Total pages in book: 130
Estimated words: 129323 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 647(@200wpm)___ 517(@250wpm)___ 431(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 129323 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 647(@200wpm)___ 517(@250wpm)___ 431(@300wpm)
“I have to be honest with you, Cassidy, leaving Pippa—you—behind has eaten at me for years.”
A sob catches in her throat, but I don’t stop. She needs to hear this.
“I understand why you lied. I’d have probably done the same thing in your place. A moment more with you would be worth it.”
I reach out and touch her soft hair, placing a piece behind her ear. I lift my other hand and place it on her jaw. My fingers caress her soft skin.
“I never meant to leave you. Not for good. I wanted to come back for you. But shit was hard, and I couldn’t risk my mom interfering with what I was building.”
“I understand.” Her lips tremble. “I’m sorry for lying. I’m sor—”
Leaning down, I silence her with my mouth, not allowing another apology to leave her lips. She has nothing to atone for. She’s done the one thing no one else has ever done for me…
Care.
She put my needs before her own. Something that my own mother couldn’t be bothered to do. How could I hold her lies against her?
I push every one of my own apologies into my kiss.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry I left you.
I should’ve come back for you.
Our tongues tangle, and so do our bodies. This kiss is different. It’s putting the past behind us and forging a future. One in which Cassidy and I can be honest with each other. Be there for the other.
She said she’d put herself before me, and I know she means it.
I’d do the same for her, and I won’t stop until she believes that.
Until she knows I care.
More than she can ever understand.
This might not be love, but it’s something monumental. The start of what could only be life-changing.
38
CASSIDY
His lips crash against mine, hungry and desperate.
It’s as if he can’t get enough of my taste, and the truth is, I can’t get enough of his.
My arms lift until they wrap around his neck, fingers sinking into his disheveled hair. His in turn roam my body, stroking down my back until he cups my ass in his hands, pulling me closer to him.
Once flush against his hard chest, he deepens the kiss, if that’s even possible.
We’re all tongues and teeth as he shows me without words that he still wants me. That despite everything, what we have is more.
Soon, the kiss becomes more heated, and I barely grasp the fact that he’s walking us through the hallway and into his room. It isn’t until the back of my legs hit the bed that I realize where he’s led us.
“I need you,” he grits out against my lips, his hands moving from my body and letting me go. I want to protest at the lack of his warmth, but then the sound of his zipper echoes through the air with a promise, and my heart beats faster.
Need courses through me at an intensity I’ve never felt.
He pulls his mouth away from me, and a whimper escapes, my eagerness to resume evident. But my whining is short-lived as he shucks off his jeans, giving me a full view of what’s to come. I’m staring at his long, hard cock, and my tongue darts out to swipe across my bottom lip.
That hunger only grows with every second that goes by.
My mouth waters at the sight. The desire to drop to my knees and take him in my mouth washes over me, but before I can, he’s sealing his lips against mine again.
Aiden’s hand reaches toward my sweatpants and pushes them down. I only break the connection for a moment as I kick them off and lift my T-shirt up and over my head.
I’m standing naked in front of him, offering myself to him. His lips moves into a smirk.
“You’re mine,” he growls, and then he pushes me back until I’m lying half on the bed, legs dangling off.
He steps up, and I part my legs for him, giving him room to stand. He grins down at me, and a shiver runs up my back.
“I’m going to devour you, Cassidy. Every fucking inch.”
With that promise, he drops to the floor in front of me, grabbing my legs to hang over his shoulders.
I dig my heels into his back as his expert tongue licks right up my folds. My head falls back, and I practically come undone from that one move alone. The man knows what he’s doing as he strokes every inch of me with that tongue.
A groan escapes his mouth as he feasts, drawing a line from my ass to my clit, inserting one finger to skyrocket the pleasure. He takes me to the edge but stops just as I’m about to fall over.
“You’re going to come on my cock,” he practically growls, pushing to a stand. He positions himself at my entrance but doesn’t put me out of my misery.