“No! You didn’t hurt me. Goddammit, I’m fine.” She pulled hard on his neck and he settled on top of her again. He watched as she smiled in pleasure and he realized she was fine. She was healed. More, he needed more from his woman. He shoved the cups of her gown down, and stared at her breasts. He loved making her excited, and he knew how he could. He rasped his chest against her breasts, and she moaned low and long.
He licked around her nipple, exciting her, she squirmed, and then her long, long legs lifted and curled around his hips. Shit, she wasn’t wearing panties. He’d slept naked. He was seconds away from taking her.
“Now,” she demanded. “It’s been so long. Now,” her husky cry reverberated through the room.
He pushed the covers away from them and kneeled. He pulled the nightie over her head. “You’re not listening,” her voice quivered with need.
He couldn’t find words. He was about to make love to his wife for the first time, words were beyond him. He molded her flesh, rejoicing in the sight of his dark hands claiming her pale skin. She was his. She would always be his. She arched into his touch, and when his fingers found her core, she parted her legs, inviting him into to her very core.
Drake had been so careful with her since the birth of their son, he now found himself shuddering as he felt the heat of her sex clenching his fingers. She was going to burn him alive. He coaxed more liquid arousal from her, then brought his hand to his mouth so he could taste. She watched him with avid eyes.
“You’re so bad,” she breathed.
“You like bad.”
“Yes, I do,” she hissed as he parted her legs further, then settled between them. He was going to feast.
“No, enough foreplay. Sex now.”
Drake laughed. Seemed his redhead was getting angry. He parted her folds, and swiped his tongue through her drenched flesh. She shrieked softly but it wasn’t in anger. He lapped up her honey and that excited him as much as it did her. It had been so long since they had been together, he wanted to make sure she was ready for him, so he tested her depths. Again, and again, he plied her with his fingers, loving the sounds she made as he found the perfect spot as he readied her for their joining.
“Now.”
He grinned in the morning light as he licked her swollen bud.
“Please, take me,” she gasped.
Not before she went up in flames. He stroked and swirled. She arched and moaned.
“Drake, oh my God. Yes.”
She bucked up against him and then he felt her shatter. He couldn’t wait another second. He had to be connected to his wife. Quickly, he sheathed himself in a condom, then liquid fire surrounded him as he melded his body to Karen’s. Her gleaming green eyes shone brightly.
“So good. I’ve needed this so much, Drake. It’s so good.”
Her foot trailed up the back of his leg and pressed into his ass. She was trying to force him to go faster. Deeper. Well, his wife was just going to have to wait, they were doing things on his terms.
She bit his neck, and he lost it, plunging deeper. Molten fire enveloped him. His head was going to explode. She scraped her teeth against his neck, and clenched her internal muscles.
“God, Karen, what are you doing?” he groaned.
“I’m loving you.”
“You’re driving me fucking crazy.”
“Good,” she purred. “Now fucking move.”
He didn’t have a choice.
He pulled out, her body felt sublime, the clasp of her body tried to keep him, and he pushed back in. Again, and again, a deep and powerful rhythm emerged. It had never been like this before. Her green eyes glittered, but it was as if he saw all the way into her heart. No not that, even deeper, into her soul. The pleasure he was feeling was a connection that could only be felt when two halves of a whole finally found one another. That was his last conscious thought before rapture exploded through his being.
JAMES EASTMAN - A WEEK Later
He stared down at the envelope that had arrived special delivery and he slit it open with his pocket knife. He picked up the first newspaper clipping, it was from the London Evening Standard. It gave a succinct account of a sheikh with suspected ties to ISIS who had been found dead aboard his yacht four miles off the coast of Qatar. What made this situation particularly humiliating was pictures had made their way to the web of him having been engaged in autoerotic asphyxia while surrounded by gay pornography. The London paper went on to say that the sheikh’s father was insisting that this was a set-up perpetrated by enemies of his son. The story stated that if it were in fact retribution for something, that it had been perfectly executed to shake up members of the Arab community since homosexuality is punishable by death in their religion.
