“Yes. Please.”
“You’ll stay?”
“Promise.”
“I’m going to hold you to it.” He drove into her, hard and deep.
She was so wet, he slid home in one stroke, loving the feel of her wrapped around him. And then he lost himself, making love to her, kissing her, showing her with his body and whispered words that she was everything to him, too. He couldn’t get enough. He wanted her every second of the day.
He wouldn’t let anything or anyone come between them.
She deserved the family she wanted, the peace she’d been robbed of, the happiness and love she’d finally found with him.
No one would take that away from her.
He kissed her again and again, his tongue tangling with hers as she welcomed him into her body. Her heart. Her life.
He made love to her like it might be the last time, pouring his soul into her, hoping it was enough to make her feel safe and loved and cherished, because that’s how she made him feel.
There was nothing he couldn’t do with her by his side.
“Hawk,” she gasped as her body tightened around his.
“Give it to me. Come.”
Her channel quaked around him, and he followed her over the edge, pumping hard and deep to help extend her orgasm as he spilled his seed deep inside her. Maybe one day soon she’d stop her birth control and it would take root and they’d welcome a little girl or boy into their lives.
He wanted that as much as she did.
With one last kiss, he rolled over, taking her with him and settled on his back, Lucky tucked into his side, her head on his shoulder. “That was amazing.”
She kissed his heated skin. “Yes. It was. Now I just need one more thing.”
“What?” He couldn’t imagine what she wanted from him after all the love he’d showered on her.
“Cupcakes.” Her smile was contagious.
Chapter Twenty-Two
Seeing her ex shouldn’t make her nervous, since she believed now that he hadn’t killed her parents. Still…it had been a long time since they’d seen each other. She didn’t know him anymore. He didn’t know her.
Did he help Desiree dump her in that ravine?
He'd never been mean or vindictive. The only time she’d heard him threaten anyone was when he got angry about what her parents were doing to her. He’d only ever been kind to her.
Well, except when he cheated on her.
It just went to show that you never really knew someone.
Except Hawk seemed to be exactly who she’d always thought him to be. And so much more. He truly cared about her.
Which was why she was sitting on a purple couch in the children’s section of a bookstore a half hour from closing halfway between her place and Neil’s a town over. The place was practically empty. Which made it easy for her to spot Neilwalking in the door, his head on a swivel as he clocked the clerk at the register and the three other customers roaming the stacks.
The second his eyes landed on her, he stopped in his tracks, his gaze sweeping over her from her long hair, down her simple sky blue tank dress with her cropped denim jacket over it, to her nude wedge sandals.
Hawk got one look at her after work, practically gaped at her before his eyes filled with heat and he asked if he could spin her toward the wall, press her hands against it, flip up her skirt, and fuck her into tomorrow. She’d given him a saucy smile, fought the heat welling inside her and the wetness dampening her panties, and simply told him, “Later.”
He made her promise she meant it.
