“I’m gonna go take an actual shower before bed if you wanna join me,” I say, making my way down the hall and to his room. Walking into his closet, I grab one of his shirts from the hanger before I turn around and see him leaning on the frame, a lazy smile crossing his features.
“What?”
“Nothing. I just love that you’ve made this place yourhome.” He walks over to me and glides his hands down my sides and under my ass before lifting me up, my legs wrapping around him. He walks us to the bathroom before he puts me on the counter and turns to the shower to start the water. “I love that you feel safe and comfortable here.”
He undresses himself, throwing his clothes on the floor before walking back over and helping me undress. I hop off the counter and slide his sweats down my thighs, then guide him into the shower. “Wherever you are is where my home is.”
He leans down and kisses me, soft and slow, savoring this moment. He guides me under the spray as we take turns washing each other. There’s nothing sexual about this moment, it’s just us taking care of each other.
Once done, we dry off and before I can put a shirt on, he’s grabbing my hand, leading me to the bed where he pulls back the covers and lays me down. He walks over and turns off the lights before joining me, wrapping himself around my back. Our bodies are tangled together, skin to skin with nothing in the way.
“Tonight, I just want to hold you,” he admits, his voice catching on the last words.
My hands find his arms and tangle into him, sinking further into his touch. “I want that, too.”
As I lie in his arms, his breaths even out as his chest rises and falls into me. When tomorrow comes, I know there’s going to be a lot to deal with, but right now, all I want is to be in his arms.
Knowing that I’m safe as he holds me tight to his chest, I let myself fall into a peaceful sleep.
Chapter 36
Jake
The sight of Kailyn sprawled out all over my chest, sleeping soundly is the best sight to wake up to.
After last night’s events, all I wanted to do was come home and lay with her. My emotions are running all over the place, but all I know is that I needed to feel her touch and have her in my arms to know that she was safe.
I gently glide my fingers up the expanse of her arm, back and forth as goosebumps start to form. I haven’t been able to stop looking at her wrist, the one marred in a mix of red and purple fingerprints from how hard Eric grabbed her. It takes me back to that anger and rage I felt at seeing him put his hands on her. I was waiting to rip his head off for daring to touch her.
I’m not normally a violent man. I never use my hands to work things out, but when it comes to Kailyn, I will do anything to make sure that she’s safe and protected.
She starts to lightly stir in my arms, soft breaths hitting my bare chest as she slowly wakes. Her legs wrap tighter around me, and she snuggles closer to me, our body heat mixing under the sheets.
“This is a nice way to wake up. A girl could get used to this,” she says in a soft tone.
I lean down and place a kiss along the top of her hairline, smiling to myself. “Move in with me then.”
She pulls back.“What?”
I roll to my side, so I can face her. “Move in with me, Kailyn.” I reach out and cup her face in my hands, gently gliding my fingers along her cheekbones. “This is it for me. You’ve been here almost every night since our first date, so why not?”
She’s silent for a long moment and I’m starting to think I messed this up when she surges forward and captures my mouth in a searing kiss. It starts soft but quickly starts to become more as she pushes me on my back and straddles my lap. She starts to grind herself over my hardening erection, and I can feel the slick, wet, heat of her pussy.
Pulling back, her eyes sparkle in the morning light, the green flecks popping out and mixing into her brown ones. “Okay.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah. I’m not wasting this second chance with you.”
Smiling, she captures my mouth again as she takes over the kiss. My hands start to glide up and down her sides as she continues to grind herself on my cock. The softness of her body, the feeling of her on top of me is heaven. I grab her hips and bring her body closer to me, helping her pick up the pace as we both dry hump each other into the mattress.
“Fuck, you feel so good, baby girl. You’re so wet.”
“It’s all for you, only ever you, handsome.”
I reach for the bedside table to grab a condom when she reaches out her hand and stops me. “I want to feel you, all ofyou.” She bites her lower lip, a sense of nervousness lining her eyes.
My cock is screaming at me to get inside of her bare, to feel her walls tighten around me and feel every inch of her as she screams my name and comes all over me, but I need to make sure this is what she wants. “I’m clean. I haven’t been with anyone else in a long time, but are you sure this is what you want?”
