“There was a lady at Ethan’s apartment, Rosie. Rosita, I think. She said you and her were an item.”

Classic Ethan …

“Never,” I snap. “I swear, Lily.Never. You’re the only woman I’ve ever wanted. Every single experience I had before you was a goddamn waste, and I never had many to begin with. I loveyou. It’s onlyyou.”

Her smile is the greatest gift any man could ever receive, but I’m the only one who everwill. She smiles gorgeously and then digs her nails in with even more passion. “Then what are you waiting for?” she says with a hint of sass.

She’s magical. It’s the only way I can think of her. After everything she’s been through, she can make us both live on the brighter side of life. She’s an angel,myangel.

Her perfect pussy feels like the only place my dick could ever belong. Her walls grip me tightly as I inch my way in. Her walls spread and caress my length. She might be a virgin, but when she twitches her hips, it’s like she knows how best to drive me nuts.

I glide even deeper, guided by the sounds of her moans. She gasps and whimpers like she’s never felt this before, and for her,that makes sense. Yet it’s the same for me. I’ve never felt this warmth, this need, this certainty.

“I love you so damn much,” I groan when I’ve slid into her tight-as-fuck hole.

She stares up at me, her lips trembling, the corner twitching like she’s going to smile again. Her hands are on her tits now, squeezing them together. I stare down at her thickness as my seed roars at me to claim her.

“It feels so, so good,” she moans. “Oh God, don’t stop.”

There is no way Icanstop when I hear the hunger in her tone. I slide out, savoring every time she twitches and moans, and then I push back in again. Her virgin hole takes every inch. I groan when, on the next thrust, she moves in time with me, shifting up and down on the bed. I grunt and lean down, finding her lips.

She kisses me back with more intensity than I’ve felt yet, which is saying a damn lot where my passionate angel is concerned.

“Yes, yes,” she whimpers between kisses. “Oh, fuck,fuck, Landon. I only want you. Just you. Forever.”

“Forever,” I growl, leaning back so I can watch her body shake for me with each thrust.

Our pleasure collides hotly. Her tight walls pulse around my dick. It’s like I can feel the orgasm getting ready to release. We lose ourselves in the thrusting, in the fusion of our bodies. I’ve often heard about sex meaning more to some people than it ever has to me, but with Lily, I experience it.

The heat is bonding and fusing us, and we are becoming one. Her eyes begin to flutter open and closed when I fuck her even faster. The bed is whining. She sinks her hands into her ampletits, turning her creamy skin red in love marks. I grunt as seed boils, building up like it’s getting ready for one big explosion.

“Oh, oh,oh.”

On the third,oh, I know her orgasm is about to slam into her, about to take control of her whole body. There’s a good few seconds between when she realizes, and I feel it in the pulsing of her perfect slit.

She almost screams, but then she must remember her mother. She covers her mouth with one hand, moaning loudly through her tightly clasped fingers. I fall atop her as the seed explodes out of my dick, so much of it pumping out of me I feel lightheaded. I feel like, finally, everything makes sense.

I’ve lived my life coldly and logically. This is the opposite. This is pure heat, pure impossibility, and pure wild perfection.

Once I regain my breath, I lie gently next to her, leaning down and kissing her on the cheek. She finds my lips and kisses me deeply, sounding giddy with her release. “I love you so much. You were always my knight in shining armor. I know this wouldn’t have been as special with anybody else. I don’t care what anybody would say if they heard me say that. It’s the truth.”

“I feel the same.” I kiss her again. “You’re one of a kind, Lily.”

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

LILY

Isit in the doctor’s office with Landon, gripping his hand tightly as we look across the large, somewhat imposing desk from his doctor. Doctor Gallivan is a serious man who’s giving me bad news vibes. On the way here, I wondered if Carter, the director, or somebody else from work might have spotted us together, as irrational as that sounds.

We still have to deal with that, but it doesn’t matter as we sit here now.

“Your first doctor was …” The doctor leans forward with a sigh. “… slightly eager in his diagnosis. All your tests are showing signs of Schwannoma.”

“What’s that?” Landon says, and I hear him trying to hold back his hope. I do the same, trying not to let the warmth bubbling inside overwhelm me.

“It’s a rare type of tumor that forms in the nervous system. Schwannoma grows from cells called Schwann cells. Schwann cells protect and support the nerve cells of the nervous system. Schwannoma tumors are often benign, which means they arenot cancer, but in rare cases, they can become cancer. Doctor Coleman shouldn’t have told you that youdefinitivelyhad cancer.”

“So … I don’t?” Landon sounds almost boyish in his budding excitement. It brings a big smile to my face, hearing him like this. “Mine aren’t cancerous?”