Which meant the vice versa of that was true as well.
What have I done?
He was right. My life was now in more danger than it had been simply because I had gotten involved. Simply because I had been adamant on faking some sort of engagement just to get Blake off my god damn back. Was this punishment? Divine retribution of some sort?
Then again, was I really in that much more danger?
Sure, Blake never hit me, but I had patched enough holes in the walls of the places we had lived together to know how to do it like a professional. And from everything I had read on the internet trying to find some peace with things, it showed me that it was only a matter of time before Blake threw those punches in my direction whenever he got angry.
It was all too much, and as Caleb slid off to the side, I moved with him.
I straddled him as I worked my way on top.
And I buried my cheek against his chest.
“I gotcha,” he whispered. “I’m right here.”
“My God,” I murmured.
“You all right?”
I lied and nodded softly. “Just… trying to get used to everything.”
He stroked his fingers through my hair. “I’m sorry for dragging you into this.”
I lifted my head and gazed up into his face. “Don’t be sorry. The truth of the matter is that I downplay what I’ve gone through with Blake. I was in just as much danger with him as I am now. It’s just a different kind of danger.”
He eyed me carefully. “He laid his hands on you, didn’t he?”
I shrugged. “Almost, a few times. I know that, eventually, he would have done something to leave marks if I hadn’t left when I did.”
He gripped my arms and pulled me up until my hair cloaked us off from the rest of the world as we gaze into each other’s eyes.
“I promise you, with everything I am, that I will keep you safe. Safe from everything. From him, from the Devil’s Rage. Even from the judgment of the guys downstairs. All of it stops at me before it gets to you. Okay? You have my word.”
I kissed the tip of his nose. “I know you will.”
The silence wasn’t all that deafening any longer. It wasn’t awkward or tense. It simply existed between the two of us, and it tugged a smile across my face.
Which tugged a smile across his.
“Do I even ask?” he asked with a chuckle.
I tilted my head. “That depends. Do you want to talk about what just happened between the two of us?”
And instead of answering me, he quickly flipped me back over onto my back.
“I guess if we’re going to talk about it, we might as well do it with as much education under our belts as possible.”
I spread my legs for him, his cock already growing. “You’ve always been one to do your research.”
He captured my lips. “Mmmmm, hm. So, what do you say?”
I sucked on his lip, which pulsed his cock against my pussy lips. “I say we do a bit more studying on the topic.”
“Thank fuck,” he growled.
I braced myself for impact as his cock thickened by the second. But when Caleb placed his lips along my pulse point, he inched downward. His hands propped him up as his tongue traced a path that his nose followed, and every time he stopped to nip at my skin, I jumped.
