Page 26 of Keegan's Promise

His brows furrow.

“That you’re only just getting the chance to be her daddy,” I explain. “You lost so much time with her. It isn’t fair to you.”

“It wasn’t fair to you either. You didn’t ask to be sold or locked away.” He cups my cheek, stroking his fingers beneath my eye. “I’m so fucking sorry I didn’t know.”

“Please don’t do that,” I whisper. “Don’t apologize like you did something wrong. You were…” My voice cracks. “Until Lily, you were the best thing that ever happened to me.”

“Christ, I missed you every goddamn day, sweetness. One day with you, and you turned me inside out. You haunted me every day.” He strokes my cheek again. “All I had was your note, and it drove me crazy.”

I wrap my hand around his wrist, my eyes locked with his. “I t-thought about you so much.” I inhale a breath, reaching deep for a little courage. “When I felt like I couldn’t keep going, I…I remembered that day with you. I thought about Lily and how much you deserved to know about her.”

“Christ,” he groans, sliding across the bed toward me. “You’re killing me, Landry baby.”

“I don’t mean to.”

“I know. It’s you, sweetness. It’s having you right here in front of me again. It’s knowing you had my baby.” His eyes darken, a storm rolling through them. “It’s wishing you’d been right here in my arms for the last year.”

I don’t know what to say to any of that when it feels a little like he’s in my head, reading my thoughts, feeling the same things I do. It’s overwhelming in a way I like. So I don’t say anything.

Instead, I do the same exact thing I did back then. I lean forward, pressing my lips to his.

He grunts, his hand sliding into my hair to pull me closer. His tongue touches mine, sending a frisson of heat through me. He kisses me like he’s starving for me, growling against my lips.

I whimper into his mouth, squeezing my thighs together like that’ll help the ache between them any at all. I know better now, though. The only thing that helps is him between them. His fingers and tongue and cock. It’s him surging inside me, so deep I feel him in my soul.

“Keegan,” I moan, my hands sliding into his hair as the ache becomes unbearable. I need him to make it better. To hold me together.

“Christ, say my name like that again,” he demands, rolling me beneath him. His body settles on top of mine, and I arch into him, wanting every inch of him pressed to me.

“Keegan,” I moan again, willing to give him anything in this moment.

He nips my bottom lip, one hand slipping between us. His fingers glide along the sensitive skin of my waist, beneath my shirt. I practically quiver underneath him, so damn eager.

“I dreamed about you every damn night,” he groans, dipping his fingers beneath the waistband of my pants. “I need to touch you again, need to feel you coming apart for me. I need to know this isn’t a dream this time.”

“Yes,” I gasp, understanding exactly how he feels. I need it too, so damn badly I feel like I might shatter into pieces if he isn’t touching me soon. If I wake up this time and all of this was another dream…I might not survive it. I’ll just crack apart, splintering to ash and dust.

He dips his head, wrapping his lips around my nipple.

I cry out…and then cry out again when he shoves his hand into my panties. His fingers glide across my bare skin, sending waves of pleasure through me.

“Fuck,” he groans. “You’re soaked for me, baby.”

He isn’t wrong. I think I’ve been wet since he kissed me the first time. Maybe since I saw him standing in the hallway at his shop. That’s the power he has over me. That’s how intensely I want him.

He nudges my legs apart, his thumb teasing along my slit.

“Please,” I whimper, rocking against his hand. “Please.”

“Is this what you need?” He presses his thumb to my clit, grinding in a firm circle.

I sob his name, my hips arching from the bed.

He teases me relentlessly, dragging me right to the edge of a powerful orgasm within seconds.

“Fall for me, sweetness,” he whispers, his lips against mine. “I’ll catch you.”

I whimper, rocking against his hand as he thrusts two fingers in and out of me, his thumb steady against my clit. “I…I…”

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