Page 95 of The Sexy Billionaire

“Go on, don’t get shy on me now.” He grins.

Gio, as a boy, was hard to resist. Gio, as a man, is downright dangerous. I do as I’m told and slide my fingers between my ever-increasingly wet folds, his eyes watching with heated desire. Knowing that his tongue has just slid along the same skin that is inside me, makes me wetter; it’s as if he’s fucking me with his fingers instead of my own. Gio’s hand slides down over mine and I still; my heart thunders in my chest and my breath hitches. What is he going to do now?

He puts a small amount of pressure on my hand pushing my fingers further inside me, making my eyes roll back as he helps me find the sensitive nerves deep inside me and a moan falls from my lips.

“Fuck, that’s it.” He groans. “Keep going. I want you to hit that deep spot, the one that makes you see stars.”

Yes.

I want that. I nod and bite my lip, following his commands. I don’t want him to stop. I know that as much as I declared we can’t do this again, I’m going to. We’re going to fall back into bed together, just like we always did while growing up. This all feels so good, so familiar, and so right, and that scares me.Concentrate on what’s happening now, Paige. Forget about tomorrow, you can’t deal with it now, enjoy today for what it is.So, I do.

Gio leans in, and I feel his heat all around me as he runs his nose along the sensitive part of my neck, his lips barely touching my skin, but it sends waves of heat flooding my body.

“There’s not a day that goes by that I haven’t thought about you, Paige. Every night when I closed my eyes for years, your tear-soaked face haunted me. The only woman I’ve ever loved, and I broke her. If I could have ripped out my own heart and offered it to the gods to get you back, I would have. You are the single biggest regret of my life,” he confesses.

“Gio,” I moan as he continues to help drive me higher and higher.

“I know I’ll never be the man I once was for you,” he confesses, and I want to tell him he’s wrong, he still is, that I don’t think he has ever not been, but I’m too scared to say those things out aloud.

Instead, tears well in my eyes as I try to suppress the emotions he’s pulling from me; it’s a weird situation to be in—he’s pushing me physically to the brink, but in the same breath, he’s doing it emotionally, too.

“If all I can ever be to you is a friend, then I’ll take it. I can’t spend another fifteen years apart from you, Paige, not now that I’ve found you again.”

Tears slip down my cheeks as he continues to furiously work me over.

“I will happily stand on the sidelines and watch you fall in love with another man because I lost that right all those years ago, and that’s my penance to bear. All I want in this world is to see you happy.”

Fuck.

“Gio.” His name comes out as a strangled moan before his lips capture mine in a searing kiss.

“It will always be you, Paige,” he confesses, pushing me over the edge and kissing me again, swallowing my moans as he makes me come all over my fingers. He gives me a couple of seconds to compose myself before letting go of me and walkingaway, cursing to himself as he runs his fingers through his dark hair.

He can’t say those things when I am standing in front of him physically naked and now emotionally naked, too. How dare he make me come and then walk away. Moving toward him, I grab his arm, pull him back, and push him against the hallway wall.

“What the fuck, Paige?” he curses as he hits the wall.

“How fucking dare you,” I yell in his face.

His eyes widen as he stares into my angry face.

“You can’t say those words to me, then walk away as if they were nothing,” I tell him.

“I shouldn’t have said them.”

His visible regret at saying those beautiful things is like a sucker punch to my stomach.

“How fucking dare you regret those words,” I yell at him as I slap his bare chest.

“Paige, ouch, what the hell?” he hisses as he grabs my arms and holds them beside me, so that I won’t slap him again.

“You can’t say all those things to me and walk away,” I tell him again.

“There’s nothing else left to say. I fucked up. I shouldn’t have crossed the line between us. I shouldn’t have pushed to remind myself what it feels like to have those lips wrapped around my cock.” His eyes dip to said lips. “I shouldn’t have allowed myself to taste you, now it’s seared in my soul. It is going to torture me until the end of time. I should never have reminded myself what it was like to watch you come because that sound will haunt my ears. Having you back in my life has brought the sunshine back into my world that I never knew was missing. I can’t step further into that sunshine, Paige. And I’m sorry that I can’t be what you need. What more is there to say?” He lets my hands go.

Fuck him for saying those things and making my heart beat for him again.

“Nothing more to say? For you there isn’t, but for me there is,” I say, poking his hard chest. His eyes widen at my anger. “I loved you with all my heart, Gio, all of it. So much so that I don’t think anyone else ever stood a chance because that day you walked away from me, you took it with you. I hate that you broke us that day. I hate that you ripped our future away from us. We could have been happily married all these years. We could have had kids. We could have built a fucking life together, but instead, now I’m stuck with an ex-husband who abused me, cheated on me, and whittled me down into a person I don’t know anymore. Then you turn up like a white knight riding in to save the day. But instead of getting the best version of me that you had all those years ago, you’re now seeing the broken and messed-up version. You made me fall in love with someone I shouldn’t have because you felt like you needed to save me. From fucking what, Gio? Because guess what? Now I’m here in your world. I’m about to join your fishbowl and I’m having to do it alone.”

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