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Her friend glanced away. “Something like that, yeah.”

“Sorry—I shouldn’t have asked that.”

“It’s all right.” Valeria blew out a steady stream of air, and searched for her daughter on the playground once more. Quickly, she found Maria, and relaxed again into the bench, but not by much. “Just … be careful, okay? We can’t always see the monsters lurking. They never look like monsters, Haven.”

“He’s not like that.”

Valeria glanced over at her. “But you know he’s something. You’ve said that to me yourself. You’ve said that you know he’s not all that he seems, and some of his business is a little sketchy. What kind of something is too much for you, Haven?”

That was a good question.

And not one she was ready to answer.

“Listen,” Valeria murmured, “I don’t mean to shit on your guy, okay. It’s just that I was lucky—my daughter was lucky, too. And if something puts our safety in jeopardy—something like him, even if you don’t think he’s that kind of bad news—then, I’m going to have to make a choice.”

“What kind of choice is that?”

“Well, that’s the thing. I won’t be able to tell you.” Valeria shrugged, and smiled kindly. “Luck tends to run out, then.”

Did it?

Haven wouldn’t know.

• • •

“Holy fuck, yeah.”

Haven grinned, but she wasn’t sure Andino could see it properly given her lips were wrapped around his dick. His fingers tightened in her hair just enough to make her release the hard suction she had on his length, so she could gasp in a sharp breath. His gaze darted down to find hers, and she swore she saw the promise of sin staring back at her.

“Get that mouth of yours back on my cock, Haven.”

“So demanding,” she whispered.

“You started this.”

She had, too.

Damn near from the second she walked into his house.

Frankly, Haven blamed Andino for that. How did he expect to just go around wearing three-piece suits all the time and looking like every woman’s walking wet dream? Did he think nobody wanted to fuck him when he looked like that?

She had news for him.

“Suck my dick,” he uttered again, “and I’ll give you something good, baby.”

Oh.

She so wanted to know what that would be.

Andino always kept his promises.

The second Haven took Andino back in her mouth again, his hips flexed upward hard. Hard, and soft, and hot on her tongue—his cock pulsed with each beat of his heart through the vein on the underside of his shaft.

He liked it best when she teased him.

Licked his shaft.

Used her teeth.