Society Girls: Rose Read online

  “Petal?” he calls out, looking for me since he expected to find me in the garage I normally work in.

  “Back here,” I yell.

  When he walks in the room, he nearly trips over his own feet. “Holy hell.”

  “I found this car, and figured I’d finally let you fuck me on it.”

  “I do not deserve you.”

  “Oh yes, you do. Now, get over here, and have your way with me.”

  He doesn’t run, or lunge at me, choosing to saunter over to me slowly. He whips his shirt over his head, and drops his jeans to his ankles before he’s standing in front of me. One foot and then the other, are lifted onto the bumper, so he can remove his socks and shoes.

  Only when he’s naked, does he grab my ankles, and pull me to the edge of the car. “So many ways I’ve dreamed of having you on this car.”

  “We’ve got all day.”

  “Hell yeah, we do.”

  He thrusts into me, and I arch my back, bracing my forearms on the hood, because there’s nothing for me to grab onto. It’s fast, and fabulous as he sets a punishing rhythm, sliding in and out of me like his life depends on it. We’re both close within minutes, and I come hard enough to make my arms give out. Ares holds my hips hard, and comes a few thrusts later.

  “I’m still hard. Are you ready for more?”

  “You know I am.”

  He slides me off the hood, and walks me to the driver’s side of the car. Bending me through the window, he places my hands in the window net, and reminds me to hold on tight. This time is just as rough, but there’s a desperation coming from both of us. We need this. We need to come full circle, and do what we both wanted all those years ago. I wouldn’t admit it, but I wanted him even then.

  A few hours later, he’s eaten me as I sat on the roof of the car, I’ve sucked him off, while kneeling in the small, empty passenger side of the car’s cockpit, and I’ve ridden us both to ecstasy in his driver’s seat. It’s been amazing, and wild, and I want to do it all again tomorrow. Not today, because we’re both exhausted, but tomorrow might work.

  “This is going to go down as one of the best days of my life.”

  “Mine, too.”

  “Wait? The cameras Ainsley’s team installed are supposed to be recording everything,” he says, sounding panicked.

  “Relax. I had her shut them off.”

  “Which means you told her you were planning to have your way with me in here.”

  “Actually, it was more about me letting you have your way with me, but yes. I mean, I didn’t go into details, but she knew.”

  “Can I tell you how much I love being with a woman who isn’t embarrassed by her sexuality?”

  “Why should I be embarrassed? You’ve been named as the sexiest man by more than one magazine, and I have access to your body whenever I want it.”

  “For now. I’ll be back on the circuit soon.”

  His car is fixed, and he hired most of Reece’s crew, since they had no idea what was going on. We made sure of it, before he offered them the jobs, and they’re actually working out very well. Ares won’t consider them family like he thought of Jerome, but he trusts them enough to work on his car, and so do I.

  “And I’ll be doing missions, so I can’t go with you all the time.”

  “Phone sex?”

  “Skype?”

  “Flying back and forth whenever we can?”

  “All of the above?”

  “All of the above.”

  “I love you, Petal.”

  “I love you too, Ares.”

  Ares

  This is the day Rose has been working for all year. The day they’ve all been working for. The recruits of the Society, are now becoming full members of the Society. The rest of the Studkateers and I are in our FEMINIST shirts, presenting a united front, and showing every woman here that we support them.

  As a final part of their graduation, the recruits had to dress each other. Rose grumbled about the ruffles on her skirt, but she was smiling, so I know she loves the dress Rhieve picked for her. It’s a mix of sheer, dotted black lace, over sold black material, and while there are hints here and there of skin, my woman’s definitely more covered than usual. Still sexy as hell, though.

  Each mentor talks about her recruit, and they’re all given beautiful diamond necklaces. Earlier today, Zane and Matisse tattooed the Society crest somewhere on their bodies, and I can wait to go searching for Rose’s later.

  Rose smiles at me, running into my arms once the ceremony part of the night is over. “I’m official.”

  “I’ll miss you,” I blurt out, because she’s leaving for her first official mission tomorrow.

  “I’ll be at your race on Sunday if I can, and we’ll make up for the lost days together,” she says, before kissing me.

  Our story is far from over, but I know some chapters will continue to be rockier than others. She still needs me to sex the numbers from her head sometimes, and I still need to kiss her for the cameras. We love each other hard, and our love is strong, but it will always be something we work at. I don’t mind, and I know she doesn’t, either, because easy isn’t always best.

  Author’s Note

  When I wrote about Rose in Luke and Olivia’s book, I knew she was a genius, but I didn’t know her mind would be both a beautiful thing, and something of a curse. My father died almost eight years ago, but I still miss him every day. His name was Cletus John, but he went by CJ sometimes, and Jay most of the time. Yes, that was him in Ares memory.

  He always turned words into numbers, and while I always thought of it as a game, it may have been more for him. I don’t know, because he was never diagnosed with anything other than Alzheimer’s, and the numbers never took him over like they did to Rose. I decided to give her his game, but make it something she couldn’t control. The Society is made up of all different women, and thinking differently is nothing to be ashamed of. I’m sorry it took so long for me to reveal it, but I wanted everyone to wonder what she was doing.

  Acknowledgments

  Thank you to all of you for waiting for these stories to finish. They were late, and you still stuck with me. Don’t worry, this isn’t the end for them. Turn the page to see what’s next