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Rae moved over me and began using a bar of soap, washing over my back and then over my chest, in slow and sensual movements. Then she rubbed the bar of soap in her hands, lathering up, and kneeled in front of me to wash my cock. It felt intimate, far more intimate than anything we’d done. Instead of picking her up again and fucking her against the wall, I rinsed and turned off the spray, helping her out of the shower.
Not grabbing a towel for either of us, I carried her, soaking wet, to the bedroom. Tugging the blanket off, and pulling it around our naked bodies, we curled under the covers. Then I pulled her to my chest, curving my body around hers.
Silence seemed to envelop us, just as tightly as I was holding her to my chest. It threatened to drown out any hope I had of fixing what I broke, so I cleared my throat and confessed.
“I didn’t mean any of it…” I let my apology wane in the silence, hoping she’d stop me there, allowing me the coward’s way out.Hadn’t I done that one too many times though?
“I was just hurt that you hadn’t told me. But please believe me, I didn’t mean it, baby. Forgive me.” I kissed her neck, wrapping my hand around her, until my palm was over her stomach. “I know I don’t deserve to have you here with me—to have you at all—and I don’t want your pity. I just want you, the real you, even if that means it takes a while for you to forgive me.”
She turned in my arms until she was facing me, wrapping her hands around my neck again, tangling her fingers in my hair.
“You will never get pity from me. Ever.” She pressed a kiss to my jaw then frowned. “I’m so sorry I didn’t tell you. I was scared, especially after I heard you and Gavin talking about me. I just freaked out.”
I thought back to that day Gavin had shown up and shook my head. “I’m sorry, it’s shitty that we talked about you. I hate that you had to hear any of it.”
“I know, and I know I should have told you, and I kept meaning to do it, but it just never felt right. I was embarrassed about that part of my life. I was so ashamed.”
I pulled her closer by the hip. “It’s a part of our past, and it will always be safe here”—I grabbed her hand and placed it over my heart—“always. But I know I don’t deserve your forgiveness. I can’t imagine how painful it was that night you walked in on me…”
She closed her eyes, breathing through her nose. “I thought it was you just being cruel. For so long I believed that I was just a joke to you.”
“Never.” I pressed a kiss to her nose, then her lips. “I heard your confrontation with Carl.”
“You did?”
I nodded. “Your dad has a theory that he had a vendetta against me after he heard what I had done to my—”
My voice broke off, unable to form the word.
Pain crashed back into me like a freight train. She seemed to understand, as her hand came up, cupping my jaw.
“I’m so sorry,” she whispered. “I’m so, so sorry.”
Tears burned my throat, and in this moment, with her, the only person on this planet that I trusted with my life, I let the tears for my brother fall, and I let the woman I loved hold me while I fell apart.
I didn’t want to cry. I hated that the tears wouldn’t seem to stop coming. I hated how weak it made me feel. So, gripping her jaw, I turned until she was under me. Blue eyes stared back, two pieces of ocean tossed into my stone-filled world. How did I ever miss it? They were the same ones that stopped me when she was in that library, the same electric current that tugged at my chest when she found me.
The same chord rippling through me all these years later, meant for me.
Mine.
Pressing my lips to hers, I moved my hand down her body until I held her by the hip. Her tongue slid against mine, deepening our connection, reminding me how starved I’ve been for her. Pushing her leg wide, I rose above her, settling in between her thighs, bracing my arms on either side of her face.
“You’re mine, Rae,” I whispered, pressing a fevered kiss to her lips. “For fucking ever, do you understand me?” I slowly slid inside her heat, feeling her warmth wrap around me.
“I can’t be without you.” I moved, thrusting hard as she jolted forward, letting out a low moan. “Never again,” I rasped into her skin as I fucked her slowly. “Never again.”
Biting down on her shoulder, I rotated my hips, moving faster as she began meeting every stroke of mine with a hard thrust of her own.
“Never,” she whispered, running her fingers up over my chest. She lifted her leg so I had better access. Pushing my hands under her ass, I pulled her to me while thrusting deep inside her.
The connection was so much stronger than any other time we’d fucked, it was messing with me to a degree. It made me feel stripped of any armor I’d put over my heart as protection against her.
I was still moving inside her when she tucked my hair away from my face and smiled.
“I love you, Davis Brenton. I’vealwaysloved you.”
I broke.
