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But it wasn’t of my work. It was of this woman who’d only known running.
Fear.
Terror of what might catch up to her.
But when she’d finally found her way home…to us…she had been willing to give it all to protect it.
This home.
This place.
Our son.
“How does it look?” she asked on a whisper.
I let my gaze travel up the column of her back. “Stunning. Steal the breath straight outta my lungsstunning.”
Goosebumps lifted on the surface of her flesh. She knew I wasn’t talking about the tat.
Still, I pushed from the stool and took one step to the side so she could peer behind her to see the reflection of it in the mirror that hung on the wall.
Tears blurred her eyes as she glanced up at me. “Oh wow, River. It’s…beautiful.”
My fingertips slipped along her bare shoulder. “You’re what’s beautiful, Charleigh.”
“You’ve always made me feel that way. I feltseenthe moment I met you.”
“Think you’ve been the only thing I couldseesince the second I found you standing in that doorway.”
I sat back on the stool and began to clean the tattoo.
Charleigh hummed as I did, as if she found pleasure in that bare touch.
She had her shorts pulled all the way down so the band only covered half her ass, and she’d removed her tank, her bare tits smashed to the leather of the seat.
I was inundated by the way I’d felt that first night. The way I’d wanted to peel her out of her little shorts and rid her of her tank so I could get to those sweet, tiny tits.
How I’d wanted to sink my cock deep into the well of her squirming body.
Fucking her right here on my chair, something I’d never done before because it was fucking unprofessional.
I had every intention of changing that tonight.
Making sure I didn’t touch any of the area I’d tatted, my hands slipped down to grip her by the outside of the waist. “You, Charleigh,” I murmured. “You came into my life like a hurricane. Thought you were fuckin’ it all up. Destroying the foundation I’d set. The commitment I’d made to a little boy after I’d failed his mother. My commitment to Sovereign Sanctum. And there you were…filling the hollow spaces we didn’t know had been empty.”
She shifted so she was looking back at me, her hands still clinging to the chair. “And there you were…showing me that I didn’t have to be alone. That I didn’t have to be afraid. Lighting the places inside me that I thought were forever dead. Making me fall in love with a little boy. The two of you becoming my balm. And then to find out he was mine…”
My palms glided up her ribs. “We’re both yours, Charleigh. Think we would have been either way.”
“Yes. I loved him, no matter what.”
Energy swelled, two of us trapped, the already cramped walls of my station closing in.
Lust and possession smacked me in the face.
I pushed to my feet, rising up behind her.
“Get on your knees…I want to fuck you on my chair.”
