Page 144 of Three Reckless Words

Yes, it’s temporary, this feeling of belonging, but I crave it desperately.

I crave him like oxygen.

But that’s a thought I shut away for another time as I lose myself in midnight-blue eyes.

“Winnie, goddamn!” Every muscle against me turns to granite, his skin slick with sweat.

“I’m close,” I tell him. My words are clipped but soft. “Archer, I’m going to come!”

“Fuck, fuck. Come on my cock, Winnie.” He holds my gaze like lightning splitting the sky.

I do, and he flexes under me as he gives in to his animal need, swelling deep inside me as I tighten around him.

He’s a human wave, a groaning storm, a tsunami slamming my body against him.

I feel his echo in my bones.

The way he twitches, the rattle in his chest, the way he rasps as he buries his cock to the hilt and unloads.

Coming!

Then there’s just white-hot ecstasy burning away my senses.

Every shattering moan and rough grunt as he erupts deep inside me feels like the darkest enlightenment.

Yes, I think I get it now.

If this is a beautiful delusion, don’t ever bring me home.

If this is how it has to end with Archer Rory, I’ll suffer for every second we have left.

His hands holdmine so tight I can’t feel my fingers when I open my eyes again.

It feels divine to just enjoy the afterglow.

Almost as good as the orgasm itself, this weird intimacy that still lingers between us when I roll off him and start cleaning up.

“Come here first,” he says, holding out his arm. Tucking into his embrace feels a little too normal, a little too easy. Like walking back into a familiar room or smelling the specific muted scent of his laundry.

I close my eyes, listening to the thud of his heart.

“When will Colt be home?”

“Not before noon at the earliest.”

“That’s a long math class.”

“It’s a whole college course crammed into a couple months. He’s meeting his mom for brunch, too.” He sighs against my head. “I said he could go.”

Dang.

This is opening him to so many questions, but I don’t dare ask.

Not like this.

Not now.

After the nightmare yesterday, it feels good to justbe, with no big expectations or fears or anything.

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