Page 128 of Scars Run Deep

For comfort.

For love.

“Ash?”

He squeezed his eyes shut.

When he opened them again, all I could see was pain. “Don’t leave. Don’t leave me.”

Jesus. My fucking chest squeezed like a motherfucker.

He was in so much pain.

Suffering.

All alone.

No. Not alone. He’d let me in tonight. I was with him.

I fisted my hands in the pillow either side of his head and buried my face in his shoulder.

“I’m here,” I whispered. It became a vehement growl as I told him, “And I’ll be here with you until my dying day.”

He clutched my biceps, his fingers digging in at his urgency, at just how much he’d needed to hear that.

I rocked into him at an easy pace.

And he moved with me.

Unhurried.

Slow and sensual.

Just enjoying the feel of one another.

Of him giving me this.

Of him giving me him.

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~Asher~

I was jolted awake.

It took me time to realize by what, when I looked to see Jonah wrapped around me, his hard, muscular body and all that glorious ink cocooning me holding on so tightly like he couldn’t stand it any other way.

After I’d given myself over to him the way he’d been needing for so long—the way I’d needed it last night when everything had finally gotten to me—he’d begged me to take him too, needing to feel my cock splitting him open. I hadn’t wanted to go there, to give him any pain. I’d wanted it to be solely about pleasure. For once. That didn’t come easy to me, but I’d managed it—for him. Until he’d literally gotten onto all fours and begged me to give him the ass fucking of his life. I mean, fuck, even I had my limits.

It hadn’t stopped there either. He’d been so beside himself with what I’d offered up to him that he’d been all over me, licking, kissing, nibbling for at least an hour afterward.

It had taken a lot before I’d managed to get him down to sleep.

Knowing him as well as I did, it had been clear that he was worried it was just a fluke, that I’d go back to the withdrawn, cold, and commanding bastard he was used to.

The bastard he somehow still loved.

Through all of that?

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