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He nodded and held h that I’m sorry you felt like you were alone I really as but I can’t All I can do is be here for you now and pro to try andaway and looking down at me

He was so warm and I wanted so badly to be close to hi, but I felt safe I felt better It felt like all those wasted years of being angry were just being washed away I wasn’t angry anymore I wanted him

“Takein his shirt

Chapter Nine

He was ehis fingers in my hair I wasn’t sure if it was the alcohol or if I was really falling for hi wildly inmore than to be close to him

“Ryan,” I whispered, my voice weak and thready He’d broken me down in the best way “I want you”

“You already haveme slowly “It’s just now I can feel it okay to do this…”

He pressed his lips to h and I wrapped ers in his beautiful hair,inable I’d been waiting so long for this I needed hiainst his war with hioing to drive me crazy

Soon we’d both been stripped naked, our skin flushed and hot, glistening with a sheen of sweat froers brushed overwith and leaning into every touch with a desperation that spoke volumes of what I wanted and what I needed As he touchedsoftly, raking ry little welts behind that only marked him as mine

Every touch felt a to do with the fact that I’d been so desperate for hiasped softly and whi asover ain in an eager and hungry kiss

He teasedat the tender underside of the supple skin, asp and squirainst the inside of ainst the tender flesh, rowl in my ear Itto claim me

I was panting andin his hair for a moment “Hold on,” he whispered

He stoppedfor a moment and lookeddowna trail of fire behind the wet kisses My breath hitched and ? It had been so fucking long since I’d had a man pay attention to me like this I was desperate for whatever he had to offer

He was hs for a ht in To say he wasted no tiross understates,

at the locks desperately This was incredible, but I hadn’t expected it