Chapter Sixteen

"This is not good, Ria," Lawson said to her. "You could go away for a very long time."

"But I don't want to!" Ria protested, pacing up and down beside the bloody corpse of her mother, Declan seated on the couch not too far away nursing a glass of champagne. "It's not my fault!"

"Who wants to be locked up for the rest of their life?" Lawson asked.

"The rest of my life?! I'd rather die!" Ria said. "Please, you two have to make this go away somehow."

"I deal with this all the time," Declan said. "We'll clean up the body."

"Easy there," Lawson said. "I am a man of the law and now I'm very involved. Are you telling me to commit a crime?"

"Well, I'm not going to jail for the rest of my life!" Ria yelled at him.

"You're young, you could be out before you're dead," Lawson said.

"I thought you loved me, Lawson! I don't want to go to jail!"

Lawson ran his fingers through his hair. "Christ, this is - "

"Like I said, let's clean up the body. I've murdered countless people and I'm still free."

"Unlike you, Ria doesn't happen to be a crime boss."

"Let's clean up the body, Lawson!" Ria said.

"Would you just calm down for one second?" Lawson said and Ria gawked at him. "Fine, whatever, let's dump the body."

"Do you have a luggage that can fit your mother?" Declan asked Ria. She nodded and disappeared into a room, emerging from it later with an oversized luggage. They covered the corpse in plastic before placing it into the luggage and zipped it up. Lawson instructed her to stay at her home and he took the luggage with Declan into his car and they both drove to a secluded place directed by Declan. "Nobody comes here," he said. "We can dump the body here. I hid some shovels nearby."

"Alright," Lawson said and they both left the car to heave the luggage out to a random spot in the forest. Using shovels, they both dug at the soil until there was a gaping hole in it. As both of them began to perspire, Lawson caught Declan staring at the beads of perspiration running down his forearms. "If you would stop checking me out, then we can get the body into the hole."

Declan rolled his eyes. "I wasn't checking you out," he said and they both collected the corpse into their hands. Then they threw Ria's mother into the hole on the ground. "What would you do if I was?"

Lawson stared at him hard, and watched Declan's jaw clenching, body stiffening as he ran his eyes up and down Lawson's body. "Go to that tree," Lawson ordered.

In a few minutes, Lawson was slamming into Declan hard, his hands on his hips, driving Declan's ass in and out of his cock. Declan's hands dug into the bark of the tree as he bit back screams of pleasure, his shirt in his teeth. Lawson's hand disappeared down to his front and he palmed Declan's cock, rubbing it up and down as he thrust into him.

"Did you hear that?" Lawson asked him, stopping.

"Hear what?"

They both turned around, and their eyes fell on the body. In one quick movement, the side of the plastic shifted. The body was stirring.

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"After you," Declan said.

Lawson huffed out a laugh and scooped dirt up with his shovel. With it full, he dumped the dirt on top of the body and Declan mirrored his action with another shovel full of dirt down on the body. They repeated this several times, and soon, the corpse had disappeared and the ground looked as if there had never been a hole in it.

"Never thought I'd bury someone alive," Lawson said. "Guess there's a first for everything."

"Well, it's no first for me," Declan scoffed. "I could do this with my eyes closed."

"Which reminds me," Lawson said. "I am your first, aren't I?"

Declan pursed his lips. "Whatever." Then he put his hands on his hips and sighed. "It still is such a workout even with all that practice."

"Burying someone alive, or sex with me?"

"Both," Declan laughed.

Lawson nodded his head to the edge of the forest. "Let's rest there for a while, shall we?"

"Sure," Declan said and they both plopped down to the edge of the forest. Lawson threw his tie over his shoulder while Declan removed his boots. "Fucking sand always gets in these boots," he said, turning it over for the soil to fall to the ground. He shook it a little and more sand left the boot.

"Your toes are red," Lawson said.

"We did just bury someone alive," Declan said. "It was tiring."

"Come here," Lawson said, his hand touching Declan's calf.

"What are you doing?"

Lawson pulled Declan's calf onto his thighs and ran his fingers up and down the length of it. Kneading it gently at the top of his calf, he slowly made his way down to his ankles to rub circles into it. His hand reached up again to cup the back of his calf and he squeezed it before releasing the pressure, only to press into it again. Lawson looked up at him and smiled. "Do you like that?"

"Do the circle thing at my ankles again."

Lawson laughed a little and traced his fingers down to his ankles, rubbing them in circles.

Declan let out a quick laugh. "It itches!"

Lawson smiled widely as he applied more pressure into his ankles and Declan stopped squirming. Pressing hard into his ankles, Lawson saw a tiny satisfied smile spreading across Declan's face and he set his leg down onto the dirt. Inching closer to Declan's body, he hovered over him until Declan's back hit the dirt and Lawson nudged himself between his legs.

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"We have to tell Ria," Declan said to Lawson as he shot a glance towards the restrooms. The three of them were out for dinner and Ria needed to pee. "We have to tell her."

"And we will," Lawson said. "But she just killed her mother, so now is hardly the time for us to tell her that the two men who used to love her are now fucking each other."

"Christ, I can't believe you just said that," Declan said, looking around.

"Are you sure you're the crime boss?"

"What? I lose all my brain cells when I'm with you," he said and Lawson reached out to put his hand over his. Just then, Ria came out from the restrooms and their hands shot back quickly. She came over and took her seat, picking up the menu.

"What do my men want to eat?" Ria asked.

"I'm not sure," Lawson said.


"I'm not hungry."

"How about both of you eat me?" Ria said and stared between either of them. She blinked. "I was only joking."

"Of course you were," Declan said.

"Now," she said. "Speaking of that, I know you guys want me to choose one of you. I've come to a decision."

"Who do you choose?" Lawson asked as he stared into Declan's eyes with a knowing smile.

"I've decided that I want Lawson," Ria told both of them.