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I hadn’t even bothered covering it. There was no point. Oskar would have ripped off the bandage the second I sat on the plane.
You deserve what you got, so sit there and feel the pain.
Leaning closer, Win inspected the painful wound, a growl building in his chest. “Are those teeth marks?” Snapping back, his eyes struck mine. “Who. Did. This. To. You?”
Swallowing, I looked over his shoulder across the room at the large clock mocking me with the time.
I was late.
Panic seized my lungs so brutally that I started to hyperventilate.
Win’s large palms fixed themselves low on my waist, avoiding all my injuries and offering support. “Easy,” he coaxed, pulling me down from the counter. “Easy.”
“I’m late!” I burst out, anxiety making my voice loud. “He said I couldn’t be late. He said… And now I am. And you’re going to pay for it!”
Win pulled back, eyebrows drawn. “Who said?”
“Why couldn’t you just let me go?” I accused. “Why couldn’t you let me protect you for once?” I sobbed, practically falling into his chest.
He stumbled under my weight and then sat on the floor, tugging me right into his lap. I folded against him as he somehow bent around me, pushing my face into his neck and holding it there.
Tears I didn’t know I’d been crying slid against his neck, making his skin slick. “I’m sorry,” I cried against him. “I didn’t want to go,” I blubbered, gripping his bicep. “He said if I didn’t come home with him, he’d kill you.”
Win’s body went rigid. I didn’t like it, so I pushed farther into the softness of his throat to inhale the scent unique to only him.
“I’d do anything for you, Win,” I whispered. “Even become his punching bag again.”
“Who?” he demanded.
“Oskar.” I said his name, my entire body shuddering in revulsion. A heave rocked my body, and I jolted away, but when nothing came up, I sagged back against him.
“Shh,” Win soothed, folding himself back around me. “It’s okay now. I’m here. We’re together. You’re safe.”
He rocked us a little, the motion comforting. I pressed my cheek against his shirt, eyes drooping as the worst of the panic drained away.
“That’s what you never understood,” I said, voice a little slurred.
“What’s that, angel?” he murmured, stroking my hair.
“You make me feel safe. Safer than I’ve ever been in my whole life. I couldn’t survive without it, Win. I came all the way here because just being in the same place as you made me feel so safe.”
“And I tried to shove you away.” His voice was pained.
“It’s okay,” I whispered. “I’m hard to love. Your presence was enough. Mostly.”
“You are not hard to love,” he said, holding my face up. “You are so easy to love, angel. The easiest love I’ve ever known.”
“I’m risky, though,” I said, lip wobbling. “I’m not very good at keeping myself safe.”
“Screw the risks,” he avowed, crushing his lips to mine.
And just like that, everything inside me jumpstarted and realigned. All the short-circuiting flickered then came back online. I tilted my head and parted my lips to welcome him inside. The first brush of his tongue was warm like the sun overtaking a storm-ravaged sky.
My hand curled around the back of his neck, anchoring us closer so I could kiss him greedily, arching nearer but still never quite close enough. The panic and fear controlling me since last night was snuffed out by his presence, leaving me drained but never too tired for him.
Tongues still lapping, I turned so I was straddling his lap, my feet falling onto the floor behind his back. His hands fell onto my ass, tugging me even tighter against his body.
I rocked into him, thrusting my growing dick into his middle as my fingers bunched in the muscles of his back. He ripped his mouth free, kissing along my jaw and down to my neck.
