Total pages in book: 66
Estimated words: 66859 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 334(@200wpm)___ 267(@250wpm)___ 223(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 66859 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 334(@200wpm)___ 267(@250wpm)___ 223(@300wpm)
“Do you want to be with Beckett? Have you got feelings there?”
I glance at her. “Yeah, that’s the problem. If he changes his mind...”
“Then he changes it,” she shrugs. “It’s going to suck, but it’s going to suck a whole lot more if you don’t at least try. Give him a chance. Give it a chance. You might be surprised.”
“I hate hurting other people,” I mutter.
“Becky created a lot of this herself. You’re not entirely to blame here.”
She’s right.
“Why are you always right?” I grin at her.
She laughs. “Trust me. I’m not. I just know a good thing when I see it.”
“You think we’re a good thing?”
“I think you will be.”
We talk for another half an hour or so, and the eruption finally happens. I expected it a lot earlier, to be honest. Beckett starts yelling, Becky starts crying, and then a few minutes later, she comes charging out, tears rolling down her cheeks. She stops in front of me, and her voice is angry when she screams, “I should have let him take you. Bitch.”
I probably deserve that.
“He was in a relationship,” she continues to scream, shoving her finger at me. “You slept with him when he was in a relationship.”
“It wasn’t a relationship,” I say calmly. “You’re married, Becky. Married. You are the one doing the wrong thing here, not me.”
“Fuck you,” she spits. “You’ll pay for this!”
She turns and storms out, slamming the door behind her.
I exhale, my heart racing, my stomach still feeling sick. Eve puts a hand on my shoulder and squeezes. “It’ll be okay.”
Will it, though?
Honestly, will it?
Beckett comes out a few minutes later and stops in front of me. “Sorry about that.”
He looks stressed. I can’t say I blame him.
The man just went through quite a bit.
“You okay?” I ask.
He nods, taking my hand and pulling me to my feet. “Yep.”
“What now?” I ask.
“Now we go home and sleep.”
Just like that?
Well, okay then.
“RUN,” BECKETT GROWLS, staring at me with the most intense expression I’ve ever seen on his face before. “Now, Poppy.”
I shake my head in confusion.
The sun is just beginning to set at the warehouse, the night is nearly on us, and we’ve been in here all day finishing up some money so that we can pack this place up and be done with it. I’m free to go if that’s what I please. Beckett has told me I can go live there, but I will stay with Ramona instead, just for a while.
Until we’re sure.
We were just walking out the front door to head home when Beckett growls those words at me.
I have no idea what he’s talking about.
“What are you on about? Did you hit your head?”
He grins, devilish and dangerous. “Run, Poppy. You run, I’ll catch you, and when I catch you, I’ll fuck you so hard all your fantasies will become a reality.”
Oh.
I get it.
“Not so hard that you hurt the baby,” I point out.
“Poppy...”
“Yes?”
“Fuckin’ run.”
Right.
I turn, and I run.
I’m mid-way through that run when my adrenaline kicks in. Excitement fills my belly as my fantasy does indeed become a reality. I run faster, panting with pure lust as I dodge through the trees, heart racing, feet pounding against the dirt. Beckett is gaining on me. I can hear his boots kicking up rocks as he moves.
Oh god.
This is everything.
He gets hold of my arm just as I’m about to swing to the left, and he pulls me around towards him. Hell no, this isn’t going to end this fast. I stomp on his foot, and he lets me go with a bellow. I give him a wicked grin. “You didn’t think I was going to make this easy?”
He bares his teeth at me. “When I get you, you’re goin’ to wish you ran faster.”
I sprint off, grinning as I weave in and out of trees, dodging every attempt he makes at grabbing me. Only when I’m puffed does he finally get hold of me for the final time. I fight him, lightly, of course, clawing at his chest as he slams my back against a tree, his mouth going down to bite at my neck.
I fight and squirm, and he jerks my hands down by my side as his mouth devours mine, a kiss that takes the breath right out of my lungs. I kiss him back, furiously tugging on my arms. He releases them, and my fingers tangle into his hair, jerking the thick locks as our kiss becomes frantic. His hands go to the hem of my skirt, and he jerks it up, ripping my panties aside and freeing his cock.
Then he hauls me up and plunges inside of me.
I gasp.
He growls.
And I jerk his head back, my mouth finding his exposed neck where I bite into his flesh as he starts fucking me, and oh, does he fuck me. He fucks me so hard our slapping skin echoes through the quiet bushland. I scream, knowing there isn’t a single person around to hear me. He growls and murmurs my name as I unleash orgasm after orgasm upon him.