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Those strong, steady hands grip my shoulders gently. “It wasn’t.”
“Well, it’s obvious Silas didn’t want us speaking to each other. He could have blocked my number without your knowledge.”
Quick to his father’s defense, he shakes his head. “He wouldn’t do that.”
I pause, snorting sarcastically. “Of course he would. Your dad wanted better for you, and I obviously didn’t make the cut.”
Dread pools in the pit of my stomach when I reach for his hand, and he flinches. Shadows draw him away from me, even though he hasn’t moved.
“You don’t believe me?” I whisper in shock.
“I didn’t say that.”
“Do you need to? It’s written all over your face.”
Running a hand through his hair, he sighs. “It’s just… There’s got to be some explanation other than my father purposefully blocking you from my life.”
“After everything he’s put you through, you still defend him?” I shiver once he helps me step out of the tub, putting more space between us the second my feet are flat on the mat.
Carefully, calmly, Logan closes the faint few inches keeping us apart. I don’t even blink when his palms slide over my wet hair, gathering it away from my neck and wringing it out for me.
“Our fathers had a disagreement, and we suffered the fallout. That doesn’t mean he’s to blame.”
He’s right, there’s no proof, and yet, I can’t shake this feeling in my gut that it’s true. That Silas never approved of his son being associated with me, and probably never will.
“Then tell me how we loved each other as fiercely as we had and still gave up. What does that say about us? What does that say about what we’re doing here?” His eyes flash at the tremor in my voice. “Tell me how this ends.”
“In all this time, not a single moment passed when my thoughts weren’t with you.” Resolution ignites his gaze before he speaks again, and each word skates across my cheeks and mouth, his very essence an all-consuming force that burrows beneath my skin before striking my heart. “You’ve been irrevocably woven into my existence, and I’m not letting you go again.”
My resolve slips through my fingers like fine sand. He destroyed the girl who loved him so deeply once, and I’m terrified to allow him to do it again.
“You were mine then, and you’re mine now.” A kaleidoscope of anger, hurt, and longing swirls between our gazes when he lifts the tip of my chin. “There is no end for us, Penelope.”
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Logan
Then…
Penelope’s cheeks flush from her second orgasm, paired with the warmth inside their barn. It’s more of a glorified storage shed if you ask me, but it’s served as the perfect place for the two of us to escape.
Lying next to her on the pallet we’ve made in the loft, I lick her from my fingers like she’s god’s gift to earth.
No, that’s not right. God’s gift to me.
Her thick, dark lashes flutter as I explore her flexing abdomen, trailing the tips of those same fingers up her sternum.
“I’ll never get tired of this,” I vow, loving how her body responds by hardening her dark pink nipples.
“What? Playing with my boobs?”
Her eyes close as she laughs, but she arches into my touch when I cup one of them. I swirl my tongue over the bud, and my dick jerks at the sweet sigh she gives. “Of all your body parts, they are my favorite. But I meant you, specifically.”
Her brown eyes blink open with one hand lazily stroking my back. “Too bad our parents can’t stay gone all day.”
They’ve been away on business in Tauntuma for three hours, and we haven’t done a single one of our chores. The second I saw them pull out of the main drive, I made a break across the pasture for Penelope, and she yanked me in here by the front of my shirt.
This barn has become our hideaway, and my favorite secret to keep.
