Page 88 of After the Vows

Her lips purse but the vein in her forehead is no longer pulsing.

“Say it with me, I am beautiful.”

I press the palm of my hand against her clit. “Say it and I’ll make you come so hard you’ll see stars.”

“You’re not supposed to use sex to get your way.”

“Wildcat, you’re naked and handcuffed to my bed. I already got my way.”

Her eyes soften and I nip her bottom lip. “Say it with me. I am beautiful.”

“I am…”

I thrust into her a few times as a reward and her breath hitches.

“Come on, wildcat. You can do this. You can do anything you want to. You’re the strongest woman I know. The smartest woman I know. The kindest woman I know.”

“Iambeautiful,” she mutters.

I slam my lips down on hers and pump my fingers in her. I breathe in her ocean flavor as my tongue explores her mouth. When her walls flutter around my fingers, I lift my gaze to watch.

Her head falls back and her mouth falls open. “Lucas.”

“Come for me, beautiful. Come all over my fingers.”

“Yes. Yes. Yes.”

“Say my name when you come. I want my name on your lips when you climax.”

“Lucas!” she shouts as her walls tighten around my fingers. I continue to thrust into her until her orgasm wanes. Until she’s boneless on the bed. Only then do I remove my fingers and push my shorts down my legs.

I quickly don a condom.

“Now, it’s my turn,” I mutter as I hitch my cock at her entrance.

I thrust inside. Home. This woman is my home.

Chapter 29

Pancakes – the answer is always pancakes

Chloe

Iawake enveloped in Lucas’s arms and snuggle closer to him. I have no desire to be anywhere else in the world but in the arms of the man I love.

The man I love? I don’t love Lucas. I’m falling for him but I don’t love him. Not yet.

Except, I have no desire to run away. Even after he forced me to admit I was beautiful last night. Usually, I punch a man when he’s being pushy. But when Lucas opened the handcuffs, I threw myself at him.

Shit. It’s official. I love Lucas.

“What has you thinking so hard this morning?” he asks in a scratchy morning voice I want to hear every morning for the rest of my life.

I can hardly admit I just realized I love him. He might be ready for a relationship but we haven’t known each other long enough for love. Except I fell hard and fast.

He rolls over until he’s looming above me. “You aren’t considering running again, are you?”

“Nope.”

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