Total pages in book: 70
Estimated words: 64885 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 324(@200wpm)___ 260(@250wpm)___ 216(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 64885 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 324(@200wpm)___ 260(@250wpm)___ 216(@300wpm)
Something serious passed over his features, and I instantly regretted the slip of tongue.
He kissed me from behind, holding me closer against him. “We’re only getting started.”
He said the words like a promise, and in my blissful orgasm haze, I smiled, and let myself believe him.
CHAPTER 13
Gareth
“You found my list, didn't you?” Serenity asked me as we stood outside of the activity that I'd chosen for tonight's date.
I looked down at her apologetically. “In my defense, you left it on the kitchen table. At first, I thought it was a grocery list. Did I cross a line?” I asked. Serenity had been the first relationship I'd had in a long time, and the last thing I wanted to do was betray her trust.
“No,” she said. “I wouldn't have left it out if I wanted it to be private. I was honestly just scribbling down some things that I'd never tried before. Something Daisy urged me to do.”
I motioned to the racetrack that awaited us, one car already primed and running thanks to the staff member who’d driven it onto the track. It was a Porsche, and I loved the ways her eyes lit up as she looked at it.
“Driving a car on your own was on that list.”
“True,” she said, laughing softly. “I would’ve been fine with driving your Audi. You didn't have to rent out a racetrack and a Porsche for me, but I'm pumped. When are we going?”
“Go right ahead,” I said motioning her toward the guide who would give her the rundown of what to do.
“All by myself?”
“All by yourself.”
She squealed and bounced a little on her feet before she reached up and kissed me quickly, hurrying off toward the guide.
I laughed, smiling as I watched her listen intently to everything the instructor said. It was definitely hard not insisting I be in the passenger seat with her, but again, this wasn't about me. Simple luxuries I took for granted, like being able to go into my garage and pick out any number of vehicles I wanted to drive wherever I wanted, had always been denied to her. There were other things on her list that both shocked and saddened me—like shopping for and cooking her own food.
But there were just as easily other things that I was super excited to try with her, this being one of them, going dancing being another. It never ceased to shock me how cloistered she'd been, even though she told me so many stories about her past. Once I saw that personal list of wants on my table, reading it and thinking about the mindset she'd been in when she made it, had hit me right in the chest.
The only consolation I could take was the fact that things were different now. With me and my protection and my resources, she could cross off everything on that list. And I'd make damn sure of it, too. Hell, she could make as many lists as she wanted, and I would dedicate my life to helping her experience every single thing she'd ever missed out on. As long as she would have me.
As I watched her climb into the car, she waved to me excitedly and my heart grew in my chest. Every damn time I saw her like this, so free and joyful, it was like a spark coming to life where previous encounters had only been an ember.
Every day she grew more confident. Every day she settled into this new life more comfortably, and it was amazing to watch.
She hit the gas, nothing timid about it, and took off like a shot. I heard her squeal through the open window as she found her rhythm, making her way around the track at a steady speed. Every time she flew past me, her smile was bigger and bigger, and by the time she was done, she leaped out of the car and raced over to me. She jumped when she was a few feet away, knowing I'd catch her.
She wrapped her arms round my neck as I caught her against me, her feet dangling high above the ground as she kissed the fuck out of me.
“Thank you, thank you, thank you,” she said, excitement lacing her tone. “That was so amazing!”
I held her to me, not bothering to put her down as I smiled at her. “Anything for you,” I said.
She kissed me again, a desperate edge to this one that hadn't been there before. “Anything?” she asked.
I read the look in her eyes easily enough. “Let me get you home.”
Three hours later, I laid on my back, completely spent from making Serenity moan my name over and over again. Her head rested on my chest as she traced the lines of my ink, something she liked to do, especially if she was lost in her head.