Ravenna dropped her cell phone down on the nightstand and rolled over to look at me. She pushed up onto her elbow and gave me a beautiful smile. “That was the DA. Roth said Marks has agreed to a deal already. Once he heard that Suria planned to testify against him, he pretty much stopped fighting. He’s going to do five years, then another five years’ probation. Plus, he’s got fines out the ass.” Reaching up, she brushed my hair back. “The house is going to be sold, along with his car, probably Suria’s too. Roth mentioned he’d co-signed for it, so it will probably be seized.”

“Hell.” Blowing out a breath, I looked up at the ceiling. “I’ll help her get another one.”

“That guy of hers might beat you to it.” Ravenna gave a lopsided shrug when I looked at her. “Just calling it how it is. You’ve seen how he looks at her.”

“Yeah.” I had. And it wouldn’t surprise me at all. “I’ll make the offer, though.”

Ravenna pushed me flat onto my back and sat up, throwing a leg across my hips.

She was naked, so it made the position interesting. It also made it hard to concentrate on what she was saying. I blinked and focused, watching her and trying not to think about how good she felt, the wet heat of her cuddled up against my cock.

“It’s done now,” she said, her eyes locked with mine. “Completely done.”

“Yes.” I reached for her hips, resisted the urge to drag her back and forth over me.

She bent down, increasing the pressure bearing down on me, and I closed my eyes. As she rubbed her lips over mine, I muttered, “Are you trying to kill me?”

She chuckled. “I’m thinking about trying to seduce you. But if that’s the way you’re going to be…”

“Ravenna.” I tightened my grip before she could slip away. “You’re naked, and you’re hot and wet. Seducing me will take little effort.”

Sitting back up, she grinned down at me. “Are you telling me you’re easy?”

“When it comes to you? Hell, yes.”

She laughed softly and rolled her hips, her head falling back. A husky noise escaped her throat. I wanted to grab her and hoist her up, fill her with my cock, but the smile on her face stopped me.

Realizing she was going to have the imprint of my fingers embedded on her ass, I forced myself to ease up on my grip and willed myself to relax. I managed to ease up on the grip, at least. Relaxation was pretty damn far out of reach.

She bent back down over me and pressed her mouth to mine, her lips opening this time. When she flicked her tongue against mine, I opened for her.

She wiggled and slid against me, reaching down between us. As she wrapped her fingers around my cock, I thought my eyes might roll into the back of my skull.

Finally, she had me poised at the entrance to her body, and I couldn’t stop myself. I arched my hips.

She gasped as I sank into her, just the head of my cock.

She slid farther down on me and broke the kiss, sitting back up, her eyes half-closed. As she moved, she took me deeper, and by the time she had straightened up, I was fully seated inside her.

It was indescribable. Smoothing my hands down her hips, then her thighs, I stroked back up. A shiver raced through her, and I watched as she arched her spine, the movement lifting her breasts upward. Her nipples were dark and tight, and I wanted to pull her down to me so I could suck and lick and bite. But, again, I resisted the urge.

This was her show.

Ravenna reached for my hands and guided them up, her eyes nervous but determined as she looked at me. “I want to feel your hands on me,” she said, voice husky.

“All you had to do was ask.”

She guided them to her breasts and held them there for a moment. “Touch me.”

It was like being given the keys to the kingdom. I rolled her nipples and tugged, watched the expression flutter across her face as she started to move, rocking her hips back and forth.

I slid my eyes across her body, from her mouth, all the way down to the red curls at the junction of her thighs.

I could see where we joined, where I pierced her, and it made me ravenous for more.

Ravenna whimpered.

I looked up at her.

She was staring at my mouth.

“What?” I whispered.

“I want to feel your mouth…”

She didn’t finish the sentence, but she didn’t have to.

“Come up here,” I said, grasping her hips and pulling.

She looked puzzled at first, then her cheeks went scarlet. “Come here,” I said again. “I want to taste you.”

“I…” She touched her tongue to her lips, then slowly crawled up my body, following the guidance of my hands.

“On my face,” I told her, and I watched as, impossibly, she flushed an even deeper shade of crimson.

“Ravenna…” I had to tug her closer, but I didn’t care. She was hesitant, almost reluctant at first, and her body was tense, shyness and nerves punctuating each movement. But then I flicked my tongue against her clit, and she jolted against my mouth.

“Nicco!”

Her hands shot into my hair, and she rocked forward to meet the next stroke from my tongue.

Soon, she was rocking against my mouth, riding my face, and I could feel all that slippery wetness on my lips and chin. I loved every second of it, guiding her hips and holding her steady as I used my tongue and teeth to coax her closer to orgasm.

She hit it with a broken cry, her body going limp, slumping forward toward the head of the bed. I worked her until I knew she’d drained herself, then I eased out from under her and curled up behind her, wrapping an arm around her waist.

She shivered as I touched my lips to her shoulder.

The feel of her ass pressing against my cock had the impatient bastard pulsing in hungry demand. She reached backward, her hand coming between us to close around my dick, and she began to pump her wrist.

It was awkward, her facing away from me and her arm twisted around behind her, but she found her rhythm and I began to move against her.

Soon, her breathing sped up, and I caught her hand, tugging it away. I eased backward on the bed and urged her down on all fours. She shot a look over her shoulder at me.

I met her eyes as I tucked the head of my cock against the mouth of her cunt, teasing her.

She shuddered.

Then, as I arched my hips and slid inside, she sank forward, her shoulders collapsing down onto the mattress. “Nicco…” The sound of my name was muffled and weak…hoarse and sexy as hell.

I wanted to hear it over and over again.

Thrusting deeper, harder, I hitched her hips up. Soon, the sound of flesh slapping against flesh filled the air. Ravenna’s pussy was tight around me, and she reached back, catching my wrist in her hand, squeezing. “Nicco…!”

The orgasm edged closer, dancing down my spine, and I could feel hers moving in closer on her as well.

It hit her harder, quicker than I would have thought, tripping mine, and soon, we were sweaty and panting in the twisted mess of sheets.

She gave a weak, dazed laugh. “So much for me seducing you.”

“You seduce me just by breathing, Ravenna,” I murmured against her skin.

“Sweet talker.” She rolled over to face me and cuddled in closer.

I curled an arm around her, feeling drowsy.

I could sleep like this, happily, for the next twelve hours.

Ravenna snuggled in closer and reached for the blankets. I caught the edge and tossed it over us.

We might have slid right into sleep if the phone hadn’t rung a minute later.

“Ignore it,” Ravenna mumbled, her voice already heavy with the edge of sleep.

I kissed her temple. “Go to sleep,” I told her as I reached for the phone. “Hello.”

“Nicco!” Suria’s voice came over the line, full of nerves and edgy with panic.

Against me, Ravenna tensed.

I could practically see the sleepiness falling away from her, leaving her alert and awake.

As she sat up, I pushed myself up onto my elbow.

“Suria. Everything okay?”

“No!” She sucked in a breath, clearly upset. “I don’t know what to do. My cousin Trice just called. She’s in trouble. She needs my help.”