Page 158 of The Perfect Wrong

Guess our last talk by the pool did more damage than I realized.

Pangs of regret knife through me.

I almost apologize.

I almost come back to my senses.

I almost set her free from the carnage I’m going to unleash on her life.

If only it weren’t against my nature, humbling myself with words.

Better she find out how sorry and conflicted I am when I’m balls deep in her, curling her toes.

She’ll understand then I never meant to hurt her.

Never meant to blow us up.

Never meant to drag this out till it’s becoming a reckless addiction I just can’t quit.

Cannot.

Heaving out a breath, I reach out and cradle her baffled face in my hands.

My mouth finds hers.

I lead her tongue in a whirlwind, stealing every whimper from her lungs, greedily taking all the sweetness she has for me.

“Christopher...what are you doing?”

The hairs on my arms bristle when she says my full name.

Fuck.

When I hear it from Ma, it’s like a curse, knowing she’s the one who named me.

On Delia’s lips, that damnation becomes divine.

“Love isn’t meant to be easy, princess.” Her eyes light up when she hears theLword. I don’t give a shit, there’s no more hiding it now. “We’re going through a rough patch. Blurring lines. Only one way I know to work through it is this.”

“Love? Is that what this is? And you think sex can fix it?” she whispers, so unsure, like I’ve said the right thing but she doesn’t believe it.

“You’d be surprised. I couldn’t leave you hurting and wondering, thinking I don’t care,” I say, huffing out a breath.

I care too fucking much and that’s the entire problem,I want to say, but I don’t.

She stares at me, trying to decipher what I really mean.

“What do you want? Just say it,” she demands, her delicate fingers slowly skimming up my arm.

Goddamn, she really wants to know?

I’ll show her.

She has to know I’m in the grip of total insanity.

So I reach under her sundress, find her panties, and rip them straight down her legs.

“What do I always want, Miss Delia?” I rumble, inhaling her wet scent that has me in thrall.

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