My heart pounds harder with every thrust.
“Come with me,” I command her, my voice strained. Pushing her calf to my shoulder, I angle her deeper and bring my thumb to her clit, ruthlessly rubbing and bringing full on screams of pleasure to her reddened lips.
And that’s how we come undone, rushed and desperate, raw and tangled, bared and lost in one another.
5
Scarlet
With my back to his front, his heavy arm draped over the curve of my waist, we both watch the fire. His lips rest in my hair as he murmurs again how much he missed me, how much he craved this.
It feels as if I am his everything and the words tumble over themselves in the back of my throat: he feels like my everything.
The warmth of the flames lay over my exposed skin until Grim pulls the knitted navy blanket over us. It’s barely enough to cover us, and I bury my feet beneath his calves.
There’s a rough chuckle that comes from him with the act and then another kiss at my temple.
I could stay forever like this. Not a care outside of this room. Just wanting to be held by him, all the while, my hand lays over his, our fingers laced.
My heart beats along with his when his phone rings, the sound muffled from his jeans laying over it. The sofa groans as he leaves me, checking it and answers, “Walsh.”
There’s a pang of pain as he does. With the floorboards protesting his steps that lead him away from me.
I lay waiting, wanting him to come back to me while thinking of the many names others have called him on the other end of that phone.
Cody. Marcus. Walsh.
I asked him once why some people call him Cody and the others Marcus. He said it’s because they don’t know him and that’s the way he wants to keep it.
Before I could pry any further, he told me, I only want to be your Grim.
And I believe him.
Because all I want to be is his scarlet angel.
My throat is dry when he comes back, two tumblers of whiskey from my kitchen in his hand. I accept one and take a deep gulp, letting it burn in a soothing way as he settles back behind me.
“Are they stealing you from me again?” I question him, watching as the fire licks up the log, cracking it and leaving blackness in its wake.
He hums a yes that’s deep and allows the regret to linger.
I wonder if one day he’ll stay. My fingers slip back around his, his warmth quickly wrapping around me as my cheek falls against his bicep. He pulls me closer and I let my eyes close when I ask him, “How long will they keep you?”
He nuzzles the crook of my neck, the tip of his nose tickling that tender spot before whispering, “not long. I promise.”
His hand slips out from under mine, and he grips my hip, startling me as he flips my body over so that I’m on my belly. Hot desire overwhelms me as he tilts my hips up, his erection pressing against my core. A shiver runs down my spine and I hold my breath, wanting him and needing this more than I need anything else. His large frame casts a shadow down on me as he whispers at the shell of my ear, “I want you again.”
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