Page 58 of Break Me Like a Promise (Oak Valley)

“I need you to take me, Colton.”

“Baby girl, when I’m done with you, I’m going to own you.”

He growled before diving his mouth into hers, and desire swept through her to her core. His tongue was insistent, demanding, as he turned them around so she was against the fridge. He placed one hand on her chest and the other around her throat before taking a step back.

“Follow me.”

The heat in his voice was enough to make Ruby drop to her knees and crawl after him as he led the way to her bedroom. Colton closed the door and knelt in front of her so they were eye level.

“You may need me to take you, Ruby, but I need you to know I am as much yours as you are mine. Do you understand?”

Ruby was in awe of the sheer power before her and could only nod. He radiated a force that could make her do anything he asked, and the way he looked at her with so much love only reinforced that. She would do anything he asked, purely because that love was there. And he knew that. He knew he didn’t need to rely on power or strength, demands or insistence.

Colton pulled her up and slowly undressed her, removing her shirt and pants. Ruby’s body shivered as the air met her bare skin, and he moved behind her. His cock rested in the cleft of her ass, his chest pressed against her back. He pushed her hair to one shoulder, leaving lazy kisses along her shoulders and collarbone. His fingers found their way beneath her bra strap, the band of her cheeky bottoms. Hi lips were hot with every kiss, his fingers cold with every movement as he peeled her panties off and pushed her straps off her shoulders.

“Leave your panties around your ankles,” he murmured into her neck. Ruby’s breath shook, her body trembling at the way he deftly unclipped her bra, letting it fall to the floor, his thick cock nestled between her but cheeks. Her breasts ached for his touch and, as if reading her mind, he grabbed them both and kneaded, grinding against her bottom. They filled his large hands, her nipples peaked as he pinched and pressed, and Ruby’s head fell back on his shoulder.

If she died, she knew what heaven would be.

She relished in the way his mouth marked her, in the way his hands commanded her body, pushing her over the edge of the bed. She heard the slide of a zipper, a crinkling, the rip of a wrapper, her body tightening in anticipation.

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“Take off your pants, Colton. I want to feel your legs against mine while you pound me.”

Ruby’s voice was muffled against the bed, but Colton followed her directions quickly. His jeans, underwear, and socks came off together and hit the floor, followed by the soft thump of his shirt. His heart was pounding at the view before him, perfect peach of an ass rising high into the air, begging for him to take her.

Colton sheathed his cock and ran his hands down her back, gripping her waist until she whimpered. He traveled to her hips, loving the way her lush body fit in his hands, the way when he squeezed her ass she pushed her hips back. Begging for more.

He slapped his hard cock against her cheeks, the thickness surprising even him. She was the only one who’d ever turned him on like this, the only one who ever made his body respond in such a primal way. He slipped the head of his length between her slick folds, enjoying her heat. He brought a palm down hard on one cheek, burning into his brain the way her back arched, hips pressing against him, her cries muffled. Massaging her ass, he pressed his tip into her core, slowing pulling out and pushing a little more in, out and more in, building a rhythm while she stretched around him. Colton held onto one hip, digging his nails into her skin while the other found a fistful of glorious red curls, making her arch even more. Her tight little waist highlighted the spread of her hips, his thick thighs beating against her lean ones with every thrust.

Her body quivered around him, her heat escalating and drawing him closer and closer. He knew how to read her body, knew every path he could take for every second leading up to the edge. Colton switched his hands, releasing the pull on her head and diving for her clit while he continued to rock her sweet cunt, his other hand marking her back.

By the end of tonight, he was going to own her body.

But in the morning, he would stop at nothing to own her heart.

Her muscles tightened around him, her panting becoming more frantic as she gasped for air, her body trembling beneath his ramming. He leaned over her, covering her body with his, and swept some of her honey with his fingers. He rubbed the hot cum on her clit, his fingers gliding across her sensitive bundle and causing her to tremble harder. She pressed further back onto him, her muscles tightening around him as she found her precipice and jumped, bringing him with her. The wave took over and Colton cried out her name, holding her hips tight against his while they pulsed as one.

This was what he missed. Not just the sex, but that kind of intimacy with another. With her. The kind where they knew everything about the other, and even through disagreements and long days, they could still move as one. Become one.

Colton sighed into her skin, holding her shaking body against him, sprinkling kisses across her scratched back as he pulled out and cleaned them both up.

Ruby fell in a heap on the bed, watching him as he moved about.

He pulled on his underwear and was about to hop into bed to cuddle her when she sat up and started dressing.

“No, we can’t, Colton. We need to order food, I’m sure my mom’s starving.”

“But after we order?”

Ruby giggled. “Sure thing, teddy bear. But first: food.”

“Fine, fine.” He found his jeans at the foot of the bed and put them on, his shirt tossed across the room. Pulling out his wallet, he handed Ruby his credit card. “Go ahead and place the order, whatever you want. And some garlic knots. I’ll be back with water.”

Colton kissed the top of her head and shut the door behind him, careful of where he was stepping so as to not creak the floor more than necessary. Until he could prove to Ruby’s mom he would take care of her, he felt like an intruder.

He pulled out his phone and saw a California number and one new voicemail. His heart raced. Maybe they changed their mind? He listened to it while filling to large glasses with water, his racing heart almost immediately dropping into the pit of his stomach.

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