Total pages in book: 95
Estimated words: 90252 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 451(@200wpm)___ 361(@250wpm)___ 301(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 90252 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 451(@200wpm)___ 361(@250wpm)___ 301(@300wpm)
“I’m so close.”
“You want to come on my face, Bells?”
She shakes.
“Because that’s what I want. I want to taste your pleasure. Just tell me that’s what you need, beautiful.”
“Please,” she whimpers. “Please let me come.”
That’s all I need to hear. I return to her clit and stroke her with my fingers. When I run my teeth along that sensitive nub, she stops breathing, her body arches, and she comes on a low moan that is nothing except my name on repeat.
A perfect sound. One I want to hear every day for the rest of my life. I keep sucking and licking until she shakes at each contact.
Then I pull back and marvel at her. Hard nipples, wet pussy, and flushed skin. The most beautiful sight I’ve ever seen.
She stares up at me, her eyes dazed. “That was—”
“Not everything.” I smirk and lean back down and kiss her thigh, moving lower to her knee. “After all, you said you wanted me to kiss you everywhere.” So I do. And I take my time.
I heave the axe downward and split the wood with an explosive separation. Then I grab one of the halves and line it up on the stump so I can swing again.
My cock is still half hard and aching for Bells. But after I devoured her earlier, I let her rest. If we get into bed again, I don’t know if I’m strong enough to keep my dick to myself. Because, fuck, I keep thinking about her tight cunt, her hard nipples, and the way she said my name.
I slam the axe down so hard it gets embedded deeply into the stump and the pieces I split fly off into the snow around the patio.
“Too much mustard on that one.” Tiernan loads the wheelbarrow with the firewood.
Yanking the axe free, I sigh. “Bells wants to leave.”
“Leave? Like leave, leave?” He scoops up several pieces and dumps them into the wheelbarrow. “Why?”
“She got a job offer.” I swing and split another. “For a band in Korea.”
“K-Pop? That’s so hot right now.”
“You know about K-Pop?” I line up another hunk of wood and go to work on it.
“Who doesn’t?” He stands and dusts off his hands. “Sounds like a dream job for her. She’s the manager, right?”
“Yeah.” I wince as I swing again, this time almost splitting the stump in the process.
“Ease up, big guy.” Tiernan gathers the rest of the wood. “You’re going to break the axe.”
“I can’t let her go.”
“At least yours wants to leave. I can’t get away from Daphne. She’s probably in the woods right now, hiding behind a tree and recording this conversation.” He glances around.
“You don’t fool me, Tiernan.” I give up on the firewood and turn to him. “You don’t want her to go, either.”
He clears his throat. “We’re talking about you. Not me. Look, if you want her to stay, tell her.”
I scratch my chin. “She’s headstrong and determined. Everything she has, she’s worked hard for. I don’t know if I can ask her to change all that for me.” I want to. Fuck, I even wondered if I could knock her up to keep her here, but I couldn’t do that to her. I’m a bad man, sure. But I’m not evil, especially not when it comes to Bells. Big decisions like that should be made together, though I must admit the thought of having kids with Bells excites me far too much. So much so that I want to bring it up with her. But I won’t. That’s the perfect way to spook her.
“She can be headstrong and determined here. She’s still got Aurora to manage, and these days, there isn’t much that can’t be done on Zoom, you know? She can live her life and travel when she needs to, but that doesn’t mean she can’t make her home here with you.”
He’s right. This whole time since I heard about the job offer, I’ve been thinking about it as a binary choice. Either she stays and turns it down or leaves and turns me down. But what if she can have both? Maybe things aren’t as black and white as I thought.
I look at Tiernan with a newfound respect. “You’re right.”
He grins. “God, I love to hear that phrase.” He gestures toward the lodge. “Let’s go see what Aurora’s cooking up in the—”
A shrill scream cuts through the chilly air. Without another thought, I yank the axe free from the stump, and Tiernan and I both run into the lodge. He breaks to the left toward Daphne’s room, and I head straight to Bells.
When I open the door, I stop in my tracks, blink, and then lose my shit.
10
BELLS
“It’s okay!” I jump up from the bed to block my new little pet. I only screamed because Leonard had surprised me more than anything when he jumped through the window. I dropped my phone and gotten scared. I’d seen him sitting outside trying to look in when I was emailing back and forth with Mark, but I didn’t think he’d come in.