Page 116 of Penalty to the Heart

Before I have a chance to take my pajama bottoms off, Caleb wraps his hands around my ankles, pulling me towards him, causing my back to hit the mattress and forcing another loud shriek to escape from my lips.

In one fell swoop, he pulls my pajama bottoms off, leaving me only in my already-drenched panties.

“You’re fucking gorgeous, you know that?” he says softly, scanning every inch of my body.

Insecurity washes over me suddenly, and I cross my arms over my chest.

“What’s wrong?” he asks, confused.

“I… It’s been a while,” I admit.

“Explain ‘a while’,” he counters patiently.

“Seven years, give or take,” I confess, uncomfortable with how my cheeks heat up in embarrassment.

His perplexed look morphs into one of understanding. My heart does a double take with the tender smile cresting his lips—one of comfort, showing me that he’ll be gentle and won’t take more than I’m willing or even capable of giving tonight. He then puts his knees on the edge of the bed and crawls up until he’s hovering over me, his broad frame making me feel small and fragile by comparison.

“Do you trust me, Roxie?” he asks, searching my eyes for the answer to his question.

“I do.” I quickly reply. “I just don’t—”

“Shh, love. Let me worry about that,” he interjects before I’m able to voice all my insecurities.

He offers me another tender smile, one that reassures me I’m in good hands.

A few minutes ago, I wanted to take all his pain away, and now we find ourselves in the opposite position, him wanting to take mine.

The atmosphere in my bedroom suddenly changes. I can feel it when Caleb starts to slowly kiss me from my neck all the way down my chest, picking my leg up to his shoulder so he can kiss the inseam of my thigh. His kisses are slow and languid, a far cry from the desperation he showed downstairs in the bathroom.

He’s slowing himself down.

For me.

And somehow, that realization coaxes me to let myself just enjoy the feeling of someone else worshiping my body.

And when he gets to my apex, my breathing halts, watching him look up at me.

We don’t say anything as he pulls my panties off and throws them across the room.

Neither one of us dares say a word when he positions his head between my thighs.

It’s only when his tongue swipes over my wet slit and presses a sweet kiss on my clit, that I break the silence with a soft moan.

“That’s it, Roxie. Sing for me,” he says before sucking my clit into his mouth, his gaze never wavering from mine as his teeth graze over my sensitive nub.

“Hmm,” I moan again while grasping the cold sheet at my sides as I watch him lick my pussy. It’s only when his eyes close and his mouth latches on my clit that my back arches from the bed, the tingling feeling subsiding and giving way to a burning inferno of need that I forgot even resided in me.

His wicked tongue continues to lavish me with attention, one punishing stroke at a time. His growls become an anthem as I count them in tandem with my own loud cries. And when his digits breach my entrance, thrusting deep inside me, my vision blurs with so much color it threatens to blind me. Panicked with how my body feels like it’s about to take flight, my hand shoots out to grab his hair as his mouth and fingers fuck me into oblivion.

“Let go, Roxie,” he demands in between licks. “Come in my mouth.”

The dirty order sets me on edge, and before I can stop myself, I do just that. I shatter into a million different versions of myself. Versions that I thought I lost a long time ago. I’m still gasping for breath when Caleb towers over me, pressing his lips on mine, forcing me to taste myself on his lips.

“Fuck, that was beautiful, Roxie,” he praises as he continues to devour my mouth with his. “I want you so bad. So fucking bad,” he groans, pressing his hard cock against my belly.

I wrap my arms around his neck and give way to our ardent kiss, needing him to possess me as much as he wants to.

“Roxie… love…” he says in between kisses, sounding conflicted between wanting to say something and while also needing to keep kissing me.

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