Page 37 of Shielded Secrets

I laughed once again, shocked. “Are you proposing?”

“We’re daydreaming. Answer me.” He slid his hand between me and the couch and squeezed my ass.

“Yes. I wanna have a wedding someday. And I want a house. Not an apartment. Not something I pay rent for and could be evicted from. I want to own a house.”

“In the city?”

I frowned. The city was all I knew, that and the college area. “Okay, I want to own a vacation house and something in the city. An apartment.”

“Go on,” he urged, tugging my shirt up and cupping my breast beneath the bunched-up material. He kissed my lips, then moved back down to my neck. Already, he’d taught me that the area beneath my ear was so, so sensitive to the touch of his soft lips.

“Um, why?” I arched up to force my shirt higher, giving him a hint that I’d rather talk later and do this now.

He smiled, taking over to remove my shirt and unclasp the front of my bra. “Go on,” he coaxed before sucking on my breast. “What else?”

I whined, holding his head to my chest as the welcome burn of desire chased away all thoughts. “Now? I can’t think when you do that.”

He nipped a little harder and I gasped. “I want to hear your dreams, Kelly. How about kids?”

“What about them?” I asked, threading my fingers through his hair as he teased my nipple.

“Want any?”

I nodded. “Lots of them. I’ve always wanted a big family because I’ve never hadanyfamily.”

“What else?”

He moved on from question to question as though he was sayingnext, as if everything I daydreamed about now was a done deal. He’d deliver on it all. And damn, was that a beautiful wish.

“Pets. I want a bunch of pets. Dogs, cats. A whole busy, chaotic household.”

I felt the curve of his lips smiling as he moved to my other breast and gave it attention too.

“What else?”

“You,” I begged. “I want you, Rurik. Right now.”

And maybe forever.

It was scary to lower my guard and let him near my heart, but as he lifted up and pierced me with that lusty, smoldering gaze, he tempted me to lower my pants, to lower my inhibitions and just experience this moment in the present with him.

“Then have me. Take me.” He worked with me to get our clothes off, and in a hurry, he was sliding into me and stretching me with that big dick. “Take it all,” he ordered.

I let my head drop back, already so lost to the amazing sense of completion that I could feel with him ramming his hard length into me.

“Yes,” I replied breathlessly. I’d tell himyesto it all if he kept this up and continued to weaken my resolve.

Yes. I want it all with you, Rurik.

But I couldn’t get over the danger of how it could go wrong, because so far, everything good in my life was nothing but a mirage, vanishing like a trick of the eye.

16

RURIK

Kelly moved in with me over spring break, and it was as perfect as I could have imagined it could be. She didn’t “technically” move in with me. But she was there for the whole week. She didn’t ask to go back to her place once, and when Eva and Irina asked her to go shopping with them, I talked Kelly into playing along and letting me pamper her.

“You’re going to go with them and enjoy yourselves,” I told her, smiling.

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