Page 50 of Destiny

I’m not even thinking about coming—I don’t care about coming.

That isn’t what this is about.

This is…

Pure instinct. Pure primal instinct. We are animals, Brendan and I. Animals fucking.

Because that’s who we are.

He grunts again, this time harder, and as he shoves himself so deep within me, spurting, I join him in climax.

How am I coming? He hasn’t touched my clit. I haven’t touched my clit.

But because of this angry passion, I’m coming. I’m shattering, right here in front of the whole town through my window.

The orgasm is explosive.

As if our anger, our passion, the whole main street of Snow Creek laid out before us made it even more arousing.

We stay there for a moment, our bodies locked together, and then he withdraws, and I slide down the wall onto my feet.

Without a word, he buckles his pants. I stand naked, watching him.

“Brendan…”

“I don’t want to hear it,” he says.

“You’re going to hear it. I’m going to—”

He turns, walks away.

“Damn it! Do not walk away from me!” I grab my sweats, stumble into them. I run after him, still topless.

He opens the door, and my nipples harden against the cold.

“Brendan, don’t go.”

“There’s nothing more to say, Ava. You get in touch with me when you’re ready to own up to what you did.”

The door closes.

And I stand there, my nipples still hard, straining, aching for him.

But inside, I’m as angry as he is.Own up?It wasn’t my idea to compensate him for his losses. How dare he?

Except that’s not what he means.

He thinks I lied to him. He thinks I’m putting him off in favor of dealing with my family issues.

So I’ll show him. I’ll figure this whole thing out about Wendy Madigan and my family. Then I’ll go back to him. And Iwillcommit. I’ll commit to him, and there will be no more secrets between us.

But I owe my family. And…in some small way, which may well be warped, I owe my grandmother.

But for her, I wouldn’t exist.

So I need to do this.

I need to do it.

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