“Did you know it? Did you know how badly I wanted you then? How I tried to keep you a friend because I was terrified of losing you? How I felt like I was going to die every time you came through my window if I didn’t have you? Then I finally was gonna give and look what happened. I lost you. I lost you.”
Grief struck me with his admission.
Heartbreaker.
Because I’d wanted it so badly for so many years. And I’d waited. Waited on him to return what I felt.
But I was tired of waiting.
I’d felt a change coming for so long.
Maybe it had started when I left Ethan and stood up for what was right.
Maybe it started the moment I turned my car in the direction of this small town in search of Cash.
But the one thing I knew?
It ended today.
No more.
I was finished being afraid.
I wanted to live.
I wanted to bloom.
It was time I claimed what I needed.
THIRTY-ONE
CASH
Dizziness spunthrough my brain as I fucked Daisy’s mouth.
Unable to process that this was actually happening. Wondering if maybe that fall had done me in and by some grace of the fates I woke up in paradise.
Blunt nails burrowed into my hips, and she shifted, taking me so deep I thought I was going to pass out.
I could scent her all over again. That sweet aroma filling my senses.
But it was what took over her expression that spun me into a brand-new disorder. Something coming over her that had the energy whipping around us.
Possession pounded through me as I looked down at her on her knees for me. Every inch of her soaked. The fabric of her tank clinging to her tight, mind-bending body. Droplets of water splattered all over her face. Clinging to her eyelashes and running down her cheeks.
“So sweet. Just like that,” I grunted as I withdrew and shoved back in. “So perfect, what you do to me.”
She sucked around me, and bliss sparked behind my eyes.
“Fuck. So good.”
With each stroke, I took her a little deeper. A little harder. A little faster.
“This has to be a dream. No chance I’d be lucky enough to get you like this. So fuckin’ beautiful. Nothing in the world, Daisy. Not one fuckin’ thing in this world could compare to you.”
I should stop myself from admitting the truths that needed to be kept locked tight. But once I started with her, I found it was near impossible to stop.
Flames of pleasure licked up my insides.
