Page 72 of Redemption

He raises his head and looks up at me. “You loved me?”

My hands go into his hair as I see a yearning in his eyes, a need that I have always felt into the depths of my soul. “How could I not?”

He pulls me down into his lap, my legs straddled around his hips. “I love you,” he says softly, his palm cupping my jaw. “I’ve loved you since we met. I just didn’t know it at the time. It wasn’t until someone tried to tell me what love was. I saw it in her face and I knew. I knew that the whole damn time I was in love with you. And even to that day three years ago when I asked that woman what it felt like to be in love, I knew that I still loved you.”

More tears fall from my eyes as my heart clenches at his words. “What does this mean for us, Kilian? We can’t… you and I… it’s not—”

His finger covers my lips. “We’ll figure it out. All of it.”

“We’ll both end up dead.”

He chuckles as his thumbs wipe away my tears. “If you knew the other side of me, you would know that isn’t an option.”

I grip his shirt, pulling his chest closer to me. “I want to know that side of you. I want to know everything. No more secrets. No more lies.”

His lips brush against mine. “You and me, Bella.Anam cara.”

I crash my lips into his. I need as much of this man as I can get. I need all of him. The other half of my soul.

I push him back against the floor as I grind my hips into him. His hands trail down my back until they are cupping my ass. I assault his mouth, pouring every single one of my feelings into him. Like I am making up for ten years without him. Without the man that changed my entire life.

He growls as I bite his lip and he flips us over so he’s on top of me. The steel in his pants driving hard against my silk pajama shorts. His hands grab my wrists, pinning them to the floor as he licks and sucks his way across my neck.

“Your body has always been made for me, Bella. Only you. It’s only ever been you.”

I moan as his lips make their way down to my nipple, sucking the peak into his mouth through the silk of my top. “I’m all yours, Kilian. Always yours.”

He shifts abruptly, his hands on my hips as he jumps off the floor, then pressing me into my bed. “Bellissima,” he groans into my neck before pulling my top off me, exposing my breasts to the cool night air.

I wrap my legs around his hips, grinding into every suckle he makes on my chest as I pull his T-shirt over his head. I glide my hands down his tattooed chest and abs, my fingers playing with the happy trail that disappears into his pants. I grab his buckle, making quick work of his leather belt before I have his jeans unbuttoned and unzipped and my hand is wrapped around his velvet steel.

He moans against my nipples before his mouth makes its way down my stomach. His hands pushing my shorts down as far as they will go with my legs locked around his hips. He grins when he sees my bare pussy and wastes no time latching on to my clit.

I grab a pillow and shove it over my face to make sure I don’t wake up Aria as Kilian shoves two fingers into me while his tongue laps through my folds. My entire body is on fire as I pulse against him, my orgasm so close. He chuckles against my clit before pushing my legs off him and kneeling back on his haunches.

“Why… are… you... stopping?” I pant as he pulls the pillow off my face.

“You’re so beautiful when you come. I need to see that pretty face of yours.”

“And I am going to scream so loud the neighbors will call the cops. What do you think will happen if Aria hears?”

He smiles then sucks his fingers coated in me into his mouth. “Mmm. You are just going to have to stay quiet, doll.”

I writhe against him as he calls me the name he knows I hate. But for some reason, it’s turning me on more. He shakes his head as he climbs off the bed, pulling my shorts the rest of the way off. He kicks his pants and shoes off before he crawls over me, pressing his body weight against me. “Maybe I just wanted you to come all over my dick.”

“I always come—” I can’t even finish the sentence as he slams into me. The orgasm hitting me so hard my scream is silent.

“There’s my girl.”

His mouth latches on to mine, his kisses soft and languid as he picks up his rhythm. I meet him thrust for thrust, my legs wrapped around him, my hands digging into his scalp, his hands gripping my face. He hits me in just the right spot, I can already feel another climax building and I know he is close too, by the shift in his hips.

“Open your eyes,” he whispers against my lips.

I do as he says and see the love pouring into mine as I realize this isn’t us fucking. This is on an entirely different level. We keep our gazes transfixed on each other as we both reach the precipice.

He collapses onto me, his mouth against my ear. “You are the most beautiful woman I have ever met and will ever meet. You are mine. I love you.”

I can’t help the tears that form. “I love you too, Kilian.”

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