Chapter Six
~Abigail~
“How long?” I demanded as soon as we were inside.
“What?”
“How long have you been chasing guys away?” I asked, glaring at him in disbelief.
“Since high school,” he admitted.
“Why?” I felt my eyes widen in surprise at this confession. All this time he’d been keeping me away from men, but he never once made a move for himself. I couldn’t figure out why he would want me to be alone.
“Why?” he repeated, his brows knitting together. “Seriously?”
“Yeah,” I snapped. “Don’t you think I deserve to know?”
“Because I’m in love with you!” he yelled. “I’ve always been in love with you. And I thought if I could just keep you single until we were twenty-five…”
I burst out laughing. It shocked me, but I wasn’t able to hold back the giggles. My body doubled over and tears streamed down my cheeks at his confession.
He was in love with me? He’d never once, in ten years of friendship, given me any indication that he was interested in me. But he’d been sneaking around behind me scaring men away. It was hilarious.
“You jackass!” I yelled finally.
“What?” he asked, his arms crossing over his chest defensively.
“All these years,” I said, wiping tears off my cheeks with the back of my hand. “All this time. I’ve loved you forever, and you’ve been—”
He grabbed me around the waist and pulled me into his arms. The move surprised me, but the moment his gaze met mine, I knew he was silently asking permission to kiss me.
As if I could deny him anything now. All of our cards were finally on the table. After years of hiding from each other, it had all come down to this moment of truth. And there was no way I was going to resist him now.
I moved first, capturing his lips in a kiss. His mouth was soft, and warm and he tasted like cinnamon. I moaned into him and his arms tightened around me, one hand gently sliding down my back as the other moved up to grip my hair in his fist.
“Abigail,” he murmured against my lips. “I just need you to understand that you’re mine now. I’m never letting you go.”
“Now?” I whispered. “Cyrus, I’ve always been yours.”
He scooped me into his arms and carried me to the bedroom, his lips peppering my skin with kisses as he walked.
I was nervous. I’d never been with a guy before. If I were being completely honest, for the first time in my life, I’d actually been saving myself for Cyrus.
I’d always known he was the only man for me. I’d just been too afraid he didn’t feel the same way.
But as he laid me on the bed and started gently removing my clothes, his hands and his mouth worshiping every inch of my skin that he revealed, the truth of our lives became crystal clear.
He’d always loved me, too.
He stripped his clothes quickly, discarding them to the floor before climbing over my body and settling between my thighs. He kissed me again, his tongue gently probing my lips until I opened to him, accepting his full kiss and unable to contain the sigh that escaped my throat at the feel of him on top of me.
As he kissed me, his fingers slid down my chest between our bodies, over my stomach, and down to my core. He rubbed hard, fast circles over my clit, instantly causing shocks to start pricking up my spine. My body became wet for him the moment he touched me, and he used the lubrication to slide two fingers deep into my channel.
The motion caused my back to arch up off the mattress, and he deepened the thrust of his digits. God, if he could make me feel like that with just his fingers, what was sex with him going to do to my body?
He moved back to my clit, rubbing and pinching and rolling the pads of his fingers over it until my orgasm rushed through me, the intensity of it causing tears to prick at my eyes as I quivered and screamed underneath him.
Cyrus didn’t wait for me to catch my breath, he replaced his fingers with the tip of his cock and slowly entered me, stretching me wide with his shaft. My body was so ready for him, there wasn’t any pain as he pushed past the pinch of resistance that I’d been saving for him.