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By then she’d already been dead. It hadn’t been possible for Kerry to get to know her. Her grandmother, an embittered, mean-spirited woman, who hadn’t even wanted to look after her in the first place, had denied her the right to get to know her mother.
It was only when her eyes blurred with tears that Kerry realised she was weeping again. Theo was beside her in an instant, this time pulling her into his arms and holding her to his broad chest.
She leant into his embrace, taking comfort from the strong, regular heartbeat below her cheek. It meant so much that he hadn’t pulled away from her in disgust when he’d heard her story. She knew it was a lot for anyone to take in—and now he had discovered that the mother of his son came from a truly messed-up family.
‘I’m sorry,’ she said. ‘I’m sorry that I haven’t given Lucas a better background.’
‘Don’t apologise for things that are not your fault. I would never blame you or think less of you because of your background,’ Theo said, stroking her hair gently away from her tear-streaked face. ‘Things like that mean nothing to me. I only care that our son has what he needs—love from both his parents.’ He paused, cupping her chin softly and tipping her head back so he could look down into her eyes. ‘Lucas will never be short of love.’
A wave of warmth washed through her at his words. She knew he was speaking sincerely—and she knew that he really did not judge her for her troubled background.
It felt as if an enormous weight had been lifted off her shoulders, and for the first time she felt that Theo was looking at her and seeing the whole truth about the person she really was. Until that moment she had never realised what a heavy burden the secret of her background had been.
‘I’m glad you told me,’ Theo said, sliding his fingers through her hair to the nape of her neck.
He looked down at her, finally understanding what had driven her to react so recklessly to the conversation she had overheard the night of the accident. He meant what he had said—he would never judge anyone according to their background. After all, he would hate to be judged on the basis of being his father’s son.
But it was terrible to think about Kerry growing up in such difficult circumstances. It was no wonder she’d never talked about her past.
‘I can’t face seeing Hallie and Corban again,’ Kerry said. Then she bit her lip, realising how cowardly that sounded. She couldn’t hide from her mistake for ever. She had to face up to it and take responsibility for what she had done.
‘I’ll be with you,’ Theo said, drawing her towards him with his hand behind her head.
‘Thank you.’ Kerry looked up at him, wondering if that meant he thought there would be trouble. Theo had been angry with her—surely Corban would be too? It was his wife and child that Kerry had endangered.
‘Don’t think about it now,’ Theo said, bending his head and pressing his mouth to her cheek with the lightest of touches. ‘Don’t think about anything.’
A ripple of pleasure ran through her and she closed her eyes, feeling him kissing her again and again. The touch of his lips was as light as a shower of raindrops, scattering over her face to wash away her tears.
It felt wonderful—just knowing there were no more secrets between them. For the first time ever she could truly let down her guard. Theo knew all about her—and yet he was still here with her, kissing her, caressing her…starting to make love to her.
She sighed with delight and leant into his embrace, opening her lips as he finally kissed her on the mouth. Her pulse rate leapt up as his tongue slid inside, setting off a cascade of feelings surging through her body.
Suddenly she was burning with desire for him. She was hot and desperate to feel his body moving against hers, to feel his hands on her bare skin.
She grappled with his clothing urgently, pulling and tugging—and he was undressing her at the same time. Then all at once they were both standing naked, devouring each other with their eyes.
‘You look so good,’ she murmured, startled by how husky her voice sounded. For a second she didn’t move, just stood there letting her eyes roam freely over his magnificent body. He was fully aroused and ready for her, and his erection drew her gaze like a magnet. Her breathing was becoming ragged just from looking at him—but she wanted the moment to last.
His eyes were on her too, searing a tingling trail over the peaks of her breasts, down across her stomach to the soft curls at the apex of her legs—and the expression of erotic hunger on his face was turning her on even more.
Then suddenly he stepped towards her, as if he was unable to keep his hands off her a moment longer, and her world exploded into a wild, sexual tangle of entwined limbs and kissing mouths.
Hot, liquid arousal sang through her veins and rang in her ears, blotting out everything but her growing need to feel Theo lying over her, thrusting long and hard into her body. But suddenly she found herself leaning back on the sofa, with him kneeling between her legs.
She barely had time to anticipate the exquisite rapture he was about to deliver, when his mouth came down on her. She let out a shuddering cry as his tongue and lips caressed her most sensitive, intimate place, setting wave after wave of pure sexual sensation rolling through her. Her whole body was suffused with pulsing pleasure and she felt herself rocketing upwards, straight towards a shattering, all-encompassing climax.
She cried out as she reached a moment of release, but before she had a chance to drift back down Theo had lifted himself over her and thrust his hard, masculine length deep into her body.
Her trembling, sensitised flesh clamped around him, and she shot back up into the heavens immediately. She hadn’t known it was possible to feel such intense sensual pleasure—but Theo drove her higher and higher. Thrusting deeper and deeper into her willing body, he carried her up and up until she was lost in a whirling vortex of pure sexual excitement.
Then, as the final crescendo of delirious ecstasy crashed through her, she heard Theo shout as he reached his own explosive climax.
Kerry smiled tenderly as she looked at Theo lying beside her. Her body was still glowing from their lovemaking, and her heart felt a gladness she could never remember feeling before. She had told Theo about her past—about all the sordid details of her dysfunctional family—and he still wanted to be with her.
She knew it was for Lucas’s sake, but she finally felt as if she and Theo were growing closer. She didn’t think that he had fully forgiven her for what she had done, but at least now he understood why she had not been thinking clearly the night of the accident.
She lifted her hand and traced her fingers gently over the contours of his gorgeous face—across his high cheekbones and down to his strong, angular jaw. He opened his dark brown eyes and looked at her, his sensual lips curving into a lazy smile as his gaze held hers, filling her with another wave of warmth.
