Total pages in book: 157
Estimated words: 155900 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 780(@200wpm)___ 624(@250wpm)___ 520(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 155900 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 780(@200wpm)___ 624(@250wpm)___ 520(@300wpm)
With my admission, he dipped down and took my mouth in a fevered kiss.
His slow strokes grew faster and faster.
Our bodies pitched and bowed as we met again and again.
His hips snapped in a desperate greed that took us over.
And that pleasure he promised billowed and blew, a mind-bending burn that lit at every edge of my consciousness. In every cell of my body.
Rushing and winding as he spun me into this perfect disorder.
He pushed up onto his hands, every muscle in his body hard and packed as he continued to drive into me, his words mere scrapes.
“Fuck, Emery. Knew you were going to do me in. Knew once I had you, that would be it for me. But it was a lie. You were it for me the second I saw you. And now it’s going to be my pleasure to be the one to please you night and day. The things I’m going to do to you. The places I’m going to take you.”
“I’m already there.”
Right on the cusp.
At the edge of surrender.
My breaths shallow and short as I climbed for that place I’d only found with him.
“You’re so perfect. So perfect. The way you fit my cock. Going to lose my mind…going to lose all of myself with you.”
I worried I was already gone when he edged back and grabbed me by the knee and spread me wider. He glided that palm up the inside of my thigh until he wound it between us.
His fingers found that engorged, aching spot.
A moan ripped out of me, and my hips jutted upward at his touch.
“Don’t fight it, baby. Take it. Take me the way you were meant to do.”
Kane started thrusting faster, and his fingers flicked over my clit in time.
Bliss threatened at the edges of my sight, and I clawed at his shoulders as he drove us toward madness.
Energy gusted, a gale force wind that battered through the room and beat back into us.
Our breaths harsh and jagged.
Our hearts a stampede that rushed beyond our control.
In sync and completely out of time.
“That’s it, Little Warrior. Let go. Let go because I’m always going to be there to catch you. Let me feel you come around my cock.”
And I did.
I let go and found my freedom in the safety of his arms, and I welcomed the pleasure that had been waiting.
Bliss cracked me wide open and rapture broke through my being.
Rupturing.
Splintering.
Dragging me up into the heavens. Where he’d promised to meet me there.
“You and me, Emery.” He rasped it at my ear as he drew me closer, his body slick against mine as his thrusts turned frantic.
Euphoria rolled and rolled, the orgasm careening through me as he took me hard and fast.
As my name dropped from his mouth on an acute whisper, “Emery.”
I felt when he split.
When he let go and fully gave himself over.
His body went rigid as he took me completely. As deep as he could.
The man everywhere.
Everything.
Shuddering and releasing the longest moan as he came.
Tremors of ecstasy flickered through me, wave after wave.
Unending.
The two of us clinging to each other as we soared.
We stayed like that forever. Elevated above the grief and the fear and loss.
In this haven that could only belong to us.
Kane held me tight, refusing to let go, his body pressed to mine as we gasped and searched for the oxygen that neither of us could find.
Our chests heaving with the impact of what we’d just shared.
Finally, he pulled back. One of those big hands cupped my cheek, and he seemed to struggle to find the words. Eyes emphatic as he rushed, “You don’t have to go it alone anymore, Little Warrior. I know you want to fight. So let me fight at your side. For you and beside you and behind you. Let me lift you. Let me hold you. Or just fucking let me stand in awe of who you are, just as long as I’m standing with you.”
FORTY-ONE
KANE
I gazed down at the woman who had shattered every belief. Blonde air strewn around that gorgeous face. Toffee eyes swirling with the affection she’d been fighting.
Breaths short and panted, her heart this thundering beat against mine.
I exhaled heavily as I shifted off to the side, ridding myself of the condom and tossing it into the trash. Then I laid back onto my side and dragged her against me so that we were facing each other. All that hot, sweat-drenched flesh tucked up close to me.
Right where she belonged.
Emery let go of a contented sigh, and fuck, I didn’t think there was much that sounded better than that.
The woman finding her peace—her comfort—in me.
Especially after what had gone down this afternoon.
“How do you feel?” I finally asked, voice rough with the lust and relief that still barreled through my insides.
Emery blinked. Blinked those fathomless eyes that had the power to suck me down to the very depths of who she was. A looking glass into her soul that she kept under lock and key but had somehow granted me access to.