“Like you said, it wouldn’t make a difference.Not without proof, and I don’t have any.”Suddenly, her head snapped up, her wide eyes looking at me.“What if you said something?You have the sort of reputation I don’t.You’re a big deal.”
I chose to overlook the fact that it took something like this for her to call me a big deal.Under any other circumstances, it might be funny.“Your father has a long history in this town.They’re not going to take the word of a competitor at face value.”
Why did her face have to fall the way it did?And why did my heart have to sink with it?“It’s hopeless.That’s what you’re telling me.”
“Nothing is hopeless.”Though this was damn close.“But if we’re going to get through this, I need you to agree to one boundary.”
Arching an eyebrow, she asked, “What is it?”
“Under no circumstances can I allow you to go to your father’s casino alone.You’ve been gone for two years, and you clearly have no idea what, or who, he’s involved with now.It’s too risky.You want to go?You take a guard if not me.”
The girl was too predictable, scowling at my order.“Are you going to drag me by my hair now?”she asked, clicking her tongue in disdain.“I understand what you’re going for, but maybe try to sound a little less like a caveman when you say it.”
Stubborn.Fucking.Brat.“Why does it always have to be a fight?”I snapped.“Don’t you get I’m worried about you?”
“Worried about me?I’m not the one you need to be worried about.It’s those girls!”she insisted, her voice rising in pitch, more frantic with every word.“There’s going to be more, you know there will, there will be so many more and?—”
I did the only thing I could think to do.I reached for her, grabbed her, and pulled her close to me.“Enough.”I stroked her hair, absorbing her pain and grief, wishing I could take it all away.“That’s enough.Rest now.We’ll figure this out.You’re not alone,” I insisted.
“I wish I could go back to before I knew.”She was now sobbing against my chest, gripping the lapels of my jacket like they were her lifeline.“Is that selfish?Is that wrong?”
“It’s human.”My lips touched the top of her head before I knew what I was doing, my hand moving in slow circles over her back, which heaved a little less with every breath she took.“You are only human.”She was also just twenty-four, so young, so lost.Somehow, we had found each other.
Now she was in my arms, and I touched my lips to her forehead and cheeks, tasting the tears lingering there.“You’re going to be okay,” I whispered, each kiss demanding another until I found her lips and touched mine to them.
She would be safe.I would make sure of it.Hopefully, I could say the same for myself because every moment I spent with her like this made it that much more impossible to let her go.
It was always like this.All it took was the briefest contact to start the fire.I only had to kiss and feel her lips soften under mine to know she was in this with me, as helpless as I was against the force between us.
Hunger flared to life, all-consuming.There was no stopping now, not when she was already taking off my jacket, tugging at my tie.I helped her, sliding the jacket over my shoulders and tossing it aside, pulling my shirt from my waistband so her hands could work their way underneath.Her touch set me on fire, waking me up, urging me on.
I wasn’t blind to it—she needed comfort, an escape.If I could be that for her, I would.But as I parted her lips with my tongue, I knew it wasn’t just her finding comfort.I wanted her too.I was falling, and there was no turning back.And she would bemine.
“What are we doing?”she asked while my hands toured her luscious curves.“What is this?”
“Do you need me to tell you?”I asked, my mouth traveling along the curve of her jaw.“It seems pretty obvious.”
“I didn’t mean that.”Her questions didn’t stop her from rubbing my dick through my pants, did they?“I mean, why does this keep happening?I keep telling myself not to let it, but… I can’t help it.”
“Stop trying,” I urged, ready to fuck her senselessly until she forgot all threats and fear in favor of what I could do to her body.
“Then touch me,” she begged before going in for another kiss and another, moaning into my mouth.She was desperate, but then so was I, running my hands over her body, cupping her tits, savoring the sounds pouring out of her.They got louder when I squeezed and turned to high-pitched whimpers when I toyed with her nipples through her tank top and the bra underneath.
It wasn’t enough.I’d gotten a taste, and nothing would stop me from getting more.As she got on her knees on the couch, I stripped away her thin cardigan and slid the straps over her shoulders, burying my face between her tits, working them free from her clothes, my tongue tracing every inch of exposed skin until I was able to take one of her nipples in my mouth.
“God, yes,” she moaned, finally straddling my lap, grinding her covered pussy against my covered dick.Pleasure pulsed through me with every motion of her fingers in my hair, her arms around my shoulders, holding me close.
Was it wrong?Did I care?It became my personal mission to make her scream, and she was already close to it, barely leaving me hanging onto self-control by the thinnest of threads while she ground her pussy against me.“Are you trying to make me come?”I whispered between switching sides, scraping my teeth over her sensitive flesh, reveling in her high-pitched gasps.
“No,” she gasped, riding harder.“Just me.”
That’s what she wanted?That was what she was going to get.I pulled her tight against me, cupping her ass under her skirt and digging in.“Then do it.Make yourself come.”I groaned, watching her head fall back and her mouth fall open.
It was too much.I wasn’t sure I could take it much longer, but she was so close, so hot, moving faster, breathing faster, taking me along with her.I was about to burst out of my zipper, but this was about her getting what she needed.Remembering she could still feel good in the middle of all of this.
“Yes… yes, Vaughn… oh God!”She rocked her hips one last time, going stiff before her gorgeous tits began heaving in my face with every ragged breath.I was fairly sure I’d died and gone to heaven.
She slowly settled back down, but I hadn’t.Oh, no, it was my turn now.Sliding my hand into my back pocket, I pulled out my wallet, still massaging her ass with the other hand while I withdrew a condom.
