Page 22 of The Lie of Us


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My body shook with such force as my hips bucked against his face. My hands were tangled in his hair, holding on to him for dear life as I fell from the edge of the cliff. I was falling deep into a state of ecstasy and nothing else mattered.

Kai pulled his face away from between my legs, yet he didn't release my thighs as he stared down at me. “Fuck,” he murmured as his lips twitched and a fire burned deep in his eyes. “I love the way you look after you come. The way you look at me with those hazy green eyes and the pink tint on your cheeks. Goddammit, Winter.”

My chest rose and fell with every shallow breath that escaped me. I stared up at him, my eyes bouncing back and forth between his as his eyes continued to burn through mine. I slowly sat halfway up as I reached for him and pulled him back to me.

Regret began to creep in, but I quickly pushed it out of my mind. The past didn’t matter. Nothing that had happened before was important in this moment. All that mattered was us replacing the pain with pleasure. Licking one another’s wounds while we soothed our souls. It was the simple connection, the binding thread that was always between us, regardless of how frayed it really was.

My hands pushed his shirt up his torso and Kai reached back behind his back before pulling it up over his head. It fell away to the floor and my hands trailed across the planes of his body as I memorized every inch of him. His muscles were more defined than I remembered them. He was always athletic and trim, but there was so much more to him now.

Kai’s mouth crashed back into mine after he stripped my shirt and bra away before laying me back down on the couch. I was completely naked and bare for him. A growl rumbled in his chest as he pulled away and began to shove his pants down. His movements were rushed and he wasn’t wasting any time as he settled back between my legs.

“Are you on birth control?”

I nodded my response.

“Thank God,” he nipped at my bottom lip. A gasp slipped from my lips as he pushed inside me with one thrust. He filled me to the brim with his length, stretching me with his girth. It had been a long time, but my body remembered him, just like his remembered mine.

“Jesus Christ, Winter,” he breathed against my lips before tracing them with his tongue. “You’re always so fucking ready for me. Soaking and accepting.”

His mouth was back on mine and his tongue was in my mouth as he began to pump his hips, thrusting in and out of me. My legs were around his waist, my ankles locked together around the small of his back. Kai grabbed my hair with one hand while the other gripped my ass cheek.

“You were made for this cock, darling,” he groaned as his mouth broke away from mine. He lifted his head and his stormy eyes stared directly through me. “It’s only ever been you, Winter. It will only ever be you.”

“You say that now, but you’ll leave me the next chance you get,” I bit back at him, feeling the mixture of emotion as he peered inside my soul. I loved feeling him like this. This close, this intimate. It was like the veil had lifted and he removed his mask. This was the side of Kai that was only reserved for me.

But I couldn’t help the bitterness that settled within my bones. It always lingered in the background, like a snake lying in wait. I never knew when it would resurface and finally strike.

“You’re wrong,” he growled as he thrust into me harder. “I’m here to stay. You’re my home. This is exactly where I belong.”

My legs tightened around him and my nails dug into the skin on his back as he fucked me harder. His movements were vicious like his tone, but his words were a contradiction. They were soft, they didn’t match.

“I can’t let you back in, Malakai,” I promised him, my breathing ragged and shallow as the warmth began to build in the pit of my stomach again. “I won’t let you back in. I’m done letting you hurt me.”

“That makes one of us,” he breathed as his grip tightened around my hair. “All I’ve ever known with you was pain, but yours was the sweetest kind. I want it all. Don’t ever stop hurting me.” He let out a breath and clenched his jaw. “And stop saying my name like that.”

He released my ass and slid his hand between our bodies as he continued to thrust his hips faster, harder, deeper.

“I hate you,” I cried out as his fingertips brushed across my clit. “God, don’t stop—yes, right there,” I moaned as he began to circle his thumb.

Kai pulled my bottom lip between his teeth and bit down as he dove in deeper. “Hate me all you want, darling. I want your anger. I want your rage. Give it all to me.”

“Please just stop,” I begged him as I raked my nails down his back.

He abruptly stopped moving and his eyes slid back and forth between mine with confusion. His gaze was troubled and he looked panicked.

I narrowed my eyes at him as I bucked my hips. “What are you doing?”

“You told me to stop.”

A sigh of annoyance left my lungs. “I meant for you to stop talking, not for you to stop what you were doing.”

Kai didn’t move. Something dark and mischievous passed through his eyes. “And what is it that I was doing?”

Heat instantly spread up my neck and across my cheeks. “You know what you were doing.” He was going to make me say the damn words and I could die from embarrassment thinking about it.

“I do,” he said matter-of-factly. “But if you want me to start again, I need to hear it from you.”

My eyebrows were drawn together as I shook my head. “Absolutely not.”

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