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I’m not unreasonable. I know this feeling won’t last forever. I have bad days ahead of me, but I choose to live in this very moment. Right now, nothing else matters.
“That’s my girl,” he says, the praise still sounding awkward but not ungenuine. “Make me come.”
I smile at his command as I come down from my orgasm. There’s the guy I could see myself spending my life with.
He helps because I’m just exhausted, by cupping me under the ass and helping me rise and lower onto him, and when he reaches that point of no return, he locks eyes with me. I can read what he’s saying without him even opening his mouth, and it titillates every part of me.
I feel the pulse of him inside of me as he groans his release, and when he leans in to kiss me, I don’t back away. I was worried the crash after the orgasm would have me running from anything soft, would have me backing away or taunting him until he showed me that rougher side of him I’m used to.
I kiss him back, my hands on his face as I we take just a moment to enjoy the other.
When I pull back and look down at him, he smiles again, but then it’s there, that wolfish grin that’s more teeth and threatening than anything else.
I squeal when he pinches my ass hard enough to leave a mark.
It has me climbing from his lap immediately, but he doesn’t let me get far.
In a second, I’m on my back with him between my legs. He watches my face as he pins my arms over my head.
It makes me want to run, not because I’m afraid, but because he has that we-need-to-talk look, and it makes my skin itch.
“Thank you.”
“For what?” I ask.
“Everything. For being who I need, for letting me be who you need. I know it comes with sacrifices on your part.”
I swallow thickly. Going slow and enjoying each other that way was easier than actually hearing the words from his mouth.
“Do you think we hurt the baby?”
I tremble.
“Earlier when we were outside,” he clarifies when I remain silent.
“How did you know?” I finally manage.
He doesn’t answer me, and it doesn’t surprise me at all.
“Do you think the baby is okay?” he asks again, and I know I have to be honest with him.
“I don’t think the baby will ever be okay with us as parents.”
He considers my response for a long moment before speaking.
“I’m going to have so much fun proving you wrong.”
With that declaration, he presses another kiss to my lips before slipping beside me in the bed and pulling me to his chest.
It lasts all of five minutes before I have to pull away and get some distance.
His laughter at my insistence follows me into a dreamless sleep.
Chapter 41
Angel
“Keep sitting there with that look on your face and I’ll fuck you against the window.”