“Yes,” she says as she gazes at her knotted hands.
“I was afraid to push you too far too fast. I am terrified of losing you permanently and I don’t trust myself. If I kiss you, Mercy, I may never stop.”
“Liam,” she breathes, and it makes my cock twitch.
“Get over here.”
She comes over to me, and I pull her onto my lap.
I ghost my lips over hers, “Do you want me to kiss you, baby girl?”
“Yes,” she whispers.
I lick her bottom lip, and the needy sound she makes travels through my entire body. I tentatively run my hands through her hair and press my lips to hers. She threads her fingers in my hair and deepens our kiss wildly. Turning on my lap, so she straddles me, never removing her lips from mine, she’s making me crazy. I’m trying with everything I have not to lose complete control. But she’s pushing me to the edge. I groan in pleasure and pain when she moves her mouth to my neck. Of course, her mouth feels amazing. But the pain of losing her and fearing going through it again is too much.
She whispers in my ear, “I need you inside me, Liam. I want you.”
“I can’t,” I say.
Lifting her head, she stares at me, “Why?”
Seven
MERCY
“You might regret it.I don’t want to move too fast.”
“I know what I want, Liam. Stop treating me like I’m damaged.”
He pulls my hair hard, exposing my throat, and runs his tongue up my skin, peppering my chin and jaw with feather-light kisses.
“Nothing could ever change how I feel about you. Nothing,” he says.
He hovers his lips over my ear as he whispers, “Mercy.” It sounds like a prayer, a plea, and twists my heart.
“Has your doctor cleared you for sex?”
“Yes.”
“Has there been anyone else?”
I gasp, “No. Of course not.”
He runs his hands along my thighs, presses his face into my neck, and inhales, “God, you smell so fucking good.”
Placing his hands under my ass he stands, I wrap my arms and legs around him, and he walks to the bedroom, never taking his eyes from mine.
Setting me on my feet, he reaches behind me, unzips my dress, and pulls it down over my hips, letting it fall to the floor.
“No bra? No panties?”
I bite my lip and shake my head.
“Dirty dirty, fucking girl.”
He stares at me while I unbutton his shirt.
“You’re so beautiful, baby girl, so beautiful.”