The Hidden Route Picked the Friend novel · Chapter 5 of 24

Chapter 5: The Bell Tower

The bell tower had a hundred and forty steps, and Briony climbed all of them with the brass key in her fist.

She had told Clem she was going to bed.

She had told herself she was going to throw the key off the top.

At the last turn of the stair a door stood open on the bell chamber.

Moonlight came in through four tall arches.

The great bell hung in the middle, black and enormous, and under it stood Sevrin with his back to the stone.

He had taken off the steward's coat.

His shirt was open at the throat, and his bandaged hand rested on the bell rope.

"It strikes the hour in four minutes," he said.

"I know."

"You can't hear yourself think up here when it does."

"Is that why you picked it?"

"It's why I picked it."

He let go of the rope and held out his good hand.

Briony put the key in it.

He closed his fingers over the brass, and then over hers, and drew her slowly in.

"You looked at me across the hall," he said against her ear.

"I didn't."

"You did.

You went red to your collar."

"Your thumb was on my hip."

"I know where my thumb was."

His mouth found the side of her neck.

She tipped her head back to give him room.

Her hands slid up under his open shirt, over his ribs, over the long scar.

The skin there was hot.

He sucked a mark under her jaw, and she made a sound and dug her nails in.

"Sevrin."

"Mm."

"I want to do something."

His head lifted.

"What?"

"Something I haven't."

"You've done almost nothing."

"That's why," Briony said.

She pushed him back against the wall.

He went.

That was the thing she was learning about him, the thing she couldn't have known from any game.

When she put a hand on him, he moved.

She sank to her knees on the cold stone.

The look on his face made her stomach drop.

"Briony."

"Be quiet.

You have four minutes."

She undid his trousers with fingers that only shook a little.

His cock was already hard.

It rose thick and heavy from the open cloth, the head dark and wet.

She took it in her hand the way she had in her room.

He hissed through his teeth.

"I want you in my mouth," she said.

She was twenty-two, she'd never done it, and she knew the words from an entire life of other people's stories.

"Tell me how."

"You're asking me?"

"I'm telling you to teach me."

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