Total pages in book: 42
Estimated words: 38490 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 192(@200wpm)___ 154(@250wpm)___ 128(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 38490 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 192(@200wpm)___ 154(@250wpm)___ 128(@300wpm)
Instead of pulling away I leaned in again and took her lips once more. This time her hands held my face as if holding me in place as I fed on her mouth. Her sweet young innocent mouth.
I wanted to take her here and now, but it was too soon. We hadn’t even talked about where this was going or what either of us wanted out of this. So I pulled back even though my dick was at breaking point.
“Let me finish taking care of your finger baby.” She blushed prettily and lowered her head as I took care of her, wrapping a band-aid around the little nip before kissing it like I’ve done countless times with my nieces. “All better!”
She giggled and the sound brought me up short. What am I really doing here? With this young girl who doesn’t seem to have lived yet. “Have you ever been with a man before?”
I knew the answer even before she ducked her head and shook it no. Instead of fear I felt…elation. My first virgin. My dick sprang right the fuck up and it wasn’t long before I felt a little bead of precum form on the tip behind my zipper.
I lifted her chin with my finger. “You better be very sure that this is what you want, with me. I don’t want you doing this out of some misguided sense of gratitude, you don’t owe me anything. But if you want me, want this, then come back to me. If you don’t… it’s best if you stay away.”
12
Braden
Those last few words were hard as hell to say, but I had to do it. I could easily just take her to my bed and fuck her to the point of death, but then what? Would she leave with regrets? No, it’s best if she walks into this thing with both eyes open.
I stood from my crouch at her side not caring that my hard cock was now at her eye level. There’s no way she could miss it this time and I didn’t want her to.
I replaced the stuff in the cabinet, taking my time and giving her a good look at what she was in for. If she didn’t run screaming then I’d know we had a chance. But tomorrow is going to be the real tell isn’t it?
She finished making her chili and even baked some cornbread from the smell of it while I sat out on the porch with some lemonade she’d made me after taking my beer from my hand earlier. I guess that was her way of letting me know she didn’t like me drinking beer.
“Looks like we’re gonna have more company around here in the near future.” Harley turned his head and looked at me from his position next to me. I didn’t need to ask if he approved, his damn tongue was hanging out of his head.
I found that saying the words out loud didn’t freak me out half as bad as expected and by the time she was ready to leave I was the one nervous that she might not come back.
All that night I walked the floor wondering what I should do if she really didn’t come back the next day. I twisted myself up to the point that I could’ve used ten beers.
But each time I reached for one I remembered the look on her face when she took it from me earlier and told me she would make me lemonade instead. So I drank lemonade and sat out on my porch with a gut full of worry.
Boy how the tables had turned. Had it only been a few days ago that I was telling myself I wasn’t interested? I had no doubt that had it not been for this feeling that now lives inside me, that I would’ve walked away.
The thought of opening myself up to that raw emotion again was more than I could take. And the girl did seem to attract trouble after all. Which reminds me, I need to call Wyatt in the morning and find out what’s going on with those two.
Even if she doesn’t come back to me, I can still keep her safe. But even as I thought it I knew that we’d come too far to turn back now. That there was no way she was going to live in this world without me. Without being mine.
CASSIE
From the moment I left him until I dropped into bed my mind has been preoccupied with one thing. The question he’d posed. If I wanted this with him come back if not, stay away.
Now that he’d put it so bluntly I had no choice but to think about it. to decide once and for all if this is what I truly wanted. When I left the sheriff’s office I was sure. But Braden’s question made me think once again.