“You back down from that cloud yet?”

A small smile teased the corners of her mouth. “No.”

Choking her had scared the fuck out of her, but when she’d returned to consciousness, my cock had sent her even higher. My fucking cock might’ve knocked her up too. I had more self-control than this…as least I thought I did.

Her stomach groaned again.

“What did you eat today?” I asked.

“Um…not much.”

Not surprising, knowing what I knew about her eating habits. I pushed onto my elbows and slid from the mattress. “Be right back.”

“Where’re you going?” she asked, her lazy gaze following me across the room toward the door we’d left wide open in our haste to fuck on her bed.

“To find food.”

“Okay,” she mumbled, and I think she would have agreed even if I’d said I was going to talk to aliens.

I searched the living room for my discarded clothes and pulled on my sweats before entering the kitchen. I turned on the stove light and listened for a few seconds to make sure she hadn’t followed. I didn’t need her overhearing the phone call I was about to make, so I turned on the stove fan as well. Opening the fridge, I eyed the meager contents as I dialed Jax. He answered almost immediately.

“You find her?”

“Yeah.” I also fucked her brains out. Shit. “How’s the birth control situation coming?”

“You fucked her.” Not a question, but a statement. “I figured it was gonna happen, so I picked up a magic everything’s-all-right pill with the prescription.”

I let out a breath. “I owe you.”

“Let’s not get into who owes who, okay? Just get her ass back here because I want to be there when you punish her. She cocked that fucking gun at me, man.”

I pulled some questionable looking lunch meat from the second shelf, followed by cheese and Mayo.” The bread on the counter was a bit dry, but it hadn’t molded over yet, so I figured it was edible. Cradling the phone between my shoulder and ear, I began putting together two sandwiches. “I’ll let you punish her yourself if you do something else for me.”

He whistled. “Didn’t see that one coming.”

My eyes veered to the darkened hall. “She’s earned it. She was reckless. Not only did she threaten you, but she put herself in danger.” Not to mention she could have fucking killed me when that gun went off. She was too damn smart to pull shit like that.

“I’m all ears. Whaddya have in mind?”