Total pages in book: 78
Estimated words: 77309 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 387(@200wpm)___ 309(@250wpm)___ 258(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 77309 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 387(@200wpm)___ 309(@250wpm)___ 258(@300wpm)
He deserves a thousand apologies, a lifetime of me making this up to him, but right now none of that matters.
I kiss him, taste him, feel his strong arms around me and I know this is way better than whatever fake world we built with him in that truck and me in this house.
We head inside. I shut the door and lock it. He wraps his arms around me as we sit on the couch, and I snuggle close against him, breathing his smell.
“Want to watch a movie?” I ask.
He laughs and nods. “Yeah. Let’s watch something.”
“Then when it’s over, will you come to bed with me?”
His smile fades as he stares down at me. “When this movie is over, you’ll never get rid of me again. You realize that?”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah.”
“Good.” I kiss him. “You pick.”
“Nah,” he says, tilting my chin up to look into my eyes. “There’s no way I’m going to pay attention. You pick.”
I chew my lip. He doesn’t move.
“Skip the movie and go to bed?” I ask.
“You read my mind.” He stands, dragging me by the hand, takes me upstairs, undresses me, and kisses every inch of my body, lavishing praise over me. I kiss him back, push him down, drop to my knees, stroke him as he kisses me. I take his thick cock in my mouth, suck him hard, moan as I do it, finally getting a taste of the man I’ve desired for so long. He groans and his grunts of pleasure drive me crazy.
He pulls me up, pins me down, and fucks me. We grind into each other, my pussy soaking wet, his cock so hard it’s like granite, and there’s only our bodies moving in a perfect rhythm together. I come like lightning, and he gives me what he promised and fills me to the brim, and when we’re finished, it doesn’t take long before I’m licking myself off his shaft and riding him all over again.
We barely talk. We’ve been doing so much talking these last few months, getting to know each other in ways I only ever dreamed. Now, tonight, he spends the rest of the evening worshipping my body with all the praise, attention, and desire he’s been holding back for months and months and months.
I pay him back in kind, knowing this is only one of many, many more nights like this, because the line is crossed, and I wouldn’t go back even if I could.
Chapter 44
Isabel
One Year Later
I stretch my back, exhausted already and it’s barely ten in the morning. I sip from my oat milk latte, made with half-caff beans by my lovely husband, and look out the window of my office. LA’s shining and golden, an explosion of color and sound.
“I have news,” Conlan calls out.
I get up, grunting a little with the effort. I put a hand on my swollen belly and walk over to him, my other clutching the coffee. His office is connected to mine by a doorway, though we took the actual door off its hinges a while back, making our two spaces into one. Eventually, we’ll knock down the wall, but this works for now.
“What’s up?” I ask.
He stands, vacating his seat, and lets me take his fancy chair. “They closed.”
“Really?” I stare at the paperwork he has displayed on his screen. I don’t talk as I read through it, a strange lump in my throat, both happy and mourning the loss of something important at the same time.
“You okay?” he asks, crouching down next to me.
“I’m okay.” I lean against him, letting the tears fall. “This is good.”
“It’s good, but I know that house was important to you.”
“We’re letting go of the past, right?”
“Right,” he confirms. “But that doesn’t make it easy.”
I kiss him, lingering for a moment, before I look back at the screen.
A nice young couple bought my father’s place, and now it’s all official. They signed the paperwork, and the home is no longer mine. I haven’t lived there for a while, not since we found out that I was pregnant, but still. Allison’s a little annoyed she had to find her own apartment, but with the salary she’s getting from her job at the Lincoln, she didn’t have too much trouble.
“I’m just happy there’s going to be new life in that place, you know? And we weren’t going to live there anyway.”
“No, we’re finding out own place. One that’s perfect for the both of us.”
“The three of us.” I put my hand on my belly. “Speaking of family, did you talk to your brother?”
He grunts. “Adler wants us to come visit the Sunrise soon.”
“Maybe after the baby’s born.”
“That’s what I told him, but apparently things are strange with Erick. He won’t answer my calls, so I have no clue what’s up there. Allegedly, Jayson’s heading to Vegas to check up on him.” Conlan shrugs, staring at me. “Not my problem.”