Page 33 of Enter if you Dare: Part One

I smile and lean forward, kissing the corner of his mouth. He turns into it and kisses me back. Cipher is the first to pull back, then he rests his head against mine. “Can you keep looking at me like this?”

I nod. “If that’s what you need.”

I keep my movements slow and easy, while we keep our eyes locked on each other. His breathing changes and his grip tightens with each movement.

“Valli,” he moans.

From behind us, Noa’s voice rises again. “I don’t understand what is happening to my body right now. Cipher, buddy, you are a lucky man. Oh, fuck . . . Cave, I’m going to . . . How is this even possible? You’re not even touching my cock.”

Noa yells out his pleasure as Cipher drops his forehead to my shoulder. I feel him smile against my skin before he pulls himself back to look at me. “He is so loud.”

I snort. “He really is.”

“I don’t mind. I’m glad I got to experience this with you. Thank you.”

I love the way he’s looking at me. Cipher looks at broken things and gauges if they are worth fixing. He sees all the broken pieces but doesn’t see them as unfixable. To him, they make sense.

His hips shift up to meet mine, and his breath goes ragged. “Valli.”

“I’ve got you,” I whisper.

His hands pull me down firmly as he thrusts, and his head falls back, then his eyes close. I watch his face as he rides the waves of his release, and when he opens his eyes, he pulls me tight into his chest and presses a kiss to the top of my head.

“Sorry if you didn’t.”

“It’s okay. There is plenty of time for that. Was it okay for you?”

He looks at me as if my question is strange. “It was more than okay.”

Behind us there is the sound of Noa sliding off the post and hitting the ground in a heap.

“I have ascended,” he announces loudly into the silent night. “I have left my body and am now looking down on all of you from above. Everything is beautiful.”

“You’re lying in the dirt,” Cipher says in a deadpan tone.

“But spiritually, I’m free,” Noa replies with a chuckle.

Cave’s shadow falls over us, and his hand comes to rest in my hair as I look up at him over my shoulder.

He reaches out and runs his thumb over Cipher’s jaw for a second, and he turns his face into the motion.

“Mine,” Cave says, looking at us both.

He holds out his hand to me, helping me to my feet and pulling my back to his front. His large hand rests between my legs, and his fingers slide inside my pussy. Cave scissors them, and when he pulls them out, he brings them to his nose and inhales.

“Run,” he whispers, before pushing me forward.

“Run, Valli. It’s your turn now,” Noa says with a laugh.

I open my mouth to protest, but fuck it, I’ve come this far.

Cave

What cannot be shared and becomes mine the moment I claim it?

Something I have never possessed that I now refuse to lose.

What transforms a dead thing into something that lives?