His cheekbones twitched beneath my fingers, and I knew he was finally waking when he slid his palms up my thighs and used the tip of his finger to trace four letters against my exposed skin.
M I N E
I pressed our noses together and stared at his smooth eyelids, willing them to open. A heavy sound left his throat, and I felt his breath move across my lips while he struggled.
“I’ll help you, Daddy.” Taking one hand off his face, I used my thumb and forefinger to pry his eye open. “Hi.”
“Kitten.” His chest rocked beneath me, and I thought he was laughing at me because I felt his lips curve upward. “How long have you been awake?”
“I’m not sure.”
I only slept when I was tired, which wasn’t often. My brain buzzed a lot, and all the noise made it difficult for me to shut down. There were too many things to consider—too many questions that needed answers.
Long fingers tightened around my wrist and pulled my hand from his eye. “Was it still dark out when you woke up?”
Uhm…“It’s always dark out when I wake up.”
He made a noise.
I sat up. My hands flapped, and I wanted to wrap them into my shirt but I wasn’t wearing one, so I wrapped them in the sheets instead. Daddy’s face was smooth, but his lips were pressed together as if he was purposefully trying to keep all his words inside.
“Is that… bad?”
My stomach did a somersault. I didn’t want to be bad.
“No, Kitten. It’s not bad.”
Daddy grasped my hands and untangled them from the sheets. He anchored my palms to his chest with the weight of his own, and when I glanced at him, I found him smiling.
Ilovedhis smile.
“Tell me what I missed while I was asleep.”
“I was busy, Daddy.Look.” I pointed a proud finger at my dresser. “I made room for your clothes so you never have to leave.”
“Good.”He shoved his hands into my hair, tugging at the strands until I hovered over him and our noses were only a breath apart. “I am going to leave pieces of myself across every inch of your life, Kitten. Your mind, your heart, your skin,your home—it’s all mine now.”
My heart wasn’t hiding anymore, and the muscles that protected it began to unwind themselves. They knocked at the edges of my ribcage, eager to leave my chest and bind themselves to his.
“The only time you’ll find yourself in this apartment alone is when Daddy is off killing bad guys, and even then you won’t really be alone, will you, Kitten?”
I shook my head. “Where Daddy goes, I go.”
“That’s right, baby.” He thumbed my bottom lip. “Now, open your mouth and give me a fucking kiss.”
A gasp left me, but it slipped down his throat the moment our lips collided. He shoved one hand down my undies but kept the other anchored to the back of my head, his fingers tightening with each pass of his tongue. My own fingers curled against his chest, and I couldn’t decide if I wanted to break his skin or play with his nipples.
Both.
I tore my mouth from his, and the way he growled at me only made my cock pulsate inside my undies.
“Ask for what you want, Kitten.”
Nuzzling my nose against his sternum, I bit at the skin that covered it. “Can I—”
I choked on my question, sinking my nails into his skin the moment I felt his fingers slipping between my buttcheeks. I latched my lips around his nipple, whining against his skin when he swept over my hole far too quickly. My back arched, and I felt very much like the kitten he said I was.
“You’re so fucking pretty.” His fingers were trembling when he picked locks of hair off my sweaty forehead, careening his neck to stare down at me. “A little conundrum, aren’t you? Suckling my nipple and making me bleed all at once.”