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“Let me worship you, baby.” As if my words break something within her depths, tears leak from the corner of Carys’s eyes.
I let go of her hands and try to pull back, but she wraps her arms around my body and holds me to her. “I love you so much, Coop. I’m yours. My body. My heart. My soul.” She clings to me like a lifeline. Her lips press against mine until we breathe the same air. “Show me how you love me. Give me you.” She wraps a leg around my waist and drags her wet pussy over me. “Give me everything.”
Nails scrape up my spine and dig into my shoulder blades as she moves her hips.
I wrap my fingers around her headboard and slowly drive back into her heat as electricity arcs between us. “You were made for me, Carys.” I snap my hips, picking up speed.
“Only you, Cooper.” She brings her other leg around me, linking them behind my back, her heels digging into the muscles of my ass. “Take me.”
My abs contract with each thrust, pulling at my healing scar.
But the pain is exquisite.
It reminds me I’m alive. That I’m here.
That she’s not a fucking hallucination I dreamed up because I’m in hell.
“Stay with me, Coop.” Carys’s hands capture my face, bringing me back to the here and now, and I take her mouth in a bruising kiss.
Our tongues collide, and every hurt, every heartbreak, every fear and doubt we’ve been carrying falls away.
We move together, drowning in each other.
Clinging to one and other.
“I’m so close, Cooper.” She traces my bottom lip with her finger, and I suck it into my mouth, running my tongue around it. Carys’s breath falters, and her eyes close. Her inner walls squeeze me like a vise.
Her arm wraps around my neck when she shatters around me, crying out with silent tears pooling in her green eyes.
Pleasure ripples, shooting up from the base of my spine until I follow her over the cliff, filling her. Holding her. Loving her.
* * *
The first time I wake up the next morning, it’s early. The sun is just peeking over the horizon, and its warm light filters into Carys’s room. She’s tucked against me. Her hair is a tangled mess, attacking my face, and she’s hogging the blanket. But I wouldn’t change a single thing.
I adjust my hold on her and close my eyes, deciding this is the only place I have to be.
It takes a minute for my eyes to adjust to the bright room when they open later. Carys is no longer tucked against me. She’s sitting against the headboard with her legs crossed and her sketch pad in her hands.
“Good morning.” She leans down and kisses me, giving me a glimpse of her sketch.
I pull it from her hands. “Carys Murphy, are you sketching me?” It’s not as good as her lingerie sketches, but it’s pretty damn obvious it’s me.
“Don’t let it go to your head, Coop. You’re pretty when you sleep.” She steals the book back and lays it on her nightstand. “Are you hungry? I was going to go down and make breakfast, but the house was still quiet, and I didn’t want to wake anyone up.”
I drag her down by her legs and cage her in against the mattress. “Is that what you really want?”
Carys giggles, then tickles my sides until I let her go. “What I want is to eat something semi-healthy before lacing up my sneakers and going for a run. I haven’t run once in the past week, and I need to, Coop. Please tell me you’ll come with me and let me get some sun, fresh air, and non-sex-induced endorphins...please.”
I think about how Rook’s brothers reported there was still no sign of Axel as of last night during our Zoom call.
Ford, Rook, and I went over everything we know, as well as every idea we had, and still came up with a big fat fucking goose egg at the end of it.
It’s infuriating that someone we’ve trained side by side with would be the guy we’re chasing because he knows everything we do.
He knows how to hide.
How to cover his tracks.
