I could feel his hardness against my butt.

“Yeah, you’re exhausted.”

“Stop gloating,” I scolded before I pushed my butt up into him. “What about this?”

Leo curled his arm under my neck and wound his leg over mine, cocooning me with his warmth.

“It can wait. It’ll still be there when you wake up.”

And it was.

I woke up to the feel of his erection knocking at the entrance to my pussy. I had turned around in my sleep and had wound my leg around his hip. Leo was still fast asleep in my arms. I reached behind me and grabbed a condom from the pile on the bedside table, and rolled it on him. It didn’t take too much maneuveringto mount him. If anyone had told me three years ago, that one day, I would wake Leo up with a sleepy, morning fuck, I wouldn’t have believed it. I scarcely believed it now. But I wasn’t letting go of this chance to make another happy memory with him, because I had a feeling this blissful bubble was about to burst any minute.

I wound my leg tighter around his hip and tried to move, but it was difficult. I rocked in place as I bent down and kissed him. He kissed me back sleepily, rolled me onto my back, and began thrusting into me before he even opened his eyes properly.

“Are you awake?” I whispered.

He shook his head.

“No, this is a dream. A lovely wet dream,” he murmured with a grin.

I pinched his nipple hard and he finally deigned to open his eyes and glare at me.

“Move that lazy ass, Donovan,” I teased.

In response, Leo pulled out of me and rolled me onto my stomach. I giggled as he pulled me up on my knees and elbows.

“Do you mean this ass? This perfect, tight one?” he asked, smacking my butt with an open hand before he parted my legs and thrust into me deeply.

I groaned as he thrust again, going balls deep on the downstroke. He reached around to stroke my clit as he took me hard and fast. I buried my face and screamed into the pillow as I came. I had lost count of the orgasms I’d had since I walked into this room. But it felt as if each one was stronger than the one that came before.

Leo was still moving in and out of me gently after he climaxed, and I shuddered at the aftershocks it sent down my legs. Breathing heavily, he rolled off me and pulled me into his arms. The sky was lightening outside the window, and the digital clock on the bedside table said it was almost four a.m.

“My daughter is an early riser,” said Leo. “And she likes to kiss me awake.”

I tensed in his arms because I understood what he was saying. He was kicking me out.

Very politely, of course. But he was making it clear that our one night of passion was over. It was silly of me to feel… well, discarded. This was what we had planned. One night only. And it had to end sometime.

I sat up immediately and started looking for my clothes.

“There’s no rush,” he began, but I cut him off.

“I don’t want your daughter to see us like this, Leo. Besides, I want to get some sleep if possible. Today is going to be a long day,” I said briskly.

He stared at me for a minute and then nodded.

“I’ll find a safe place for you to stay.”

“Thank you for everything. I know you didn’t kidnap me for my sake. But it worked out to my benefit, so I’m very grateful to you for that. And for getting Celine and Rose to safety.”

I bent and kissed him gently. As I pulled away, he reached up and kissed me back. Dammit! We had to stop doing this, or his little girl was going to be in for a nasty shock when she came to wake her Daddy.

“Stop,” I said breathlessly, resting my forehead against his. “This has to stop. Right now.”

I couldn’t afford to get any more involved with this man, knowing that there was no future for us. One night, three years ago, had torn me apart completely and one night, today, had healed a lot of those wounds. But I didn’t want to open up new ones by starting something that would only end badly for me.

I got off the bed and threw on my clothes without looking at Leo again. The sooner I got out of here, the better it was for me. And he let me go. He didn’t even try to stop me when I walked out of his bedroom.