I watched her face through every second of it. Flushed and innocent and completely unguarded, and the thought that moved through me was simple and staggering.
Lucy Lee just came for me.
The woman whose voice had tangled in my soul.
That woman was coming apart underneath me with her fingers in my hair, tugging me closer.
I didn’t slow down. I gave her everything, harder and deeper, chasing the heat building in my cock, and she went over a second time before I expected it, sudden and sharp, her back bowing off the mattress, a howl escaping into the night air.
And that was what undid me.
I followed her over the edge with a groan I couldn’t contain, releasing into her in long, deep pulses.
Something in me registered the ownership I had no business feeling, a deep and wordless claim that I knew I hadn’t earned and couldn’t keep.
This woman was going to end me.
How could I go back to a life that didn’t include her?
She was my sun, and I would orbit around her until the end of my days.
I held her through it, both of us breathing hard in the dark.
My hand tightened around her waist, keeping her right where I wanted her. And then I rolled to my side and pulled her with me.
She pressed her face against my chest, and when she could speak again, she laughed softly, a warm and wondering sound.
“Jimmy never fucked like that.”
“I’m not Jimmy.”
“I didn’t know it could be like that.”
She lifted her head and looked at me, and there was something shy in her expression that caught me completely off guard.
Her eyes were still shining bright as if I’d done something heroic, and my heart flipped over in my chest.
Even though what we’d just done together had been exquisite. A pure and simple hunger unleashed. I was still a man who’d just slept with the woman I was supposed to be protecting.
On the job.
In her bed, in her house, while someone was actively trying to kill her, and I was the only thing standing between her and whoever had sent four hired hands to do it.
No hero would do that.
But I pulled her closer anyway, her warmth settling against me in the dark, and I told myself I’d figure out what that meant in the morning.
After I fucked her again. The first time had been for her. This time would be forme.
I wasn’t supposed to touch her. But I wasn’t letting her go either. Not until she told me I had to.
If Lucy Lee didn’t watch out, she was going to bemine.
Chapter 6
Lucy
The next morning could have felt weird. But it felt perfect to me.
