Page 188 of A Smile Full of Lies
“Yes — Knox — please —”
“You think they know,” he growled, “that I wouldkillfor you?”
My orgasm ripped through me without warning.
I sobbed his name, shattered, shaking, cunt gripping him like I didn’t want to let him go.
And hedidn’t stop.He flipped me onto my stomach. Pulled my hips up. Drove back into me harder —deeper.
“You wanted the truth,” he said, voice breaking. “This is it. I watched you. I wanted you. Iplannedfor you. I did whatever it took for me to have you.”
He bent over me. Bit my shoulder.
“I’d do it all again in a heartbeat.”
I came again with a scream. Andstill— he didn’t stop.
“I don’t care if the world judges me,” he snarled. “I don’t care if they call me obsessed.I am.”
He reached down. Rubbed my clit hard.
“I’m obsessed with my fuckingwife.”
I shattered around him again, my third orgasm, white-hot and endless.
And only then did he let go.
He came with a ragged groan, teeth bared, cock pulsing deep inside me as he slammed in one last time and stayed there. Filling me.Claiming me.
When he finally collapsed over my back, he wrapped both arms around me, face pressed to the nape of my neck.
“You’re mine,” he whispered. “Every fucking part.”
“And you’re mine,” I said, breathless, broken,whole.
He kissed my shoulder. My neck. The curve of my spine. Then rolled us onto our sides and held me.
Tight. Possessive. Like he was still afraid someone might try to take me from him.
Let them fucking try.
Because I knew now — without a doubt — that this man had loved me in secret for years. Had built a shrine out of shadows. Had bared his face to the world not to feed his ego, but to protect me.
Because I was never just his prey.
I was his reason for living.
And now? Now we didn’t need the mask anymore.
Because we had each other.
Forever.
Epilogue
MARCH 10
The Truth, The Noise, and The Aftermath
