Total pages in book: 92
Estimated words: 84002 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 420(@200wpm)___ 336(@250wpm)___ 280(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 84002 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 420(@200wpm)___ 336(@250wpm)___ 280(@300wpm)
As she pieced things together, though, Celia had very little doubt that Don was lying. She’d already put in the paperwork needed to get the ball rolling on gathering all the information she could on Stella, and after hearing all that Don had to say, she was most definitely going to have his parents exhumed.
By the time her mind cleared, she realized that she’d eaten all of her food and polished off her wine. Just in time, too, because true to his word, she heard Riley coming back into the room like he’d promised. “You done?” He eyed her plate, pleased to see that she’d eaten all her dinner though it hadn’t been nearly enough for his liking.
She’d put in more than twelve hours on the job and, as far as he was concerned, should’ve eaten twice as much, but he knew if he mentioned it, she’d only give him shit, and he was not in the mood to fight. Not to mention she was too raw to go a round with him on this.
Celia squealed when Riley crossed the room and lifted her in his arms. “Riley, I can…”
“Quiet! You look like you’re about to fall flat on your face. Just let me take care of you, okay.” She didn’t argue, just laid her head on his shoulder, and let him take her up the stairs to the master bath.
Neither said anything as he undressed her and then himself. Riley had had all intentions on leaving her to enjoy her bath alone, but now that they were in there, he found that he didn’t want to leave her alone. Celia stood like a child as he administered to her, even lifting her into the steaming water before climbing in to sit behind her.
He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her back into his chest, and Celia felt loved and cossetted in a way she never had before. “I’m glad I moved in with you.” As she said the words, she recalled his last words to her this afternoon before he left the station house. She’d purposely refused to think about them all day, not wanting them to be tainted by the ugliness she had to sit and listen to all day.
But now that she was wrapped so safely in his arms, the words came back, and the feelings that they’d invoked were fully awake. “About what you said earlier.” She stopped there, giving him a chance to make light of it if he wished to take it back.
“What about it?”
Celia swallowed hard, not quite believing that she was about to do what she was. She’d never taken such a risk before in her life. Closing her eyes and taking a deep breath, she took that leap into thin air without a harness. “Me too.” He didn’t say anything for a while, but she felt the wild beating of his heart against her back and much lower the hardening of his cock.
“You too, what?” Riley nibbled her ear, and his arms dropped from her shoulders to her breasts to cup them. “You too, what Detective?”
“I love you too.” The words were swallowed by his mouth as he turned her in the tub and covered her lips with his hungrily. Until she gave him back the words, he didn’t know how much he needed to hear them.
Water splashed over the side of the tub as he lifted her completely around to straddle him before lowering her onto his cock, shoving his whole length inside her. They were like two starving wolves the way they went after each other with nails and teeth and mouths as he slammed his cock up into her over and over again.
Celia didn’t care that he held her too tight, or that his arms were like bands of steel that she was sure were bruising her even as his cock pulverized her insides; she never wanted the feeling to end, never wanted him to let her go. She wasn’t thinking about the job, the case, or the risk she was taking by telling him what was in her heart, the fact that she was opening herself up in a way she never had before.
All that mattered was the way she felt right now, the love she felt as he nibbled on her flesh and whispered sweet nothings in her ear. She came within minutes and went searching for more, using his cock to chase away her demons, and he let her.
Riley fisted her hair, pulling her head back and looked into her eyes as he felt himself get close. “Marry me!”
THE END