I paused, and then I laughed, shrugging out of his hold and putting a little space between us because I was obviouslyhallucinating. There was no way his admission was true. “Right. Are you trying to tell me you were a virgin, and I was your first?”
He shook his head. “No, but I’ve not been with anyone else since the day I started watching you.”
The world fell from under me, and despite sitting on the sofa, I felt like I was free-falling. Roman took hold of my hand and pulled me up to standing, his touch grounding me. My heart hammered, my pulse racing so fast I thought I was going to faint.
“You expect me to believe that? You have someone’s fingerprints tattooed on your cock.” My words were breathy, my argument weak.
Roman yanked down his shorts, his semi-hard cock thick against his thigh.
“Touch it,” he commanded.
I tutted. “Not touching you. I’m pissed, remember.”
He didn’t listen, taking my right hand and wrapping it around his cock where my fingers perfectly aligned with the tattooed fingerprints that circled his now fully erect shaft.
I stared down, then my head popped up. “Psycho,” I said, not sure if it was a question or a statement of fact.
“Just you,” he whispered. “From the minute I saw you, it’s always just been you.”
I stood there like a fish out of water, my mouth opening and closing because what could I say? Eventually, I whispered, “How?”
“I had a lot of footage of you. I used a programme that calculated the span of your hand and the length of your fingertips, so it’s not perfect, but it was enough to do this.” He dropped his gaze to where my hand was still tight around his cock.
We stood in his living room, the drizzle falling against the window, reminding me that there was a world outside this moment; one where someone wanted to kill me because of a pastI’d tried and failed to outrun, but even with all of that hanging over me, the only thing I could think about was the enormity of this moment.
“Why?” Apparently, one-word questions were what this man had reduced me to.
He wrapped his hand around the front of my throat, collaring me in a way that let me relax into his touch, then he lowered his lips to mine but didn’t close the gap completely.
His cock twitched in my hand, and his warm breath danced over my mouth as he whispered, “Because I wanted you to own every inch of me, Hana. My heart, my soul, my body, they’ve been yours since before you even knew I existed. I’ve belonged to you since the moment I first laid eyes on you. You’re mine, but I’m equally yours. Every beat of my heart is for you. I know this is a lot, and if you decide you don’t want me, it will kill me, and I’ll back off, but just know, I won’t stop watching you, and I won’t stop loving you. Not ever.”
I stared down at his cock again, which was now dripping in precum. It was such an intimate moment—him naked, confessing his feelings for me, while I held his cock like I had all the power, despite how much I loved to submit to him. Could we do this—build a life together despite the lies our relationship was built on, despite what we’d both done in our pasts?
The tip of my tongue flicked over my lips as I raised my eyes to meet his.
“This might be the most fucked up meet-cute in history. You know that, right?”
He lifted and then dropped his shoulder. “And the most extreme declaration of love. How am I meant to follow that?”
His eyes widened. “Do you mean what I think you mean?”
I gently tugged on his cock, moving my fist from root to base, causing him to let out a long groan.
“Say it,” he said, his tone now a mixture of command and pained begging, like he’d die if he didn’t hear the words from my lips.
“I love you, Ro.”
This time, when the floor went from under me, it was Roman sweeping me into his arms and carrying me through to the bedroom.
“Fucking finally. Now you’re going to tell me that again and again as I fill you with my cock because I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of hearing it.”
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ROMAN
She loves me.
I stared down at a sleeping Hana, teasing my fingers through the ends of her hair as I lay next to her naked body. The urge to slip inside her and fuck her awake was strong, but I knew that was a hard no for her, so instead, I edged my erection against her hip as my lips found her neck.
