Page 153 of Ethan's Sky

“Your man told you to stay with the brothers who were assigned to watch over you, and you left them both. You should’ve let them help Violet. Your safety comes first to me, Skyler. Every.”Slap.“Fucking.”Slap.“Time.”Slap.

Slipping a finger down her crease, she’s already dripping wet and slick with need. I circle her clit until she wiggles on my lap, fighting against my own body’s reaction to having her body grinding down on mine.

My balls are painfully tight, but she needs to learn. I need her to get it!

“You’re enjoying this way too much, Sunshine. This was meant to be a punishment. A reminder to keep yourself safe. You are never to put yourself in danger like that again.”

“I d-d-didn’t do it on purpose.”

“The hell you didn’t.”Slap.This time I rub her cheeks, soothing some of the sting. “I know why you did it. You wanted to help Lilah. But the fact remains, you are mine, and losing you is not an option. We would’ve helped her. But not at the cost of losing you. DO you understand, Sky? Please, tell me you understand? I can’t lose you, baby. I won’t survive losing you again.”

Skyler’s shoulder shake, and I know she’s crying. Making her feel guilty isn’t something I like doing, but she needs to trust me. To trustus.

Sitting her up, I turn her to straddle me and cradle her face in my hands as I wipe away her tears. I pepper her face with soft kisses, then hold her to my chest and let her cry on more time. She’s been through so much; I don’t even think she’s processed it all.

“I’m sorry, Ethan.” Her words are whispered against my chest. My hand on her chin, forces her to look me in the eyes. “I didn’t mean to scare you. I saw Lilah, and I remembered Emily. How helpless I felt. The guilt I carry for not getting to her in time. I couldn’t let it happen again.” She sniffs. “Lilah is so young, and all alone. I had to do something. It’s what my Daddy would’ve done. He would’ve helped the child.”

Kissing her forehead, I remind her, “We’ve talked about this. You were not at fault for Emily’s death. She got into her own trouble. Made her own decisions.”

“But that’s just it, Ethan. Lilah didn’t get into her own trouble. She didn’t ask to be thrown away like a piece of unwanted trash. She was never meant to be hungry, begging strangers for money to buy food. She’s a little girl, for fuck’s sake!” Her voice raises and I see where she’s going with this. The pain she’s struggling with.

“What kind of mother throws their child away?” She sobs, dropping her face into her hands and mumbles, “I fought so hard to keep our child, and here’s this poor girl whose mother threw her baby girl away. Ihad to help her.”

“Shh. Okay. Okay, baby. I get it. It’s okay.” My words are meant to sooth, but I think the only thing Skyler needs from me right now is to hold her while she finally lets it all go, once and for all.

We sit here for several minutes. Skyler’s naked body straddling my half naked one. When she’s finally cried enough, she sits up and asks, “Will you make love to me, Ethan? I need to feel us. To know we’re going to be okay.”

I don’t answer with words. I kiss the ever-loving hell out of her, standing and turning to lay her out on the bed before me. As always, my woman gives as good as she gets. I swallow her moans, and slow the kiss, pulling back enough to stand up.

Shucking off my jeans, I spread her thighs and climb up between them, the tip of my dick knocking at her entrance. With her eyes locked on mine, I push my cock all the way inside and settle there. Balls deep, stretching her body to fit mine.

Skyler lifts her head up off the bed, bringing her mouth to mine, and begin moving in and out of her body slowly, but forcefully. Hitting the sweet spot, I know will set her off.

Her legs wrap tight around my waist, and she starts moving in time with me, taking what she needs from me.

Reaching between us, I pinch her nipple and give it a good twist, at the same time she grinds herself against me. Her legs shake, her eyes close, and my woman is lost to the pleasure only I can give her.

I pick up my pace. Pounding into her now, harder, faster until I reach the same cliff and follow her over the edge of ecstasy.

45

SKYLER

Ethan woke me and Lilah up early this morning saying we needed to get to the clubhouse right away but didn’t say why and now my heart has been stuck in my throat ever since.

His hand rests on my thigh as he drives the three of us to the farm in the club’s SUV.

“Did something happen? Is someone hurt?” I ask, hoping Ethan understands my question.

“Stop worrying. I told you everyone is fine.”

The way he’s acting so calm, yet so mysterious has me freaking out inside. I know he’s not going to say anything about the club in front of Lilah, but my mind is running rampant with all the scenarios of things we could be walking into.

Is Ghost, Okay? Was there another attack on one of the businesses? Is it Cash? Did someone from the Devils figure out it was the club who took out their men? Is Lilah really going to be sent away with Eli?

The last question has been running through my mind all night. I hardly slept a wink, even with Ethan waking me up and thoroughly fucking me, twice!

My heart aches with the idea of sending her away. Don’t get me wrong, I love Eli and the men of Mountain Heights. They have been a huge part of my life for the last six years and I will forever be grateful to them for all they’ve done. They’re brothers to me. Not in the pound-my-chest-because- I-wear-a-leather-vest type of brothers. More the, we don’t share blood, but I choose you to be my family anyway, kind.

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