Total pages in book: 139
Estimated words: 135958 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 680(@200wpm)___ 544(@250wpm)___ 453(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 135958 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 680(@200wpm)___ 544(@250wpm)___ 453(@300wpm)
He pushed in, out, in, out until I felt myself coming. An explosion crashed inside of me, and I screamed, gasping as it ripped through me, leaving me trembling in his arms. Once I was done, he carried me to the bed. Then he pulled out, moved me to my knees, and stood behind me.
He gripped my shoulder and molded himself over me.
His cock found my entrance, and as his teeth nipped at my skin, he pushed back in.
No. I’d been wrong. This. This was him claiming me.
One hand held my breast, the other held my waist, and as I turned back for him, his mouth found mine, and he fucked me until he came too.
It was rough, but it was us. He opened a channel inside of me where dark things happened, a place most people didn’t want to acknowledge. Not Kai. Not me. He’d found it in me, made me look at it, and then he took me there and was making it my home.
I shouldn’t have wanted it. I shouldn’t have wanted him, but I could no longer deny that I was his.
Everything had been leading to this point—the time when I would seek him out, when I would follow him, when I would make him come and get me. We were there now, and I hadn’t known until this moment.
I’d known everything was going to change when that plane left to bring me here. Now I knew how complete that change would be.
I rolled to my back, and he fell down next to me—both of us panting, sweating, tingling—and then his hand found mine and he squeezed. He curled toward me, his leg moving over me, holding me in place, and he pressed a soft kiss to my shoulder.
“Don’t leave again,” he murmured.
I squeezed back; that was all the energy I could muster. “Never.”
And there, we both fell asleep, my world completely changed.
I just didn’t know if it was for the better.
CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
I woke and rolled over. It was still dark outside.
Kai sat on the edge of the bed, his back to me, his elbows resting on his knees. I sat up, scooting over to slip my legs around both sides of him. He tensed at first, then relaxed as I rested my cheek to his back, breathing him in.
He caught one of my hands, tugging it to his chest. “Do you regret anything?” he asked, his back rumbling with the question.
I held still a moment. He was asking so much.
“No.” I relaxed. I squeezed his hand. “Not one thing.”
He raised our hands, pressing a kiss to them. “Good.” Instead of turning to me, he reached behind him and dragged me around to straddle his lap. I raised my arms, resting them on his shoulders. I grinned at him, easing back to take in his entire face.
His hair was tousled. I could see soft lines of tiredness around his mouth, but his eyes were alert. Awake. He reached up, his fingers sliding to cup the back of my head.
He drew me close, my forehead touching his. “You’re here now.”
“I’m here now.”
“I have things to do here.”
“I know.” My hand twitched. He felt it, raising his eyebrows.
“Will you be okay with that?”
“I came to see my father.” But there was more. I’d come for him too. I just didn’t know it until I got here.
He nodded, his fingers tracing my sides. “I want to remove your father from his company.” He paused, observing me intently. “And I want you to replace him.”
I leaned farther back to really take him in.
There was a guardedness, a resigned expression behind his eyes—as if he was warning me, but also waiting for…something. I didn’t know what.
“Okay?” I asked.
“Are you willing to do that? I can have someone replace you, if you want. If you’re willing to help me.”
I grinned. “We’re back to the original proposition then?”
His grin was rueful, but ominous at the same time. “You came here of your own volition. I won’t send you away. I’ll only make you do something if it’s for your safety. That’s it. I promise.” He looked me over. “I don’t promise often.”
My mouth was suddenly parched. “Okay. I mean…” I licked my lips. “Yes. I’ll do what I can.”
“I need to remove your father from the Bello Company, and I’ll put you in his place. If you stay, it’s up to you. It can be real, or it can be for show. I can have Tanner come down to act as your spokesman. That’s all up to you.”
Why was he telling me this?
What else was going to happen?
But I nodded. “I’ll do it.”
And as soon as I said those words, the butterflies were back, and this time they had steel-edged wings. That meant so many things: I would reveal myself as not being dead to the public. I would have to face my father. It had been a nightmare for half my life, a revenge-filled dream, a goal, and now—I gulped—a reality. A whole tornado kicked up inside of me.