Page 116 of Liberated By Sin

“Mine?”

The duffel bag dropped to the ground, and he took my hand. “Yours. I purchased this lot of land, house included, and renamed this little slice of paradise after you, Athena.”

The name was no longer a reason to withdraw and shudder at memories. I embraced my resilience through hell and learned to love her again.

To love myself.

Amara had kept the light on for me all those years. She was who I needed to be at the time. She kept me strong and, in one piece, fighting my demons while dancing with them through the flames. But her time was over.

Athena was here now. For good.

“Santi, this is incredible. Thank you—”

Again, my feet left the ground as he carried me into the cool water.

“Wait, our clothes.”

“Not important,” he said, wading deeper until the ripples reached his waistline. “Mía preziosa, all of this is yours. I told you I’d give you the world, didn’t I? I thought this little corner of what had once been your home would be the perfect addition.”

Santino and I spent most of the year enjoying the Amalfi Coast, and alternating between our homes in Philadelphia, Miami, and now Brazil.

“It’s gorgeous,” I said as I combed my fingers through his hair. “But you know I don’t need the world when I have everything I want right here in my arms.” I placed a hand between us, feeling my son’s lively kicks. “And right here.”

A riveting smile lit up his face. “I know, just as I know there arethings, painful memories you’ll never forget. But I’m going to overflow your cup,amore. So that all you see and feel is us.” His hand pressed against mine, over our baby. “Our love.”

“I love you,” I whispered again as he submerged us beneath the water and kissed me, palming my ass until the need for oxygen forced us back to the surface.

“Perfect. Just the way I like you, dripping wet.” He licked the droplets from the crook of my neck. “Fuck, I love you.”

I threw my head back when his mouth covered my sensitive nipple, and he nipped at the drenched fabric, swiping with his tongue and using his teeth to taunt it to a peak. Pregnancy hormones drove me crazy some days, but the biggest perk was my heightened sex drive. I wanted to jump my husband’s goddamn bones at every turn. The bigger I got, the more creative we became to accommodate my growing belly. And I fucking loved it.

We shed our clothes and let them drift downstream. The duffel bag now made total sense.

“If you don’t fuck me in my own lake soon, I’ll kill you,” I warned between shallow pants.

Santino laughed and flicked the tip of my nipple with his tongue before moving us toward the tumbling water.

“Ready?” he said, ducking beneath the rushing spray and resurfacing on the other side of the falls.

A small cavern was carved into the rocks, and the water served as a curtain between us and the forest. He laid me on the slick rock and wasted no time diving between my thighs.

“Oh, fuck,” I whimpered as he feasted and threw one leg over his shoulder.

“Sit up,” he snapped, running his tongue toward my clit with one hard lick. “Eyes on me. I want you to watch while I eat this sweet little cunt of yours.”

My belly didn’t make the task an easy one, coupled with my shuddering thighs. What he was asking was nearly impossible. But again,worth the fucking effort to latch on to his hair and watch him devour me like his favorite dessert.

“I’ve been dying to taste you all day,preziosa.” He spit and licked. “The downside to vacationing with guests.” Spreading me open, he suctioned my clit hard into his mouth. “Can’t have my fucking pussy whenever I want.”

With a rolling moan, I closed my eyes and bit my lip, feeling my orgasm rising. “Fuck…fuck. So good, baby.”

“Eyes, Athena.”

“I can’t,” I whined, my thighs shuddering uncontrollably, closing around his head with every stroke of his gifted tongue.

His wicked chuckle vibrated against my clit and sent me hurdling over the edge. I imagined the euphoria of diving from the top of the cliff overlooking the ocean was similar to this feeling of rising so fucking high only to free fall to earth.

I never wanted it to end.

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