“Come for me,” he commanded.
I bucked ravenously against his hand. “So close. So close. So close.”
“Come for me, sweet girl.”
I raised my hips into the air. “Yes. Yes. Just like that. Just like—Ranger! Yes! Holy hell!”
His mouth dropped to mine as he swallowed my sounds. His fingers played me like a fiddle, pulling rolling orgasms from my body as my toes curled so deeply that it cramped my calves. One after the other soared through my system, drenching the sheets beneath me in my own debaucherously sweet mark. I clung to him, throwing my arms around his neck and pulling him down to me, forcing his hand away from my pussy.
And as he scooped me close to him, pulling me into his lap, my head fell against his beating heart.
“Wow,” I whispered.
I heard him sucking at his fingers. “Mm, mm, mm. Delicious.”
Goosebumps sprinted across my body as I listened to his sounds. I nuzzled beneath his chin, wanting nothing more than his attention as he cradled me in his grasp. It felt like God Himself were holding me, blanketing me away from the cold, harsh world I had always known.
And as a yawn dropped my jaw, I felt myself moving. Gliding. Suspended in the air.
Until Ranger placed me down on the bed and tucked me in.
“What about dinner?” I asked through yet another yawn.
“Sleep, sweet girl. That’s what you need.”
I felt him move away and I reached out for him. I grabbed the first thing I found, which just so happened to be nothing except his thumb.
“Please, don’t leave,” I whispered.
“Naomi, look at me.”
I peeked an eye open and found worry in his gaze. “You’re safe here with us.”
“Please, don’t leave,” I begged him.
He nodded. “All right, but only for a bit.”
He crawled over me, his body creaking the bedframe as he settled against my back. I wiggled back toward him, my ass seated against his pelvis as his arm snaked around my waist. I pulled the sheet up to my face. I felt him bury his nose into the tendrils of my hair as his heated breath pulsed along the nape of my neck.
Had I not been so tired, it would have prepared me for another round.
“I’ve got so much on my mind,” I said softly.
He nuzzled his nose against the crown of my head. “You’re safe with me. Sleep.”
“What about dinner plans, though?”
He chuckled. “Like I said, there’s always breakfast.”
And for the first time since I had been taken, I felt free. Protected. Safe, and cared for. It closed my eyes and relaxed my body long enough for darkness to overcome me.
While Ranger’s presence chased away the nightmares that had plagued me for days.
21
NAOMI
The first thing I felt was ache. A deep-seated ache with no particular source or destination. My foggy head lifted up as the room spun around me. My body felt as if it were floating high into the sky before being slammed down into the bottom of the ocean. I eased my feet over the edge of the bed, trying to plant myself so my stomach would stop turning over onto itself.
