Page 136 of Rival

“Wanna ride with me, darlin’?” Griffin asks, then coos at Blakely as he lifts her from my arms and settles her against his chest.

Edith is watching me hard. “No. Jaxon and I will be there soon, if you don’t mind.”

I’m not sure what’s happening with her right now, but she seems contemplative and Griffin, understanding her, gives her a quick kiss and disappears out of the room.

“What’s goin—”

She holds up a hand to stop me, then leans back to watch down the hall. As soon as we hear the door shut, she throws herself into my arms. Climbing my body, she locks her legs around my waist, and I scramble to hold on to her ass so we don’t fall over.

“You love her deeply, don’t you?” she asks after tilting her head back. Her eyes are bouncing back and forth, studying my reaction as if she can read my mind.

Swallowing hard, I nod. “More than anything.”

“And every day, when you’re giving me your truths, you always finish by telling me you love me as well.” Her words sound tight, as if she’s pushing them past a lump in her throat.

Gathering her closer, I look at her fiercely, begging her to hear how truthful I am. “With my whole body and soul.”

Settling her palm over my heart, that’s beating hard and fast under her palm, she’s silent for a moment. A radiant smile slowly spreads across her face seconds before it falls away, and she seems heartbroken.

“Sweetheart,” I call to her. She’s chewing on her lip, practically on the verge of tears.

“I’m sorry I said you were my villain. You’renot. I was hurting and—” She presses her face against my neck, breathing deeply. “You were hurting, too. I forgive you for the words yousaid, and I know you didn’t mean them. I love you s-so much, Jaxon.”

Holding the back of her head to keep her against me, I tip my head back and blink away the moisture welling behind my eyes. Agony has had me in its grip for months, wishing and hoping I’d hear those words from her lips, and it’s like all that fear and pain has been purged.

Both love and forgiveness. Both I don’t deserve, but I’ll be damned if I ask her to take it back.

Edith’s hands slide up my shoulders to grab my face and tugs me down to her. Curling my back, I meet her lips with fervor, our mouths fusing together in need and desire to make all the hurt disappear.

She clings to me, almost as if she’s afraid if she lets go, I’ll vanish. It’s not going to happen. I need her more than the air I need to breathe. My hands move over her body, clinging to her with need, wanting to touch every part of her I haven’t had a chance to get to know since she had our little girl.

It’s painful when she rips her mouth from mine, but she’s breathing hard, yanking on my shoulders to bring me closer. “Jaxon. Please… I need you so bad.”

“Yes,” I hiss out, gripping her leg to hook over my hip. Her body rolls against me, grinding her pussy over my cock, and lust drives me to drag her to the wall. With a hand on her shoulder, I spin her to the wall so she can brace herself.

I drop down, grip her pants and tug them, panties and all, down her legs. She steps out of them, kicking her shoes off in the process, then arches her back to grind her ass against me as soon as I stand.

My hand slams against the wall next to her head, my lips sucking and licking over her neck and shoulder as I work the button and zipper of my jeans down. They only make it halfwaybefore I’m reaching around her body and sliding the head of my cock through her saturated folds.

Lining myself up, my cock is pressed at her entrance just as my senses come back to me. “I don’t have a condom.” I hate ruining the moment, but shedidjust have a baby because all of us were careless.

Her gasping breath is rough, poised, and ready for me to take her. “I started birth control after I had Blakely.”

I don’t wait for any more permission, bending my knees slightly to drive up into her, hard and fast, filling her to the hilt with my cock.

Edith’s head drops back against my shoulder and I wrap my arm around her stomach, reaching my fingers to her clit as I pull out, only to thrust into her once again.

Her hands grapple for the wall, so I let go when she finds purchase, standing up straighter to wrap a second arm over her chest, fingers digging into her shoulder.

I fuck her hard, groaning out how much I love her and how good she feels. With her back to my chest, I have her cradled into me, pounding into her heat and working her clit furiously.

“More,” she gasps out, her eyes rolling back when I tilt my hips. She digs her nails into the wall, and I growl out a cry when she yells, “Jaxon,please!”

Lifting her, her toes leave the floor and I press her against the wall, rubbing her clit as she shifts her hips back for me to fuck her deeper.

A continuous cry is pouring from her, and I bite her shoulder, moaning as I feel her pussy clamping in pulses around my cock. She’s coming all over me, legs shaking and stomach tensing up.

Screaming into the empty room, the echoes fill me with pride, and I drive in a few more times, filling her with jets of my cum as I empty inside myself.