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“I’m nervous,”I admit.

“Don’t be,” King murmurs. “We’ll go slow and light. I just want to make you feel good. We’ll do it every night until you get comfortable with more.

“What if I never do?” I ask the one question that is terrorizing me.

“You will. It just might go slower than we want it to—and that’s okay, Gabby. We’re going to get there. I’ve never been surer of anything in my life.”

We’re lying in bed together. I have on one of King’s tees and panties. King is wearing some gym shorts. I won’t lie. I was worried he’d ask that we get in bed naked, but he hasn’t pushed anything. It feels like my heart is running away with me. I’m trying to fight down the fear. “I need you to lie back, Gabby. Can you do that and try to relax?”

“I can try,” I promise, but I don’t tell him I’m scared, so I don’t know if relaxing is physically possible.

“Try for me, Sunshine,” he says with the sweetest smile that I know I’d do anything if it made him happy.

I swallow nervously, then lay all the way back against the pillow. King lays down beside me. He puts his hand on mystomach—that’s it, nothing else. His broad fingers stretch out against the T-shirt, and he holds me there. His warmth soothes me somehow.

“I’m going to kiss you. I want you to keep your eyes open and watch me the entire time. Can you do that?” I nod and his lips come down slowly. He sucks my bottom lip into his mouth. That feels good, making me gasp at the sweetness of it. I feel his tongue slide inside and carefully search mine out. It’s a sweet kiss. I can feel passion in it, but there’s such gentleness that it doesn’t scare me at all. I’m not sure how long the kiss lasts, but eventually his mouth slides to my neck as he nibbles on my skin in a way that sends a heat through me that I haven’t felt in forever. It’s like he is awakening my body and the beauty in it kind of rocks my world. I feel King’s teeth bite down on my earlobe as he sucks it into his mouth, making me moan. I feel heat hit my cheeks when I realize he could hear how his kiss is affecting me. “That’s my girl. I love hearing you moan for me, Gabby. I don’t want you to be ashamed of anything we do together. You’re precious to me. What we’re sharing is special, and it means the world to me. You’re safe, Sunshine. You are completely safe in my arms.”

“Okay,” I whisper, feeling his words hits my heart. As weird as it is to say, it takes away some of my fear.

“Good girl,” he praises, and I even like that. “Now, I need you to keep your eyes on me. Can you do that?” I nod. He takes one hand and holds mine, lacing our fingers. “We’re going to do this together,” he says. “Bring our joined hands up to your breast. Touch your nipples in a way that feels good. I want you to know that you’re the one in control,” he instructs.

I beat down the fear and find the courage to do that by looking into his beautiful eyes. I move our hands over my nipple, showing him that I like it pinched and pulled on. King moves our hands so his fingers can take over, but he keeps our handslinked. That feels erotic and beautiful, too. I let out another gasp when I feel his hand dive under my panties. I look at him in shock.

“King …”

“Look at me, beautiful. Look at me,” he orders. I do, and then I feel his fingers slide over my pussy. “Keep watching,” he orders right before I feel a finger push inside. He makes a few strokes and my hips rock into him because it feels so good. “That’s my Gabriella. You are mine, aren’t you, baby?”

“Yes,” I promise.

“So fucking beautiful,” he croons. “Spread your legs for me.” I do what he says without thinking and I feel a second finger join in, stretching me.

“Oh, God. That feels good,” I gasp. “That feels really good.”

“I’m going to make you come, Gabby. All your orgasms from here on out belong to me. They’re mine. You’re mine. This baby is mine. Do you understand?”

“King …”

“The past doesn’t matter. It’s just you and the family we’re making. We’re going forward together, and you are my woman, Gabriella. Mine.”

“Yours.”

“And I’m yours,” he promises, and those words have so much power over me that for a minute I can’t breathe.

His fingers keep tunneling in and out of me. It’s magnificent. I’m so wet that the sounds of his fingers moving echo around us, but I love it. I love everything he’s doing. His thumb stretches up and begins grinding against my clit.

“Oh, fuck,” I hiss because the way that feels can’t even be described.

“That’s it, Gabby. God, you’re so beautiful. I’ve never seen anything like you. Never felt as good as you make me feel. I wantyou to come for me, Sunshine. Look into my eyes and come for me, give me even more of that beauty.”

“King!” I cry out as he grinds harder on my clit. His fingers fuck me faster and harder. It’s so good that my body thrusts up, automatically searching for more. King doesn’t stop. He goes at me, giving me everything and then it happens. I feel the heat spread through me and I let out a long, loud whimper that’s filled with so much pleasure it surrounds us and then I come. For the first time in forever, I climax, and I do it staring into King’s eyes, knowing that I’ve never—not ever—felt anything better than what I’m feeling right now.

He takes my mouth, kissing me with passion, sweetness, and something that feels a lot like love. My heart is gone. It belongs to this man. Everything I am, belongs to him. That scares me too, but lying here in his arms as my heart rate slowly comes back down, I fight that back too. Because King is right.

He is my safe place.

Chapter 27

King

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