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“I’ll be everything you need.” He kissed my forehead, letting go of my hands. “I know you need me to be patient, and I promise you that I will, but I want you to know that if you need something, anything, I’m here. If you wake up during the night from a nightmare, text me and I’ll be right over. Never think you’re being a pain in my ass because I promise you, baby, you are the fresh start I need too.”

My heart jumped, feeling like it was about to bound out of my chest.I thought you wanted this to end when you didn’t respond to my text.

Cyrus kissed my nose. “I’m sorry for making you think that but no, I do not want this end. Not at all. Not when it’s only begun. Your text opened up something in me.” His mouth brushed over mine. “It took everything I had not to kiss you at the deli. Another reason I brought you there was because it was the first place I felt your lips on mine. The first place I tasted your mouth.” He gave my bottom lip a gentle bite. “The first place I swallowed your breath.”

I’m broken. So, I understand if you do want this to end, Cyrus. I don’t know how long it’ll take for me to give you all of me,I signed slowly for him, wishing I could voice how I felt.

His lips pulled up in the corner, giving me a sexy smirk. “Trust me, pet.” He leaned down to my ear. “With the way you kiss me back and with how you rub your body against mine, neither of us will have to wait long.”

My face heated.

He chuckled, stepping away from me. “I’d like to take you out again. Say, next Friday?”

I nodded quickly.I would love that and thank you for everything and for tonight.

“You never have to thank me, babe.” He kissed me one last time before backing up. “I want to see you before next Friday though. But we’ll make our dates be a weekly thing.”

You can spend the night.

“Hmm...” He ran his fingers along his mouth. “As much as I like that idea, we need to take this slow. Sleep well, pet.” He turned and started walking down the hall away from me.

Before he could disappear around the corner that led to the elevators, I ran toward him.

Cyrus looked over his shoulder, raising an eyebrow. “What’s wrong?”

I jumped into his arms, slamming my mouth down hard on his.

He groaned, the kiss fast and deep. “Fuck, baby.” He broke the kiss before we could take it further. “What the hell was that for?” he asked, placing me back on my feet and hugging me to his hard body.

I wiggled out of his grip and began backing up.

Just wanted to give you something to remind you for later.I blew him a kiss and rushed back down the hall toward my apartment but not before I caught the grin on his face.

Cyrus

It had been afew days since my date with Ainsley. We texted constantly and I found that it was the highlight of my day. I would wish her a good morning and a good night, and she would do the same. She would tell me her favorite quote from whatever book she was reading or a favorite line from a new song she heard. She would ask me how my brother was, and I would tell her that he was his same grumpy self. The fact that she cared enough to ask, did something funny to me. Even though Sammy was being a jerk to her, she still inquired as to how he was doing. It meant a lot to me that she still asked about him no matter how he treated her.

Both of us had been busy since our date the Friday before but no matter how many hours and days had passed, I couldn’t get that last kiss out of my head. Her running toward me and jumping in my arms. Her crushing her mouth to mine and slipping her tongue between my lips, giving me a small taste of what to expect as we took things between us further.

I knew there was a passionate woman somewhere inside of her. I just had to get her to trust me enough to unleash her. She had been right though when she told me she wanted me to remember her later that night. I did remember her. And that kiss. I couldn’t get it out of my damn head.

After I got home from dropping her off, I quickly headed to the bathroom, took a shower, and jerked off twice before my cock went down enough for me to sleep. But my dreams still consisted of her. Her on all fours, crawling toward me, wearing my collar while I held a leash. I had been looking for a submissive for so long, I was at the point of giving up when Ainsley unexpectedly came into my life.

I woke up the following morning only for it to start all over again. My hand had wrapped around my thick shaft while I was still half asleep, dreaming of her crawling toward me. I had tugged at the piercings lining my cock, the delicious pain forcing me awake. I felt like a boy who had just hit puberty and saw a naked woman for the first time.

Ainsley was something else, knowing my body had never reacted this way toward a woman before. It usually took a bit for me to get hard enough for sex. I eventually got bored of it and cut off sex completely and worked out or fought at The Ring to work off my frustrations. But with Ainsley, my cock was hard. All the fucking time. For her. Add to the fact that I had to be patient for her, it made this need grow and intensify into a raging inferno that I knew would eventually burn us both.

One night, it was late, pushing almost two in the morning in fact, and I couldn’t sleep. I had only texted Ainsley an hour before, wishing her sweet dreams, but something was wrong. We spent the past couple of days video chatting because she suddenly got a cold from someone at the center and didn’t want me to get sick. She was finally feeling better, and I still offered to make her soup, but I ended up getting called into work after a pipe burst. That ruined my plans of seeing her again. Finally getting home not too long ago, I still texted her even though it was late. While we hadn’t seen each other in person in a while, I needed her to know that I wasn’t going anywhere. But I couldn’t figure out what this sudden feeling was.

Pushing out of bed, I trudged out into the hall and was about to head to the kitchen to get a bottle of water when the front door opened. “You’re home late,” I called out.

“Was out but came home to get changed,” Sammy said, shutting the door.

“And you missed my pretty face.” Things had been weird between us. I wasn’t sure if it was because of Ainsley or not, but I tried not bringing her up. Especially when I didn’t even know what was going on between us. I took it one day at a time because it was all we could do.

I stepped out into the hall, handing my brother a bottle of water. “Everything okay?”

“Yeah.” He rubbed the back of his neck, heading to the couch. I noticed then how he was walking slowly. As he lowered to sit, he winced.