Total pages in book: 112
Estimated words: 106600 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 533(@200wpm)___ 426(@250wpm)___ 355(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 106600 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 533(@200wpm)___ 426(@250wpm)___ 355(@300wpm)
“I would like to hear the other options. You’re a lot of man; this doesn’t seem right to force you into.”
“You’re not forcing me into anything. We can talk about those other options later. Right now, I want to take you to our bed,” he replies, placing emphasis on our.
Ardan
“That was so intense,” Billy pants as she lies on top of my chest. “I had no idea I could see your thoughts as well.”
She’s right. Our session was intense. As I took her sweet body, I began to show her my thoughts of what I wanted to do to her. How much better it would be when I took her to her limits.
I have no doubt Billy loved what she saw. I’m now looking forward to turning things up. Especially with the use of an ice cock. That one seemed to rile her up.
I rumble low with laughter. “I enjoyed showing you that you can.”
She lifts her head and stares back at me. Reaching up, she palms my cheek and runs her thumb down the bridge of my nose. I can’t help smiling back at her.
“Like what you see?”
“Maybe. I was just thinking. I never registered all your piercings before. I mean, of course I caught this one in your nose, but I never thought about the fact that your ears are full of them.
“I was a bit preoccupied earlier today, but I noticed your dick is pretty loaded with them as well. I feel like there’s some story there,” she says as she searches my gaze.
I hold her gaze and give her the answers she’s seeking. In fact, I give her answers to all the questions I believe she has from the brief time I spent in her thoughts before she shut me out.
“Thank you.”
“For what?” I ask.
“Answering so many of my questions by showing me. You’re intentionally letting me in. I’m not ready to give you free rein of my thoughts, but I see the gesture,” she says.
“I will wait for as long as you need. I’m not going to force you to do anything you don’t want to.”
She snorts. “Yet, here I am in your bed, and you’re insistent on following me to work.”
I begin to run my fingertips up and down her back. She melts into me and nearly purrs with the gesture. I bite back a laugh.
“Something tells me you don’t mind either.”
“I don’t know if I do. Not yet at least.”
“Good. Keep that in mind. I’m going to make things go away for you and Carson. That’s nonnegotiable as well. I know that’s on your mind. I want to take it off.”
“Is that something you saw before I shut you out, or are you creeping back in? Something also tells me you could take my thoughts if you wanted, whether I want you to or not.”
“It was and I could.”
The room falls silent for a few beats, and I think my little human has finally fallen asleep. I’m not tired, so I lie staring up at the ceiling, savoring the feel of my mate in my arms. I don’t know why our mates have appeared now, but I’m not complaining.
“Ardan, don’t change your mind,” Billy whispers and then the door to her thoughts comes open.
My heart begins to ache as I’m thrown right into the time when she was a little frightened girl running away to save her own life. Then I’m taken back to how people repeatedly let her down.
The more time I spend in her thoughts, the more I begin to understand her. I stiffen when I come to the bond she has with Carson, Mack—the man who raised her—and Eddy—the one she truly bonds with as an older brother.
I know she has fallen asleep when her thoughts become more open than I think she means for them to be. I stop and slowly back out. I would never take advantage of this gift.
Gratitude fills me as I have a deeper understanding of my mate. The abandonment, anger, the need to be independent—it all makes sense now. I think I will travel with her within the pendant.
That way, I can show her I’m there for her whenever she needs me, but I’m not there to take her power away. Billy needs that sense of control, and I won’t shatter that. It’s going to be a challenge, but I’m willing to bend for her. Only her.
“I will never change my mind. You’re stuck with me,” I murmur and lean in to kiss the top of her head.
Daily Blessings
Igroan and as I’m woken out of my sleep by an annoying sound. Reaching out toward the sound, I slap my hand toward it. Lifting my head, I find my phone on a clear glass, floating shelf. Something like an end table.
“That wasn’t there last night,” I mutter as I sit up.