“The night we met,” she whispered softly. “You said you were there on business. Which means you were there for him, doesn’t it? He had the winning bid for me in the bachelorette auction, right up until the moment you placed yours. Is that why you bid so high? To get his attention?”
She tried to yank her arm away from me, but I refused to let go. Not when she was looking so devastated.
“Carissa, no.”
She shook her head wildly, tears streaming down her face. “It could have been any other girl up there, and you would have done the same thing. It had nothing to do with me,” she cried.“I’m such an idiot. And a horrible person because I’m not sure what bothers me the most—knowing my parents were trying to marry me off to a human trafficker or realizing you’ve been pretending with me the whole time.”
She was standing right in front of me, but she wasn’t listening to what I was saying. I needed to do something to pull her out of her mental tailspin. To get her to hear me when I explained how much she’d come to mean to me in such a short amount of time. So I tossed her over my shoulder and carried her into my bedroom, tossing her on my mattress and falling on top of her.
Resting most of my weight on my forearms, which were braced on either side of her head, I stared down at her gorgeous face. Her eyes were rimmed with red and her cheeks wet from her tears, but she was no less beautiful to me.
“I’m not going to lie to you, Carissa. Bellamy’s interest in you is what first caught my attention.” Her body flinched beneath mine, and she squeezed her eyes shut. “But it’s not why I bid as high as I did. That was all you.” Her eyes popped back open, and there was a spark of hope in her gaze. “My reaction to you was completely unexpected. For the first time in my life, I experienced a flash of jealousy when you spun around and all the men in that room got to see exactly how low your dress dipped—all the way down your spine to just above your tight ass.”
Her hands, which had been pushing against my chest, flexed into my muscles so she was holding me instead. I had her complete attention, and I wasn’t going to waste it.
“If it had been any other girl up on that stage, anyone but you, I might have outbid Bellamy by the smallest of margins to try to keep her safe. But I wouldn’t have dragged her behind those curtains to hide her from other men’s gazes. I wouldn’t have tossed the date provided by the charity out the window to plan the perfect one myself.”
“It really was perfect,” she agreed softly.
“Only because it wasourdate, Carissa. Because it was you and me together.” I dropped my forehead down against hers. “As dark as my reason was for being at that gala, it brought me to you. And I’m grateful as fuck for it because you were meant to be mine. When you left here three nights ago, I told you I was giving you time to decide what you want because once you gave yourself to me, you’d be mine. But I was wrong—you’re already mine. You’ve been mine all along.”
“Then show me I’m yours.”
The husky sound of her voice was the only invitation I needed. I tunneled my hands under her shirt, shoving it up over her head and tossing it on the floor. When I popped the catch of her bra, her tits popped out. They were fucking perfect. I couldn’t resist the temptation and sucked one of the hard, pink peaks into my mouth while my hand palmed the other side, clenching the round and creamy swell of her tit. I nibbled and sucked, while she moaned and shivered beneath me.
I wanted another taste of her pussy more than I needed my next breath, so I slid down her body. I made quick work of the button and zipper on her jeans, yanking them down her legs until she was able to kick them off. Once they were on the floor, she was laying beneath me in the tiniest pair of black lace panties which were soaked clear through with the proof of her arousal. They ripped away easily when I tugged at the seams. With nothing in my way anymore, I opened her pussy lips wide and licked up the center.
“This pussy is mine,” I moaned.
I went after her like a starving man—licking and sucking, plunging my tongue inside her, and stretching out her tight, little pussy with one of my fingertips. With her fingers clenched against my scalp and her hips jerking up and down, I stiffened my tongue and drove it inside her until her orgasm rippedthrough her. I kept at it, leisurely licking her as her body melted bonelessly into my mattress.
My cock was as hard as a spike, but it didn’t matter. I’d already gotten what I needed tonight. Carissa safe and sound, in my bed—right where she belonged. Forever.
10
CARISSA
Iwoke up disoriented, in a strange bedroom I didn’t recognize at first. Then it all came rushing back to me. My parents were trying to marry me off to the head of a human trafficking ring, and I still had somehow managed to drift off to sleep after Vaughn gave me a mind-blowing orgasm.
“Morning, beautiful.”
I yanked the sheet up to cover myself and shifted to look towards the door. Vaughn was standing there, dressed in nothing but a pair of pajama bottoms. They rode low on his hips, showing off the muscled V below his six-pack abs.
“Morning,” I gulped, my gaze jerking up to his face when he laughed.
“I hardly think it’s fair for you to cover up your chest while you sit there ogling mine.”
“It’s as fair as the fact that you’ve seen me completely naked, and this is the most I’ve gotten to see you,” I retorted.
“That’s easily rectified,” he murmured as he walked towards the bed. When he was only inches from me, standing so close I could reach out and touch him, he hooked his fingers in the waistband of his pajama pants and pulled them down his legs.
“Holy fucking shit,” I breathed out. I’d never seen a guy’s dick up close and in person. It was long and thick, pointing up towards his stomach. Veins stood out on either side, and it was almost a deep red color. I reached out and wrapped my fingers around his length, shocked by how big he actually was. “There’s no way this monster dick is ever going to fit inside me.”
“Your little pussy is so tight, it might take some work. But it’ll fit perfectly.” My hand clenched around him, and his hips jerked forward. “I can hardly wait to feel your wet heat wrapped around me. Your walls pulsing as you come all over my cock.”
“If you want me so much, why did you wait?”
“Because I had to be sure you were ready for that step. Your needs come first. Always.”
