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I felt when he broke apart. When every muscle in his body went rigid beneath my fingers that were rushing to touch him everywhere.
His back and his shoulders and his chest.
“Charleigh,” he growled as he spasmed and jerked, the man’s arms tightening even more as he came. “Charleigh.”
We stayed like that. Lifted together. Elevated to a place that I was sure only existed for us.
This man my haven.
Finally, he exhaled the heaviest breath before he dropped his weight to one elbow and his other hand came to rest on my cheek. He ran his thumb along the hollow of my eye, and for the first time, his expression was soft. “You don’t have to run anymore, Charleigh. You can rest in me.”
FORTY-TWO
RIVER
Nothing could feel moreblissful than being tangled with Charleigh. Our skin slicked with sweat and our bodies sated. Breaths short and shallow, breathing each other where we lie on our sides facing each other on her bed.
Legs twisted and hearts tied.
That’s what this was.
I fuckin’ knew it.
It was plain and clear that I’d crossed a line that I was never supposed to cross. Wasn’t sure how I was going to deal with that shit. The truth that I’d broken the rule that I’d written. Guilt flared at the very recesses of my mind.
My failure.
The oath I’d made.
But somehow it no longer possessed me. No longer contained me.
Charleigh had swept in and rearranged every-fucking-thing I thought I’d known.
I brushed back the lock of chestnut hair that was stuck to her cheek, tucking it behind her ear.
“How do you feel?” Could barely get the words out, my throatwas so raw.
An affected smile danced across her pink, swollen lips. “Like I was just ravaged by a beast.”
A grin tugged at my face, heart going light. “That was not close to a ravaging, Little Runner. I needed to give you time to adjust before you find out what being with me is really going to be like.”
Redness swept across her flesh, and she bit down on her bottom lip like she was envisioning it. How I was going to take her in every way.
Her fingertips came out and played across my lips. “Is that what I am? With you?”
“Think we made that much clear, yeah?” I pulled her closer, her bare, naked flesh plastered against mine. “It’s you and me now.”
“Yeah?” My fierce girl looked timid. Vulnerable. And I fuckin’ loved that she felt confident enough to be that way with me.
“Yeah,” I told her.
Her skin blistered against mine, and I could feel the steady thud of her heart as it beat at my chest.
Fingertips played along the designs on my arm before she took my left hand that was on her hip and ran her thumb over the Ss.
“What does this mean? You and all your friends have the same one.”
She peeked up at me as she asked it before she turned her attention back to the design, barely tracing her fingers over the ink.