The second piece of paper wasn’t a newspaper clipping, it was a one-page printout from an internet site. It explained how the Lius, a Chinese family thought to control one of the most ruthless gangs in all of Shanghai, recently lost billions in a newly created cryptocurrency called Shi-Coin. They had been duped into believing they were in on the ground floor of a Chinese government backed competitor to Bitcoin. Further they had been convinced that the Asian leaders would soon outlaw the Western payment system and Shi-Coin’s stock would skyrocket. When the family lost almost every penny, the patriarch, Zhang Liu brought his two sons to his home and shot them before turning the gun on himself.
An article from the Arizona Republic Newspaper was the third piece in the envelope. It stated that Kevin Decault, the wealthy rancher who had been missing for over a week was found last night by a ranch hand. The body was naked, bound to a fencepost, wrapped in barbed wire, in a frozen back pasture of his ranch. He was surrounded by four of his prize-winning bulls. According to the county coroner, he had bled out due to multiple puncture wounds inflicted by the horns of the animals.
James heard Wilma in the hallway, just before she knocked on the doorjamb of his study he slipped the papers back into the envelope but left out the picture, then pushed away from his desk, making room for his wife. She walked in and smiled, then kissed the top of his head and slipped onto his lap.
He watched his wife’s delicate fingers trace the smiling faces of Drake and Karen, then rested on their grandson. They were enjoying the San Diego beach. Drake was wearing a wet-suit and Karen was gorgeous in a green summer dress, her smile absolutely blinding. James had never seen his daughter look so happy. Four-month-old Andrew Mason’s features had filled out, and he was a perfect blending of his parents. He had his mother’s eyes and smile, but James knew that everything else would be all Avery.
“They look happy,” Wilma said.
“Even better, they’re safe,” James said with satisfaction.
“I couldn’t ask for anything more than safe and happy. Except maybe for my husband to come to bed with me.” Wilma smiled.
“You don’t have to ask me twice.” James kissed the love of his life, content in the knowledge that Drake Avery had kept his promise.
THE END
About the Author
CAITLYN O'LEARY IS an avid reader, and considers herself a fan first and an author second. She reads a wide variety of genres, but finds herself going back to happily-ever-afters. Getting a chance to write, after years in corporate America, is a dream come true. She hopes her stories provide the kind of entertainment and escape she has found from some of her favorite authors.
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Books by Caitlyn O’Leary
The Found Series
Revealed, Book One
Forsaken, Book Two
Healed, Book Three
Midnight Delta Series
Her Vigilant SEAL, Book One
Her Loyal SEAL, Book Two
Her Adoring SEAL, Book Three
Sealed with a Kiss, A Midnight Delta Novella, Book Four
Her Daring SEAL, Book Five
Her Fierce SEAL, Book Six
Protecting Hope, Book Seven (Seal of Protection & Midnight Delta
Crossover Novel; Susan Stoker KindleWorld)
A SEAL’s Vigilant Heart, Book Eight
Her Dominant SEAL, Book Nine
Her Relentless SEAL, Book Ten
Her Treasured SEAL, Book Eleven
Black Dawn Series
Her Steadfast Hero, Book One
Her Devoted Hero, Book Two
Shadow Alliance
Declan, Book One
Cooper’s Promise, Companion Novel (Omega Team and Shadow Alliance
Crossover Novel; Desiree Holt KindleWorld)
The Sisters Series
Tempting Fire, Book One (Sisters Series and Dallas Fire
& Rescue Crossover Novel; Paige Tyler KindleWorld)
Fate Harbor Series Published by Siren/Bookstrand
Trusting Chance, Book One
Protecting Olivia, Book Two
Claiming Kara, Book Three
Isabella’s Submission, Book Four
Cherishing Brianna, Book Five
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