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We can keep her safe. If I think about it enough, I can make it true. We already have plans in motion to ensure we can end this farce of an engagement. For now, we’re trapped. But that’s a tomorrow problem.
Tomorrow, I will have to be someone she’s never known before—we all will be. Tonight. Tonight, I can pretend everything is as it once was—time has rolled back to after we got rid of her mother, and we were preparing to announce her as our Chosen.
“Hello, Love,” I whisper in her ear as I slide behind her and groan. It’s been too long since I’ve last felt her pressed against me.
My hand glides up the expanse of her exposed skin while I press a kiss to the top of her left shoulder, where I know four tiny freckles are.
I slide my hand across her stomach and rest my lips in the crook of her neck as I close my eyes and count her breaths. Each inhale and exhale is a reassurance she’s really here, and I’m not dreaming her into existence.
A soft sigh escapes her mouth as she sinks into me. “Even in sleep, you know where you belong,” I hum against the thrumming pulse of her throat.
I’m nuzzling deeper, enjoying the feel of my stubble against her soft skin, when I feel my phone buzz in my back pocket.
Ignoring it, I continue to pepper kisses along her back, inhaling the scent that is uniquely hers. Ariah unconsciously grinds into me, and my semi grows fully erect. “You’re killing me, Love. I’m trying to be good tonight,” I mumble.
“Please,” she murmurs sleepily, and I pause.
Is she awake?
Tonight would be far more interesting if she were. However, the steady rise and fall of her chest indicates she’s just sleep-talking.
“Wy, please,” she begs, and I watch in awe as her hand slips between her legs.
Fuck it.
I lose my battle with self-control and slide my hand up and cup her breast. My thumb lightly grazes her nipple until it’s erect.
A groan escapes me at the smell of her arousal. I’m tempted to replace her fingers with mine, but the sight of her pleasing herself to thoughts of me is far too intoxicating to interrupt. So, instead, I pinch her nipple and nip and suck the back of her neck, knowing it will leave a mark, but she won’t see it.
Ariah’s breaths increase as she climbs closer to her release, and I stop to watch her fingers work rapidly, pumping in and out of her pussy before swirling against her clit.
It’s fucking breathtaking.
I slide back as she turns to her back, her legs falling open, giving me a perfect view of Ariah playing with her pussy.
Closing my eyes, I bask in her whimpers. She’s close. I lower my head, preparing to feast and catapult her over the edge when her cries of ecstasy turn into keening sounds of pain.
“Why did you leave me?” Ariah demands, her hand stilling. All of my earlier lustful thoughts evaporate as her dreams of pleasure morph into nightmares.
“What did I do?” Her question is a whisper, but it reverberates in my skull like it’s coming through a megaphone placed right against my ear.
Ariah curls in on herself, her hand no longer beneath her sleep shorts. Instead, they wrap around her body as if she’s consoling herself. The sob that escapes her cracks my chest open, and I lean in to wipe the rivulets of tears streaming down her face.
“Please don’t leave me,” she implores repeatedly.
“Never. We’ll never let you go,” I promise emphatically. Then I settle behind her, pulling her flush against me until her cries slow into staccato breaths before evening out, and I don’t move until I know she’s calm.
The sound of birds chirping signals that dawn is approaching, and I reluctantly let her go and rise from the bed before heading for the door and exiting the house.
I pull my phone from my back pocket before climbing into my car. I start the engine and check my notifications and see I have missed text messages, and they’re all from the same person. Lip-Filled Troll Barbie.
LFTB: someone’s being a naughty boy
LFTB: consider this your last warning
LFTB: see her again and there will be consequences
LFTB: so I hope she was worth it.
