Page 122 of Dominance

Especially when I hear those words, barely intelligible between her cries.

“I love you!”

The pleasure intensifies to that buzzing roar, rocketing through every part of me. My head drops back, my mouth opens in an endless roar, launching me into orbit.

And we are one, soaring off the edge and into a fall that I hope never ends.

When the rush subsides, I’m laying on my back. Collapsed on the bed, Gloria laying sprawled across me.

“Adriano, you’re shaking…” Gloria mutters, biting into my chest.

A little laugh escapes my lips at the sting of her teeth and she looks up at me, almost startled.

“What’s so funny?”

“Not funny. Just …”

“Happy.”

“Yes.”

Her fingernails send chills along my arms and legs as she titillates my stomach, my sides, contracting with the warmth of her breath on my skin. It’s magnificent. It’s pure euphoria.

And I could lay in this haven forever.

Gloria’s eyes droop, her breathing slows.

But she never lets go of me.

I’ve never felt this before.

And for the first time, I finally understand what it means to fall completely in love.

24

GLORIA

Morning rays and afterglow.

We lay half in and half out of sleep for hours, caressing, kissing, never any farther than an inch apart. An eternity passes in his arms, my face nestled in the powerful muscles of his chest.

I’ve never felt safer anywhere in my entire life.

The miles between us and my father, the world we left behind, it all feels so much farther away. Like none of it can touch us here. Like we have our own safe little bubble, our shelter from chaos.

Even if it can’t last, I hold on to it, burning it into my memory as I doze in and out of sweet, quiet dreams. Dreams filled with him.

Each time I wake, I find him beside me, relaxed, sometimes watching me sleep, sometimes asleep himself.

It’s devastatingly attractive, the way he holds me. His sweet, clean scent only adds to the dizzying sensation filling my chest.

As the sun finally reaches a reasonable height through the window and he inhales, his nose pressed into my hair, his arms squeezing me close.

I turned my head, kissing his chest lightly, barely brushing my lips along his skin.

When I reach his nipple, my tongue darts out, making him squirm suddenly. A little laugh puffs his chest, the same one from last night. Carefree and unlike anything I’ve heard from him.

“So you are awake,” I tease.

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