Page 44 of The Verdict

“What did it feel like?” I demanded, placing one knee on the bed and reaching my free hand between her thighs. She gasped when I pushed two fingers inside her. Damn, she was so fucking wet, I could’ve started with three.

“Like nothing I’ve ever felt before,” she admitted breathlessly as I stroked her G-spot.

God, she was incredible. The way she moaned and arched into my touch, absolutely unashamed of her pleasure. A dark-haired, tanned goddess on my sheets. The only woman… I groaned as my cock thickened, forcing me to hold it tighter.

Women weren’t allowed in the cabins—not like this. For their protection was one thing, but for a one-night stand… no. Never. And no matter how the guys gave me shit for how frequently I spent my nights away from the compound, I never would’ve asked to bring anyone here.I never wanted to.The cabin—the compound—was one more physical wall erected around my heart. It made it easier to keep the women I used to sleep with at bay, knowing I could never bring them to where I lived.

But Merritt…she was here.

And she was mine.

“Good.” I slipped my fingers free and brought them to her mouth, pushing them through the fullness of her lips. “Taste how fucking sweet you are.”

Instantly, she sucked hard on my fingers, and my dick jolted in my hand.

“Fuck,” I hissed and angled myself between her thighs. If I waited any longer, I’d be coming all over her stomach instead of inside it. “Hold on.”

“Rhys!” Merritt grabbed for my shoulders as I thrust deep, burying myself in a single drive.

Velvet fire enveloped me, my cock wrapped in the tightest heaven. I let out a shout and grabbed for her hips, denting the soft flesh as I held her—using her body like a wild man.

“Yes!”she cried out and screamed as I fucked her like she wanted. Like she begged. Like her cries and thrashes pleaded.

She clawed at my arms. My chest. My shoulders. She begged for more as my piercing toyed with that sweet spot nestled inside her tight cunt.

“Dios mío, yes.”

God, I loved the husk of her voice. The rumble of her throat over the exotic words.My dick swelled, stretching her muscles wider to fit me.

“You know how tight you are?” I groaned. “Like I’m the only cock that’s ever been here.”And the only one that ever would be.

A pained groan ripped from my chest. Fucking dangerous thoughts, but I had no power to stop them. When I was inside her, all I could think was that I never wanted to leave.

“Rhys!” Her nails broke the skin on my arms.Black spots tattooed my vision, pleasure knotting and twisting at the base of my spine like a hangman’s noose. I grabbed her legs and slid them in front of my chest, her knees bending over my shoulders as I pumped even deeper inside her.

“This is real,” I grunted, losing myself in the tight grip of her heat, my cock throbbing to the point of pain. “You. Me. What we have is real.”

Her hands curled into the blanket on my bed. Her body met every one of my thrusts inch for heavenly inch. And all it took was a slight change in the angle of her hips for my piercing to drive right into her G-spot and send her flying over the edge.

She screamed as she came, her cunt putting my cockin a chokehold. The pull of her muscles, the rush of her slick heat… I lost my control. Weeks of wanting her. Fantasizing about her. Finding her.Resisting her.I could’ve sooner stopped a hurricane than stopped myself from finding my way back to her. Over and over and over, I drove into her welcoming body until my release ripped free like a train derailed from its tracks.

My rough shout boomed through the space as I pinned myself inside her. So fucking deep, I swore I was coming into her stomach. And it felt like long minutes passed before I even thought about breathing again, let alone moving.

“Are you okay?” I carefully lowered her legs but made no move to leave her body.

“Mm-hmm,” she moaned and reached for me.

I tipped over her, my forehead finding hers as our breaths collided like heavy waves of heat.

“Real or fake?” I rasped, holding her gaze steady.

For an instant—the smallest splinter of a second—I saw something flash that should’ve stopped me cold. Like the red dot of a laser scope, I should’ve recognized the warning;I was about to become a target.

But then it disappeared when her lashes fluttered, and her breath caught like what we had stopped her heart too—like it was powerful enough to break both of our realities to bring us together.

“Real.”

I kissed her again, long and deep. Fuck the consequences. Fuck Dare. Fuck his warnings. This was real—whatever else happened, whatever else she or I was,we were real.And that was the last thought on my mind after I’d cleaned us both and pulled her tight into my arms, feeling her settle into sleep against my chest.

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