Page 31 of Waggs

His words were guttural, dragged from him, and then he was moving. Stroking into her as his eyes remained on her, each word he uttered cutting deep until she was sure she’d die from the feeling she felt coming from him.

Aiden wasn’t gentle—this wasn’t making love or fucking, it felt like a claiming. He owned her body and soul and she let him take and take because what he gave her was tenfold. Her body began to tingle, a kaleidoscope of colour dancing in her vision as her muscles began to tighten, clamping tighter and tighter, searching for the peak before she fell, calling out his name until her throat ached.

Aiden’s hands dug into her hips as he pounded into her faster, harder, seeking his own pleasure. As his body stiffened and she felt his release, another smaller climax hit her as her nails dragged along his back and his weight fell on her.

Both of them were breathing hard as they lay on his dining room table, naked, exhausted, satiated. Neither of them had the energy to move as they caught their breath and Willow stroked his sweat-soaked hair. “Is everything okay, Aiden?”

Now the moment was over, his mood worried her, and she wondered what caused it.

He lifted his head, and the intensity was still there but tempered now, the desperation gone. “I could have lost you last night.”

He sounded savaged, wounded, and she saw his fear mirrored as her own. She held tighter. “You won’t lose me, Aiden.”

“I love you so much, Wills. I always have. Even when I knew I shouldn’t, I loved you.”

His admission so open and honest, laying him bare made a sob escape her throat. “I love you, too. I loved Aaron. I’ll always love Aaron, but I’ve always loved you, Aiden, I can’t stop. I tried.”

He kissed her slow, languid, drugging, and she felt him harden inside her again.

“Don’t stop. Let’s agree never to stop loving each other, no matter what.”

His words ripped her heart out because she knew without any doubt that she’d always love him, but when she told him what she’d done, would he feel the same? “I can agree with that.”

“Let me get rid of this condom and then how about we make use of the shower while AJ is away?”

The darkness that had crowded his features was gone now, and he was back to being her Aiden, although she loved every single part of him and always would.

Chapter 13

Eidolon’s private plane had touched down a few hours earlier and now they were in the car headed to his parents’ house. Decker and Liam had rented a house across the street from Willow’s, under assumed names and would have a visual on the outside of the house. He’d installed a new security system as soon as he’d got there and checked out what was needed.

Waggs had, of course, been there before but had never taken a lot of notice because he was a dick, but he’d rectify that. Since that day, two days ago when he’d made love to Willow on the kitchen table and then laid his heart bare for her, things had been wonderful. They’d still not told AJ they were together and were keeping the PDA to a minimum until they’d had a conversation with his parents.

He honestly had no idea how they’d take it, and it was the one thing he wasn’t looking forward to about being back. He wanted to get it over with, so he was free to express how he felt. He was so done with hiding his feelings for her, and he loved AJ as if he were his own.

Squeezing her hand as he drove into the street where he’d grown up, he saw the easy smile she usually gave him had an edge of tension bracketing the corners. He offered her a smile of reassurance, but he was feeling much the same.

Pulling into the drive, he saw the front door of his home open and then his mother was running down the steps towards him. He was out of the car and caught his mom as she threw herself at him. Her small frame was strong as she hugged him tight. The familiar smell of her perfume and feel of her arms around him a comfort he hadn’t known he’d missed until this second.

His mom pulled away and looked at him, her eyes running over him in a way only a mother could, as if checking for herself he was real and safe. “Oh, my boy, I missed you.”

Aiden gently pulled her back into his arms, her head barely hitting his chest. “I missed you too, Mom.” He meant it, he’d missed his parents, cutting them off the way he had with only yearly visits and a few phone calls. Being around AJ had shone a light on his own behaviour.

His mom released him, and a massive smile creased her face as she bent and held her arms open for AJ. Aiden grinned as the boy ran from his own mother to be swept up in a hug from his grandmother.

“Grandma, look who we brought with us. It’s Uncle Aiden.”

His mom’s eyes were a little wet and she swiped the tears away as she wrapped an arm around Willow and kissed her cheek. “I know you did, sweetie, and this makes me so happy. Now let’s get inside and find grandpa.”

Aiden held out his hand for Willow to proceed him. His mom calling his dad from somewhere in the back, most likely his study.

“Ben, Aiden is here, and he brought Willow and AJ with him.”

Looking around, it was hard not to be swamped by memories. There were pictures of him and Aaron everywhere he looked. He remembered things that had seemed insignificant then but felt important now. The couch where Aaron, believing he was a superhero, had nosed dived over the back and scraped his chin.

The fireplace where he’d broken his toe when he and his brother were in the middle of a tussle and he’d gone to kick Aaron and missed. Even the fruit bowls they’d made when they were in fifth grade out of clay had pride of place on the dresser.

Instead of hurting though, the memories made him smile. Hearing his mother fussing over AJ reminded him of the happy childhood he’d had and how lucky he was to have such good parents.