I chuckle, low and slow. ‘That’s my girl.’
And sheis.
For fucking real.
The thought fires through me again as I pinch and roll her nipple, circle her swollen clit, glorying in everything she gives me. Every buck, every moan, every panted breath.
‘Oh— that feels so good,’ she rasps.
‘Youfeel so good.’ I’m heading to the edge with her, my cock pressing hard between our bodies. ‘Did you miss me, Baby Girl?’
I don’t know why I need to hear it.
I just do.
I want the words from her lips.
Crave them like I crave her.
‘Yes!’ She threads her fingers through my hair. ‘So much!’
And whatever’s been holding tight within me finally releases.
‘If this is how you’ll be, maybe I should go away more often.’
‘No.’ She turns into me lightning quick. ‘That won’t do.’
Her mouth crashes into mine as she wraps her legs around me, and I press her back into the tile. Find her heat and sink indeep. Every frenzied thrust sends her body up the wall as I lose myself in it, in her, in claiming her for real.
‘Yes, God yes,’ she pants. ‘Don’t stop, don’t stop, don’t?—’
She comes apart, her walls clenching around me, and I give myself over to it. Body jerking. Mind rolling. Heart beating wild in my chest.
‘You’re mine, Baby Girl,’ I growl, easing out and driving back in, unwilling to let her go just yet.
Unwilling to let her go, ever.
She looks up at me, wrecked and glowing, water clinging to her lashes.
‘Yeah,’ she murmurs. ‘I know.’
‘Damn right you do.’
Because for the first time since this whole thing started, I ain’t negotiating. I ain’t compartmentalising. I ain’t pretending I only want a part of her.
I want it all: Taylor, the baby, the future.
As for the contract?
It dies here.
20
AXEL
When Theo and Sadie turn up the next day, I’m in the kitchen getting my hair styled by Lottie.
Don’t ask. I didn’t.
