Page 102 of Forbidden Dark Vows

“You’re bluffing.”

“Am I? I’m starting to wonder if you know my dad at all. You see, he has connections with some very dangerous people. They know where I am, and why I’m here, and I only have to say the word.”

Celia wipes her mouth with the back of her hand. She pushes herself off the counter, refills her glass, and stares out the window. She’s stalling, buying herself some time while she weighs her options.

Finally, she says without turning around, “Does Ruby know that you’re here?”

“No. I don’t want to keep secrets from her, but I figured it was kinder this way.”

“Kinder for who? Ruby? Or you?”

“For everyone concerned.”

“Such a fucking goody-two-shoes, huh? You’ve still got your father’s blood running through your veins. You’ll let her down eventually. It’s only a matter of time.”

“I will never let Ruby down. It’s just a shame you won’t be around to watch me prove you wrong.”

She faces me now, sloshing wine over her wrist and down her legs. “You can’t keep me away from my daughter forever. She’ll come running back to me when she gets bored. That’s the thing with Ruby, she?—”

I cut her off. I’m not listening to any more lies. “Here’s the deal. I promise that I will never mention this to Ruby, any of it, on one condition.”

“Ruby is my daughter! You don’t get to call the shots here.” Her chest heaves with the effort of controlling her temper.

“I won’t tell Ruby or the police, but my condition is this: you give us your blessing for the wedding, and then you disappear from our lives.”

Her face crumples, her eyes large with tears. “Ruby will never forgive you for this…”

“Ruby will never know,” I remind her. “You were going to leave with my father anyway. You were prepared to leave your husband in the care of your daughter so that you could live the life you wanted; I’m offering you the easy way out.”

“You bastard.”

“I take it that’s a yes.”

She turns back to face the window, but the set of her spine is proof that she knows she has lost.

“Don’t try to contact Ruby. If I find out that she has even had a missed call from you, I’ll find the evidence and I’ll take it straight to the cops, and I promise you that Ruby will know exactly what you are.”

I walk away from the Jackson house, filling my lungs with clean air and telling myself that I’ve done the right thing.

“Harry!”Ruby leaps off the sofa and runs into my arms, wrapping her legs around my waist, and kissing me hard on the lips. “You’re back.”

“I promised … I would be,” I manage between kisses. “I should go away more often if this is the welcome I get.”

She untangles herself, takes my hand, and leads me into the bedroom.

Then she undresses me slowly, her tongue poking out of the corner of her mouth as she unbuttons my shirt and tugs it out of my suit pants. Eying me mischievously, she sits on the edge of the bed, unzips my pants, and smiles when my erection springs free.

“I’m pleased to see you too.” She licks it from the base upwards, slowly, dragging her tongue around the tip and teasing me with gentle nibbles.

Dragging my pants onto the floor, she doesn’t wait for me to step out of them. She turns me around, my throbbing cock still in her mouth, and pushes me back onto the bed. Then she lifts her skirt, turns around, and straddles me backwards, her pussy in my face, and I realize that she wasn’t wearing panties when I came in.

My cock twitches inside her mouth at the sight of her wet sex, spread wide for me, waiting to welcome me home. Gripping theinside of her thighs, I lower her onto my tongue, tasting her sweetness.

My good intentions to take this slowly vanish in an instant. I want her to come. I want to feel her gushing on my tongue. Sliding a finger inside her, I probe and push, finding the spot and licking until my tongue feels numb and she collapses onto my legs, panting, her swollen pussy still in my face because I won’t let her go.

“Nu-huh, you’re staying right where you are.”

I pull back just enough for her to groan out loud, and then resume licking. This time, Ruby explodes in my mouth, and still I don’t let go. The trip to Chicago has lifted a weight off my shoulders that I’ve been carrying around since I found the medical examiner’s report on my mom, and I want to make Ruby feel like she has never felt before.

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