Page 59 of Bones

I gasp as he carries me out of the room. “Oh my god, do they know everything?”

“No, baby,” he says as he climbs the stairs, “Not entirely. They know the state we found you in, so it’s probably not hard to guess, but I certainly have not told them everything. I have a feeling I don’t even know everything. I hope one day you’ll trust me enough to tell me.”

I place my arms around his neck and press my face into his chest. “I don’t know if you need those mental images.”

Stopping momentarily, he stares at me. “And I don’t think you need to keep it locked within yourself. You can let me in, so I can help carry the burden.”

“I’ll try. After your family leaves.”

He kisses me on the forehead. “Thank you.”

With a smirk, he says, “We’ll shower and then bandage up your beautiful breasts, because it would appear someone cut them.”

Giggling, I say, “He was an animal.”

Setting me down, he chuckles. “And he will be again.”

Luca reaches into the shower and turns the water on. Once he’s satisfied it’s the right temperature, he tells me, “Ladies first.”

I step under the hot water and he gets in behind me, dragging his fingers down my back to my ass, as he towers over me and speaks in a husky voice, directly in my ear.

“Has anybody been inside this beautiful ass?”

I shake my head, splashing water from my hair. “No.”

Glancing over my shoulder, I watch as he kneels behind me and spreads my cheeks. “What are you-”

My sentence ends with a moan, as he flicks his tongue over my back hole.

“Luca.”

“And you’re going to let your husband take it, aren’t you, Butterfly?”

“Yes,” I cry out as he pushes his tongue inside me.

Reaching around, he rubs my clit while moving his tongue in circles inside my ass. This shouldn’t feel so good, but it does. Placing my hands on the wall for support, I’m consumed by my orgasm. By him. It’s at this moment that I realize what he said to me before was right. My life has changed in every way. And it’s all because of my husband. If he wants children, I’ll give them to him willingly, because there is nothing I wouldn’t do for him.

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

BONES

I rise to my full height, and wrap my arm around her waist, while kissing her neck and enjoying every moan.

“If I had time, I’d fuck you again. Fucking families.”

Athena leans her head back over my shoulder with a sweet giggle. “It’s sweet though that they care enough to check on me.”

Shaking my head, I tell her the truth, “It’s sweet now, until they smother you with love and affection. It will get old.”

She turns in my arms and gazes at me with a longing expression. “No, Luca, it won’t. I haven’t had anyone that cared about whether I lived or died since I was a little girl. Maybe not even then, but at least when I was little, they pretended. It will never get old because no matter how much time passes, I will learn to live with what happened, but I’ll never forget. Maybe one day, the memory of the torture will fade, along with the bruises, but I don’t think not mattering to anyone ever will.”

Her words take the breath from my lungs. I take her in my arms and hold her, because I don’t know what else to do.

“I’m sorry. This never should have happened to you. It shouldn’t happen to anyone, but it really shouldn’t have happened to you. You’re so good and perfect. I’m sorry.”

Tilting her head back, she gazes at me with her hands on my chest. “You make it better, Luca. I’m okay. Please don’t worry about me.”

I kiss her softly. “Good. Maybe you can convince the women in my family that I haven’t hurt you. So they don’t take my balls.”

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