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Solana clears her throat behind us, alerting him to her presence, and Judge shoots her a glare as if this is all her fault somehow.
“I think I’ll just…” Solana gestures to the door as she heads for it in a hurry.
“Yeah, you do that,” Judge growls at her.
The moment she’s gone, he turns his fiery gaze on me, wraps his fingers around the nape of my neck, and tugs me against the hard plane of his chest.
“Over my dead body.” His lips brush against mine, the heat of his words singeing me. “Will I ever fucking let you marry him.”
Before I can tell him I wasn’t planning on it, his mouth covers mine, and a fire ignites in my belly as his rough hands lay claim to my body. He grabs my ass, squeezes, and groans before he yanks down my leggings, forcing them off me. At the same time, I’m tugging his shirt free from his trousers, pulling buttons free from holes, then reaching for his zipper. He hoists me up into his arms, my belly bumping against his as he carries me up the stairs. As we go, clothing follows in our wake. I don’t even know how we’re managing it, but our hands are everywhere. Tugging hair, touching skin, branding heat into our bodies.
“Judge,” I whimper as he releases my mouth from his only to drag his teeth down my neck.
“Goddammit, Mercedes,” he growls. “This belongs to me. All of it. Every fucking part of you. Do you get that?”
I make no protests about that as he spreads me across the bed and kicks off the pants around his ankles. Then he’s on me. His body presses me down, his warmth soaking into my skin, his scent all around me.
“Judge,” I beg again.
He kisses me, spreads my thighs and drags his cock through my arousal. I’m beyond ready for him even though it’s only been a matter of minutes.
“Say it.” He brands my face with his fingers, torturing me as his cock throbs against me. “Tell me who this belongs to.”
“You.” The word leaves my lips unbidden, and if that wasn’t bad enough, I emphasize it. “Only you.”
His groan of approval drowns out everything else, and then he thrusts inside me, his fingers digging into my hips. His mouth coming back to mine. Our teeth clash, tongues invading, and I let him fuck me like it’s our last day on earth because I fucking need it.
I arch into him, and he gives me all of himself. Every thrust. Every fierce sound that leaves his lips. His agony is a match only to mine, which he eases when he makes me come, not once, but twice around him.
The spasms are still ricocheting through my body when he unleashes with a painful growl, releasing himself inside me with one word so full of finality, it breaks me.
“Mine.”
He buries his face into my neck, inhaling me as his hands move over the curve of my belly. And I can’t help it. My chest heaves as painful emotions erupt from me with a sob.
Judge freezes, pulling back to look at me with terror in his eyes. “Mercedes?”
“Why do you keep doing this to me?” I cry. “Why can’t you just let me go?”
He pulls away from me, and I feel the loss of his warmth, the loss of our connection as he hauls himself to the edge of the bed and averts his gaze. His head hangs heavy, his back muscles rippling with tension as he drags a hand through his hair.
“I can’t.” His choked response invokes a renewed combination of anger and heartache.
“Why?” I demand. “Why, Lawson? Fucking tell me.”
“Because goddammit.” He turns to look at me, eyes filled with a fire he’s never let me see. “I fucking love you, Mercedes. Can’t you understand that?”
Those words tear through my armor, lodge deep in my heart, and fragment as I release another quiet sob. This one is something else entirely.
“You love me?”
“Yes,” he rumbles. “I fucking love you. I have loved you… longer than you could ever know. You’re carrying my babies. I’m inside you. And I can’t let you go. I won’t apologize for it. If you want Clifton, that’s too goddamn bad because it’s not happening—”
“Then why?” I cut him off.
His eyes move over my face, searching. “Why what?”
“Why won’t you let yourself have me?”
