“Penny, are you sure—”

“Yes, I’m fine,” she says, stepping into the room behind me, closing the door, and leaning against it.

“If you are sure, then you should get some rest. I need to head out and run an errand. I’ll be back soon.”

Penny doesn’t budge from the door. Instead, she stands there, watching me from underneath her lashes. “Does this errand involve you paying a visit to my stepfather?”

I guess she does see right through me after all.

“If I happen to come across him, I can’t promise I’ll be able to hold back.”

She shakes her head, pushing away from the door and closing the distance between us. She places her palms on my chest and toys with the buttons of my shirt. “Do you know, when he and my mom showed up, and I turned around to see them standing behind us, I froze for a second.”

“You have me to protect you, Penny.”

“I know,” she whispers, looking up, and for a moment, I lose my train of thought when her eyes lock on mine. “I know I have you, and that’s why I was able to stand up to them. I’ve been scared and meek since Jonah married my mom, but today, I defied them because I have you.”

“Damn right, you do,” I grind out, getting worked up all over again, but she places a soothing hand on my jaw, caressing my beard softly, and I lose some of the steam but not all of it.

“You saved me, Ray, and what I am trying to say is . . . what we did by walking away from them was enough.”It wasn’t.“You don’t need to find him and hurt him to send a message. Leaving together is all he needed to know that I am no longer under his control. He’ll back away now.”

Oh, my sweet innocent angel. She doesn’t actually believe that does she?

Penny’s stepfather is obsessed with her. I saw the way he looked at her and then me with thinly veiled anger. Almost as if he wanted to break my face for daring to touch what he imaginesis his, but he knew he was no match for me. So, he hid behind a woman, playing the concerned stepfather. He has me to deal with now. I will not let him off easy, but for her sake, I let her believe I will.

“Okay,” I say just to give her peace of mind.

“Stay with me,” she whispers, fluttering her lashes at me as she drags her hands all over my chest, slowly bringing to attention my hardening cock. I realize she’s doing it intentionally, and after everything she’s been through today, I almost back away.

Don’t you trust me to know what I want? Don’t you trust me to say no when it becomes too much?

Fuck. I’m powerless to resist her.

“I’ll stay with you,” I rasp, gripping her nape and leaning down until our lips are almost touching. “You are stuck with me forever, baby.”

She closes the distance between us, her lips brushing softly over mine, but I don’t want soft. Not this time at least. Not when my head is reeling after everything that happened today. A moan builds in my chest as I mold our mouths together, twisting my lips needily over hers. I deepen then kiss, licking into her mouth and groaning deeply when I taste her unique flavor. She whines into the kiss, wrapping her arms around my shoulders and pushing her body up against mine.

“Want you. Need you,” she begs, writhing against me, so I drop my hands to grab her ass. I boost her up, and she eagerly wraps her thighs around me, pressing her pussy over my throbbing cock. I devour her sexy little mouth as I carry her back to the bedroom, breaking the kiss to trail my lips over her jaw and down her throat.

My dick is ready to shoot in my jeans when we finally make it to the bedroom. My lips are on her neck as I slowly lower her to the bed. I grab the hem of her dress and drag it up along with the shirt, breaking apart for a second so she can shrug them off. With my angel naked, I drag my hands up, immediately finding her tits and pinching the beaded nipples between my knuckles.

“You’re a fucking dream, angel,” I say, trailing my lips down her body before dragging my tongue over rosy buds, and fuck, I’ll never get used to what a fucking drug she is, leaving me intoxicated with her scent and taste. The one drug I will happily take, drown in . . . is her.

Always her. Only her.

“Mine,” I growl as I rake my hand down her thigh, kissing her perfect tits even as I push her thighs wider open for me. My mouth trails down her body, losing myself in the taste and feel of her. “I’m going to taste this pussy and remind you who you belong to. Imprint it on your body and make sure your stepfather sees and knows it when we see him next.”

“Yes,” she whimpers, tunneling her fingers through my hair before she grabs a fistful and nudges my head between her parted legs and to her sex. She’s so horny, trembling with need, she probably doesn’t realize what she’s doing. I lean down and inhale her scent, slowly getting drunk on it.

“Look at me,” I say roughly, and her glazed eyes lock on mine. “Keep them on me. I want you to see the person licking your pussy. The one whose tongue you’ll come all over.” With my eyes locked on hers, I give her what she wants, what we both crave.

Her gasp rings in my ears when I slide my tongue through the valley of her sex, groaning deeply when her smooth flavor explodes in my mouth. I drop my tongue over her clit and strokethe swelling nub greedily until she’s sobbing my name. Her back arches off the bed, and she begins to pump her hips toward my mouth, tugging hard at my hair when she does so.

“R-Ray . . . Oh, oh God!” she sobs, as I bathe her clit in fast strokes, and her pussy begins to quiver, letting me know she’s close to a climax. I ignore my throbbing cock as I chase her release, suctioning my mouth around her swollen bud and tugging hard until she’s screaming, her fingers pulling hard at my hair as her pussy pulses around my tongue.

My pulse thumps wildly when I draw back, drinking in her flushed expression. She watches me as I climb off her to strip, her thighs parting eagerly for me when I rejoin her on the bed. Our eyes are locked when I settle between her legs, rubbing the flushed crown of my cock over her sex.

“I love you,” I say as I drive my fat cock into her drenched hole, and she barely has time to respond before I am riding her hard. I wrap my hand around her thigh and raise it to my hip, pulling out and slamming into her, causing her to arch off the bed.