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I shifted my weight and leaned down over her, holding her eyes captive with my truth. “It’s only ever belonged to you.”
Chapter Eleven
Lily
Still half-asleep, I instinctively reached out for Jaxon, only to find cold sheets where the warmth of him should have been. A jolt of panic hit, and my breath caught as I sat up in a rush, clutching the bedsheet over my chest. If it hadn’t been for the rich scent of coffee drifting through the air that stirred me awake, I would have thought last night was a dream.
Having him here in my condo would take some getting used to. But I knew one thing for sure: Jaxon wasn’t Aiden.
My space was safe.
At least that was the mantra I kept repeating to myself until I looked up and noticed Jaxon leaning against the doorframe, one ankle crossed over the other, holding a cup of coffee in each hand.
He was the definition of too good to be true, the kind of handsome that made you forget your own name. He stole my breath as my eyes did a slow, appreciative perusal from his bare feet, up his muscular denim-clad legs to where his jeans were left unzipped, exposing his black boxer briefs underneath. If mybody hadn’t come alive, taking in his exquisitely tanned torso and black ink, then the cheeky smirk tugging at the corners of his mouth would have lit the final match.
“Like what you see?” He asked with a lustful edge to his tone.
I hadn’t even realized I was biting my lip until it popped free from between my teeth. “Hmm?”
“You’re awake.” His eyes dipped to where I clutched the bedsheet.
“And I was looking forward to waking up in your arms,” I retorted, dropping said sheet.
Shocking, not just him, with my brazen newfound confidence.
Jaxon closed the distance between us, placed the two mugs on my bedside table, and leaned down over me. With passionate, hooded eyes, he slid his hand up my neck, framing my jaw, and brushed his thumb across my bottom lip. The warmth of his breath ghosted over me, pulling me under a euphoric spell that only intensified tenfold to the point of dizzying when he slid his tongue along the seam of mine, tasting, teasing, before giving me a kiss that made my heart soar to epic heights, and my toes curl.
A kiss full of passion and longing that quickly turned feverish as I tugged him closer and scraped my nails down the bare, taut muscles on his back.
“Does my girl need an orgasm before work?”
“Yes.” There was no hiding my shameless need.
With lightning-fast reflexes, he ripped the bedsheet away from the rest of my body, leaving me caged between his legs on my back while he nipped a path down my neck and across my collarbone, leaving a delicious ripple of goose bumps in his wake.
“Fingers, tongue, or both.” He alternated between licking and sucking a path down between my breasts.
“You. I want your—” I was so turned on and lost, drowning in a pool of yearning.
“My what?” He sucked one of my nipples so hard between his lips that I was sure it would leave a mark, and I secretly loved it.
“You. I want to feel you inside me.”
“Lily,” he murmured, continuing to kiss his way down my stomach.
I parted my legs. “It should’ve always been you. Please.” I hated how emotional I sounded, while my heart broke with immense guilt with each shaky breath I took.
While Jaxon had thought the worst might have happened to me, I couldn’t say the same. I knew he was back here, mourning me. Actually, it was far worse. Until I moved to Rockwood and learned he was single, my mind had convinced itself he had moved on and was possibly even married with a family.
The memory of it all was too real.
For years, I’d allowed my thoughts to create a narrative that ultimately shattered me, leaving me emotionally destroyed. It felt as if my soul had been ripped from my body, leaving my heart to beat a rhythm that no longer felt familiar. I was hollow, numb, and irrevocably lost.
Tears started silently spilling down the sides of my cheeks as I tucked my lips between my teeth in a valiant effort to stay quiet.
“There isn’t enough time before work, but soon, I promise you soon, because I can’t wait to make you mine. I need you so bad, Lils.”
I tried to swallow my emotions, but the heaviness of myheartache clawed its way up my throat, and before I could stop it, a sharp, broken sob punctured the air.
