Her entire midsection was one solid bruise of blue and purple.

“What the fuck happened to you?” I rushed to her side.

She didn’t respond but a single tear slid down her cheek.

“This is why you came back, isn’t it? He did this to you.” Anger rose up inside of me.

She didn’t answer, but nodded her head to confirm my thoughts.

“I can’t go back there and I’m afraid he is going to come looking for me.” Her lip began quivering as more tears slid down her cheeks.

I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know what to say. I wanted to beat the shit out of him. I wanted to kill him for hurting her.

How the fuck could he do this to her. To HER?

I wanted to punch something or start breaking everything within reach, but I knew that would only scare her and she had been nothing but scared.

With my heart breaking, I dropped to my knees in front of her.

I wrapped my hands around her hips and began to trail kisses over her hip bones, up her sides, and across her stomach. I wanted to kiss her bruises away.

She tangled her fingers into my hair and directed me up to her lips.

I stood and kissed her gently, aware of where I put my hands. I couldn’t bear to cause her any more pain. I kissed my way down her jaw and to her neck. Her scent engulfed me as her soft skin teased me.

Lennox ran her hands up the front of my shirt, causing my muscles to tense beneath her touch. I kissed the spot on her neck that I knew would drive her crazy.

“God, Mason. I need you,” she moaned out.

Hearing her call out my name made my dick swell and it flipped a switch in me. It had been too long since I had heard my name fall from her lips like that.

With my lips moving with hers, I reached around and unclipped her bra, walking her backward toward the bed. She let it fall from her shoulders before yanking at my shirt.

I tore my shirt away from my body before gently laying her across the bed. I kept my weight off her, afraid of hurting her already broken body.

“Mason, I need you. Please.”

“I’m right here, baby,” I whispered against her soft skin.

I kissed my way down her chest and her bruised stomach until I came to her jeans, where I stopped and sat back on my knees. With my eyes locked on hers, I slid them down her legs along with her panties and looked over her beautiful body.

Lennox is here, in my bed. Naked and sprawled out in front of me.

Without thinking, I moved my mouth to her, tasting her.

I slid a finger into her causing her to moan and tighten around me. I sucked, licked, and thrust my finger into her until she moaned my name.

“Mason, I need you now.”

Tasting her, hearing her call out my name, and come for me was my undoing. Only she could cause those reactions in me.

I pulled my jeans and boxers over my almost painful erection and positioned myself at her entrance. I let my eyes fall over her sexy body before I pushed into her.

We both let out a relieved moan. “You feel so good, baby,” I whispered in her ear, unable to move an inch in fear I would come just from being inside her.

When I finally had a handle on my body, I slowly began to move inside her. Holding myself off her, I pulled out only to thrust back in while looking into her eyes, giving her nothing but the love I felt for her. The love I had always felt for her. I pounded into her hard and quick until she screamed my name and came for me, digging her nails into my back.

I didn’t want to finish yet. I had waited five long years for her. I did everything to distract myself to keep from finishing, but she looked into my eyes and whispered, “I love you, Mason.” She felt too good to last any longer. I buried myself in her and filled her in three jerks.