Total pages in book: 176
Estimated words: 164533 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 823(@200wpm)___ 658(@250wpm)___ 548(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 164533 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 823(@200wpm)___ 658(@250wpm)___ 548(@300wpm)
“You’re—”
“I’m in love you with, Rhys. I have been since we started sleeping together this year. To be honest, I’m pretty sure I fell for you that summer when we were teenagers, too, but I was too young to understand what I was feeling at the time. I thought that stopping what we were doing and spending less time together would allow my feelings to fade, but they haven’t. If anything, they’ve grown stronger. I’ve been seeing this new therapist, Anna-Marie, and she’s really helped me see clearly what I want. I don’t want to be alone forever, but I also don’t want to be with anyone else. I only want to be with you, Rhys.”
Her speech had my chest tightening, heart pounding as I dragged her closer to me across the cushioned seat. I took her face in my hands as a tear fell down her cheek. “And I completely understand if you’ve moved on emotionally. It’s been over seven months. You probably don’t even think of me anymore, and I—”
At this, I pressed my forehead to hers, and she ceased talking, a small breath hitching out. “Don’t think of you?” I murmured, a rumble beneath my words. “I think of nothing else. If you cracked open my skull, all you’d find are thoughts of you, Charli. I fell for you, too, that summer. How on earth could I not? You were everything. I was consumed by you. I don’t think I ever fell out of love, not even after all this time. As soon as you walked back into my life this year, I might as well have handed my heart over to you right then and there.”
She gasped, and I kissed her lightly. It felt so right to have her close.
“So, you?”
“I love you, too. Fiercely. Passionately. I’ve been yours since we were kids, and I’ll continue being yours until we’re old and grey.”
“Rhys,” my name on her tongue sent a rumble of satisfaction through me.
“I’m going to kiss you now,” I grunted, and then my tongue was in her mouth, drinking her in. She crawled into my lap, her breaths quickening as she straddled me and ground against my erection. It was all I could do not to growl. My hands slid up the back of her dress, searching for a button or zip, anything that would allow me to touch her bare skin. Frustrated when I found no opening, my palms delved beneath the skirt, sliding over her soft, golden thighs until I found her underwear slick and damp.
“Wait,” she gasped when I started to tug her knickers to the side. A second later, she was off me, standing as she ran her hands over her dress then glanced at the door. I sat there, clenching my fists to keep from dragging her back to me. She walked to the door, and I thought she was going to leave, but then she simply turned over the lock and returned to me.
“I … I don’t want anyone to walk in on us.”
My gaze heated. “No?”
Charli shook her head, looking shy but determined as she lowered to her knees in front of me. My breathing grew shallow as she ran her hand up my leg, my thigh muscles clenching when I realised her intention.
“You’ve given me so much this year. Your time, your help, your patience,” she said in a quiet, sultry voice. “I want to give you something in return.”
“Fuck, Charli,” I swore as her delicate hands went to my fly. It was on the tip of my tongue to tell her she didn’t have to. Nothing I gave her ever required repayment. But the selfish voice in the back of my head told me to shut the fuck up because every part of me wanted Charli’s mouth on my cock.
When she pulled me free, I was painfully hard. I groaned when she gave a few stroking pumps then ran her nose from the base of my cock and up along the shaft. When she reached the tip, her tongue snaked out, circling the head, and I closed my eyes in sheer pleasure, hands fisting at my sides. I wanted to touch her, but I feared I’d come in seconds if I did. These long months without her had my need for her at a fever pitch.
Charli’s mouth opened, and she took me in, her tongue still working as she lowered as far as she could go. “You’re so fucking beautiful. You’re perfect. I love you so much.” I couldn’t stop the litany of praise that seeped from me as she continued to work me with her heavenly mouth. My abs tightened, and I knew I was going to come embarrassingly fast, her hand stroking up my thigh somehow was what got me there. I came roughly, hips jutting forward as I grunted and cupped her jaw. Her eyes held mine, and the sexy, confident, possessive gleam in her gaze surprised me. She enjoyed doing that, making me lose control.