Total pages in book: 160
Estimated words: 155798 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 779(@200wpm)___ 623(@250wpm)___ 519(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 155798 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 779(@200wpm)___ 623(@250wpm)___ 519(@300wpm)
“That’s why I wanted to rip the heads off of those guys on the street. They were interrupting me. I only had a window of time because you were going to run away. I felt it. Knew if I didn’t claim you and made it where you felt me in your soul, that you would leave me in the dust. I could feel how scared you were, even then. And I needed to know you. I needed to have you because I was already in love with you.”
“Brett,” I could only gasp, tears coming back to my eyes because it was all too beautiful. What he was saying. What he was doing to my body.
“I got scared in that vehicle afterwards. Convinced myself you were too good to be true, but not because I was in love with you. A part of me was still in denial, though I know that’s what I was feeling. I convinced myself you were too good to be true because you were perfect for me.” His head tucked down into my neck, and he kissed me there before holding me tight and moving faster. His voice was hoarse, the effort to keep talking was choking him, but he kept talking and he kept fucking. “I ain’t the guy who gets anything perfect for him. You need to know that moving forward. I got a break with football, and I took it, even knowing I shouldn’t, but I did. I was too greedy, needing another lifeline to pull myself out of that hell I’d been living in all my life. Hell that was me too. But I never got anything else. Just the football. I knew that too, and I was okay with it. If I just had football, I’d be okay. Then in you came, strolling into my life like a fucking demolition team, tearing everything down inside me. I knew nothing would be the same, and I got scared. If I hadn’t gotten the chance to get you again, I would’ve deserved all the bad shit the universe would send my way as a punishment. You brought more good to me, and I’ll never know what I must’ve done in a past life to get the shot at you.”
He was saying all of it. All the words. Beautiful words. Heavy words. Words that were making me soar, but he kept thrusting in, and I was going to break. I couldn’t speak.
“Brett!” I broke, my release flooding my sensations. My body snapped back from the ferocity of my climax.
When my body calmed, the waves still crashing over me, Brett continued thrusting inside me. I reached for him, needing to tell him all the words back because everything he said, I felt too. All of it. Every single word.
We were made for each other.
Then his dick surged inside me, unloading, and he let out a deep groan and lay on me.
I welcomed his weight. All his smells that were just him.
They wrapped around me too, and the next thing I knew…
53
BRETT
Billie fell asleep and I didn’t have the heart to wake her up.
I lifted her up, putting her under the covers with a bottle of water on the nightstand. She’d been clear that she wanted to go with me to see my brother, a visit that I’d almost forgotten about until I caught the time and my phone’s alert light was flashing from where it’d fallen in the rush to get Billie naked as soon as possible.
Shit.
To go from this, from pouring out my heart, and laying claim to every single inch of Billie that I could—I wanted her to feel me in her toes—and then go to a meeting with my nieces and nephews? Plus Will. Two completely different environments.
I was raw. Truth be told.
Getting Billie’s text yesterday ripped my heart out and slammed it back inside with renewed vigor. It wasn’t anything I’d realized until I saw those words from her. I loved her. I was obsessed with her. I knew all of that, but I hadn’t known the extent until those two words appeared on my phone.
Love you.
My phone buzzed. I took it, grabbed my bag and stepped into the bathroom.
Willy: WTF? Dinner’s been eaten. Where are you?
Me: Leaving my room in three. Keep your panties on.
Willy: Dick.
Me: Yes, I have one. Thank you.
It buzzed again, but I ignored the rest, jumping in the shower and quickly washing up. It was a little longer than three minutes, but not much when I was dressed and leaving the room with a note behind in case Billie woke up. I didn’t think she would. She’d been out out when I moved her under the covers, but if she did and if she wanted to join us, she was supposed to text me. I’d come down to get her.