Page 41 of Ly to Me (Devils of Alliston Springs #1)

Lyra

The Admission

“ T hat’s all you have to say?” His simple reply pissed me off more.

Carver strode back up to me and gripped my throat.

I shuddered at the way he was looking at me, like the rest of the world had faded to nothing around us.

“The bet was to fuck you before prom. They never said I had to spend every waking moment I could find with you, or introduce you to my parents, or rearrange how I wanted my future to go to make it ours . I wanted everything with you.”

“You didn’t have to take the bet.”

“I—” Car's lips snapped shut, his gaze darting away for a moment as he changed whatever was about to come from his mouth. “You’re not listening.” His grip tightened, and I let out a soft moan.

“Nowhere in that bet did they say I had to fall in love with you.

Fuck the bet, Lyra. I fell in love with you.

Irrevocably. That's what happened. You claimed my entire heart and fucked it completely up when you left without giving me a chance to tell you that.”

“I-I didn’t know.” My voice cracked, but not nearly as bad as my heart did.

“I think you did, you just wouldn’t let yourself believe that someone could love you. I’ve known I’ve loved you since our first kiss, Ly. And it hasn’t changed, no matter how much you claim to hate me.”

“You shouldn’t have agreed to it. It was fucked up.” I tried to stay calm, but it was hard. So damn hard.

“You’re right, but—” His thumb swept over my jawline. “I don’t regret it.”

My teeth ground together. “Because you met me, is that what shit you’re tryin’ to pull?”

He was silent for a beat, then said, “No. I would have found you and made you mine, one way or another. You were always meant to be mine.” Tears flooded my eyes. I fixated on the boots on my feet until he squeezed my neck. “Ly, look at me.”

I pushed down the swell of emotions battling in my chest and met his gaze.

His eyes had softened, all storms cleared.

For a fleeting moment, I saw the Carver I once knew again.

The Carver that pulled me down in the rain to kiss me for the first time.

The Carver who let me evade my home life by opening his doors to me any chance he got without having a single expectation.

“Are you tellin’ me I haven’t had you with me all this time because of a bet that meant nothing to me? ”

I glanced away. “It hurt , Car. You hurt me. You made me think what we had was nothin’ to you.”

“What we had was everything to me,” he growled. “You were and still are everything to me.”

“Please…don’t do this.”

His brows lowered. “Do what? Tell you I love you? Well, guess what, I fucking love you. I can’t keep this shit at bay any longer.

I want you here with me now, like really here, and I want it to be real.

I want to call you mine every goddamn day for the rest of my life.

I want you in my arms every night until the day I die, and, most of all, I don’t want you to leave.

Not today, not tomorrow, not in thirty days. Not ever.”

“Please,” I begged, blinking away tears.

“If you leave me again, I won’t survive it.” A calloused thumb smoothed over my thudding pulse, his blue eyes tracking the movements of the beads rolling down my cheeks. I’d never seen him look this vulnerable before, and it was scaring me more than his monstrous side ever had.

And then that emotion flipped right in front of me, like something just dawned on him.

“You’re begging me to stop because you’re not telling the whole truth,” he finally said. I froze in place, my body tensing as my eyes refused to meet his again. “And there it is to confirm it. You’re still hiding something. And I intend to find out what it is.”

“Wait—”

He dropped to his knees and hooked his corded arm behind my legs, forcefully lifting them to remove each boot. I wobbled unsteadily with the quickness of his movements, and then my legs were simultaneously tossed over his shoulders.

“You made a mistake in callin’ your friend that day, because now that I know this body has only ever been mine, I won’t ever believe that you don’t love me too.” He thrust my panties to the side and slid his tongue into my center.

I gasped and tried to reach for his hair, needing his mouth to move higher. “Please,” I begged, grinding my hips in his hold.

He teasingly swept his tongue to just beneath my clit. “Keep beggin’.”

“ Fuck . Please, Carver.”

He groaned, but stayed away from where I needed him most, choosing to slide his tongue in and out of me, only making me more desperate for all of him.

“ Please, ” I begged again, writhing in the firm grip he had on my ass.

“Good girls get fucked. Bad girls get edged. And you’ve been bad.” He smacked my ass, thrusting his tongue deeper, then moved up to my clit. I only got a moment of relief before he shifted back down. An uncomfortable heat started to build and seized my lungs.

