“Never.”
God, her laughter does something to me.
I cup her breast and fist a handful of her hair as I steal a savage kiss. I’ve never known my heart to beat this hard. Sex is usually clinical, something I do to get off. When it’s over, Igrab my clothes and leave. I don’t stay to kiss. I don’t even like kissing. But I could lie here forever and kiss this girl. Soak up her soft sighs, her laughter, her smiles.
Jessica has no idea how much power she holds over me, and that’s for the best. If she knew how crazy I am about her, she’d run for the hills and never look back.
She’d do the right thing. My world is deadly.
My father can never find out how I feel about this girl, or she’ll be in danger. He wouldn’t hesitate to use her against me.
I kiss a slow path down her body, between the valley of her breasts, and settle between her thighs. “You can tell me all about how in love you are with me while I eat this sweet cunt.”
Jessica starts to protest. As I said earlier, the lady doth protest too much. But the words die in her throat when I press my tongue flat against her slit, tasting her with one long stroke.
Mmm.
Delicious.
SEVENTEEN
JESSICA
Goblins and cheesy innuendos aside, here I am, staying the night in exchange for milk.
There’s no point in lying to myself anymore. I’ve fallen hard for Kane Ravencourt.
Why else would I break into his house to surprise him and use all the street smarts I’ve learned growing up in the Falls to hunt him down, for a change?
It’s reckless and stupid, but there’s one thing I can’t deny.
I’m smiling again.
For the first time since Mom’s diagnosis, my mind is elsewhere, and I feel a sliver of light in the darkness. I don’t want to give that up.
It’s stupid. Trust me, I know. I can’t afford to let my heart get entangled with Kane, but I also can’t keep away.
No matter how hard I try, I always come back because everything feels a little less scary when I’m in his arms.
I lie with my cheek on Kane’s warm chest, listening to his steady heartbeat. The question of when he became my safety whispers through my mind, but the answer is too layered tounravel. Sometimes, we have to welcome these quiet moments when they appear.
Kane is fast asleep, breathing evenly, his heavy arm draped around me.
I love it, I decide, wishing I could stay here in his little bubble forever. If I close my eyes, I can almost pretend there’s no tomorrow, no sorrow waiting for me. I don’t know what’s in store for us, but life has a way of gifting a sliver of joy and then returning double the pain.
I prop my chin on his chest and trace his softened features with my gaze. Don’t get me wrong. He’s all man, and a very sexy one at that. But he looks younger like this, his jaw relaxed, as if he carries the world on his shoulders like a heavy cloak.
A cloak he sheds at night.
He’s hard beneath me, his cock pressing into my stomach. I salivate for a taste, carefully wiggling lower along his body, moving slowly so I don’t wake him.
A groan rumbles in Kane’s chest as I take his cock into my mouth, sucking on the hard shaft as he grows even bigger on my tongue. I’ve never been big on oral. Rain loves it. All it takes is a shot or two before she’s telling you how powerful she feels on her knees, how easy it is to manipulate men when you have them at your mercy. But the thought of sucking a guy’s cock has never been at the top of my list until Kane.
Now I see the appeal. I love how silky his cock feels in my mouth.
Silky andthick.
At some point, his long fingers tangle in my hair, pulling tight, prickling my scalp as he jerks his hips upward and forces more of himself into my mouth.
