Page 38 of The Forbidden Secret

“You deserve everything.”

He pressed me back onto the bed and came down over me, grinding his hips into mine. “Evelina,” he whispered against my lips. “I can’t hurt you. I would kill someone for looking at you the wrong way, and letting myself become too attached to you could be dangerous.”

“You are not dangerous,” I declared. “Not to me. You and I are the same, Zeke. We have demons, but we can get through them.”

He rested his forehead against mine and closed his eyes, his entire body trembling.

“I fucking love you, Evelina.”

Before I could reply, he was moving. He had me in his arms and across the room in an instant. He pressed my back to the wall as his lips worked every inch of my face and neck. My jawand chest. He was everywhere, leaving me no room to think before our clothes were flying through the room and our bodies were pressed tightly together.

His warmth seeped into me, and the warmth that pooled in my core and oozed from between my legs was an uncontrollable force. He lowered me to the ground just long enough to drop to his knees andfeast.

Zeke didn’t take it slow. He put everything into unraveling me, and it worked so quickly that I screamed. His name. A series of pleading phrases. I unraveled and reformed myself beneath his touch. Stars exploded in my vision.

“Louder, Princess,” he said.

My cries increased as I wound my hand in his hair and pulled him closer. More, more,more.I needed him in every perceivable way.

When he retracted and stood, gathering me in his arms, the temporary loss of his touch had me whimpering, but as he pressed me back into the wall, he filled me wholly. The sensation of him—the utter fullness—had my eyes rolling as I clawed at his back to pull him closer.

“Zeke, God,” I cried out. “Oh my God.”

“Easy,” he whispered into my ear. His breath tickled the lobe, sending goosebumps up my spine.

“Faster,” I cried as I buried my head against his shoulder. My face pressed into his neck as he thrust into me over andoveragain. I bit down to silence my cries, and he grunted, grabbing both of my arms and pinning them in one hand over my head. He thrust into me with a passion that sent me reeling. It sent me into another dimension.

And then his other hand grabbed my jaw and forced my face toward his.

“Look at me when you scream my name.”

I exploded, and when I found myself again, the pleasure only built again. It was all-consuming as his presence surrounded me. His eyes pierced into my very soul and unraveled me even further.

My back left the wall as he turned and brought us back to the bed. The cool, plush blanket under my back met me, but he didn’t leave me for even a moment as he continued. His chest turned splotchy, and when he bent this time, he gathered my nipple between his lips, the lip ring scraping it gently.

All the orgasms I had felt before now werenothing.It had all been mere touches of pleasure compared to this flood of ecstasy that filled my chest. My belly. My entirebody.

“Oh my God, Zeke. Don’t stop. Oh…”

I shattered, and as he quickened his thrusts before stopping with a long breath, he released my nipple from his teeth with a sucking pop and smirked down at me.

I love you, too.

The words were right there, but I didn’t allow them to leave my lips. Not until I had the chance to tell him the whole truth.

Iwouldtell him the whole truth. About Beatrice and Maggie and the danger she would be in if I returned to her. I would tell him everything.

But not right now.

Tomorrow. I would tell him tomorrow.

Chapter Fifteen

Zeke Coleman

“If we hit one more fucking wall, I think I might go and blow up his entire fucking house and disregard any casualties,” Jaime groaned as she reclined back in the passenger seat of the car. “I thought this would be our in. Itshouldhave been our in.”

I stared out the front windshield as I watched the empty storefront where Clide Newton had entered, surrounded by guards. It was the first lead Jaimie had gotten in all the time we had been watching him. She finally had a location where he should have been vulnerable, but it hadn’t worked out that way.

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