Total pages in book: 146
Estimated words: 143842 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 719(@200wpm)___ 575(@250wpm)___ 479(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 143842 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 719(@200wpm)___ 575(@250wpm)___ 479(@300wpm)
Even if I couldn’t say it, even if I could never accept it, even if this was all going to fall apart tomorrow, I meant it.
I meant that he’d come to mean something. He’d infiltrated the places of my heart that had ached for years. The places that were vacant and hollow.
I wanted him to know it meant something that he’d stood for me.
It meant something that he’d healed and given me hope.
Cody began to snap forward, taking me deeper with each stroke, fucking my mouth the way he’d warned he would do.
I liked it. Liked the overwhelming feel of him. Because I could barely take it and I wanted more.
Lust swarmed.
A cloud of desperation.
Desire sparked in my middle.
I rubbed my thighs together, seeking friction.
A needy grunt ripped out of Cody, and he took my face in both of those massive hands. “Touch yourself, baby. I want to see you go off at the same second I come in this delicious mouth.”
Reaching between my trembling legs, I whimpered when my fingers brushed my tingling clit.
Pleasure flickered and flashed, and I shivered as Cody rocked in hard, fast strokes.
“Good girl. That’s right. Touch yourself as I fuck this sweet mouth. Let me see you.”
I rolled my fingers, and short gasps vibrated up my throat. I knew Cody could feel them, the way he moaned and jutted and jerked as he started to fuck faster.
“Nothing as beautiful as this, Hailey. You on your knees for me. But it’s me who’s on his knees. That’s where you’ve got me. On my fuckin’ knees.”
I was gone. Lost to the disorder of this man. To this insanity that I knew was going to burn us in the end. But this was what we both needed right then, so I fully let myself go.
The bliss grew and grew, and I let my hand that had been stroking the base of his cock wander deeper behind his thighs until I was tugging at his balls, my fingertip scratching at the backside.
“Just like that. You know exactly what to do to me. How I want it.”
Groaning with the praise, with the glow, I swallowed him deeper.
The vibration rolled through us both.
That was all it took and Cody exploded.
A shout wrenched from his mouth. Far too loud. Banging from the walls and plundering the night.
It plucked the pleasure out of me, too.
An orgasm ripped through my body as he poured and pulsed in my mouth. His hands clung to my face as I whimpered and he groaned, the two of us gone as I gulped him down.
Flying.
Soaring.
My head spun with a dizziness that I felt all the way down to my soul.
In places that were forbidden.
It didn’t matter because I knew he was already there.
We both slowed and stilled, our breaths panted, the energy a slow crackle that pulled through the air.
Cody’s hands were still framing my face when he pulled out of my mouth, and I reached up and swiped the back of my hand over my lips.
Then I smiled his way, feeling as smug as he could be. “It seems to me someone else needed to be gagged. I think you woke the neighbors.”
His chuckle was low. “I’d apologize but I wouldn’t mean it.”
I gazed up at him, feeling a brittle place inside me crack. “Don’t apologize, Cody. Not when I’ve wanted to see you like this for half my life.”
Every molecule in his being went tender. “I won’t. Won’t apologize for the way you make me feel. Won’t deny it any longer.”
Without giving me warning, he scooped me up and carried me into my bathroom and perched me on the sink. He kept tossing wayward grins at me as he warmed a cloth under the sink and swiped it across my lips.
“This fucking mouth, Shortcake.”
Shifting, he gently pressed the heated cloth between my perfectly sore thighs. “This body.”
He leaned in and pressed a kiss to my temple, whispering there, “This mind.”
Then he splayed a massive palm over the thunder ravaging my chest. “This heart.”
Don’t fall.
Don’t fall.
I silently chanted it like a prayer.
A fleeting one.
“Knew you were something so fuckin’ special, Hailey. Knew it all along. Wish I could be that way for you. Perfect and good and right.”
He scooped me back up, my legs around his thighs and my arms laced to his neck. Our naked flesh pressed flush to the other, an aching burn that simmered with something bigger than it should be.
He carried me to my bed and laid me down in the middle. I could see the battle wage in his mind as he hesitated at the side.
I reached for him because I couldn’t bear to let him go.
Not yet.
Not when I didn’t want this night to end.
“Stay with me.” I begged it like a secret.
Cody crawled in, the bed squeaking with his weight, and wrapped me in his arms. Heat blistered, his brutal strength wrapping me whole. I set my head on the steady beat of his heart.