Page 23 of Home Stretch

ELEVEN

Malia

Tearswell in my eyes once more.

I can’t believe that I was about to be so selfish. I know that Kade has been working and racing these last few years so he could graduate and open a garage with Hendrix and Thorne. I can’t let him waste all that savings and hard work on me.

“I will figure something else out,” I start, but he’s already shaking his head.

“I want to help you. I want us to be together. My future? It’s you, angel.”

“I can’t let you spend all of your money on me. I can find a job and still bet. I have some savings too, and I can pay for stuff around here. I don’t want to be a burden.”

“Malia. You could never be a burden,” he says, standing and taking my hands in his. “Everything is fine,” he tries soothing me.

“No, it’s not!” I blurt out, so many thoughts and emotions clanging around in my head. “Why are you doing this? Why are you willing to throw all your hard work and money away on me?”

“Because I love you.”

He says it like it’s just that simple. Part of me falls even more in love with him. Everything is so easy with Kade. Well, everything that isn’t financial.

“I know it’s fast,” he says, mistaking my silence for shock. “But I love you. I’ve never felt this way about anyone before. I know your life would be easier with a guy your parents picked out for you, but—”

“But it would be boring and cold,” I finish for him.

He nods, watching me with wide, hopeful eyes.

“I think I fell in love with you the first night we met,” he murmurs. “And I’ve only been falling more and more with each passing day.”

I swallow hard, and he reaches for me. I let him pull me into his arms, and just before his mouth claims mine, I say the words I’ve wanted to say for weeks.

“I love you, Kade.”

I breathe my promise onto his lips, then seal it with a kiss. Kade opens up for me, sliding his tongue against mine as he maneuvers his way out of the chair and pulls me up from my position on the bed.

His hands slide up and down my sides, squeezing my flesh and setting my skin on fire.

“This okay, angel?” he rasps into the side of my neck.

“Yes, please,” I say, nodding my head.

I think he’s going to toss me down on his bed and have his way with me, but instead, he swings me up in his arms before I even realize what’s happening. He sets me down in the bathroom, leaning over to turn on the hot water.

I giggle as he rips at his shirt, but it turns into a moan as he lifts my blouse over my head, revealing more of my skin. In record time, Kade strips us out of our clothes and hauls me into the steaming hot shower.

I feel the weight of his gaze all over my body as he takes in every naked inch. “Fucking gorgeous,” he murmurs. Kade runs the back of his knuckles over my breasts, my pebbled nipples, and down my ribcage until they land on my hips.

I gasp as he grips me tightly and presses me into his chiseled body so I can feel his hard cock against my stomach. He takes my lips then, in a slow, drugging kiss. My hands wind around the back of his head, and I pull him even closer.

“I need inside of you, beautiful,” he groans.

I giggle at his seemingly desperate need and then moan when he pushes me up against the wall and grips my ass, rolling my hips into his erection. I feel Kade's fingers tease my entrance and then glide up my slit, checking my readiness. Of course, I'm ready for him. I'm always ready for him.

“You need me too, don’t you?”

“So bad,” I admit, gasping as he circles my sensitive bundle of nerves.

With that, he lifts me up in his arms and pins me to the wall, his thick dick hitting home inside my throbbing cunt. He fucks me hard and fast, grunting with each thrust of his hips. I lean forward and bite his lips before kissing him wildly. I didn’t realize how much I needed him like this, needed to feel him deep inside me again.

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