Total pages in book: 178
Estimated words: 170884 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 854(@200wpm)___ 684(@250wpm)___ 570(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 170884 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 854(@200wpm)___ 684(@250wpm)___ 570(@300wpm)
And then, with a low growl, Twitch held me into his body harshly as he came down, covering my back with his front and holding me close, and he gently rocked into me.
I felt it.
His throbbing cock. The wet warmth inside me.
I felt his release. And the intensity of it was simultaneously frightening yet heavenly. Amazing.
His low groan filled the room, and as he panted into my ear, I felt him still inside me. I was consoled by the feeling of being surrounded by him, by the feeling of being filled with him. I was comforted by his mere presence. This man would never truly understand how much he meant to me, and that simple fact broke my heart as quickly as I thought it might have began to heal.
Twitch surprised me, as he often did. When he pulled out of me, I felt our combined releases run down my legs. A split second later, he fell to the bed on his back and pulled me down on top of him, taking his now softening dick and fitting it back inside me, and I liked that on an insane level. I guess we both needed the closeness.
With my head on his chest and my finger gently running over his flat nipple, the question vibrated throughout me as he ran his hands gently down my back to settle on my ass. “You okay?”
“Yeah,” I lied.
And he chuckled quietly. “No you’re not.”
No, I wasn’t.
I blinked away tears. There were so many things I wanted to say, to ask.
I missed you.
Where were you? I needed you.
How dare you come back after all this time and make me love you again, you cruel bastard?
I don’t need you anymore, you asshole. I spent five years without you. I could go an eternity.
But mainly,
Don’t ever leave me again. I need you more than I need to breathe.
I was confused, and when I rested my chin on his chest, I found him looking at me. A single tear trailed my cheek, as I uttered a grim, “You need to leave.”
But his eyes held mine. “What did I tell you?” He ran a hand over my now-messy hair in a sweet, loving gesture, looked me deep in the eye, then swore, “I am never leaving you again.”
And the way he said it, sincere and so full of conviction, I believed him.
I believed him.
Chapter
Twenty-One
Lexi
Knocking on the door woke me, and when it persisted, I blinked sleepily into the morning sun. That was when his arms tightened around me.
“Tell ‘em to fuck off, Lex.”
Oh, shit.
My eyes snapped open and I blinked down at the beautiful man in my bed. I sat up quickly. “Oh, shit!”
At that, he squinted at me, rapidly blinking away his drowsiness. “What?”
I was panicking. “I thought I told you to leave!”
His eyes snapped open at that and his brows knitted. “And I told you I wasn’t going anywhere.”
The knocking continued and I scrambled out of bed. “You need to go. Like, now.” I went to the window and opened it, hoping he’d get the hint. “Please, Twitch. Just go.”
“What’s the problem here?” He lazed in my bed, putting his arm behind him, using it as a pillow.
Ugh. It was disturbing how great he looked in the mornings.
More knocking, and I poked my head out into the hallway and called out, “Just a minute! Coming!” before turning back to my ex, and hissing, “I do not want A.J. to find you here, in my bed.”
But a sleepy Twitch grunted. “So what? He knows I love you. I’ve told him a hundred times.”
Aw. My heart.
Also... nope.
I slipped on my pajama pants and threw on a sweater, all the while begging, “Please, Twitch. I don’t need this right now. And I definitely don’t need him getting his hopes up. He’s already acting out some. I don’t want that to increase when he realizes Daddy isn’t moving in.”
Twitch’s brows lowered and the words came out unhurried. “Daddy isn’t moving in?”
Hard knocking, then a sweet little, “Mummy, I need to go!”
“Coming,” I yelled out, before whisper-hissing to the giant baby in the bed, “No! Daddy is most certainly not moving in!” I scoffed. “We screwed and it was great, Tony, but that’s all it was.”
Lies. But he didn’t need to know that.
He looked kind of injured when he slid out of bed, thin-lipped and moping. “Fine. I’ll go. But...” His naked body was so gorgeously distracting. “This isn’t over, angel.”
I left him dressing in the bedroom, closing the door, as I rushed down the hall and swung open the door. The little monster dropped his bag at the door and hurried past me. “I need to pee!” And when Julius and Ana watched me suspiciously, I stuttered through my lame explanation. “Hey, I’m really sorry about that. There was this huge roach in my bedroom and he—” Fuck. “I mean it just wouldn’t let me out of my room.” I forced out a laugh. “I was kind of cornered.” Slapping a hand onto my shoulder, I smiled a little too widely. “Sorry.”