Total pages in book: 89
Estimated words: 85224 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 426(@200wpm)___ 341(@250wpm)___ 284(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 85224 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 426(@200wpm)___ 341(@250wpm)___ 284(@300wpm)
My heart longs for him, in this moment. To hug him. To touch him. But I am fascinated by Magda’s words, and desperate for more. She gives them to me.
“He believes he is destined to destroy everything he touches as well, Miss Talia. But we both know this is not true.”
“The woman in the bathtub?” I ask.
Her gaze moves to the floor, pain flickering across her face. “His mother. She blamed him for what happened too. And left him to suffer her actions for all of eternity.”
“Is that why he picked me?” I ask.
“He relates to you,” she says. “But he picked you long before he ever knew your story. He picked you from the moment he saw your face in that photo. The one your friend brought here, asking for his help. He saw something in you, Miss Talia. The same thing I see when I look at you too.”
“What?” I ask.
“He saw life.” She smiles. “He saw the sun breaking through the dark clouds.”
I don’t see how that’s possible, but I don’t argue with Magda. Just as Alexei said to me before when I inquired about the name he calls me. Little sun. He told me it makes perfect sense to him.
Could he really see me that way?
I don’t know.
“He is a good man.” Magda pats my hand and rises to her feet. “He will do right by you, Miss Talia. He will do everything for you. But you must give him time. And be patient.”
She moves towards the sink and then looks back at me. “Are you ready?”
I nod. And I am grateful for her presence. I am grateful for this sweet woman who raised Alexei and cares for me too. Even though I don’t deserve it.
She has been so kind and good to me. And I want to hug her. To thank her. If I knew how.
She glances at the tests and then brings a trembling hand to her face. When she looks at me, her eyes are brimming with tears and she cannot contain her smile.
“I knew it,” she says as she holds up one of the tests for me to see. “You have brought life back into this house.”
34
Talia
When Alexei returns, it is late.
And I am in his bed. Wearing a silk chemise for him as he requested. But he does not join me.
He sits beside me instead, waking me with a gentle touch to my face.
“Solnyshko.”
I move my face into his palm and kiss his fingers.
And then he’s pulling me from the bed and into his lap, his fingers sliding over the silk material with a groan.
“You have been waiting for me?”
I lean into his right ear to answer in the darkness. “Yes.”
He grabs me around the waist and grinds me down onto his hardening cock beneath the trousers, his hand tangling in my hair.
“I am going to take you often tonight,” he tells me.
My response is to kiss his neck, wrapping my arms around him and absorbing everything that is Alexei. His scent, his sounds, his breath on my skin. I want what he promises so darkly.
My hand moves between us, finding his zipper and pulling it down. I stroke his heated bulge through the cotton of his briefs, and his mouth finds my breast over the silk nightgown. He sucks the material and my flesh into his mouth while I fondle his heavy cock in my hand.
“This time will be quick,” he tells me as he reaches down to retrieve his cock. “I just need to come inside of you. I want you to smell like me. Only of me.”
I lean back in his grip when his other palm slides up my thighs, bunching the material of the chemise around my waist and giving him access to what he wants.
He doesn’t wait or explain any further. He just slides inside of me and fucks me right there on his lap, both of us on the edge of the bed.
I can’t see his face. I can only hear his voice in the darkness when he tells me how good I feel. How he has missed my body.
“You won’t come now,” he tells me. “Save it for later. You will need it.”
I don’t know what that means. But I just hold onto him. My arms wrapped around his neck as he fucks me quick and with only one goal in mind.
He comes inside of me, his cock pulsing for what feels like minutes as he fills me with his warmth. His voice is calm as his lips move over the column of my throat, and his body is relaxed now.
He squeezes my ass in his hands and rocks me against his pelvis a few more times, drawing it out even as he softens inside of me.
“Now, I have something to show you,” he tells me. “And then I will reward you with what you need, my lovely Solnyshko.”