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I nod. My fingers tremble as I slowly untie the ribbon sash. The robe loosens and drapes partially open. I’m thankful that I had grabbed a pair of panties to put on but wishing I had put a bra or a top on. The silk material at least stops before revealing my nipples.
Cooper slides off the bed to his knees and shuffles closer to me.
“Coop, what are you doing?” I whisper. My body is so tense that one wrong move and my spine could snap in two.
His hands slowly trail up my thighs, leaving goose bumps in their wake. The sensation of his fingertips dancing along my skin has my nipples hard against the silk material. He parts the robe fully to reveal my legs. His eyes darken as he takes in the dark ripples taut against my skin. One day, the angry skin will fade just like the scar on my leg has done.
I ask him again as he lowers his head and presses his lips against the bottom scar.
“Kissing your scars.”
“Why,” I choke out, trying to pull back, but he grips my thighs, holding me in place.
“I’m kissing every moment you needed me and I wasn’t there. Let me kiss them, please.”
He looks up at me through thick, dark lashes. A myriad of emotions swirls in his eyes.
Silently, I nod, unsure there are any words that I could even say at this moment. That familiar weight forms on my chest again, and I feel like I’m spiraling out of control. But it’s when Cooper’s lips are back on my skin, peppering kisses against the raised marks, that I feel the balloon slowly leaking air. I don’t need the razor pressed against my skin to breathe. Coop is doing that all on his own.
A sob rips from my lips, and I have to catch myself. I grab onto his shoulder, gripping the fabric of his shirt for dear life as I stand on wobbly legs.Did I fall in the shower and hit my head? Am I dreaming?
“I will spend this lifetime and the next making up to you the pain I caused,” he says against my skin. Slowly, with each kiss, Cooper is putting the missing pieces of my heart back together.
I thread my fingers through his unruly locks of hair. “Coop, we will spend a lifetime healing each other. I need—” I lose all train of thought when he brushes his lips against the fabric covering the apex of my thighs. “I need,” I attempt again.
My breath comes in quick pants.
“I’m here. Tell me what you need.” His hands grip my hips as he rises to his feet and pulls me closer to him. His erection presses against me, and I swallow thickly.
“You. I just need you.” With my hands now on the back of his neck, I pull his lips to mine, picking up where we left off earlier.
Chapter 23
Riley
Yearsofangerandbitterness melt away with each swipe of Cooper’s tongue against mine. The silk fabric of my robe slides off my shoulders as Cooper lowers his head, trailing his lips down my collarbone, down the center of my breasts, and over to my left nipple. His tongue swirls around the hard bud, and I let out a soft whimper.
His name becomes a plea on my lips as he moves his mouth to the other.
I reach down and grab the bottom of his shirt, pulling it up over his head. My fingers travel over his skin, over the colored ink on his chest and bicep. I’ve explored his body endless times, but this feels completely new. There are new muscles formed, stronger ridges of his body, like the V that disappears down the center of his jeans.
“You wanted to feel something, Riles,” Cooper says before sealing his lips against mine again. This kiss is hungry and desperate.
He grabs my hand and places it over his hard cock, pressing against his jeans. “Do you feel this?” He undoes the button and pulls the zipper down. My hand slips under the material of his boxer briefs and wraps my fingers around his shaft. “Do you feel what you do to me? Want to feel me inside of you?”
I moan out a jumbled “uh-huh” as he distracts me with his mouth once again on my nipples.
“Bed. Now,” he demands as my thumb swirls around the precum leaking from the tip of his cock. He pulls my hand from his pants and spins me around so my back is to the bed. I sit and slowly back up toward the headboard as I watch him strip from his jeans and underwear. The coolness of the covers is a stark contrast to my heated skin.
“I feel rather overdressed.” I’m still in my panties while he’s completely naked, closing the distance between us, stalking me like I’m his prey.
I reach down to shimmy them off, but Cooper grabs both my hands, bringing them to his mouth, and kisses my wrists. “Please, let me.” He places my hands above my head before sliding back down my body and slipping his fingers between the sides of the fabric. He slowly slides my panties down my legs, his gaze never wavering from mine. There is something so intimate about this moment—the house could be on fire, and the only thing that matters in this very moment is him watching me watch him. He discards the fabric to the floor.
My heart beats wildly in my chest, matching the bass of one of my highest-heart-rate running jams.
Cooper pushes my thighs apart, my pussy on full display for him. I watch as his eyes darken and the tip of his tongue drags over his bottom lip. My walls clench as I imagine him running that tongue over my clit.
“There are so many things I want to do to you…that I need to do to you.”
