Total pages in book: 67
Estimated words: 67510 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 338(@200wpm)___ 270(@250wpm)___ 225(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 67510 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 338(@200wpm)___ 270(@250wpm)___ 225(@300wpm)
Respect.
For Bailey or me?
chapter twenty-six
Aires
Softly, I laid her on my pillow, watching her for a minute.
Fuck, she’s gorgeous.
We left right after, and to my surprise, my father didn’t stop me. I didn’t know if it was from all the guests being there and not wanting to break the facade of one big happy family or if it was from what Bailey said to him. Either way, I was grateful we were able to get the hell out of there.
“Are you okay?” she asked again.
She was concerned, and I couldn’t get upset about it. “I’m fine.”
“Aires—”
“I said I’m fine.”
The last thing I wanted was to talk about it. We were silent on the drive to the hotel, and this was exactly why I wanted our own car. I knew better.
There was no resisting the urge to feel her beneath my body. I lay on top of her and caged her in with my arms around her face. She fit seamlessly against my chest.
“Bay,” I whispered, faintly rubbing my lips on her mouth.
“Mmm…” she groaned.
I kissed my way down her neck. Once I reached the top of her breasts, I lightly bit her hard nipple through her dress. Her breathing hitched.
When we were alone together, the world seemed to stop spinning, and time stood still for us. It was always like that. As if it knew we didn’t have much time to begin with.
With the way I felt that night, I needed her in a way I’d never needed anyone in all my life.
Her warmth.
Her comfort.
Her love.
Home.
Despite the dim lighting in my room, I could still see her bright brown eyes. My demons might have been silenced by her presence, but my cock very much throbbed to lose myself in her.
She searched for something in my gaze, narrowing her eyes at me. “Are you really okay?”
“I am now.”
“What’s wrong?”
“I don’t want to talk about it.”
“You never want to talk about anything in reference to them.” She placed her hand over my heart. “Please don’t push me away. Just let me in.”
“Bay, I’ve let you in so much I don’t know how to kick you out.”
She giggled. “That’s not the first time you’ve said that to me.”
I smiled, loving that she remembered.
“You said it when I was sixteen. In this same position we’re in now, and now you’re saying it again when I’m twenty-five.”
“I know how old you are, Bailey.”
Almost immediately my mind battled my heart, raging a war I never had a chance to survive. She was eating me alive, swallowing me whole.
“Will you tell me later?”
“There’s nothing to tell.”
“Aires…”
“You’re lying beneath me, and it’s all I need right now. You’re breathtaking. Do you know that? Do you have any idea how fucking beautiful you are?”
She blushed, biting her bottom lip.
“Your pouty mouth is another one of my favorite things about you.”
“Oh yeah? What else?”
“Your brown eyes. They show me everything I need to know.”
“So you love my face the most?”
“No. Your tits, your hips, your ass, I like those too.”
She chuckled, stirring my cock to twitch.
“But it’s your laughter, your smile, your heart, the way you can see through my bullshit—it’s what really takes ahold of me.”
I knew one thing for sure when I claimed her lips.
I had no intention … of just stopping there.
I kissed her until nothing else mattered.
Our mouths were starving for affection.
Aching for relief.
“You want me, Bay?”
“Always.”
It was all I needed to hear before I reached for the hem of her dress and slid it off her body, leaving her in nothing but her panties. With a predatory regard, I devoured every inch of her bare skin, from her rose-colored nipples to her perky, supple tits down to her narrow, slender waist and her luscious ass and thighs.
“Fuck,” I groaned. Slipping off her panties, I crawled my way up her body, kissing, licking, caressing.
The addictive sounds she made.
The way her body kept shuddering beneath mine.
The smell of her.
It all had me losing my damn mind.
Her chest rising and falling.
Waiting, eager, ready…
Making her feel good was the only thing that mattered at that moment.
“You going to come for me, Bay?”
She moaned in response, and there was no hesitation on my part when I took in her perfect pink pussy.
I blew on her clit. “You have the prettiest pussy. All this under your black dress.”
She moaned again, and her thighs clenched.
Grinning, I nudged my nose along her folds, faintly blowing against her heated flesh. Lightly running the tip of my tongue over her clit, her breathing instantly became heavy and intoxicating. I knew her heart was beating rapidly out of her chest, making it difficult to catch her next breath.
With each stroke of my tongue, I showed her how weak I was when it came to her. She covered her face, and I licked from her opening to her clit.