Her lashes fluttered. “Because it’s so much fun.”
The sultry tone fucked with my head, but nothing like what her words and actions implied.
Staring at the slit I wanted back in already, I groaned as I cupped the back of her neck to bring her down to the sheets again.
Once she was lying flat, I snagged a pillow, arranged her so she could watch, then, with her settled, I positioned myself between her thighs.
One foot rested on my shoulder, and the other heel dug into the sheets.
She was spread open, wide and on display. I’d never seen anything so hot in my life. I’d die with this image imprinted on my retinas. Those final minutes where my brain stuttered through the movie of my life would hitch on this moment, bringing me back to here andnow.
I slid my fingers through her folds, seeking out the seed I’d filled her with. Her whimper was answer enough, but a glance at her rosy cheeks, dazed eyes, and parted lips that quivered as she struggled to breathe told me everything.
I pumped my cum-drenched fingers into her, curling upward to brush her G-spot as my thumb dragged through my seed and lubed up her clit.
When she let loose a short, staccato scream, I loomed over her, fingers maintaining a steady pace as I pushed her into the mattress, my forearm pressing down onto her shoulders, below her throat, not letting her move, keeping her in place.
She froze.
I didn’t think. If I had, I might have thought that the position could have scared her. Her claws came out and she scratched my back like the cat she was and her teeth, those menaces, were in my shoulder—the other one.
We froze like that for an endless amount of time.
A tableau of sin and lust and need.
But it was more than that.
It was love.
It was hope.
It was a future—she was my future. Everything that she was representedmytomorrow, and a man like me would stop at nothing to protect that.
Even from himself.
THIRTY-ONE
TEXT CHAT
Lara: I had the weirdest client in the back of my limo
Kitty: You’re talking to me now?
Kitty: I’ve tried to call you five times!
Lara: I’ve been busy!
Lara: Anyway, you suck for keeping quitting your job quiet
Lara: And for not spilling any deets about Plane Daddy
Kitty: The silent treatment went on longer than usual for you
Lara: Nah. I’ve had this head cold that won’t go away
Kitty: You should have said
Lara: No point. Fine now
