“Now.” My teeth scrape along her skin, and shegasps.
“When you never leave meagain.”
My heart aches, but I laugh through it as I slide a hand under her tank top, my breath hitching as I graze the curve of herbreast.
It’s strange how her strength makes me give but her softness makes me rough. Fierce. Damneddevout.
“You realize unless I stay with you until the day we die, it’s impossible to fulfill thatpromise.”
She pulls back long enough to look down into my face, her hair hanging in a curtain around us. “Perfect.”
My heart hammers against my back as I soak in the sight of her, flushed and beautiful andwanting.
I shift up on one elbow and cup her in my hand. The softness of her is unreal, even before I rub a thumb across her nipple. She moans, loud, and I drag her mouth back to mine to swallow thesound.
If it carries down the hall, it’ll ruin all of this. All ofus.
“I could make you forgive me right now,” I murmur against her lips once she’s quiet again. “I could touch you until you’re only mine, always mine. You’d never come again without seeing my face, fucking hearing mywords.”
My voice is urgent, and she blinks down at me, her lips swollen and cheeksflushed.
“Yeah. Youcould.”
The truth of that hangs betweenus.
It takes every ounce of control in me to shift out from under her and cross to thedoor.
“You said you wouldn’tleave.”
Her whisper has me turning to see her propped up on her elbows, hair wild, eyesbright.
I open the door and stare down thehall.
Jax and Haley’s room is at the other end of the hall, and Sophie’s inbetween.
Nothing. Darkness.Silence.
All of that could change in aheartbeat.
I shut thedoor.
Then strip off my shirt, mypants.
The wariness on her face is replaced with hunger as her gaze drops to the obvious tent in my boxerbriefs.
I laugh through my clenched jaw. “Yeah, that’s not what tonight’sfor.”
Most promises are made to be broken, but I push that from my mind because I can’t entertain any more darkthoughts.
I lay down beside her, tucking a piece of hair behind her ear before I nudge her to face the otherway.
Then I wrap my arms around her so her back warms my chest and her ass nestles against my achingcock.
I drag the covers over us, a flimsy wall of protection against the harshworld.
The world can go fuckitself.
Tonight, the sheets are ourshield.