Page 217 of Beyond the Blue Horizon
“Piper.”
Bliss shot through me in blinding flashes of light.
A pulse and a thunder that rumbled through the heavens.
I held tight to him as he throbbed inside me, his body pulsing as shivers of bliss continued to twitch through my being.
It rolled and rolled.
This paradise.
A paradise that promised I no longer had to run. I was safe.
Here with him.
The only place I wanted to be.
Wrecked in perfection.
Ravaged and destroyed at the same time as he rebuilt everything that I had once thought broken.
Once he felt me finally coming down, he slumped over me, and both of us panted and rasped as we fought for the air that only belonged to both of us.
Our skin slicked in sweat.
Our hearts hammering out of time and completely in sync.
My fingers fluttered through the dampened locks of his hair, and on a heaving breath, he pushed up to look down at me.
This gorgeous man who’d changed everything.
Eyes pitch and still glinting with silvered moonlight.
Adoration poured from their depths as he searched my face.
Then he cocked me one of those arrogant grins, his seductive mouth tipping up in pure satisfaction. “Now tell me that was a one-star because you, Piper Whittman, are everything.”
FORTY-THREE
PIPER
“Come here.”
A giggle rippled out of me when Theo suddenly scooped me into his arms.
“And where exactly am I going?”
As long as it was with him, then I would be just fine.
He grinned as he snagged a blanket from the back of the couch, never loosening his hold as he wrapped it around my body. “Need to clean myself up, and I don’t think I can leave you long enough to do it.”
“Is that so?”
“Mmhmm,” he hummed as he ran his nose along the angle of my jaw as he started in the direction of the stairs. “Now that I’ve had you, pretty sure I’m never going to let you out of my sight.”
“Guess you’re obsessed with me after all.” The tease was breezy, fluttery joy. There would be no striking the smile permanently etched on my face.
“One hundred percent,” he said in that gravelly voice.
