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Every precaution would need to be taken.

“All right,” she finally agreed.

I lowered my head and kissed her, my heart overflowing with emotions for her. I drew her toward me, holding her close. With all my being, I wished I could erase her pain, the dreadful memories and the haunting nightmares.

I knew I’d never be able to change that. Cali had been forever altered. She’d never be the same girl she once was. But I planned to do everything in my power to ensure that nobody ever hurt her again and to create plenty of wonderfulmemories to overshadow the bad ones she was burdened with.

I sat on the bed and pulled her onto my lap, kissing her again as she wrapped her arms around me. She straddled me until her pussy was directly against my still throbbing cock.

She moaned, pressing against me harder.

I pulled away, breaking our kiss, and stared up at her. She was beyond breathtaking, so beautiful. She made it impossible to think as she looked down at me through lust-glazed green eyes and her silky blond waves cascading around her flushed face.

“What’s the other favor?” I asked, leaning in closer to catch her whispered words. Her cheeks turned a delicate shade of pink as shyness crept over her face, and she shook her head.

“Never mind,” she mumbled, her gaze darting to the floor.

I studied her, attempting to understand what was significant enough to make her stop and reconsider.

“If you don’t tell me, we’re not having drunken sex,” I teased, trying to coax a smile out of her.

She shook her head in protest. “That’s not fair.”

“Maybe not, but I mean it,” I replied with a wink. “Tell me, babe.”

“All right, fine,” she said, staring down at me, still hesitating.

“You can tell me anything, Calista. We’re friends first, remember?”

My words seemed to open something upin her.

She lifted her head. The soft curve of her lips trembled as she mustered her courage.

“I want to feel like the woman I used to be. And I can only do that if you stop holding back.”

“Holding back?” I asked.

“Yes!” she insisted, her voice rising passionately. “I promise, Leon, I won’t break! I’m not a fragile doll!”

“Is that how I make you feel?”

“Sometimes.”

“Tell me what you need from me, Calista. I’ll do anything, darling.”

My words hung in the air between us. She seemed to be weighing them to see if I really meant them.

“You always keep me on top. You never restrain me. You go out of your way to make me feel so safe.”

“And?” I asked, lifting a brow. Were these bad things?

She leaned in, her mouth brushing against mine as she whispered her next words. “I know you have a darker side, Leon. Everyone talks about it.”

Her lips traveled to my ear, capturing my earlobe between her teeth and biting down with a deliberate intensity.

“I want to see it,” she breathed, her desire more than evident. “I want you to fuck me like you mean it, Leon.”

Seventeen

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