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I sirl saith blinkers on her eyes She was totally blind to the fact that any father would look at my tattoos, listen toand wonder what he’d done that was so wrong that his daughter would pick this loser It didn’t h because she would have picked me anyway Sunshine loved me forever and, whether or not I deserved that love, I never doubted it
"Love, I’m your husband which pretty rammed into my DNA Your mum hurt you badly, so it’s only natural that I want to protect you froht If you think that building a relationship with your ht behind you I won’t be fucking happy if she hurts you again, but I’ll support you in whatever you decide I’ll even try and be nice to her if you want me to"
"Really?" she asked, her eyebrow raised in surprise
"Hey, I can do nice!" I said, with a mock wounded expression "And if I can’t be nice, I’ll be quiet," I added as an afterthought
"You don’t think there’s any chance of ," she asked
"Baby, that ship sailed theto do with the drinking I’ve lost track of the nuotten her into and she never saw theh, even when she showed up at all You can’t help someone who doesn’t want to be helped She’s an addict, but that didn’t change the fact that she’s me ma and I loved her But when she tried to take you from me, I knew for sure that she never loved me back
"And you’re okay with that?" she asked
"I found soained more than I lost," I replied "Sylvia only wanted to be a part of ain froet to know you Give it some time She’ll either prove herself or condemn herself Either way, you’ll never look back and wonder ‘what if’"
Closing the door behind me, I turned her shoulders and walked her toward the bathroom
"Come on I’ll run you a nice, hot bath With candles and that foaave me a small, sad s with all this court stuff"
"It’s been a rough couple of days The court stuff’s been h when it coet to cross-exa shit like that h the h was the worst I know he’s trying to catch uys around ive him any more power over me, you know?"
My fists clenched and released as I tried to let go of the stranglehold on my temple Father Pat told , thenin the bath, add the foaetting undressed Instead of thinking about how angry I was, I focused on how to take that sad look fro up with the stea her body betweenlittle nub One hand drifted to lected breast, as the steaue swirled around her nipple then flicked it back and forth I knew by the spasht to her core Swapping hands, I released one breast only to feast on the other
I fucking burned to be inside her so bad But this wasn’t aboutE her that she wasn’t alone Rising up, I lifted her to sit on the sink Her hands gripped it to brace herself, and her feet rested on either side of e of the tub That was a testament to how small the bathroom was I sat back down and kissedaround it with ue, I teased and teased her closer and closer to the edge of orgasain When I knew that every bit of her undivided attention was focused on ently inside her war
"Jesus, O’Connell Don’t stop please" she begged ht little hole Sheher pelvis towardand tre When she was alently inside her, took her clit betweenher spine she threw her head back in overwhelhtening around ers as she tried to milk a cock that wasn’t there, blewlove Both of us knew the difference
"I think I broke le I lifted her off the sink onto wobbly legs
"How d’you feel?" I asked, before nibbling gently on her ear
"Loved up Very, very, very loved up," she tolda kiss toher warainst nored it She needed that to get rid of the stress and relieve soot what she needed I alould
"I’ht?" she asked
"I know, Sunshine But with blue balls ismy T-shirt over the top of my head, I pulled the warm fabric down over her It swa her wrapped in so of ht about all the dark shit behind us and everything we had yet to face but then I focused on the fact that Em would spend the whole of the next day with ht consume you, you have to take the small victories where you find them