Page 44 of This Blood that Bonds Us

“Okay. I will. But don’t stop. Please.”

“Kim, don’t beg.”

“I need you.”

“I won’t stop.” He said it with a certainty that had every inch of my body yearning for release, and I wanted it to be him who gave it. “I’ll give you everything . . . anything you want, it’s yours.”

My breath was the only sound. That and my hammering heartbeat.

“I don’t know if I can be gentle enough.”

His hands shook, and I kissed them, placing them on my bare breasts.

“That’s okay.”

Aaron guided his length to my opening, and I involuntarily tensed.

He pressed his forehead to mine. “I love you.”

A flush of heat ran through me as he pushed into me slowly.

Then I was stretched and full. A new, unexplored feeling. Not bad—just new. My hands twisted into the sheets, and the need for him burned me alive. An aching that wouldn’t relent.

As he moved inside me, I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t think. It was just Aaron everywhere, and it’s exactly what I needed.

He kept his eyes on me as his lips brushed my ear. “Are you okay?”

“I’m okay,” I said breathlessly.

I knew I’d needed him, but I didn’t know I needed himtheretill he was there. People enjoyed sex. That wasn’t a secret. But I didn’t know it was like this.

I didn’t know anything could feel like this.

“Don’t stop.”

He groaned into my neck. “You’re so beautiful.”

My hips moved on their own to bring him farther into me. Every bit of him alleviated the aching that pulsed in my veins. Aaron cursed while placing his hands on the bed frame, and the wood cracked and split under the pressure of his palms.

“This is good. You’re so good.”

My whole body thrummed with the feeling of him. From my scalp to my toes, he was there. Caressing my head. Squeezing my body. Pinning me to the bed. It was a lot. I’d never been so engulfed by another person.

“I love you.” The words poured from my lips between thrusts of his hips.

There was only one way to describe what I was feeling—love consuming me alive. Piece by piece. I’d never known love could feel this good. This safe. The world was on fire. I forgot about the cold. I forgot about everything but this.

Our bodies blended in one glorious symphony of pleasure.

“Stay here with me.” I meant it in every way a person could mean those words.

Never leave.

Let us always have this.

Love me like this forever.

When his hand touched my face, it was soft as a feather.