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BRYNN
Think it’s about time Levi and I climb the stairs to the castle that he has given everything to build. Time to go home. Being home doesn't mean Chicago, doesn't mean Lola's place, it doesn't even really mean Levi's house. It means being with them; that is coming home.
I came back and waited. Unsure just what to do to get my family back. Then I got a delivery. Flowers. Peonies; and I remembered one night while making love, Levi told me I smelled like peonies and peppermint and it drove him crazy. Everyday a delivery and then the best gift of all: a first date with Levi Holt. My king.
After that night, I thought he would ask me to come home. To him and Amelia. To our family. And at first, it hurt me that he didn't. Until I realized why. I needed to atone this time, not Levi. And so, I did.
“I owed two-hundred forty some grand. I paid almost seven.” I admitted after another date—dinner and a movie where we made out in the back row—as we walked the Pier.
“Honey. Jesus. Why? Why not go to the cops or...I am friends with cops, you know.” I nod, peering out at the inky water, the stars bouncing back at us.
“Because you. Because Amelia. Abbi. Because me. I cleared my debt to be free. I don't care about the money. I lost that much two times over, sadly enough. I don't know if Donnie Kelly even wanted the money; he wanted me to own up to my choices. I chose to gamble. To do drugs. To be scared. Bernie didn't scare me, not really; I stayed, I gambled and punished myself because I thought I failed Abbi.” Levi sighs, wrapping me up as we lean over the edge of the pier.
“You did the right thing for her. You put her before you. That means you made a good choice, honey.” I nod because at last I think I did.
“I did. I did it for her. I punished myself because of what I lost, but I should have been proud of what I gave her. I got to pick the parents, the last kind thing Naomi did for me. I got a few photos a few months afterwards but then.... until you and Amelia, I wondered if I made the right choice. I will always love Abbi. She is a part of me. But you two...you are all of me.” I admitted before he kissed me underneath the stars again.
Again, beneath the stars, he took me as if he had always owned me.
“Give me something, honey.” Levi growled as we lay out on the cold sand, on the same blanket from our first date.
“Everything. Everything this time, baby. Take everything.” Kissing turned from sweet and playful, two lovers fooling around on the beach on a cool fall night, to something else.
Levin pinned me to the scratchy blanket, biting at my lips, sucking, licking at my mouth. Beneath him, I shuddered like I always did when he touched me. Levi shoved my thighs open with rough hands, tearing my panties off. The lace tore into my skin but he kissed my hips, my thighs, my pelvis, shoving my skirt up to my waist.
“Love seeing you in the moonlight, under the stars. Goddamn beautiful.” Levi whispered and before I could worry about the chilly air or the crowded pier above us, he took off my top and skirt, tearing them too.
“Let me see you too, Levi.” A breeze kicked up off of Lake Michigan, doing nothing to chill my fevered flesh.
Levi stripped too, the moon shining off his perfection. Bulky shoulders and thick, toned arms, the forearms roped with veins that drove me crazy. Strong hands, thick fingers. Fingers that were rubbing between my legs, spreading my wetness over my sex. I reached out, tracing my fingers over the dips and curves of his abs, the defined V that made me want to lick him. My eyes shot to his as I wrapped both hands around his stiff cock, both of us moaning into the sky.
“God....fuck I love when you touch me. Those little hands on my skin. Wrapped around my cock. Fuck, honey.” I smiled, rubbing my feet along his powerful calves. Urging him closer.
“Touch me too. Make me come under the stars again, baby. It's romantic, right?” I giggled, gasping when he obeyed, thrusting two fingers into me. Hard. Fast, deep.
“Mmm,soromantic. SoGoddamnwet. This will always be mine, Brynn. Pretty little pussy. So fucking mine. Spread for me, baby. Let me see how you shine in the moonlight. Fuuucckk.” Levi groaned, his fingers stilling, sliding out and spreading me open. I moaned, arching off the sand, my feet linking behind his ass.
“Oh God. Baby please...Levi...don't stop. Make me come. Give me something.” My fingers barely wrapped around him, pumping his hot velvety heat slow, thumb swiping over the wet slit.
“Honey, I am about to give you everything. Come for me first. Show me how beautiful my queen is when she comes for me in the moonlight.” His thumb began strumming furiously at my clit, my heels digging into the sand as I bucked up off the blanket.
“Fuck! Levi...baby...” Between us, I guided him towards my aching pussy, sliding his thickness between my pulsing folds.
“Oh fuck. Let me inside.” I whimpered, nodding, tugging at him with all my limbs, the stars bursting over his head as he slid into me.
In the cold night, he gathered me close and pinned me to the sand, pounding into me. Harder. Harder. Faster. I tangled my fingers in his thick sandy hair, gasping puffs of cold air between us, craving his mouth. But Levi was talking, telling me everything. Everything filthy and sweet and absolutely romantic.
“I love being inside you. Never enough. Love to feel you coming on my cock. Jesus, I never want to leave this sweet pussy. Ever. Give me something. Come for me again, honey. Let me.... fuuck yes. That's it. Goddamn. I'm coming too baby.” We'd forgone using condoms a long time ago, and he had once insisted on coming inside me. And tonight, I wanted it. Wanted to feel him lose himself inside me. But he started to pull out.
“Baby...inside me. Come inside me. I want.... yes!” My fingers clawed at his bare shoulders, my body bowing up off the sand as we came together, Levi's cock jerking as it emptied deep inside me.
Levi took my mouth in a brutal kiss, mumbling about princes and Princesses and his queen. I closed my limbs around his shuddering body, bringing him close as I shuddered from the inside out. I got cold fast, even with his heavy, warm body on top of me, and he rolled us so I was on top of him, the blanket covering us.
“I love you, Brynn. I was so damn stupid.” Levi breaks the quiet just as I begin to shiver.
“I was. I trusted you.... just not enough. You deserved everything. You made me promise you everything and I just.... couldn't give it. I was too scared. You both...you both meant everything to me.” Levi kissed my face, traced his lips over my jaw, pausing at my ear.
