Page 98 of Lies Like Love

“The most beautifully broken thing.” He brushes my hair off my face and drags his hand down my face, my throat, between my breasts. “When I walked up to you at the library that night, our parents weren’t supposed to meet each other because of it. You were mine, but he had to go and make her his.”

I wrap my arms around Jude’s shoulders, zipping our bodies together with the heat of a warm summer night.

“Why are you telling me this?”

“Because you need to know it’s all for you, Fel.” He tips his forehead to mine. “I didn’t do anything to break us. I did itforus. I need you.”

Tightening my arms around him, I pull him closer. “I need you too.”

I have since the moment I met him at the library. Since he walked up to me and joked about the fact that I was reading a book at a fancy party. I loved his cocky attitude and his fuck-off demeanor. I loved his pretty-boy grin and his green opal eyes.

Jude reaches up and drags his fingers along the fabric of my dress, where it dips low in the front, peeling it aside. A breeze chills the air between our bodies, pebbling my nipples.

“Fuck, those look so good on you.” His gaze fixes on the barbells with a dark intensity that makes my legs clench his hips. “When they heal, I’m going to hook you up to chains.”

“Chains?”

His eyes flick to mine. “I’m going to do things you’ve never even imagined, Red.”

Why does that sound so appealing when it should scare me?

He leans in and blows a breath over them. He can’t play with them yet, but he finds ways to tease me anyway.

I rake my fingers through his hair as he undoes his jeans and pulls them down in the front. His hands grip my thighs, and he pulls me far enough off the ledge that it’s digging into my ass, as my body tips back.

I’m at his mercy just like he wants me. Hanging from the edge of this building, at the tipping point of my sanity.

Jude rubs his cock in circles over me, dropping his face to mine when I moan on contact. “Swallow your screams, Red. I’m the only one allowed to hear them. And I’d really hate to have to burn this whole city to the ground for listening, but I will.”

He drags my ass down the brick and impales me on him in a single, brutal thrust. It stings, and hurts, and sends me to the brink all at once. His fingernails dig into my thighs as he spreads me wider for him. And mine dig at the brick of the ledge, holding on so he doesn’t fuck me off the side of the building.

My lungs choke on city air as his row of barbells rolls against all the right spots. My lips part and his tongue slips in, silencing the scream that burns hot on my tongue. He draws my tongue into his mouth like he wants to eat me alive.

“My screams, Red.” He pulls back and smirks. “Be a good girl and hold them in.”

It takes everything in me. I grip the brick as it grinds against my flesh with every hard thrust. Jude fucks me with intensity I can’t look away from. His green eyes the shade of a forest in the darkness. Trees I’m already lost in.

Releasing the ledge, I become a vine around him as he fucks me against the brick. He could throw me over, and I might not notice because I’m already falling. With every kiss, every breath, every thrust. I’m fading into whatever this is.

My pierced nipples rub against his chest and it’s the final thing to set me off because I need his pain as much as I need his comfort.

Jude’s fingers dig into my ass cheeks as he jerks and comes, and I feel the blush run my chest and cheeks.

It feels like surrender. It feels like peace.

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Jude

Felstretchesherlegsout and I pull her calf over me, rubbing the arch in her foot and appreciating how it makes her eyes roll back in her head.

“You’re distracting me again.”

“Well, if we weren’t doing this in your bed, I might be less distracting.”

She looks up from the beads she’s stringing and narrows her eyes. “You think so?”

“No.”

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