Page 119 of Penalty to the Heart

“Do you feel that?” he asks, his crown hitting me in ways I’ve never thought possible. “Do you feel how perfect you are? How much I want you?”

“Yes,” I pant, my back arching with each pounding force.

“You shouldn’t have let me have a taste, Roxie. Now that I know how good your pussy feels around my cock, I won’t be able to stay away.”

“Caleb,” I cry when his cock hits the one spot inside me that makes my body quiver and convulse.

“That’s it, love. Strangle my cock. Milk it dry. Jesus, fuck. That’s it!” he roars, pounding into me with reckless abandon now.

Before I know it, my hands slide up to his chest, my nails digging into his flesh, trying to hold on for dear life.

But it’s too late. I’m already coming undone. Life, as I know it, ceases to exist, and all I can feel is blinding euphoria. I let out a loud cry, uncaring who might hear me, needing to put a sound to this elated affair.

Bone-deep love.

That’s what Trent had called it.

When you feel it in your bones.

When it simultaneously touches the deepest, darkest parts of your soul and showers it with glorious light.

Bone-deep love permanently alters who you were before.

It changes your genetic code.

Your very DNA.

I never understood what that meant before—until now.

And how I wish I didn’t.

Chapter 22

Caleb

I can’t help the smile cresting my face as I lie on my side, just watching my girl sleep.

When I came to Roxie’s doorstep a few hours ago, this was not how I expected we would end up.

Together.

In bed.

Naked.

And thoroughly fucked.

In fact, this night started out as being one of the most terrifying nights of my life.

How was I supposed to know that it would transform into this?

Little did I know that it would become a night I would cherish for all the best reasons.

I wasn’t lying when I told her I had nowhere else to go.

After helplessly watching Jack have a seizure, I was so consumed with debilitating fear that I knew the only person who could talk me off the ledge was her—my Roxie.

But when she opened the door, not even the sight of her beautiful face could ease my crippling anguish.

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