“How about we watch a movie?” He paused at my movie collection.
Arkin was giving me whiplash. Confusion and, I hated to admit, a little rejection, simmered through me.
“Wait, did I do something wrong?” I covered myself up, suddenly feeling too exposed.
He got down on his knees in front of me and grabbed my head in his hands, making it impossible for me to look away.
“No, baby, no. I just know that you have some issues with men, and this thing with you and me is so special, and I don’t want to fuck it up by moving too fast. I’m not going anywhere. I’m not in a rush for anything. I want you to feel good about us and anything we do. I don’t want to move too quickly and then have you scared off.”
His words were so sweet and sincere that in that moment, I wanted to be with him more than I had ever wanted anything else.
“I want you, Arkin,” I whispered.
“You have me, Daphne. God, do you have me, baby.” He kissed me. A kiss flavored with passion, need, want, and desperate with raw desire. It was fueled with a type of fire that I never knew existed. In that kiss, I felt forever, and I would do whatever was necessary to keep this feeling lingering.
I kissed him back with my own fear and insecurities, desperate to make him know that it was all okay. We were beyond okay.
“I want you, Arkin. I need to be with you. Please?” I begged, desperate for him not to turn away from me.
He growled into my mouth and crushed his lips to mine, pushing his tongue into my mouth.
“Baby, you never have to beg me for anything. All you have to do is ask and I’ll come running. No matter what it is, I’ll do it foryou. You own me, Daphne. You own me more than you will ever know.”
With those words, he picked me up and cradled me in his arms.
“Once we do this, there’s no going back. Youwillbelong to me.” His voice was firm and dominant, and I felt a surge of excitement in my veins.
I nodded slowly.
“Tell me, baby. Who do you belong to?” His eyes burned into my soul.
“I’m yours, Arkin,” I whispered.
C H A P T E R N I N E
Arkin
“I want to make sure you’re comfortable with everything we’re doing here.” I trailed kisses down her torso. “I can trust you to speak up if you want me to stop, can’t I, Daphne?”
My fingers locked with hers, sucking the flesh at the dip of her waist as I waited for her answer.
“Yes.” She sighed breathlessly.
“I thought so.” I continued kissing across her hips, landing at her core and licking softly. “There’s never been anyone else,” I hissed between licks. “After everything fell apart, I was so busy trying to survive every day that I never gave a spare thought to another woman. I’m clean, Daphne, and I don’t carry condoms on me.”
Her fingers tightened in mine, soft mewls now tumbling from her lips as my words vibrated off her engorged pussy folds. “Oh my God, Arkin. Me too. I never even had a boyfriend in high school. I was so messed up by the craziness that my dad brought to our family, I just…I just couldn’t bring myself to trust anyone else with that.”
The knowledge that she was truly mine for the taking brought asense of soul-crushing connection descending upon me.
She was meant for me. She would only ever be mine.
“When I came here tonight, I didn’t expect this to happen. But God forgive me, I want you bare.” I kissed her clit softly. “I don’t want a single thing between us.”
Her other hand pushed into my hair. “When I said I didn’t want you to leave, I meant tonight and I meant my life.”
Her eyes boring into my soul like that about made me doing the wildest thing I’d ever thought of doing and stopping right here to beg her to take me, now and the next thousand tomorrows.
“Please, take me.”
