AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“Okay.” I nodded, trying to swallow the knot in my throat.
“This means everything to me,” she began. “More than words can describe.” Her hand went to her own chest. “Something deep. So deep, it can only be shown. It means you care for me, in ways that no other man has cared before.”
I could only stare into her eyes, not responding. Despite how much I wanted to, I couldn’t crack open the wall holding my vulnerable parts inside.
“It also means that you belong to me, Rook. I own you, not them.”
“They won’t see it?—”
“You understand me, Rook?” She leaned down until her nose was only a breath away from mine. Her eyes, savage and vehement. “I. Own. You.”
“Yes.” My voice caught.
“Every time you see it, you think of me. How you sacrificed for me. How I fucking hold your heart in my fist. You understand?”
“O-kay,” my voice caught, and a heaviness in my chest lifted with her proclamation. Being owned by her was much better than the Magnolia.
She kissed my nose, whispering, “It’ll be our little secret. No one else needs to know.”
I nodded, my own voice a whisper, “Okay.”
After a long moment of staring into my eyes, she nodded. Then, slowly, she took my hand and guided it up under her shirt. Her skin was smooth and soft, and, together, we traced over her belly, then up, up, and towards her breast.
My fingers easily slid under lace, and she exhaled softly, a slow building of lust filling her gaze as I played with her nipple.
“Where’d you get this?” I asked.
“Amara.” Leaning down, she brushed her lips across mine.
It was gentle. A barely there kiss. Then another.
“I should bring her here more often,” I murmured, my voice growing thick.
“You think?” She smiled against my lips, then pulled back an inch.
I tilted my head upward, reaching for her, and she did it again. Took her time, brushing her lips against mine. Reveling in it, deepening it, while I was slowly sinking into the wonder of her touch.
It wasn’t the rushed kiss of lust or need, but the exploration of something new. Something special.
I flicked her nipple and she inhaled sharply, then plunged her tongue into my mouth. I groaned, clasping the nape of her neck with my other hand, holding her to me.
She tasted like sunshine and heat, like slow steps towards the cliff’s edge, where my newly-beating heart had always been afraid to go, before.
“Rook.”
“Yes?” My voice betrayed the lusty sensation I was feeling inside, the heat that was slowly building inside me.
With a small sigh leaving her sultry lips, she whispered against my lips, "I want you to fuck me."
I blinked my eyes slowly, shutting down. "We can't." It actually hurt to deny her.
"Why not? I started birth control, if that’s what you’re worried about.”
“It’s not that,” I choked out. “Your dad.” I pulled back and, holding her gaze, shook my head. “All this was for him; I promised him I would protect you.”
“And that’s the only reason you won’t?” Her eyes filled with sadness, and maybe something else…
Regret?
