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This wasn’t foreplay or teasing.

This wasneed.

"I love you, HC." His words were a breathless pant against my lips. "So fucking much."

I opened my mouth and whispered, "Hunter, I –" before he quickly cut me off.

"Don’t say it back now," he warned, crowding my body with his, blue eyes burning into the deepest point of my soul. "Not tonight."

I knew exactly why he said that and it made my heart ache.

If I said it now, he would mistake my love for gratitude. It wouldn’t mean shit to him. Not after walking away from him today. Not after throwing his love back in his face and running out of his apartment like the frightened little girl I was.

He wouldn’t believe the truth in my heart.

Not tonight, at least.

So, I placed my hands on his narrow hips and tugged his body to mine. "Fill me up," I whispered instead. I needed to claim the man who loved me more than anyone else. The man who had potentially sacrificed his freedom to keep me safe. "I need you inside me tonight." Leaning forward, I pressed a kiss to the skin covering his heart and added, "Just you."

And then I was being hoisted into his strong arms.

Without thinking twice about it, I wrapped my legs around his waist and cried out in pleasure as he pushed inside me, filling me deeply.

He pressed into my body, filling me to the point of pain. He was so big, my body struggled to adjust.

But I did, and I reveled in the burn as he plunged inside me, moving deeper, demanding more from my body than I knew I was able to give.

But I gave it to him anyway.

Unable to speak the words on the tip of my tongue, I used my body to sate the need inside of him – toshowhim.

Thrusting my hips upward, I gave him everything I had left to give.

It was a frantic frenzy of sex, pain, and need. I was aching everywhere.

No part of my body had gone unscathed – untouched.

I needed it to be gone.

I needed Hunter to replace it.

And like every day since we first met, he gave me exactly what I wanted.

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Chapter Four

Jordan

March 18th2016

Lucky:Noah and your girl are safe.

Hope:Tommy? Is this you?

Lucky:Ugh, sweetheart, don’t insult me.

Hope:You… the blond with tattoos?

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