Page 84 of The Billionaire's Accidental Legacy

“You’re more sensitive now,” he growled, his mouth against her flesh.

“Ewan.”

The way she said his name, broken and pleading, ignited a fire inside him.

And he decided to let it burn him.

Because at least that was all-consuming enough to block out everything else.

He kissed his way down her body, that rounded swell of her stomach, and he refused to let himself think.

He buried his head between her thighs, licking that sweet center of her.

He had missed her. He had missed this.

“My very favorite delicacy,” he growled.

The broken cry that was elicited from her lovely mouth told him everything he needed to know.

She was as lost to this as he was.

They didn’t need to bring their conversations to this.

They didn’t need to bring the changes that had happened between them these past weeks. This could be sex. Simply.

As it had been the first time.

It was never just sex. It was never simple.

He remembered. The first time he’d seen her.

In the way he’d known was awake even then.

That moment in the casino, and had never gone away from him. Not one detail lessened by time.

As if it was one of Jessie’s memories, and she had planted it in his own mind.

He pushed back against that, licked her deeper until she was screaming, until she was trembling.

Until he tasted her climax over and over.

He tried to picture other women. Tried to make this familiar, but all he could see was her.

All the times he had seen her.

As if the path to this moment was inevitable. As if it was fate.

He refused to believe in something so cruel as fate.

He refused.

How could it take his mother from him, and give him his father? How could it give him Jessie when he was too twisted and destroyed to care for her in the way that she deserved?

No. He could not believe it was fate.

He could not.

He stood up, lifting her off the floor and wrapping her legs around his waist as he carried her to the bed. He consumed her. Took her mouth with his and claimed her utterly and thoroughly. Did everything he could to block out the thoughts that crowded his mind.

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