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“You’re right. I’ve never really been scared of you, Cayden. And I’m still not scared of you now.”
He jerked like I’d slapped him. His eyebrows pinched together, and he leaned down so our height difference wasn’t so unnavigable. Water ran in tendrils down his golden skin, sticking in his long, dark lashes, trailing over his full, sensuous lips. He was beautiful.
“So, it’s not fear now, but pity–is that what you’re telling me?”
His low tone held a warning, but it wasn’t one I was capable of hearing right now.
I snorted, water going up my nose at the gesture. “Fuck pity. You don’t need my pity. You have everything you need to change your life, and you’re doing it. Why would I pity you?”
He seemed taken aback by that, unsure how to react to my words. He stepped closer.
He cupped my face and rubbed his thumbs over my cheeks. “If that’s true, then there’s only one obstacle to getting everything I want...and that’s you, Freckles. Only you have the power to ruin my chances here.”
I swallowed.
“I should hate you. It would be easier,” he muttered, leaning in and pressing his lips to my forehead in an almost sweet kiss.
I swayed into him. In that moment of connection, my ankle fell away and my stinging knee. The fear I'd felt on the ice was gone. In its place was a different kind of fear -- the fear of opening your heart to someone. I could tell that Cayden was scared, too. We were just two scared souls tossed around in a world that seemed determined to crush them.
I tilted my face up just as he pulled away and caught his chin with my lips. It should have been awkward, how clumsy and unpracticed we were. It should have felt ridiculous, but it didn’t.
He narrowed his eyes at my upturned face, his hand pushing the wet strands of red off my forehead before he swooped in and kissed me on the lips. This kiss was nothing like the ones before. This kiss was hesitant. A question.
I parted my lips in answer, letting him inside. I was burning for this guy, and I had been since the moment we’d met. Everything I’d found out about him had only stoked the flames of my obsession. He could be dangerous, but I didn’t think he’d hurt me or my family, and that was the truth. He was a fiery ball of anger and ambition, talent, and hurt. He pulled me to him wherever he was, like a magnet I couldn’t escape. I was caught in his trap and I was tired of fighting it.
I was tired of the rules imposed on my life. I was tired of being Coach’s good little girl. Cayden was everything my parents had warned me away from all my life, and now, in his arms, I’d never felt more alive. Just like that, I fell.
His tongue pushed eagerly into my mouth, sliding along my own, and he moaned quietly against my lips. His hands gripped my waist, backing me ruthlessly into the wall behind us. The impact jolted me and took my breath away. Cayden wasn’t gentle, and I didn’t want him to be.
His hands went to the collar of my wet T-shirt, and with a sharp pull, tore the thin material right down the middle.
His huge, calloused hands tugged my bralette from my tits and pushed it up my body, and it felt painful when our lips had to part to get it over my head. He leaned back, steadying me against the wall and watching the water run down my bare chest. His hands cupped my breasts, making them appear even smaller under his huge palms.
“You – I want to see you,” I urged, tugging at the bottom of his jersey. There was no way I was getting that off without his help, considering he still had on his enormous shoulder pads.
Thankfully, he wanted to be bare against me just as much as I wanted to feel him. He pulled his jersey off, seamlessly maneuvering it over his padding, and tossed it aside. He shed his pads, slowly revealing his muscled torso piece by piece. As soon as he was naked on top, he lunged back toward me, capturing my mouth with urgent kisses. I pressed myself against him, delighting in the feeling of my nipples rubbing his hard chest.
I wound my arms around his middle, his muscular frame preventing me from fully embracing him. His lips moved from my mouth down to my chest, and I traced a hand over his back.
Hard ridges of scar tissue met my fingers, and I stilled. Cayden seemed to freeze for a moment.
His mouth spoke against my skin. “Don’t.”
I ran my fingers along the word carved into his flesh, because that was what it had to be.
“Don’t… please.” His voice didn’t sound anything like him.
I dropped my hand from his back and brought it to his face instead. His eyes were lowered to the floor. I cupped his strong jaw, so tense compared to only moments before. I leaned up on my tiptoes and kissed his lips chastely.
His eyes snapped to mine, as if he was surprised that I still wanted him after being reminded of his scars. I still didn’t know what they said, but he thought I did, and that was what mattered.
“Please, don’t stop,” I told him quietly. “Don’t stop touching me.” It sounded like a plea, and maybe it was. I felt like I’d die without his hands on me.
He held my gaze, his hand moving down my hip to the waistband of my leggings. He tugged them down slowly, and I held on to his shoulders as he gently pulled them from my feet. I tugged at the laces of his hockey pants, but he brushed my hands aside to do it himself. His hockey pants fell to the floor, and we were both naked.
The water was still hot. We were probably using up the school’s entire supply, but I couldn’t bring myself to care right now. Not when Cayden West was naked in front of me and looking at me like I was something precious. He straightened up. My gaze ran over him, drinking in the full sight of his glorious body. The bruises that he’d had were nearly all faded, but he also had some new ones, probably from hockey. He paid them no mind as he lifted me into his arms and urged my legs around his waist. My back met the wall as I pressed myself into his arms. Fuck, it felt good to be held by him. He held me effortlessly, his head tilted back to kiss me. His hands were under my thighs, and his cock brushed against my entrance. He was so close. I squirmed in his arms, trying to nudge the head of his cock inside me. Even the tip stretched me.
He growled low in his throat. “If you don’t want me to have all of you, you shouldn’t do that, Lily. I’m only human.”
