Page 40 of Scandalously Yours

Kristopher

The anger pulsing through me right now was enough to cause me to commit murder. The only thing stopping me was the woman in front of me. She had no idea how things in my world worked, so she would have no way of knowing that the detective called was likely one on the payroll of her father who earned a sizeable second income by extorting men like me with something to lose. I had no idea how she got physical marks on her when I hadn’t been the one to do it. I’d been pissed off when I saw her last, but never enough to harm her. She was the mother of my children, and that was something I couldn’t erase even if I tried.

I would deal with whoever she sent after me, but I needed Alessia to know I wasn’t a monster. She was already apprehensive of me after seeing Hayley in the midst of one of her award worthy performances, and I couldn’t bear the thought of her believing any of it to be true. I loved this woman, and if I was being honest, I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. She had to know how much I loved her, and there was only one way to show her.

As soon as she nodded in agreement to my question, I pulled her against me and held her against my chest for a few seconds. I slipped my hand under her chin so I could tip her head upward, then. “Nothing is what it seems, Ale. Nothing but us.” I picked up one of her hands, then placed it over my heart. “The only thing that’s real is my love for you. You have to believe me when I say that I would never do anything to jeopardize the future we’ve talked about having together.”

She murmured that she knew that, and I let out a deep exhale. I stared back down into her large, doe eyes, then fused my mouth to hers. This kiss was more one of desperation than passion, because I needed to prove to her that I was the man she had fallen in love with. As a franticness built inside of me, I deepened the kiss.

She returned it wholeheartedly, and I drank her in. My tongue tangled with hers before something more insistent roared at me to claim her. My cock was a rod of steel. I wanted to be inside of her. Several weeks had passed since we were together in Boston, and I needed to reestablish the bond we’d created.

“Bend over the bed,” I instructed the moment I stepped back.

“What?” she asked, obviously confused as to why I wanted to do that instead of worrying about saving my own ass from Hayley’s vapid lies. “We can’t.”

I walked over to the counter and opened the drawer. This room was an OB room, so I knew there was lubricant. I didn’t have a condom, but I needed to lose myself in the only heaven I’ve found in what felt like a decade. She needed me, too.

“B-but,” she went to protest until I leveled her with a look she had come to know since we met. She swallowed hard, and pride filled me when she turned and bent over the bed as I had told her to do.

“We don’t have much time,” I warned, and I hoped that would explain why I was about to fuck her the way that I was. Normally, I would want to spend hours savoring every inch of her delectable body, but desperate times called for desperate measures. I was not only battling for custody of my children, my accumulated wealth and career, but I was also at war against someone determined to turn the woman I loved against me. I wouldn’t allow it.

I quickly tugged her pants down to her knees and used mine to wedge her thighs apart. She was at the right height, and after repositioning her slightly, I slammed into her. She cried out, but I covered her mouth with my hand. I needed her to be quiet, and since I had only gotten started, there would be a lot more reactions I would need her to hide.

I thrust in and out of her so hard and fast, while also squeezing the tube of lube. It dribbled down between her luscious ass cheeks. “I need you to be very quiet, Ale. Okay?”

She nodded, and put a death grip on the edge of the bed with her hands. I worked the lube into her back hole and used my fingers to stretch her wide. There was a fire building in my lower back, and I wasn’t sure I would last long once I got inside of her. Once I was satisfied that she was prepared enough, I slammed into her a few more times before pulling out. I pressed the head of my cock against her back entrance, and other than a slight gasp, she did me proud by not crying out or screaming. I pushed forward, withdrew, then pushed forward again, repeating that until I was fully seated inside of her. I dropped a few more drops of lube between her ass, then began to fuck her hard.

The bed creaked, and even moved a few inches as I took her roughly. It felt way too good to stop, but I needed to make sure she was finding pleasure, too. If I took advantage of Alessia, using her body for my own purposes, I would be the monster my ex was trying to paint me as. I reached around and found her clit, causing her entire body to jump. She twitched as I pinched and rolled it between my fingers, while never slowing my rhythm or speed.

“Fuck,” I ground out softly between gritted teeth as my own orgasm barreled toward me. Her body must’ve known because she tensed completely, and I quickly covered her mouth with my other hand as we came together. Her warm release dripped down my fingers, and when I withdrew from her, I watched as my come slowly slipped from her tight hole.

Alessia stayed where she was, only taking a few deep, heaving breaths. This woman deserved the world, yet all I had to offer her was secrecy and lies. I wanted to show her off to everyone, yet I was forced to treat her like some dirty little secret. I hated it. Even more, I hated Hayley for ever putting me in this predicament. Most of all, I hated the look of pain I witnessed the moment Alessia rose up to full height and yanked her pants up.

I quickly fixed my own and stared at her for a few seconds. “Are you okay?”

Our eyes met, and I watched her try to force a smile. It never truly reached her eyes, though. I went to the sink to wash my hands, and even brought back a few dampened paper towels, but she declined them. As she went into the bathroom to clean up on her own, I sagged against the bed. This was still the beginning of our relationship and we should’ve been in a honeymoon-like phase, yet we were forced to sneak around and fuck like rabbits in empty patient rooms at work. My hands balled up into fists and I wanted to hit something. Alessia emerged from the bathroom though, so I refrained from giving in to my temper in any way.

“What’s going to happen?” Her question interrupted my thoughts.

“I’ll likely be summoned to the station to give a statement. I—”

“They’re not going to come for you here?”

I shook my head. Hayley didn’t want this news to come out in the public unless absolutely necessary. It was a scare tactic on her part to try to force me into giving her what she wanted. “No, if this all comes out, she’ll garner sympathy in the beginning, but once the truth is proven, it will destroy her standing in the community, and that’s all that matters to women like her.”

“But—”

I knew Alessia didn’t know how things worked in my world, and honestly, I had been hoping to shield her from it altogether. Ever since I was young, none of the trouble I had ever gotten into had made an impact on me. From the dare in high school that almost sent Kenzie falling to her death, to even some of the frat boy shit I’d done in college. Neither of those things had ever put a dent in my record, so some trumped up fabrications from a desperate woman wouldn’t either.

“But nothing, Ale. She doesn’t want to press charges. She only wants to scare me into submission. Tonight’s performance was nothing but one of those. Hayley had to have known you were working and would see her. Once you did, she could use my feelings for you to put the squeeze on me,” I explained.

“But what about the bruises? They were real, Kris.”

I let out a wry chuckle. “There are things you don’t know about my relationship with her, but I can promise you I didn’t touch her. Anyone could’ve done that, and it’d be hard for her to prove either way, or so she thought.”

Alessia’s brow furrowed in confusion. “What do you mean?”

“She said it happened this evening, right?” When she nodded, I smirked. “I’ve been here all night. In fact, I had just finished with a surgery when you called me, so I couldn’t have been at her place to assault her. Hayley didn’t know that, though. When I saw her yesterday, I mentioned having the next few days off because I half expected her to resort to this kind of attack.”

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