.

I had only made it a short distance down the hall when someone came up behind me.

“I don’t need an escort everywhere I go,” I said. “It’s not like I’m going to run away.” And even if I could run away, I couldn’t leave the guys behind.

“It’s just me,” Adam said.

I turned around and flung myself into his arms. “What are you doing here?”

“I came to get you. They said we could go back to staying at my apartment, and I thought you’d prefer that to staying in this building so close to your father.”

“God, yes,” I said.

Adam wrapped his arm around me, and we walked across the campus and back to his apartment. It looked like the locks had been stripped from every door, so there was no way to lock it, but at least it was somewhere that wasn’t under the constant watch of my father’s henchmen.

“I heard they took Michael and Julian to Goldshire,” he said as he dug around in the cabinets until he found a bottle of whiskey that was still almost full. “I don’t get why they’re letting those two guys be together. You’d think they would be worried about them plotting against them.”

“I guess they figure those two don’t like each other much. I really don’t know. None of this makes any sense. I’m surprised they’re letting us stay together, too, for that matter.”

“What is your father going to make you do tomorrow?” Adam asked.

“I think Marta is having members of the press come to cover the official merger of the schools. I’m supposed to smile pretty and act all happy and innocent. As if I could ever act innocent again,” I sighed.

“You are innocent,” he said. “None of this is your fault.”

I don’t know what possessed me to open my mouth about the stone room, but all of a sudden I felt like I needed to tell Adam about everything that had happened with Michael during my initiation.

When I finished telling him, he didn’t seem mad that I had kept it from him, which I guess I should have expected since he hadn’t been mad at me about sleeping with Michael either.

“So, you thought at first that it was me in that room with you?” he asked.

“Yes. When I realized it was Michael, I should have stopped right then and there, and I didn’t. I’m not sure why I needed to tell you about all that right now, but I just felt like I should.”

He swigged the contents of his glass and let out a satisfied sigh after he had swallowed.

“Adam,” I asked. “Why have you been so cool about all of this? I mean, Julian was livid with me, and Michael nearly killed me instead of giving in to his feelings, but you seem to have your emotions completely under control. What’s your secret?”

He laughed. “Trust me; I don’t have anything under control at all. I’m just better at hiding it than the others, I guess.”

When we went into the bedroom, I pulled off my sweater and jeans and stood nakedly looking around for a T-shirt to wear to sleep in. Adam was getting changed too, or at least taking off his shirt and pants for bed. I couldn’t find a shirt and was getting ready to ask him if I could borrow one of his when he came up behind me, and his hands wrapped underneath my arms from behind and cupped around my breasts. I felt his lips kiss the back of my neck, and I gasped. He pushed his body against me, and I could feel his physical desire press in-between the back of my thighs.

“I want you,” he whispered into my ear. “I want you so badly, Lisette, and I know that you think I have this all under control, but I don’t. I won’t do anything that you don’t want me to do, but if you let me, I want to show you what it would have felt like if it had been me in that stone room with you instead of Michael.”

I turned my body around in his arms until our chests were pressed up against each other, and I kissed him until I could taste the desire on his tongue. His hands slid down my body, and his finger slid the thin panties I was wearing off and onto the floor as he pulled me closer toward the bed. He sat down on the edge of the bed, with his swollen, hard cock between his legs, and I crawled onto his lap to give us both the moment that we should have had a long time ago.

Our eyes locked together as Adam held his hands against my hips. I slid down against his thickened girth, feeling him pulsing against my walls. With every rocking motion of my hips, my pussy swallowed him whole, spreading me while my body tightened around him as if it were the very first time all over again.

I couldn’t get enough. “Oh, God. Adam, please.”

I let myself get lost in the beautiful sensations even though the world was careening out of control around us. I pushed and pulled his body against the most sensitive parts of my own. He groaned as I pleasured myself against him, my fingers slipping between my dripping folds as I tickled my clit.

“That’s it. Come for me, Lisette.”

I whimpered in ecstasy. “I don’t want it to be over so soon.”

We bucked and swayed together. It was hard to tell where his body ended and mine began. My juices dripped down his shaft, lubing him up for me as he slid deeper with every thrust of his hips. My head fell back in torturous pleasure. I felt him wrap his hand around my wrist before pulling my fingertips away from my needy clit.

And just as I fought to get my hand back down there, I felt his thumb press against my swollen nub.

“Shit,” I hissed.

He growled against my ear. “That’s it. Lose yourself in me.”

The world around me tilted, as if the earth were being knocked off its axis. His lips attached to my neck and I spiraled into an endless abyss. Where I was headed, no one else mattered by me and him. Him, and Michael, and Julian.

The three men I loved more than anything on this planet.

“Lisette. Oh, my Liz. Shit. I’m gonna come. I’m gonna come.”

I captured his lips with my own. “Come for me, Adam. Let go with me.”

He held me still tightly against him as we both lost control, soaring over the edge and into the darkened waters of our lust. I fell against him, panting for air as his shallow thrusts spurred his own explosive end. Feeling him grip my hair and growl my name stoked a fire deep within my gut. I felt my walls milking him for all he had before his cock painted the depths of my walls. I kissed his neck, over and over, before I raked my teeth down his pulse point. And when he fisted my hair one last time, he pulled my lips to his in a fevered kiss.

One that left me breathless as the evidence of our sins dripped from between my legs.

“Wow,” I whispered.

Adam kissed the shell of my ear. “What I feel for you is real. Please, never forget that.”

I didn’t want to sleep. I only wanted to keep his tongue in my mouth and his cock inside me until I couldn’t think straight anymore. I wasn’t ready to give him up. I wasn’t ready to relinquish him to the world just yet. Not after slicing off a moment of paradise for ourselves.

Why can’t life always be like this?

“Is that what it felt like the night in the stone room?” he asked as he flipped me over onto my back and laid over me. “Or is this?”

Before I could answer him, he thrust himself back into me and I clawed my fingers into his back. He pounded against me, revving me up for yet another round as the wet sounds of skin slapping skin filled the space around us. He hooked his arms underneath my legs and hoisted them to my chest. He folded me in half, my eyes bulging as his dick slid deeply within my body. I’d never felt this alive before. I’d never felt this lovingly used in all my life. And as my eyes rolled back in time with the curling of my toes, his mouth covered mine.

Swallowing my desperate sounds of heated pleasure as he filled me with his cock.