“This isn’t right,” I murmured through quick breaths.

“Really? I’ve never felt more fuckin’ right in my life.”

His fingers swept up, then slid down the line of my spine while his tongue licked along my center. But he didn’t stop there. He kept going down until his fingers met my ass. I froze instantly, and he chuckled.

“You’re gonna take whatever I give since I’m the only one in this marriage willing to give you everything. Even the things you don’t wanna hear.”

If it weren’t for the way his finger was still going down, and the movements of his tongue, that sentiment may have melted my frozen heart just a fraction.

“W-what are you doing?”

He slowly licked up to my clit as he met my eyes.

I whimpered the second he stopped. “You won’t tell me everything, which means you plan on leaving.

So, I’m taking every part of you. I wasn’t lyin’ when I said ‘no other man will ever be enough for you.’ I’m going to make good on that promise, sweetheart.

No other man will ever satisfy you the way I can. ”

I begged again, but it was no use.

His fingers moved swiftly to my pussy before roughly thrusting in. “Get them nice and wet for me.”

I moaned so loud I was sure the sound moved through the back of the stalls, scaring the animals out in the pasture. Carver’s fingers dug in so deep, curving up in all the right places, lighting my entire core with a fire that burned hotter than the sun.

And then he ripped the pleasure away from me and moved to my backend all over again. I squirmed as he applied pressure. “Car!”

“That’s right. Scream the name of the only man who can make you feel like this.” His tongue met my clit right as he thrust a finger inside my ass. My skin prickled at the weird sensation, then melted as he brought me right back to the edge of insanity, nipping and sucking on my clit as I adjusted.

And holy shit , it actually felt good. Too good. I had already been teetering on a ledge, and with him looking up at me like he was, I was nearly done for.

“I’m gonna co—”

He quickly removed his tongue, but kept his finger where it had been, pumping it in and out languidly. Carver cocked a smirk as I glared down at him.

“You’re a bastard.”

“Pretty sure my parents were married when I was born,” he replied like the smartass he was. “Guess if you do end up havin’ our baby, he or she would be able to say the same.” He winked, and my cheeks heated with anger.

“I could use my safeword,” I threatened.

“You won’t.” In, out. In, out. “You want to know what my cock feels like when it hardens in this tight little hole. You want me to show you what you’ll be missin’ when you decide the money is all you really wanted and choose to leave me for a second time.”

I whimpered his name as his tongue teased my clit, bringing me right back to the edge with one simple touch.

“I’ll have you coming all night long. On my cock, on my mouth. Every hole you have will be stuffed with my cum by the end of the night, and when I wake up with you in my arms, I’ll do it all over again. All you have to do is tell me why you really left without a single goodbye.”

“W-what makes you think the bet wasn’t enough?”

“For one”— swipe— “I can tell when you’re hiding shit, or lying. Remember?” He added a second finger, and I gasped at the feel of more of him. “And two,” he continued, “I know you. You would have reamed me out and demanded an apology, not skip town and never look back.”

I fell silent, and his head leaned against my inner thigh. “Silence will still get you fucked, but I won’t let you come. Do you think whatever you’re hidin’ is worth it?”

I bit down on my lip and looked away, staring at the doors.

“Fine.” He removed his fingers and pushed my legs from his shoulders.

I pointed my toes against the cool cement to stop my body from swaying, unable to notice that Carver had circled to my backside.

He pulled the belt free from my waist and used his knife to slice into the shirt I was wearing, then my panties, shredding all clothing from my body.

And then, he was gone.

Clanking sounds from the other room let me know he hadn’t gone far, and I used that time to try to wriggle free from the ropes. But, just like the reins that he’d used around my neck before, the thing now keeping me in place was no different.

Moving only made it worse.

I craned my head over my shoulder as Carver walked up beside me, my pussy pulsing with the need to have him fuck me all day long.

He couldn’t really prevent me from coming.

He couldn’t know my body that well after all these years…right?

“Don’t fall,” was all he said as he unclipped one of the top ropes, freeing my right arm to fall to my side. I wobbled on shaky legs as he moved to my left and did the same.

My hands curled in on themselves as he circled me, never coming within a few feet. “Thinking of hitting me, wife?”