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“I love being inside you,” I said, driving both of us to the brink as I held back to look into her wild eyes.
“Then hurry,” she pleaded, tightening her thighs and lifting her hips.
I closed my eyes, letting the dripping tip of my cock tease her opening. Every time with Jenna felt like the first time, the best time. As much as I was ravenous to claim her, I needed the moment to last. There was so much more I had to say to her, but now there was plenty of time.
I wasn’t going to lose her, she was no longer trying to run away. “You’re mine,” I growled, wrapping my hand around her hair and pulling her face close to mine. “Tell me you know it.”
“I know it, Lev,” she said.
“What else?” I asked. “Tell me.”
“I want to be yours,” she said without hesitation. “Forever. There’s so much I want to tell you, but…”
I rammed inside of her, giving her what she was about to plead for. “We have time,” I said, filling her all the way to my balls. “All the time in the world.”
Her eyes glazed over, and she kissed me furiously, hungrily, as I pounded into her. My desperation eased, and I slowed down to tease her with my cock until she was moaning again. Hanging onto my shoulders, she buried her face in my neck, breath hot and fast.
“Now, Lev,” she said. “Right now.”
The ache in her voice drove me to the brink, only wanting to fulfill her every wish and desire. The fact that we were finally on the same page made my release so much sweeter. My emotions had never been so strong, but no words had found their way past my lips. There were no words that could have matched how I felt.
But Jenna seemed to get it anyway, tightening her grip around my hips with her thighs, crying out the moment I came inside her. She made unintelligible noises against my neck, holding on until I collapsed on top of her.
When I finally found the strength to roll to the side, she was already half asleep, one hand still clasped in my hair. I pulled her close, and she nestled against me, murmuring nonsense until she drifted off altogether. We’d both beenthrough a lot and I should have been as tired as she was, but my happiness kept me awake until the sun began to peek through the crack in the curtains.
Keeping my arm under Jenna’s head, I kissed her brow and smiled, finally able to close my eyes and fall asleep with my girl safe and sound in my arms.
Chapter 40 - Jenna
Lev and I stayed at the resort for the next two days while we waited for Katie and the baby to be released from the hospital. Little Alina Marjorie, named after Aleks’s grandmother and our aunt, was a tad jaundiced, and they wanted to keep her for observation just to make sure.
Except for visiting hours, which I spent glued to my first niece’s crib, Lev and I hardly left the suite. It was like a mini honeymoon. Every time a serious thought crossed my mind, he somehow noticed and kissed away my worries.
“Put everything on the back burner for now,” he told me when I thought about my classes. “There’s nothing we can’t work out.”
I believed him wholeheartedly and was happy to let him take control, at least until we were back in San Francisco. The one thing I couldn’t get out of my mind, no matter how distracting his touch was, were the Hardys. What had become of the people who had plotted both of our murders? When I asked where they ended up, or what Max was doing to them, Lev would only say he hadn’t decided their fates yet. He got such a dark look in his eyes at the very mention of their names I didn’t dare ask again.
“I just can’t help but feel a little responsible,” I said over room service as we sat in bed.
He shook his head vehemently. “Don’t. You didn’t know what they were.”
I tried to apologize again, but he stopped me with a finger to my lips, and then a long, slow kiss. “Clean slate? For both of us. Do you want me to keep apologizing for my part in this?”
Since I’d forgiven him completely, I let it go and dropped the subject of the Hardys completely. It was a blissful interlude I didn’t want to end.
Nataliye thought the fact that Lev and I were together was hilarious, now that everything was calm enough to laugh. There was no bitterness in her at all that I secretly married her favorite uncle. She admitted it had taken her too long to accept her father and Katie being together, but now she was all in, seeing how happy they made each other. She also adored being a big sister, not just taking it in stride that she was twenty-two years older than her new sibling but raving about how perfect the baby was.
“If Katie dares to act mad about you two, she’s a raging hypocrite,” she said. “Same with my dad.”
Aleks didn’t seem to think he was being hypocritical at all, but he spent most of his time at the hospital with Katie and Alina. That was fine with me, since he was barely speaking to Lev and giving him filthy glares every time they accidentally crossed paths. All I could do was hope they didn’t break any of each other’s bones when they finally decided to hash things out.
By the time Katie and the baby were released, Max reappeared to take them back to LA on his private jet. He was close-lipped and inscrutable when I asked what was going on with the Hardys, only assuring me they wouldn’t be a problem to us any longer. I loved that we were an “us” now, pleased that at least some of Lev’s siblings accepted our relationship. Now that I had decided I was in, I was all in, and couldn’t wait to prove myself.
Aleks flat out refused to take the short detour up to San Francisco with the plane, saying gruffly that we could find our own way home. As we all checked out of the resort, he gave mea disappointed look and Lev a furious glare before taking baby Alina from Katie to put her in her car seat.
“We’re not done,” Aleks said softly over the blanketed bundle to Lev. “But I want to get my daughter settled in at home before I draw your blood.”
Lev opened his mouth, but I gripped his arm, squeezing hard to make him remember his promise. I didn’t want him to tell anyone I was pregnant yet. Not until things were peaceful. It was clearly taking all his willpower not to blurt it out to get Aleks off his back, but for that same reason, I hadn’t wanted Lev to feel beholden to me; I didn’t want my brother-in-law to only accept our relationship because he felt he had to.
