Total pages in book: 93
Estimated words: 88841 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 444(@200wpm)___ 355(@250wpm)___ 296(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 88841 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 444(@200wpm)___ 355(@250wpm)___ 296(@300wpm)
Ryder glides his hand around to my butt, but I shake my head.
“I need a shower. I feel dirty.”
His hands still. “Fuck, Kira. I’m sorry.”
Wait, what?
“Why are you sorry?”
“I’m over here, trying to touch you, and I didn’t even consider … fuck! Do you need to go to the hospital? You said you were okay, but I didn’t think about …”
“What are you talking about?” I ask in confusion.
“Did he … rape you?” he chokes out.
Oh!
“No!” I shake my head. “No. He didn’t touch me. Well, he touched my leg, but it was after I drugged him, so he was too out of it to do anything more.”
“Oh, thank God,” Ryder breathes. “I mean, if he had, I wouldn’t have judged you. It wouldn’t have been your fault.”
“I know,” I tell him, framing his face. “Thankfully, he didn’t. But being there with him, I still feel kind of dirty. I’d like a shower and for you to make me forget about today. Preferably at the same time.”
I smirk, and Ryder grins.
“Your wish is my command.”
He lifts me into his arms and walks us to the shower. After setting me on the counter, he turns the water on, and while it heats up, he removes his clothes and then mine.
Once we’re in the shower, he goes about soaping me up and scrubbing every inch of me. He runs the loofah along my shoulders and down my arms and then gives my breasts his full attention. When they perk up at his touch, he leans in and draws one nipple into his mouth. He nibbles on it playfully and then runs his tongue along it, teasing me.
When he backs away to continue cleaning me, I pout, but he only smiles as he drags the loofah down one leg and up another. I part my legs to give him easy access, and he grants me the sexiest boyish grin.
He makes a show of cleaning my most intimate area, making it a point to rub his knuckles across my clit. Electricity courses through me, and my body craves his touch.
“More,” I breathe, pushing my pelvis into his hand.
Ryder’s eyes lock with mine as his fingers dance across my pussy and then stop at my hole between my legs. He parts my lips and then thrusts his fingers into me.
“Yes,” I hiss. “Harder, please.”
With his hazel eyes never leaving mine, Ryder works me over expertly until I’m screaming out his name and coming all over his hand.
“Good?” he murmurs, slowly pulling his fingers out and lifting them to his mouth. He makes a show of licking my juices off them and then moans like the taste of me is all he needs to survive.
“So good,” I tell him, reaching down to stroke his cock so he can fuck me.
“Not yet,” he says, gently removing my hand.
When I pout, he chuckles softly before his expression turns serious.
“I was terrified I was going to lose you today. I’m going to take my time worshipping you, memorizing every inch of your body. Making you come over and over so that I can ingrain the sounds you make into my brain.”
“You don’t have to memorize anything,” I tell him, pressing my hand to his chest, right above his heart. “You have me. Every day for the rest of our lives.”
He swallows audibly and nods. “I was so fucking scared, baby.”
“I was too,” I admit. “But we’re home safe, and we’re okay.”
“I love when you say that.” He palms the side of my face. “Home. This is your home. Tell me you’re not going anywhere. And as soon as those goddamn divorce papers are filed, you’re going to marry me and let me adopt Violet and make this our home.”
I’m nodding along as he speaks until he says something that has me stepping back. “You want to legally adopt Violet?”
“Are you serious?” He gives me an incredulous look. “Of course I do. I’ve been holding off until I knew you were okay with it. Trying to take shit slow. But I love her, Kira, the same way I love Addie, and I would like nothing more than to be her dad.”
Tears prick my eyes, and I’m thankful the water hides them, but still, Ryder notices—because he notices everything.
He leans in and kisses the tops of my cheeks. “I love you and that little girl more than every goddamn star in the sky. And you’re both mine.”
I encircle my arms around his neck and pull his face down to mine. “I love you. More than the moon and every star.”
Our mouths crash against each other, and our tongues unite. The kiss isn’t gentle. It’s rough, filled with desperation to show each other how deeply we feel.
Ryder lifts me against the cold tiled wall, and my legs wrap around his waist. And then, without wasting another second, he fills me with his long, thick cock.