Page 53 of Sinners Retreat

I hold up a fist, and he pulls me out of the water.

“Are you okay?” he asks.

I suck in a deep breath and swipe water from my eyes. “Is this like when you rub your belly and pat your head? You can’t drown me and fuck me at the same time?”

He thrusts into me, knocking me forward and dipping my chin below the water. He pushes my head down again, and this time, I get both parts of the action I need.

My hand goes between my legs, and I rub my clit while my lungs start to scream for air. But I won’t give up. I want this orgasm more than I want to breathe.

Unfortunately, my body doesn’t get the memo. My faithful right hand drives steady circles over my clit, but my deceitful left hand joins my legs in an underwater struggle. Fighting against impending death is part of the thrill, but Ezra doesn’t realize this and pulls me up.

“I didn’t. ..make a fist,” I say through coughs and gasps.

“You were actually drowning!” he says, though I have to give him a few bonus points because he keeps pile-driving his cock into me.

“That’s...part of it. Don’t let me up unless I give the?—”

I’m thrust under the water again without time to gasp for a final breath. The clock starts ticking, but I have less time now. I furiously work my clit as he fucks me senseless.

Without warning, he pulls me up again. “Do you like me inside you as you drown, pet?” he asks.

I whimper out a yes before I’m pushed under the water again. This is more like it. He’s losing his grip on his reservations and really going for it, and as the risk of death intensifies, so does the pleasure between my legs.

I grind against every thrust of his powerful hips, chasing my pleasure. I moan in my mind, unable to release the sounds trying so hard to free themselves from my throat. My lungs won’t part with an ounce of scarce air.

Darkness encroaches on the edges of my vision as my chest begins to burn. I’m losing consciousness, and if that happens, I can’t hold up a fist to stop him. It’s the one thing neither of us considered when setting up the safe gesture, and I’m fucking glad. It’s just the push I need.

My lips spread against my will, letting my mouth fill with water as I come. I hope and pray to the gods that he doesn’t pull me up. It’ll ruin my orgasm.

I swallow water, gulping liquid into my stomach instead of air into my lungs. It’s just enough to trick my body into relaxing, so I allow myself another millisecond before I raise a weak fist above the water.

I’m a coughing, satisfied mess as he snatches me back by my hair and finishes inside me while I’m still spasming around him.

He sits down, and I turn to face him. He pulls me onto his lap and we both stretch our legs.

“We have got to stop this,” I finally say into his neck.

“We don’t have to do any such thing.”

Now that I’m not just thinking with my vagina, I need to remind both of us why I’m here. “I have a mission, Ezra. I have to find my brother’s killer. I need to focus. And I can’t focus with you in the picture.”

He places a kiss on my head. After a few moments, he says, “I promise I’ll help you find his killer. Two sets of eyes are better than one.”

It’s a nice gesture, but he fails to see the problem with his plan. “Unless the Abattoir Adonis lives in my vagina, I don’t think we’ll find much of anything if we try to do this together.”

He begins to chuckle. “You’re looking at it the wrong way. The sex is just a nice bonus we can enjoy after a hard day of hunting for clues.”

A sigh escapes my chest. “That would be nice, but I don’t know how it’s possible.”

“Just give it a try,” he says.

I want to, but the risk of developing feelings for this man is the one risk I’m not willing to take. It’s bad enough that I’m beginning to care about Cat. Caring about two people will occupy too much of my time.

But with his naked body glued to mine, I come to the most horrifying revelation. How did I not realize? How did I miss it before this moment when it’s been in front of me all along?

I can’t stop myself from developing feelings for Ezra because it’s already happened.

I’m falling for him.

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