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The battle he was no longer hiding fromme.
“I swear.”
I dropped the cigarette, and he crushed the remnants of it on the cement floor, dropping the flask to the ground with a clatter as his strong fingers curled around the back of my neck, pulling my lips to his.
He kissed me like a man who’d just received a pardon from death row. Like it was the first time and the last time he’d ever be able to hold me.
I moaned against his lips as he took me, his tongue finding mine as he inhaled me deep, his fist twisting in my hair. I clutched his jacket like it was the only thing anchoring me to this moment.
My body ached inside and out with my need for him. When he pressed between my legs, I cried out, and he stilled, backing off, his lips leaving mine.
His eyes found mine in the dark before slipping low, to the bruises across my abdomen now hidden by the baggy hospital gown whispering against my pebbled nipples.
I could sense his hesitation, only making me grip him tighter. “No,” I all but snapped. “I need you.Right now.”
I’d never needed anything more.
His grip on my hip loosened, and I swear to Christ I almost hit him, but he didn’t let go, just relaxed his grip. His fist in my hair uncurled to trace a gentle path down the side of my neck to my collarbone. I shivered and his teeth flashed in the dim light.
“Then you’ll have me.”
Confused, I cocked my head, a question on my parted lips as he easily untied the string holding my hospital gown to my body and it slipped to the floor.
A muscle in his jaw ticked as his black eyes roved my body, finding evidence of my need for him and more injuries than I knew he could handle seeing.
He bristled, falling back a step, but I caught him before he could go any further, pulling his hand back to my body. I placed it over my heart, needing him to feel it.
“I’m alive,” I said on a breath. “Let melive.”
The muscle around his right eye twitched as he closed them, tension clear in his jaw as he lifted his hand to cup my face, brushing his thumb over my jaw.
Rook pressed his lips to mine again, the kiss so slow and deliberate, so gentle that it broke me all over again.
His thumb drew a straight line down my body as he continued to kiss me slow, making my thoughts scatter. My fingers itched to grip him tight, to fist in his black hair, but I held still, letting myself indulge in the moment, knowing this show of restraint and tenderness wouldn’t—couldn’t—last.
“I told you…” I said, my breaths hiccupping as his tracing fingers found my inner thigh, turning their trajectory upward. “I don’t want you to change for me. I wantyou.”
…and you’re not gentle.
“This is me, Ghost,” he purred against my throat, the rumble of his voice vibrating down the length of my body. “This is me taking care of you. Let me.”
“But…”
“Shhh. The things I’m going to fucking do to you once you’re healed can wait. Right now,this…”
His fingers found my wet pussy, and I gasped, fingers digging into the door at my back.
“…is what you need.”
“Roo—”
He swallowed my cry with his mouth, pushing his fingers into me. I fought against the urge to clench my thighs, forcing them wider for him.
“That’s it, Ghost.”
Rook fucked me with his fingers, slow, adding a third until he had me stretched wide and dripping for him.
I buried my face in his chest, clenching my teeth, coming completely undone for him. He sucked a nipple into his mouth and I almost screamed at the dual sensation, my stomach flipping, pussy clenching tight around his fingers.
