Page 86 of Rectify

Aedan lifted her hand to his mouth, kissing it.

“I want Caden to stay as your permanent bodyguard.”

She sighed. “Do you think now is the time to make such a decision?”

“Yes, I do.” He would not bend on this. It was nonnegotiable.

She nodded reluctantly. “All right. So long as you’re protected as well. Use Declan more.”

He’d known she would insist he be protected as well. Knowing she cared about his safety filled him with warmth.

“Just don’t expect me to go along with everything Caden says. I am not wearing a tracking device.”

“Fine,” he agreed, making a mental note to cancel the necklace he’d ordered to hold the tracking device Caden had suggested.

Natalya brushed some bubbles away from her chest. Heat filled her eyes as she stared up at him. “This is really a bath made for two. Why don’t you join me?”

“You’ve just been through a traumatic experience; you should be resting.”

“If there is one thing the last few months have taught me, it’s making sure I take the time to enjoy life and the people I love. She was just some crazy skank. I refuse to let her scare or intimidate me. Besides, the best revenge is that I have you and she doesn’t.” A wicked smile lit up her face. “I could video us together and send it to her.”

Aedan shook his head as he stood. “No way. That’s all I’d need. A sex tape going viral.”

“True. I don’t want anyone to see your delicious body but me. You know, there is something I need you to do for me.”

“What do you need?” Was she in pain? Did she need him to hold her? Or maybe give her some space? It would be difficult, but he’d do it.

“You. I need you. I need your hands on me. I want to feel you inside me. I’m not fragile, Aedan.”

“I know. But you are everything to me. I just want to take care of you.”

“I feel the same about you, now strip.”

A deep hunger tightened his stomach. Standing, he grabbed the bottom of his T-shirt and slowly drew it up and over his head.

Mouth dry,Natalya sighed with deep satisfaction.

Would she ever grow used to seeing him naked? Would she always feel this need for him? She sure as hell hoped so.

Reaching for the top of his jeans, he undid them slowly, then pulled them off, along with his boxers. Naked, he grasped the base of his impressive erection and, with unhurried movements, ran his hand up and down the shaft. Utterly engrossed, she watched.

Licking her lips, Natalya ran her hands over her breasts before cupping them. Two could play this game. His gaze centered on her nipples as she lightly pinched them.

“Enough,” he growled, climbing into the bath. He raised each of her legs, so they rested on the side of the tub. “Hands beneath your ass and keep them there.”

Her breath quickened as sparks of electric heat sizzled across her nerve endings. She grinned up at him.

“What’s in it for me?” she challenged. Sure, she enjoyed it when he took charge. But he didn’t always need to get his way, did he?

Those bright blue eyes grew darker as he watched her predatorily. Running his fingertips down one thigh, he smiled.

“For you? You’ll get to come,” he told her. “You’ll come around my fingers as I thrust them in and out of your tight sheath. You’ll come on my tongue as I drink your sweet juices. Then you’ll come as I take your hot ass.”

Her breath hitched, her heart skipping a beat.

She rapidly slipped her hands under her ass.

Satisfaction curled the corners of his lips. The promise in his eyes had her burning from the inside out. Kneeling between her legs, he rested his hands on the side of the bath and leaned down to take one nipple into the warmth of his mouth. She pressed her palms against the bottom of the tub to hold herself steady as he feasted on first one nipple, then the other.

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