Page 69 of Deliver Me

“Okay,” she breathed, leaning up to kiss him, her lips lingering on his for a long moment. “Gabriel?”

“Now,” he agreed, already knowing what she was going to ask and realizing that there was nothing to stop him anymore from sinking into her.

“Finally,” she said, arching eagerly up to meet him as he pushed forward slowly. He’d done his best to prepare her, but he was bigger than anything she’d ever experienced before, and he was afraid of hurting her if he went too quickly.

He kissed her deeply as he rocked into her, each little thrust of his hips earning him a breathy moan from low in her throat and another inch of precious space inside her. She was ready enough that it surprised him how easily she took him in, how encouraging and pleased her little noises were.

He wanted to be soft, but she had no patience, her legs were twined around his waist and holding him close as she begged him for more and harder and deeper and he gave it to her because how could he not? He’d do anything for her with her face so gloriously flushed and her hair all sweaty and perfect little pink lips moaning his name.

There was nothing fake or polished about her, she was unashamed and greedy, and her perfect little tits bounced just right as he fucked into her, and he couldn’t believe that this was his life. That after everything he’d done and everything he’d seen, after he’d lived through Richard and Seth and that hellhole of a prison for thirteen years … that now he was here, and he waswith her, and he was buried balls-deep in the hottest and most welcoming pussy he’d ever seen.

He didn’t think he’d ever understand how it was possible that this perfect woman loved him, that she wanted him, that she’d given him her heart with the same eager fervor as she was now giving him her body.

He could feel her getting closer as he drove into her, each snap of his hips pushing her nearer. She was clenching around him, her hands scrambling for something to hold onto as she dug her nails into his back.

“You’re so fucking pretty,” he said, watching her face as the words broke over. “So good. It’s so good that you can take all of me like this. Did you know that?”

She tossed her head back and forth on the pillows, a silent denial.

“I love you and I love this pretty little pussy and how good it feels,” he insisted, and she clenched around him, her body getting hotter and wetter with each bit of praise. He worked himself inside her, discovering the angles that made her arch and moan. He found all of her sensitive places and the perfect speed, grinding into her so that each thrust pushed him in as deeply as she could take him.

“Come for me,” he urged. He wanted it, wanted to feel her as she lost control, but more than that he knew thatshewanted it. He could feel how close she was, how desperate.

She was tensing as she reached for it, trying to cross that final distance, and when he reached a hand between them to find the sensitive bud of her clit with his fingers, she came apart almost instantly.

The tight and rapid flutter of her body and the sound of her screaming his name as she came around him was enough to push him over the edge with her, his thrusts becoming erratic ashe buried his face in the side of her neck and then drove in deep to spill himself inside her.

He held her there, both of them trembling and content as he pressed a line of kisses across her cheek and down her neck, until he began to soften inside her.

“Sorry,” he said, kissing her softly as he pulled out of her. “I have to take care of this.”

The confusion cleared from her face when she watched him roll out of bed and take the condom off.

“I’ll be back,” he promised, heading out into the hallway to dispose of it in the trash can as she waited for him, her chin propped up in her hand. There was a happy smile on her face and she hadn’t moved at all when he came back.

He flopped back in bed beside her and gave her a little smack on the ass. “Go pee,” he instructed, stopping her in the act of trying to curl back up against him.

“What? Why?”

“You just have to,” he explained. “It keeps you from getting UTI’s or whatever. Didn’t anyone ever tell you that?”

She shook her head, shrugging as she got to her feet. “All we ever got was the abstinence talk, you know?”

“They really didn’t teach you shit about anything, did they?”

She shook her head ruefully. “But now I have you, so thank you for being so patient with me.”

“Mia.” He grabbed her hand as she walked by, not letting go until she stopped to look down at him. “There is nothing that I wouldn’t do for you. You’re the best thing that ever happened to me and I love you.”

“I love you, too,” she said, grinning down at him and kissing him quickly before disappearing into the bathroom.

He watched her go, admiring the curve of her naked ass as she went. She hadn’t been gone long when he heard the shower turn on and he leaned back against the pillows to wait for her.

He’d nearly dozed off, his body relaxed and his mind lost in a pleasant hum of love and post sex glow, when her phone on the nightstand began to buzz. He glanced at it—DAD—and thought about answering it. He couldn’t avoid the man forever, but the timing couldn’t possibly have been worse. Would her father be able to tell what he’d just been doing to her? Would he be able to detect the subtle signs of pure masculine satisfaction in his voice? Better not to risk it, he decided, setting the phone back down as he waited for Mia.

She would have to call him back, Gabriel knew. Call him back and reassure him that she was fine, that she hadn’t been hurt. She’d have to go back to school, maybe work if she still wanted to. She’d want to go back to church, and he didn’t know how to feel about that.

Everything in their little apartment was perfect but the real world was out there, and it wouldn’t wait for them forever, wouldn’t wait forMiaforever and she wouldn’t want it to. He’d been in prison where all he had was her, but she’d been out here living a full and happy life. She had friends, family, a faith that was important to her and he wasn’t sure suddenly how he would fit into that life, where there would be room for him beside all the other people that she loved.

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