Page 43 of Trouble

It wasn’t her beauty, or even the ridiculously addictive sex. It was this… thisthinginside of her that lit up like a fucking sun and called out to me with more power than a siren’s song. It was gentle and beautiful andwarm, and it was everything I’d needed since the day my mother died. That place inside of me where the feeling of safety andhomehad been ripped away. I thought it’d been destroyed for good, but it wasn’t. It’d been here, with her, allalong.

She was supposed to be mine. NotLiam’s.

Mine.

The city seemed to fade away into nothingness as I stared down at the short woman who held the key to everything I’d never known I needed. Some part of me must have known all along, I realized with faint amusement. Why else would I have taken her up here, to a place I only ever came alone? It hadn’t been pure physical attraction that had me aching for her the moment our lips touched that first time I went by herflat.

She was theone.

“Liam…” Her voice was hoarse and raw, and from the look of shock and desperate yearning on her delicate features, I knew she could see the emotion playing across my face as clear asday.

“I love you, Audrey,” I said. It was ridiculous, of course. I’d only known her for a few days. It didn’t matter, though, because it was true. I loved her, and there was nothing I could do to changethat.

She made a small noise in response, like a wounded bird’s broken cry, and then her face cracked with a sob that seemed to come from all the way down the depths of hersoul.

“I love you too,” shegasped.

I don’t know who moved first, but the next second, she was in my arms. She felt so perfectly solid, so completely real. I bent my head to kiss her lips, and she parted hers in eager response. She tasted saltier than she had before, and I realized she was crying as she clung to me. I pulled her closer to me, moaning with the desperate need rising inside me like a phoenix from the ashes of everything I’d thought I was. This was it.Shewasit.

Audrey’s hands on my drawstring waistband and her urgent mewls turned the swell of emotions inside of me carnal with the suddenness of a shifting forest fire. I groaned into her mouth and reached for her sex. The harness made it more awkward to get her pants pulled far enough down her thighs to allow access, and I had to spin her around to lean against the balustrade tomanage.

She whimpered and arched her back once I finally got her harness off and dropped her leggings to knee-height, pushing that deliciously full arse back against me to display her needy littlecunt.

I growled at the sight of it, ofher.She was such a fucking goddess, and I needed to be inside her more than I needed air to breathe. With a few desperate snags of the nylon harness around my own hips, I managed to get it shifted enough to pull out my already hard and aching cock. I slipped a hand between her legs, rubbing her sex until she slicked up enough to allow entry, and then I spread her lips andthrust.

“Yes!”The note of pain in her broken cry hinted that her pussy could have used a bit more foreplay, but the way she pressed herself back against me, swallowing me to the root despite my roughness, told me she’d needed this as fervently as Idid.

Fuck,she felt so goddamn good around me. She was hot and tight, her muscles fluttering against my hard length in tight little spasms as her pussy adjusted to me. I could spill my very soul inside ofher.

I fucked her with all the desperation and all the bone-deep intensity roaring inside me, fucked her with my hands on her hips, pulling her back against me so she was forced to take me to the hilt again and again, and all the while she begged me for more, more,more!

We were meant to be together, meant to be one, and as I took the woman I loved with everything I had and everything I was as London’s lights gleamed around us, I felt more alive than I ever had before. No adrenaline kick would ever compare to the tight, wet heat between Audrey’s thighs, no music to her gasped moans of pleasure, and no alcohol to the roar of blood rushing in my ears as I pumped her full of cock. She went wild beneath me, scratched her fingers bloody on the stony banister, and screamed her agonized pleasure out across London’srooftops.

When my climax came, it came withhers.

Her pussy’s hard, milking spasms and her sweet cries of ecstasy made me lose the last remnants of control. I roared as my balls released and Icamelike I’d never come before. I clutched at her hips while white-hot pleasure crackled through every nerve in my body, blinding me to everything but the city’s lights below and aroundus.

I rocked blindly against her, filling her with the last spurts of my seed and relished in her soft moans as she, too, came down from her high. Finally, my vision returned and I stilled, pressed up tightly against her backside. I slipped my arms around her waist and hugged her close to my chest, wanting that moment to last forever. This perfect point in time where everything was as it was supposed to be. Her and me, and this endless well of bliss of our bodies releasing to eachother.

“I love you,” she whispered into the empty air in front ofher.

I nuzzled my face against the back of her neck and kissed her cheek when she turned her head. “I love youtoo.”

“It feels so odd to hear you say that,” she confessed. “I neverthought…”

“That I’d wake the fuck up and realize?” I sighed, burying my nose in her hair. “I’m sorry I’m such an idiot. If I’d been any kind of smart, I would have realized the moment I first sawyou.”

“I don’t think I’d have been particularly receptive,” she said with a small giggle. “I was so stressed out, I wouldn’t have noticed if the Prime Minister came dancing through that park wearing a tutu and clownshoes.”

A jab of something sharp and unpleasant dug into my blissful haze, and I frowned against the side of her cheek. I vaguely recalled Liam mentioning he’d met her in a park when he first saw her. That’s what she was referencing—the first time she met Liam. Notme.

I pushed down the sting of absurd jealousy and buried my nose in her hair to breathe in her scent. She smelled like fresh air and sex andme,and right now that was all that mattered. I knew at some point I’d have to come back down to Earth and figure out a way to get us through this clusterfuck I’d unwittingly created. I couldn’t pretend like I was Liam forever, nor could I risk her safety like Liam had by being careless and getting caught coming out of her building too manytimes.

And then there was the whole issue with mytwin.

An ugly twinge of guilt made me breathe deeper to let Audrey’s calming scent drown out the reality that waited for me once I allowed myself to start thinkingagain.

He cared for her, that much was obvious. Might even be in love with her. I didn’t dare think about what kind of consequences my betrayal would have for our relationship. Because it was a betrayal now, I knew that without a shadow of a doubt, and if I thought too much about it, sick fear threatened to spill in over my wall ofcontentment.

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