Page 107 of The Echo of Forever

He chuckled, and it vibrated through me nicely.

“Stop fucking around, my baby. Everything can stop if you want my dick in your mouth.”

He was such an intentionally nasty nigga. The seeds he’d planted hadn’t gone unnoticed.

I could tell he wanted me to understand the lengths he’d go to please me, even if that meant stopping plans to do so.

No matter how small, my forever.

No matter how big, my pretty dragonfly.

His voice echoed in my mind, and immediately, I began to laugh.

“Have I told you I obsess over the things you say to me?Howyou say them to me. Your voice, it…”

“Echoes in your mind,” he softly finished for me. “I know, baby. That’s why I’m echo to you. And you’re forever in my heart.”

My forever.

I wanted to tell him I loved him, and needed to badly. The first time had to be in person, where I could see his face and the weight on his shoulders being lifted.

I craved that for him.

“Baby, I have to check in with my mom, but I changed my mind about us staying apart tonight. Save a spot for me in bed, okay?”

He hummed, and I hung up before his next set of words made me fold. I dropped my location in our thread with the exact floor and apartment number, since leaving electronic devices behind was required to enter.

I tucked my necklace and unlocked her door.

“Ma!” I yelled, disabling the alarm but leaving the door slightly ajar. “Why didn’t you tell Kai about taking weeks off from work?”

She was standing in the kitchen with her back to me, and when she turned, I couldn’t believe what the fuck I was seeing.

“Who the fuck did that to your face!”

I walked toward her, and she actually flinched.

Flinched!

Her left eye was swollen shut, dark purple bruises all over her neck and arms. Never in my thirty-one years of life had I seen my mother this beat up.

Not once.

“You’ve never come here before,” she said, mouth muffled by something.

I didn’t mean to be rough, but I gripped her chin tightly to really take in the damage.

“Was it Eliel? Do you want me to—” She pricked my neck with something, and I stumbled back, instantly realizing my mistake. “What the fu…”

The effects were almost immediate.

My body gave out into her arms. Whatever she’d given left me feeling limp, my head spinning, and her words muffled.

Fuck me for not dropping everything to suck my man’s dick.

“I’m sorry, baby girl.”

My mom’s voice cut through the fog, and I shifted, slowly opening my eyes to find her standing over me.