Page 169 of Unravelling The Beast

Her eyes and voice both soften.

"Because, even with everything that’s happened, you still have good in you; it just needs to come to the surface a little more. I think you are bereaved and have never fully accepted what has happened in your life, which is not your fault, Arlo. It's completely normal to filter out feelings so you don't have to cope with them. You just need to remember who you were before all the darkness took over."

She continues by placing her hands on my neck and peering deeply into my eyes.

"I'm in love with you, Arlo. The good, the bad, and the ugly, and I can't lose you, do you hear me?"

I just stare into her eyes, not quite believing what she just said.

"You’re fucking what?"

I watch as she swallows hard and pauses before responding quietly.

"I'm in love with you."

I continue to stare at her, and the thought of her falling in love with me makes me reconsider my entire existence as well as hers. Firstly, how the fuck has she fallen in love with me? I can understand Bridget because she saw a different side of me—maybe not my real side, but a soft side—but Wren has had it hard and seen me at my worst, and she's still managed to fall in love with me?

I respond calmly, raising my chin.

"And how in the fuck has that happened?"

She gives me a hesitant, nervous smile and shrugs her shoulders as she turns away.

"It was bound to happen, right? Our connection is superior."

She's not wrong; our connection is powerful and has been since the first time I laid eyes on her. Despite all of my attempts to destroy her in order to alleviate myself of guilt, it just broke down the barriers surrounding my heart for her; shit backfired on me without my knowledge, but I have no regrets.

Her big, red eyes meet mine, but I haven't taken mine off hers once as I observe her becoming anxious. As I look around her bruised, gorgeous features, I quickly forget why I'm here in the first place and begin to unwind in her presence.

I reach out and gently grab her face, pulling her towards mine, and speak quietly on her lips as we stare into each other's eyes.

"You're stupid for falling in love with the monster that I am, but I fucking won't stop you."

I dip my head and press her damaged lips against mine before extending my hand to her throat, clutching her tightly as our kiss enhances and we devour each other's mouths in a deep and powerful kiss.

As I drop the gun and rip her towel off her naked body, she climbs upon me and straddles me. I grab her ass in my hands and proceed to stand with her around me, taking her to my bedroom as we continue our fiery kiss.

I lower her onto the bed and kneel between her wide legs as she raises my shirt up my body and pulls it over my head before forcing my tongue back into her mouth.

I bite her sore, cracked lips with my teeth, causing her to hiss, before thrusting my tongue back into her mouth and freeing myself from.

I slide my cock deep inside her already moist pussy as soon as I'm ready, and she gasps into my mouth before I speak.

"Fucking tell me."

I begin to press into her hard, and she moans as we maintain intense eye contact before I place my forehead on hers and squeeze her big breast into my hand.

"Fucking tell me, Wren."

I graze my lips against hers, pressing my cock as deep inside her as I can, fucking her slowly, and she whispers as she gasps against my lips.

"I love you, Arlo."

My eyes search hers, and my black heart fills with something light, a sensation I haven't felt in a long time. I growl against her lips before sliding my tongue into her mouth and continuing to destroy her mouth while ruthlessly fucking her.

"I fucking love hearing you say that."

I push into her slowly but firmly, each time pressing her over the edge of destruction.

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