Total pages in book: 77
Estimated words: 73208 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 366(@200wpm)___ 293(@250wpm)___ 244(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 73208 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 366(@200wpm)___ 293(@250wpm)___ 244(@300wpm)
We stayed like that as our bodies cooled. I was afraid of the moment he realized what we’d done. What he had let me see. I felt more exposed and rawer than I’d ever felt in my life. There was a new ache inside my chest that made it hard to breathe deeply. It was a level of terrifying I hadn’t been ready for.
Storm pulled from me, and I winced, knowing it was done. He would leave me here now. I’d be left with all these new feelings, and I wasn’t sure I could recover from this. He’d just … broken me somehow. Taken my soul while letting me get a glimpse of his.
I closed my eyes, unable to see him get up and leave as he lifted away from me. Then, his fingers slid into my tender opening, and they flew back open to see what he was doing. Storm’s attention was between my legs as he continued to … push his semen back into me.
When he lifted his eyes to meet mine, a crooked grin touched his face. “Not ready for it to leak out just yet. I want to make sure you’re marked completely.”
Shock wasn’t the word I’d use, but it was the closest one I could think of. “Wh-what?” I asked, staring at him, thinking I might have blacked out and I was dreaming.
“My cum, baby. I want it all inside of you,” he repeated as he cupped his hand over my vagina, like he was going to literally cover it so nothing could come out.
“Uh,” I said, wondering if I should pinch myself but deciding against it. I did not want to wake myself from this if it was a dream.
“I’m clean,” he said. “I was checked last week. I have the paperwork if you want to see it.”
Clean? Checked? Oh, yeah, he was currently holding his cum inside me.
“Wait!” I said as realization hit me. “Stop! I need to get up!”
I tried to move, frantic as I realized I’d missed my birth control pill last night. It was in my car.
“There is no way in hell I’m letting you move yet,” Storm replied, entirely too calm.
“Storm!” I said his name with urgency. “My birth control is in my car. I didn’t take it last night!”
He smirked. He literally smirked. Yep, I was dreaming. I relaxed. This was not real.
“One missed pill won’t get you pregnant.”
“You don’t know that,” I pointed out. Sure, it was a very small chance, but still.
Storm leaned over me while two of his fingers pushed up inside me. “You’re right. I don’t know,” he said as he began to pump his fingers in and out of me.
“Storm,” I breathed, trying not to get turned on.
“Yeah, baby?” he asked, pressing a kiss on my cheek, then my nose.
He was still calling me baby. What was actually happening?
“You don’t want me to get pregnant. ME. Remember? The woman you can’t stand?”
He paused and leaned back, staring down at me. “Does this feel like I can’t stand you?” he asked as he sank another finger inside me.
I shook my head.
“That’s right,” he replied as he ran the tip of his nose along the side of my face.
“What changed?” I asked, fighting not to lose my concentration.
His lips brushed against the pulse in my neck. “Everything.”
• Twenty- Nine •
I was shelfing that guilt because I hadn’t actually done it.
Storm
Pacing back and forth in front of my Jeep outside Maeme’s, I fought the urge to go inside and throw Briar over my shoulder, then leave with her. I wanted her in my house. In my bed. Naked all the time.
Finding eighteen thousand dollars in cash tucked under the seat of her car had set me on edge. Sure, I’d taken it and hidden it in my safe. There was no way I was letting her have that kind of freedom to leave me.
I was itchy with the idea. I hadn’t been able to stay there and continue going through her things. I needed to take her to the car so she could get what she needed, but I had to make sure there was no more money hidden anywhere.
My inability to stay away from her had me back here though. Although I’d put two cameras in her bedroom so that I could watch her, I still wanted to be near her. Yes, I was crossing all kinds of lines, but I really did not give a fuck.
What I cared about was making sure Briar was mine. Keeping her safe. Giving her everything she ever wanted. But first, I had to stop acting like a psychopath in case she noticed.
Looking back at the road, I swore under my breath. Where the hell was Nailyah? I’d called her an hour ago. She should be here by now. I needed to make sure Dovie had something to do so that Briar would be available to go with me. To my house. For the night. Nailyah was coming to meet Dovie and make hanging out with a seventy-five-year-old woman more interesting. The more intertwined I got Dovie into the family, the easier it would be to hook Briar. Nailyah had better become Dovie’s best damn friend.