Page 75 of Redemption

Goosebumps raced up my arms as I slowly turned back. I’d been dying to feel those eyes on me all week and now finally they were. I couldn’t see any movement, nothing but a dark window but I knew she was there.

I grabbed the phone I’d left on the kitchen counter and pulled up her number and hit call. I couldn’t hear anything but I saw the light flash in the window of the office. I could see it flashing before it moved and a moment later her voice came down the line.

“Yes?”

I smiled. “You’re watching me sweetheart.”

“What makes you so sure?” She didn’t deny it.

“Are you gonnapretend you don’t watch me in the dark?”

She didn’t speak, but I knew she was still there. “Why do you watch me Katarina? What are you looking at? And yes I know you do, other than the fact that I can see the light from your phone? I can feel your stare on me, your eyes sliding over my skin eagerly. It gets me so hot, knowing you’re sitting in the dark watching me,wantingme.”

Her breath hitched and I could hear as she slowly exhaled. My dick hardened, I’d heard that sound before, when she was laying underneath me as I pounded into her.

“You gonna come down here, sweetheart or just keep looking?”

She sighed, the noise speaking volumes. Reluctantly she replied. “We both know the answer to that.”

There was silence as she ended the call and triumph glided through my veins. I stood by the door to the cabin waiting. She made me wait. Made me worry. And finally she walked in, pausing in the doorway and giving me a meaningful look.

“You can stop playing hard to get,” I said, running my eyes over her. She was in satin pajamas, little cartoon frogs on them and the slogan,It’s hard work finding a prince.I smirked at them, so at odds with Kat’s stubborn, controlled demeanor.

“Iamhard to get,” she replied, closing the door and strutting over to me.

“No, sweetheart. You’re hard tokeep.”

She stopped when we were chest to chest. I glanced down at the hard glint in her sky-blue eyes. She wasn’t willing to give in to me yet, she wanted me to fight for it. To earn it.

I dipped down, our mouths a breath apart and I watched her eyes flutter closed, her chest lift slightly inanticipation.

“You’ve been avoiding me,” I whispered, and her eyes flew open. She opened her mouth to argue but I didn’t let her, I covered her lips with mine.

We fought for dominance. She was mad, so was I. I’m not sure what she was mad at and in that moment I didn’t care. I just wanted her. Wanted what wasmine.

Her arms looped around my neck and she went up on tiptoes, pushing back against my mouth and trying to take charge. I cradled the back of her head, fingers twining with her hair so I could change the angle, finding a perfect fit. I pulled back, dropping a few chaste kisses against her mouth that she tried to deepen.

“Don’t stop,” she whined, and I loved hearing that tone, seeing how I affected her. She tried to put her walls up but I would decimate them. I liked that I could put cracks in her foundation and have her crumbling; because that’s how she made me feel too.

“Tell me you want me,” I demanded. I didn’t know when I’d become so needy and insecure with her but I wanted reassurance. She was the first woman I’d ever truly cared about and the idea that she might not feel the same ruined me.

She met my stare, her eyes clouded with lust, her lips red as rubies and so inviting. “I want you.”

It was enough, almost. “Tell me you need me.”

Her eyes heated, I think she liked the way I spoke to her.

“I need you,” she whined. I loved that whiney, pouty voice she put on.

I walked backwards into the bedroom, pulling her with me and Teddy let out a sharp bark at seeing Kat. She stroked him for a moment before settling him in the living room and closing the bedroom door.

When she faced me again, she was almost shy. Like the intensity from before had faded and now she didn’t know what to do. I stalked towards her, cupped her cheeks, brushing her silky hair back from her face, and kissed her again. She melted into me, just as I hoped she would. I kissed down her jaw and neck, gently nipped the sensitive spot between her neck and shoulder and she melted further.

Her hands slipped under the hem of my shirt and up my back, stroking the muscles and I shivered when her nails raked over my skin.

God, I loved her touch.

I cupped her tits through the flimsy satin pajamas, feeling her nipples pebble instantly and my thumbs played with them, driving her need higher.

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