Page 111 of Axel

I press my forehead to hers. “I stalked you. I got pierced for you. I never fired you, when goddamn, you deserved it, daily. And … I’m saving my left leg for ink about you, about us.” I lift, questioning her, “I’ve proven my love for you. So what have you done for me?”

She smiles. “Not put cyanide in your espressos. Not cut the brakes on your car. Not release killer hornets into your A/C unit. Not give your number to telemarketers.” She pauses, letting tears well in her eyes. The sweet sight of them puts a lump in my throat. “Not fall madly in love with you, too, Axel King.”

“Liar.” I skim my lips over hers.

“I’m a bigbadliar,” she confesses. “Time to punish me with your piercing.”

“Yourpiercing.”

“Say it again.”

“Yourpiercing.”

“No, the L word.”

“Litigation.”

She laughs.

“Oh,love? That word?”

She nods.

I smile from my soul. “I love you.”

“Say it again,” she whispers.

I nuzzle my nose to hers. “I love you.”

“Again.”

“I love you.”

“Again.”

“I love you.”

“What are you? A parrot?”

I laugh into our kiss, letting it melt our fight away. Remembering what she said when we awoke, I’m tender with her, as if it’s her first time—ourfirst time, and maybe it is.

I love her, and finally, she loves me. After I worship her nipples, then fuck her with my tongue, licking up my reward, I flip her over to ride me. To go as slow or as hard as she needs, and she kills me with the only death I want; my hard cock, buried so deep in her tight, wet pussy.

Every inch of me is hers while she pins my wrists above my head, and lets me gaze up at her beauty, her breasts bouncing and driving me insane. Grinding her delicious cunt overourpiercing, she takes the pleasure I need to give her. She’s the only one I’ve ever let feel this. The only woman I’ve ever let take me like this.Fuck, she’s so hot when she’s aggressive and aroused.

After she screams with her orgasm, after she makes my thighs shake as I roar, my back arching, my hips thrusting up, needing to come so deep inside her, I swear I hear Zar, Nick, and her sisters in the living room, clapping for us.

With gasping smiles on our faces, our gazes lock, and hers fills with tears, making them bite at my eyes, too.

“I love you,” she whispers so softly, my heart explodes.

I swallow. “I love you, too.”

Ruby falls on me, and I wrap around her, holding her. I have to leave soon, and I won’t let it be with more heartache—not today. I won’t ruin this moment for her, for us; our firstI love yous.

I’ll tell her more later. I’ll tell her about Alena and all the secrets I hide. Life with me can be a lot to take, and I want to give her hope.

It’s what she gives me.

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