Page 77 of Shattered Dreams

“Fuck, baby. You need to come for me.” I reach betweenus to play with her clit. I’m not going to last much longer, but I refuse to come without her.

“Kai,” she says my name like a prayer right before she tumbles over the edge, taking me with her. I piston into her wet heat, helping her ride out her orgasm as long as I can before I’m emptying myself into her.

Looking down at where we’re connected, I smile. “You were made for me, mo chridhe. Look how well you took me.”

Belle smiles. Her eyes are still a little glazed over from her orgasm, but there’s no mistaking the happiness on her face. My chest swells knowing that I’m part of the reason for it.

She’s mine.

She’s everything.

thirty-six

BELLE

“You’re staying here tonight?”I ask Kai, slightly embarrassed that I can’t sleep without him anymore. Like I’m a little kid who can’t sleep without her favorite teddy bear.

Kai just smiles and pulls me in for one more kiss. “I’m just going to check on Maverick and then I’m yours.”

I snuggle into his chest the best I can manage with the console of the car between us.

“I sleep better than I ever have when I’m next to you, Belle. You never need to ask if I’ll be staying with you. Next to you is the only place I plan to sleep for the rest of my life.” Sometimes I think Kai knows my mind better than I do. One look at me and he knew what I was thinking.

“I could come with you to Mav’s,” I offer, not really wanting to be parted from Kai. It feels like part of me is missing when he isn’t with me.

Kai just chuckles. “Go hang out with Cal so he doesn’t start whining in the group chat. I’ll be back in a couple of hours.” He leans closer to kiss me quickly.

I want to argue, but I can’t. Cal texted me this morning complaining that we don’t get any sibling time, and I needed to come over and hang out with him. If I ditch him to go to Mav’s with Kai, no one will ever hear the end of it.

“Fine,” I grumble as I get out of the car, stomping dramatically.

Kai just laughs again. “I love you,” he shouts out of his window before pulling out of the driveway.

I turn to see Cal waiting for me at the front door. His face is a mixture of excitement and that weird face he makes when he tries to hide it. Like he’s about to sneeze or something.

“Who says your big brother doesn’t come through with his promises?” He yells, raising his arms like he’s preaching to a crowd.

“What are you talking about? What promise?” Cal says dumb things when he’s excited. That’s not new. Usually I can figure out what he’s talking about, though. “I don’t think anyone says that.” Cal is a lot of things, unreliable isn’t one.

He ignores me, grabs my hand, and pulls me into the house. He’s practically running, and I have to jog just to keep up.

“Ta-da!” he yells, bowing like he just performed a magic trick.

“Your living room has been vacuumed?” I ask, looking around the room to try to figure out what he’s so proud of.

“What?” he asks, jerking upright and looking around. “Dammit! Stay here,” he orders before running off toward the kitchen.

“Did you buy me a puppy?” I call out after him, knowingfull well he doesn’t want something that could pee on a carpet in his house.

“Better than a puppy,” he calls back, really upping my curiosity. “He’s potty trained!”

He? What?

“Dad!” I scream, rushing into my father’s arms as he comes around the corner.

“Told you I’d get you Dad if that’s what you wanted,” Cal says smugly, but I can see the emotion in his eyes. My big brother is the biggest softy I know.

“Why didn’t you tell me you needed me, my beauty?” Dad asks, hugging me tightly and kissing the top of my head. He’s called me his beauty ever since we watchedBeauty and the Beasttogether when I was little.

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