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The fear.
The terror.
The nightmares.
“Does that count as one of your twenty questions?” It came out breathy and with the tweak of a smile at the corner of my mouth.
He touched the spot where my lips fluttered, attention dipping there before the force of it returned to my eyes. “Considering it’s one of the most important ones, then yeah, gorgeous, it does.”
My nod was erratic. “It’s good with me.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah.”
His hand slipped from my cheek, and he glided it up until his fingers were notching into my hair. His other hand came to my hip, and his fingers barely curled around my waist.
Heat sheared through my middle, while a ripple of anxiety spread within it.
I struggled to breathe around it.
River curled his hand around the back of my neck, and his forehead dropped to mine.
“Promise you, these hands will never hurt you, Charleigh. They’ll only ever bring you pleasure.” His words came out in short, heated rasps, panted a hairsbreadth from my lips. “Protect you. Do you understand?”
“I think so.”
I wanted to.
I wanted to believe it.
Did that make me a fool?
More so, did this?
The way his big body towered over mine as he kept me close. The way his fingers felt as they slipped up my neck and to the base of my skull, barely kneading and sending little bolts of that pleasure he’d promised ricocheting through my body.
But it was his lips pressing gently to mine that sent an inferno racing far and wide.
It was a tumult to my senses.
The feeling of safety that swept through me clashing with the need to press myself against him and take everything that he might be willing to give.
The urge to fully place myself in his hands.
He kissed me softly. So soft I wasn’t sure how it was possible for a man like him.
Little nips and sucks of my lips, his head shifting back and forth as he plucked and pressed, nibbling my lips between his.
Then his tongue barely swept across the seam of my mouth. I fisted my hands in the fabric of his tee as I opened to him.
His tongue swept against mine.
Need barreled through me, making me weak in the knees and throbbing between my thighs.
A gush of air ripped from my lungs at the onslaught of sensation, and he inhaled it.
Sucked it down as if he were the one who’d demanded it.
