Chapter 154

“Charles!” I gasped. “Since when did you get so pervy?”

He chuckled, leaning in and kissing at my ear. “I’m a man. We may not say it, but we’re all perverts in our own heads.”

I sighed and let my knees fall apart so that he could get easier access to my lady parts. “The time I overheard them, they were trying to be kept quiet in the second bed in the single bedroom. But I kept hearing him slap against her.”

“Did it turn you on?” Charles whispered in my ear.

I let out a sigh. Between the memories and the work his fingers were doing, I couldn’t help but feel the arousal as if it were happening a second time.

“I’ll take that as a yes,” Charles murmured. He ran his tongue along the room of my ear, and I shuddered.

“I might have touched myself that night,” I admitted quietly.

Charles let out a groan and pressed his hips along my thigh, cock stiffening against my leg. “I can’t tell you what a turn-on that is. What about the time you saw them?” His teeth nipped into the soft flesh of my earlobe. “Did you watch?”

“I didn’t watch, not for very long anyway, not once I realized what they were doing. At first, I thought they were just making out.” I slid my eyes closed, and I could picture them.

My legs fully opened, and my hips worked against Charles’s fingers. “They were sitting on the couch, and she was sitting on his lap, kissing. But before I could go out and tell him what I was going to tell him, I noticed the gentle rocking of her hips, and I knew because it was the same thing that we’d done on numerous occasions.”

Charles groaned and turned my hips so that my rear was facing him. He slipped his erection between my legs and rubbed the stiffened shaft along my already wet slit. I once again couldn’t hold myself back and tipped my hips so that he caught on the rim of my opening.

He quickly shoved himself inside, then slipped his hand between my legs again and worked the front as well as entering me from behind.

I shamelessly twisted myself and rubbed against both his cock and his hand, my excitement mounting. His other hand reached around my shoulder and gripped my breast hard. It hurt and yet excited me at the same time.

A few thrusts later, I stiffened, gripping his hand and pressing it harder into the space between my legs as I came again, this time crying out loudly in pleasure.

Charles matched my cries, ramming himself deep inside me and coming again.

Charles and I woke early the next morning and made love one more time before he asked me to take out my laptop so he could get his website started.

Charles and I both took the day off. It was amazing how fast he actually managed to get the website up and running. So now, I was simply typing drafts of the articles that I intended to release.

The first piece was the one that I knew the best because I had actually spoken to someone about it live. I wrote an in-depth article publishing everything I knew about the contaminated water and Southhaven.

I drafted a couple of more articles and then posted one that I felt on the most personal level. It contained a list of companies with predatory bosses and allegations of sexual harassment and favors in return for advancement.

The next time I logged on and checked, I had dozens of messages from women who wanted to tell me their stories. Stories that they couldn’t even complain about because HR was completely compliant with such practices because the government was completely complacent about these practices. They had no legal backing to pursue their bosses.

The courts would dismiss their cases or had dismissed their cases as frivolous or as lovers’ quarrels. Thankfully, the dark web also had an email platform, and these women gave me their addresses so that I could contact them.

I gathered the stories of Susanna, whose boss held the position of floor manager over her head until she finally agreed to perform oral sex on him. I contacted Marie, who had let two of her bosses touch her body despite how uncomfortable it made her, just so that she could get a raise that allowed her to stay in Packhaven rather than being shipped off to Southhaven.

I also included the story of Sarah. Hers was the most brutal of all. She was called in for a performance review after finally getting a promotion to regional supervisor. When she went in front of the board, supposedly to get reviewed and secure her position for a five-year contract, they gang-raped her, taking turns while the others yelled insults about “this is how to rule a boardroom.”

She had taken her case to the police, who had performed a rape kit to see if they could press charges against any or all of them with hard physical evidence. Unfortunately, they’d worn condoms, and she’d taken a shower, so there was no skin or hair on her.

It crushed her when the police told her there was nothing they could do because if she pressed charges, she would just waste the court’s time. The case would be nothing more than pointing fingers at one another, but no evidence to convict anyone. She quit her job, and shortly thereafter, her family had been moved to Southhaven.

Luckily, in Sarah’s case, she had family outside of Packhaven. And they had taken her in.

Someone knocked on the door, and I glanced up at the clock. I snapped the laptop shut and shoved it under the pillow.

“Come in,” I said.

Somehow, it had gotten to almost 1 a.m.

Charles wandered in and shut the door behind him. He came over to the bed and sat beside me.

“Are you about done? Because I’m ready for bed.”

I nodded, and he looked at me. “Have you been crying?”

I nodded again. “It’s just so hard writing about their abuse. It’s like what I went through before you took over back in Lustrum. These women make me want to do more for them than just put this out of the dark web.”

He landed over and picked a kiss on my nose. And then on my forehead. “You’re incredibly strong and brave to do all of this. I don’t know how my mother could ever doubt that you are the perfect wife for an alpha.”

I look down at my empty ring finger. “When are we going to make it official? With a ring and everything?”

“Just a little longer, I promise. It’s not that I don’t want to tell people that I’ve asked you to marry me. But I don’t want to draw any more attention to us than necessary. If we go in announcing our engagement, it’s going to be front-page news. And there’s nothing we’ll be able to do to get away from the scrutiny of everyone around us.”

“There’s going to be a lot of speculation, especially with what’s been going on with the other alphas. While they’re being accused of various dirty dealings, I’m off getting engaged to my high school sweetheart without a care in the world. That’s going to bring trouble from both sides because I don’t want to remind the government here to take a closer look, and I don’t want to make enemies any bigger than they already are out there. And your situation is exactly the same.”

“I just wish—”

He softly kissed my lips, his forming around mine softly. “I don’t want to start anything tonight. It’s too late. But I do want to fall asleep with you in my arms.”

We quickly changed for bed and curled up together. A deep sense of satisfaction lulled me off to sleep. I had Charles back. Our love was the strongest ever. Theo was healing. It was the best my life had been in a very long time.