“Okay.” Her eyes flick between my hands and my eyes. “Yeah, okay.”
“Will you regret this?” I release my belt for a moment and instead dig my fingers into her hair to bring her closer. Her lip is bleeding and sore. Her face bruised and growing darker with every minute that passes. She’s a fucking mess, and remembering how she got that way makes me furious. But then she nods again.
“I think I will.” She brings her hands to my pants and begins tugging them down for me. “I’m almost certain I’m going to regret this. Most of me is convinced this is a concussion dream, and tomorrow, you’ll still be dead. But I want it. This office is Switzerland.” My heart tumbles when her gaze comes up. She remembers. She remembers it all. “Switzerland. And for as long as we’re in Switzerland, it’s okay. The rest doesn’t matter.”
She tugs my pants down to my knees, then she pushes me back to sit on my haunches and climbs on. “You’re clean?”
I eagerly nod and help her climb closer until her bare skin and mine touch. “I would never hurt you, Lib. I literally couldn’t do it.”
“Okay.” She fists my cock and squeezes until I throw my head back on a roar. “I’m clean, and I’m on the pill.”
“Okay.”
“Okay.” She lines me up with deft movements and begins sliding down. Confidence and rush quickly turn to a squeak of pain and tightening hands as she slows her movements. “Jesus, Gunner.”
“Theo.” I wrap one arm around her hips to help hold her weight, and use the other to control her face and bring her closer. “Please use my name. You make me panic every time you say Gunner.”
“But it’s your name,” she whispers. “That’s the name I thought for all of these years. It’s the name I thought when I first touched myself.” Her single open eye rolls back in ecstasy when I roll my hips and tap her most pleasurable places. “Jesus.”
“Practice, Libby.” I lift her light frame and help her slide back down. “Practice saying Theo. Gunner doesn’t exist anymore.”
“He does in Switzerland.” Her eyes water from pain, from emotion, from a concussion, but her pussy squeezes me tight and her hands grip my shoulders. “We’re in Switzerland when we’re in here.” Her thighs bulge and strain as she basically maintains a permanent squat and rides my lap. There’s no slow and steady for us. There’s no foreplay or time to get to know each other’s body. From the moment we met, we’ve been intense and all-consuming. From nothing to a flash fire tearing through dry bushland. I’ve never given her a chance to be half in. To know me, to know Gunner, means to be all-in and loyal. “Jesus, Gunner.”
“Mmm.” I push her hair back. The hat she wore into this club is long gone, knocked off when that prick hit her, but now I have the perfect canvas to nibble her warm flesh and bruise her hips as I lift and control her body. “I didn’t know you could be so delicious.” My blood – like us – is a wildfire. It burns me from the inside, leaves my fingertips tingling, and my heart pumping faster than it ever has before. “Jesus, Libby. I’m back now. I did keep my promise, because I’m back now.”
“Oh God.” Her pussy flutters and grips my length. Her lips come back to mine, tongue, teeth, breath and desperation. Her nails score my skin, and her breath scorches my lungs. She found the page I’ve always been on. From zero to sixty, she caught up and is holding on, and though tomorrow might kill us both, she rides tonight with me, fearlessly, unrepentant, until my orgasm draws up, and her panting becomes a cry when I hold her down and trigger her release. My teeth clamp down over the uninjured side of her lip, my hands bruising as I hold her down, and as her pussy crushes and holds me prisoner, I come hard enough that my lungs struggle to draw a breath.
More than twenty years of longing. Of hoping. Of fighting simply to live.
Twenty years of wondering, of hunger, of tears and grief.
And then a week of danger, of desperation, of nearness, but rejection.
I hold on to her trim body and surge to my knees as jets of cum escape my body with an almost violence, only to enter hers and claim her for my own.
This was a certain outcome, decided forever ago. And finally,finally, we close that chapter, only to open another just as the universe intended when a boy and a girl met in a dark club.