Page 108 of Heartless

When she shifted back, I locked my grip on her.I needed her too much.She softened against me, and the crushing weight on my chest fragmented.

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Sienna

Jake’s breath was seesawing against the top of my chest, and my heart broke for him.What Nigel had done to his family was beyond abhorrent.It didn’t excuse what Jake had done to me, but God I wanted to kick Nigel in the balls.

After a long moment, his breath evened out, but his hold didn’t slacken, and my folded legs were squeezed between Jake’s hips and the armchair.“Jake?”

When he shifted back, my heart hurt at his expression.“Baby—”

I touched the side of his jaw.“Come to bed.”

He stood up, and I clutched my arms and legs around him.He strode straight to my bed where we laid down on our sides.He curled his hand around my nape to push my face against the base of his neck.Looping my arm around his shoulder and hooking my knee over his, I held him as close as possible.

His heartbeat was still fast.I tried to shift back, but Jake’s arms blocked any movement, so I snuggled deeper into his body, and eventually, sleep claimed both of us.

Sometime during the night, I woke up.The bathroom light was still on, and the curtains were open.I untangled myself from Jake and stretched out of bed.

I did what I had to do before returning to the room and climbed back under the duvet.As soon as I was in, Jake’s arm wrapped around me, so we were face to face with our limbs tangled.

“Thank you for telling me your story.And I’m so sorry.”

In response, he pulled me tighter against him, and his lips grazed my forehead.“Baby.”

“I’m here,” I whispered back.

Jake rolled me onto my back, and I couldn’t see his gaze, but Ifeltit.I felt it with every fiber of my body.The slow trail of his lips from my temple to my cheek sparked goosebumps all over my skin.

He slanted his head.Our breaths mingled, and a shiver seized my body.I opened my mouth, and when our tongues touched, my need for him coiled inside me while he deepened the kiss.I glided my palms under his t-shirt.His skin was warm.His hard, heavy penis was digging into my lower belly.

Heat built.When I rocked my hips, seeking the friction I needed, Jake touched his forehead to mine, holding himself rigidly still.

“Fuck, baby.”

“Jake.”

A pained grunt rolled out of his throat.“Kitten, it’s too soon.”

Tightening my arms around him, I whispered, “I want you.”

“Sienna—”

I kissed him.His groan poured into my mouth, and he took over the scorching kiss.Then, he knelt up between my legs.In seconds, we were naked.The second after that, I was under Jake.As I wrapped my arms around his neck, our mouths met in hungry moans.

While I shifted my knees higher along his sides, his penis glided down until the head of his sex was against the core of me.With his eyes locked onto mine, he slowly penetrated me.

Keeping one arm curled under my shoulder and his hand cupped around the side of my face, Jake slid his other hand from under me and linked his fingers to mine before pinning our joined hands in the mattress above my head.

When he plunged his tongue into my mouth, I sucked on it.

His thrusts rocked my whole body, and I moaned.My legs around his lower back tautened, and like the most primal choreography, my body danced with his, my hips bearing down on his upthrusts.

Faster.

Harder.

The knot in my lower belly verged on painful, and I whimpered in his mouth.