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“Fuck. Mine. You’re mine.”
It was rare for me to come without touching myself, but with the friction of our abs and his cock in my hole, I let out a stuttering little gasp. My orgasm was ripped from me in a tidal wave of cum, splattering and making a mess as far up as our chests and into the dip of my neck.
Judah wasn’t far behind me, and he groaned and stilled as he came, the warmth of his release filling me until I thought I felt it sliding out and down onto the bed again.
“Love you,” I whispered, kissing him lazily. I was too tired to care or be embarrassed by how quickly we’d come. I never needed to feel ashamed around Judah. He was my forever, and it was something I wasn’t going to forget anytime soon.
“Love you, too.” He swiped a palm over my sweaty forehead and through my hair before he placed a kiss above my brow. “We’re taking your trailer keys back to the owner tomorrow.”
All I could do was hum. In that moment, I would’ve agreed to anything.
23
JUDAH
It felt like it took Friday forever to crawl around and slap me in the face.
I’d done what I could, calling to talk to everyone invested in the company, because I knew my mother’s push to take over was serious. I got the same vague assurances that I was doing a great job, but I could tell in the tone of everyone’s voices that I needed to pack up my shit. Somehow, Mom had won already.
Thursday night I’d done just that. I’d cleared everything I valued out of the office and had Tav, Hilton, and Ellis help me schlep everything out to my car. I’d also taken home my laptop. There were things I might be contractually obligated to delete, but security wasn’t keeping my computer—and I may have spent all that night deleting my work from the business server and backing it up elsewhere.
If Mom wanted to fuck me over, she could build her own business plan and run her own numbers. She wasn’t getting anything that I’d worked on. Fuck her.
Before work, I decided to take Tav and the boys out for breakfast at a diner that I liked, and even though Ellis and Hilton talked nonstop for the entire forty minutes it took them to burn through three stacks of pancakes each, I couldn’t get a single word past my throat. Tav studied me sadly over the rim of his coffee cup, and I just smiled at him. It felt like the last meal before a death sentence.
I loved Dailey Tires.
I’d been there from the very first for my company. It was mine from the ground up. Sure, it had my parents’ name on it, and they’d backed me, but I’d done the work. I’d done the heavy lifting. I’d made it live and found the best people to help me. Scrubbing my face, I paid the bill, and then we went into the city.
When we stepped into the elevator at the office together, Tav took my hand.
“It’s going to be fine,” Hilton said, tears brimming in his eyes as he stared at me. Today he’d chosen to wear a pink suit, and I wasn’t sure if he just thought Fridays called for some vibrance or if he figured it would annoy my mom if we ran into her, but he looked fantastic. He had his hair parted to the side in the classic businessman style.
“Thanks,” I said, touched that he felt like shedding tears on my behalf. “You know you don’t have to cry, right?” I winked at him.
He snorted and swiped at his face, and Ellis wrapped his arm around Hilton’s shoulders and gave him a tiny squeeze.
“They wouldn’t fire you,” Ellis said, flashing me a small smile. He’d skipped school today to come in with us.
“Divesting me is the same thing. If they’re forcing me out, it’s like firing me. They’ll have to pay me off, and there is a severance clause, but....” They were all staring at me with confused frowns. “Yeah, you’re right. They would be firing me. They will be firing me.”
Tav squeezed my hand. “We’re here for you.”
I glanced around at them and realized that except for a couple of friends and my dad, everyone who cared about me was already in the building. I took a deep breath. Even if the worst happened, I wasn’t alone. I bit the tip of my tongue to stop myself from getting emotional and nodded.
The elevator doors opened, and my stomach churned. We passed the receptionist’s desk, and this morning she was there, head bowed over her computer screen as she typed faster than I’d ever seen her work. Frowning, I went into the main office area, but it was a ghost town. No one was talking or having fun, and the people I could spot were hunched miserably over their workstations in a way that never usually happened.
“I’m fucked,” I mumbled.
“You don’t know that,” Tav said harshly.
Hilton hummed and gave my other hand a small squeeze. I realized he must’ve been avoiding touching me lately, and I gave him a small half hug of thanks for the reassurance that had him swiping under his eyes again. Yeah, he put on the theatrics, but I think he really did care about the people close to him.
Jon came up to me with an awful scowl on his face that I’d never once seen in my life. “Mrs. Dailey is waiting for you in the boardroom.”
“Shit,” I muttered.
He nodded. “I’m already looking for a new job,” he murmured. “So, if you get something started, call me.”
