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Oh wow.
“I’m talking about all of them.” He turns down the driveway and parks the car. “Especially the one who did all this, I’m guessing for you, in the few hours you’ve been gone.”
Beautiful white lights are strung from the lines of the roof and wrapped around evergreen garland draping from the porch banisters. The wreaths are hung on the door, and as Jude opens the car door for me, I see the dark-red bows tied on each post.Callen....
Jude walks me to the door, but presses his hand flat against it, blocking me from opening it. “Forgiveness is a choice, Cait.”
I stare at him, shocked this is coming from Jude but somehow not surprised either.
“I’m working on it. But it’s not that easy,” I whisper in the cold night.
“Try harder. Forgive. Forget. Do something that means you’re moving on. Because being miserable is a shitty way to go through life. Now go inside, lock the damn door, and go to bed. I’m going home. Text me in the morning if your plans change for tomorrow, okay?”
He drops his hand and walks away without waiting for a response.
When I step inside, I’m met with the smell of the fresh Christmas tree we picked out earlier. Callen set it up in the center of the family room. The boxes of unopened ornaments sit on the coffee table, and Cupcake’s stocking is hanging on the mantle while she sleeps in her new red, green, and pink holiday doggy bed in the corner of the room.
“Do you like it?”
I look over to where Callen stands at the bottom of the steps in black sleep pants, shirtless. His toned skin pulled tight over corded muscle covered in beautiful ink. It’s too much.
“You’re not fighting fair, Sinclair,” I murmur, dazed. It’s too much.
The beautiful decorations and the beautiful man.
He must see the waver in my eyes because I swear he stalks across the room like a lion stalking his prey, sensing the weakness. “I’m fighting to win, kitten. Nobody said I had to fight fair.”
I give up the first inch of the battle when I lean into him... unable to stop myself. “The house looks great.” I lick my lips and try to slow my breathing. “Thank you.”
“You like it?” he asks as he slowly brings his hands up to cup my face, like he’s waiting for me to lash out. And I want to. I really do. But I just can’t. Not tonight. Not right now.
I close my eyes and relax into his touch as a traitorous tear slips past my lid.
He thumbs it away. “Forgive me, Caitlin. Forgive me because I love you, and I did it for you.”
“Tell me you’d do it differently,” I challenge him, knowing his answer. “Actually... don’t answer that.”
He tips my chin up and locks his green eyes on mine.
“I don’t forgive you, Callen. But I want you to make me forget. Make me forget tonight, and tomorrow I’ll go back to hating you.” I drag my hands up the smooth skin of his back and sink my nails into his shoulders as he lifts me from the floor and wraps my legs around his waist.
His mouth crashes over mine, and agony and ecstasy war with each other at the first touch of his tongue to mine.
“You don’t hate me, Caitlin. You can’t. You’re mine, and I’m going to show you what you already know but refuse to admit.”
“Jesus Christ. Shut up and make me come.”
CALLEN
“Fuck, Caitie,” I groan as she presses her warm lips to my skin.Jesus. “Are you sure?”
She clings to me, desperate, like she’s a waning fire waiting either for that last breath of oxygen to give her life, or put her out. And I know without a doubt, she’s going to burn us both down in the process but I can’t stop it. I couldn’t even if I wanted to.
“Have I ever been unsure, Callen?”
Her lips drag along my shoulder and her heels dig into my ass. “For years I wanted you and, I was sure.”
Her teeth bite into my skin as she tries to take what she needs before I’m willing to give it. “Now I want you, but just for tonight. I need your body. I want your cock, Callen. I want to feel you inside me. I want you in my mouth. In my hands. In my pussy.”
