Page 41 of Rectify

“We don’t need them. I mean, I’m on protection and I’m clean. I got tested after I left Diego, and I haven’t been with anyone since.”

“I’m clean as well. Are you sure?”

“I trust you.” And she meant it.

Moving over her, he entered her slowly, pushing his way inside her bit by bit. Her pussy stretched, the pleasure of his cock inside her making her breath quicken.

“You’re so tight,” he groaned.

“It’s been a while,” she said apologetically.

“Tell me if I hurt you.”

“I’m fine.”

“Natalya,” he growled warningly as he stopped to glare down at her. “Tell. Me. If. I. Hurt. You.”

“I will. Now, will you please fuck me?”

He gave a laugh. “With pleasure.”

As his movements grew faster, harder, Natalya wrapped her hands around his neck and her legs around his thighs, hanging on for dear life. Pleasure roared through her, stealing her breath, robbing her senses.

God. She couldn’t come again, could she?

“Baby, come with me.”

“I . . . I . . . please!” she cried as she came, her body pressing up against his, trying to sink herself further into him, to merge them together. Her pussy clenched around him as he came, shuddering against her, his low moan of ecstasy joining hers.

She almost protested his withdrawal, not wanting to lose his closeness. Climbing off the bed without a word, he walked into the attached bathroom, returning a few moments later with a warm washcloth.

“Widen your legs, baby,” he told her as he sat beside her.

“Aedan,” she groaned with embarrassment.

He raised an eyebrow, trying to look stern, but there was a slight grin on his lips. “Open up. Open up, open up, and let me in,” he said in a deep voice.

“You’d make an excellent big, bad wolf,” she teased.

She parted her legs and he tenderly cleaned her. By the time he threw away the cloth, her body was heating up again.

Aedan grazed her nipple with the tip of his finger. “My, you are insatiable tonight.”

“Oh, shut up,” she said without rancor. “You know you’re the sexiest man ever born. Wasn’t there an article that had that heading? Aedan Blake: The Sexiest Man To Walk The Earth.”

His cheeks grew red. “You read that?”

“I read everything I could find about you. Even stuff I knew was completely made up.” She had tortured herself over the years with every scrap of information she could find.

“You know a lot of that was exaggerated, right? Particularly the number of women I’ve been with.”

“Really?” she asked, hating that part of her desperately needed that reassurance. “I always tried to remind myself that I was happy for you and that all I wanted was for you to find someone. But, at the same time, I was terrified that one day I’d see your engagement announced.”

Aedan cupped her face as he lay on his side, facing her. “I’ve never wanted to marry anyone but you, Natalya.”

Tears filled her eyes, but she tried to blink them away. Was there a chance she could get back what she’d thrown away? She certainly never thought she’d get this close to him again. Maybe there was a chance to repair what had been between them. It would never be what it once was, but perhaps that was a good thing.

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