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It was my turn to be caught off guard. I stroked through her wet hair, running my thumb over her jaw.
“You’re very well adjusted,” I said. “It doesn’t make sense considering how you grew up.”
Her lashes flickered and she shrugged, clearly uncomfortable. “Some fucked up things happened in my childhood and I’m still working through that. But Candice and her family gave me a stable experience. I wasn’t really raised by my father, I was raised by her parents.”
She was deflecting again, but I could tell now wasn’t the time to push back.
“I’m glad,” I said.
“And of course I’m not jealous,” she said, smirking. “I know I’m the best you’ve ever had.”
“Without a doubt.”
I was done reliving my darkest moments. We still had a little over a month left before Osian returned, forty-five days of pure bliss. I was going to fucking enjoy every minute that she was mine.
She gasped as I lifted her, wrapping her legs around my waist. Her gasp turned to a shriek of protest as I pushed her against the cool wall. My erection brushed the inside of her thigh.
She swatted my shoulder. “Merrick, not now.”
“Why the fuck not?” I murmured into her neck.
“Because…you know why.”
“No, no, I really don’t,” I teased. “Enlighten me.”
She moaned as I shifted my hips, the head of my cock slipping over her clit.
“I’m bleeding,” she whispered.
My mouth met hers, parting her lips. Her tongue tasted so sweet against mine. When I pulled back, her eyes were glazed and her nipples pressed hard against my chest.
“So you don’t want me inside you, cariad?”
I kept eye contact and she shivered, her hips working against mine.
“Do you know what I like the most about you?” I asked.
“No,” she gasped. “What?”
I bent, barely kissing her mouth. “The parts of you I love the most are imperfect and vulnerable. I find the most beautiful things when you let your guard down.”
“Oh,” she breathed.
“So let your guard down for me, my love.”
I saw her hesitation melt, her throat bob, and her eyes flutter closed. Her head fell back as she nodded and her hips relaxed. I was so hard I barely had to guide myself as I pushed my cock into her pussy.
Her inner muscles drew me in and held me there, floored by just how extraordinary she felt. Tight, soaked, and so fucking familiar.
Like I’d always been here in an echo playing again and again at the edge of my mind. Like I would be here for the rest of my life, my body so deep inside hers.
A pale stream of crimson slipped down the inside of her thigh and disappeared down the drain. She didn’t notice. She just let me fuck her, head back and fingernails digging into my shoulders.
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
CLARA
I made the choice without Merrick. Not because I thought he wouldn’t support it, but because I didn’t want him to have to take the blame. I didn’t want his peers to look at him with distrust. To call him dishonorable.
