Page 98 of Royal Desire

With that, he gives my clit the pressure I need and want. He pushes me over the edge, and my body convulses. I see nothing but stars and our future. He stays planted in me deep as he wrings every ounce of my orgasm until I have nothing left.

“Fuck, yes,” he growls.

Then I lose his heat but not his cock.

He’s on his knees behind me—his hands are a vise on my hips holding me in place, and he does what he promised.

He fucks me with everything he has. He pounds into me over and over, and every single time harder than the last.

I love it.

His grunts, groans, and shallow breaths say it all. He’s not just doing this for me. It’s for us and our future.

When he comes, his entire body tenses. His fingers bite into my skin, and he falls forward.

My knees give out from under me, and he presses me to the bed still buried deep. Our breaths are labored and shallow as our hearts race in unison. The only move Payne makes is to smother the tops of my hands with his and lace his fingers with mine.

He’s never had a problem conquering his goals and didn’t this time either.

“Payne?”

He pulls in a deep breath, and I feel it in his cock. “Yeah, baby.”

Tears leak from my eyes for what I’ve done to him. “I swear, I’m not leaving you.”

I feel him tense, but he says nothing.

“And you don’t have to erase anything. We’re here. We’re together. We can’t carry the burdens of our parents.”

He buries his face into my messy hair again. “I know.”

“You can demand that I promise I’m yours and that I’ll never leave every day until I die. The answer will always be the same.”

He presses his lips to the side of my head. “I know.”

“I love you.” My silent tears flow freely. “I have since I was five. It started innocent and morphed into a soul-aching love. I’ve loved you at every stage. It kills me that I was weak and too scared to stay.”

He doesn’t pull out, but he does move enough to tip his face to mine and swipes my tears away. “I love you so fucking much. None of this is on us. This was done to us. Maybe someday I’ll stop asking you. But that day is not today. To hear you say that you’re mine and you’ll be here forever feeds me. It heals my broken soul.”

I look up at him through watery eyes. “That’s something I understand.”

He leans in for a kiss.

And another crack in my heart miraculously disappears.

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

SOUL ACHING LOVE

Payne

Ruby fills my coffee up and blows me a kiss from across the counter.

“I’m just going to say it here, the two of you are as cute as you were back in high school when you were in those musicals together. What was that one show you starred in where Payne dyed his hair? Heck, I can’t remember my middle name some days. Anyway, you’re as cute as that. Maybe cuter!”

Ruby beams. “Thanks, Winnie. And it was Grease. Payne went all in for me and dyed his hair black for the part of Danny. Tallie had a fit.”

I do not beam as I look over my laptop where I have set up office for the last three days because I just got Ruby back. I refuse to take my eyes off her, even if that means conducting market research from the Combover. My week has been comprised of a backache from sitting on this stool for eight hours straight and apologizing to one client after another for the background noises from my makeshift office.