Chapter 31
THIRTY-ONE
CASH
Dizziness spun through my brain as I fucked Daisy’s mouth.
Unable to process that this was actually happening. Wondering if maybe that fall had done me in and by some grace of the fates I woke up in paradise.
Blunt nails burrowed into my hips, and she shifted, taking me so deep I thought I was going to pass out.
I could scent her all over again. That sweet aroma filling my senses.
But it was what took over her expression that spun me into a brand-new disorder. Something coming over her that had the energy whipping around us.
Possession pounded through me as I looked down at her on her knees for me. Every inch of her soaked. The fabric of her tank clinging to her tight, mind-bending body. Droplets of water splattered all over her face. Clinging to her eyelashes and running down her cheeks.
“So sweet. Just like that,” I grunted as I withdrew and shoved back in. “So perfect, what you do to me.”
She sucked around me, and bliss sparked behind my eyes.
“Fuck. So good.”
With each stroke, I took her a little deeper. A little harder. A little faster.
“This has to be a dream. No chance I’d be lucky enough to get you like this. So fuckin’ beautiful. Nothing in the world, Daisy. Not one fuckin’ thing in this world could compare to you.”
I should stop myself from admitting the truths that needed to be kept locked tight. But once I started with her, I found it was near impossible to stop.
Flames of pleasure licked up my insides.
Could feel the same thing coming off Daisy. Need so thick it was the only thing I could breathe. Her scent all around and the sound of her moans vibrating around my cock.
It sent pulses of ecstasy zipping through my balls and up my spine.
The threat of my complete undoing was right there. Hovering around me.
But I couldn’t stop.
Couldn’t shun what she was offering.
The gorgeous woman staring up at me with all that trust that I didn’t deserve.
Her face a carving of beauty. A score that had been made on my heart long ago.
She rose up higher, those nails digging in deeper as I thrust again and again.
“Nothing has ever felt better than this,” I grunted as she sucked and licked. “Nothing, Daisy. How’s it that you’re here?” The words tumbled from my mouth. “How’s it that I get this?”
And I was the bastard taking it when my life was supposed to be served as a penalty.
“So good. So sweet. So fuckin’ right.”
It shouldn’t. It shouldn’t feel so right. It shouldn’t feel like this was exactly the way it was meant to be. But it did. That warm comfort glided through my veins while flames burned me to the core.
Pleasure grew and built with each stroke.
I wanted to pull her off her knees and press her to the shower wall so I could possess her completely.
Fill her.
Own her.
My jaw clenched as I stared down at the treasure in front of me. Woman swallowing me down into her throat as she squeezed her needy thighs together, again searching for relief.
Lights flickered and danced behind my eyes.
Felt her like a glinting star that had just shown in the horizon.
Pants started puffing from my lungs, moans rolling out of me with each drive of my dick.
Rapture flitted all around the fringes of my sight, and I got the sense that I was elevated.
Being lifted off the ground.
Nothing solid below, though Daisy was my tether. Those cornflower eyes keeping me steady as she peered up at me.
Reminding me of my mission.
The oath that I had made.
The truth that I was going to do everything and anything to protect her and those kids.
Her nails sank so deep in my ass I was sure she would always be a permanent part of me.
But she’d always been.
Written and carved on my soul. Markings of grief and regret. Every mistake that I had made.
Pleasure gathered from every recess of my existence. Crawling out from the corners and racing to amass as this glowing orb of ecstasy.
So bright it was blinding.
“Daisy.”
She moaned at her name.
With it, I split.
A shockwave of light burst in my body.
Rapture rushing in to sweep me off my feet.
Bliss broke over me, and a guttural cry ripped out as I pulsed and poured into her mouth.
A storm whipped around us. Lifting us up and taking us to a place we weren’t supposed to go.
Her need glowing bright as our connection flash-fired between us.
The energy snapping and dancing.
A frantic urging of reckless things.
“Nothing. Nothing in the world could compare to this. Nothing,” I grunted.
Stupid, foolish thoughts invaded my mind.
Mine.
Mine, mine, mine.
Before I could do something imprudent like say it, I swept her up from the shower floor and pinned her back to the wall. Those eyes were wild and wide. Her body trembled with need.
“Beauty, that’s what you are,” I mumbled low, knowing I was letting go of a semblance of sanity.
Daisy grappled to hold onto my neck. “Cash.”
“Do you need it, Daisy? You need me to send you soaring again?” The words were harsh. A growl of possession that raged in my soul.
“Yes. I need it. I need you. I’ve always needed you.”
I should put her back on her feet. Tell her this was it. That we couldn’t give in to whatever it was we thought we were giving in to.
But all logic had been lost because I shoved aside her soaked panties so I could get to the heat underneath.
Her cunt was slippery with her arousal.
Another growl rolled through me as I stared at her pinned to the wall. The locks of her hair were darkened by the water and strands stuck to her stunning face.
Those eyes on me like I was the only thing she could see.
“You’ll never get enough, will you?” I demanded.
“No. Never.”
I should have taken it as my own warning, but I drove two fingers into her pussy instead. Her walls clutched down around them, and she arched from the shower wall. Her entire being bowed toward me. “Oh God, Cash. So good. Why do you feel so good?”
“Because I was meant to give you pleasure.”
Didn’t know how the words got loose. But they were there like another promise carved on my soul.
I kept her pinned as I started driving them in and out.
“I’m going to take care of you, Daisy. In every way. Going to show you what it’s like to be treasured the way you were meant to be.”
There I went again. Speaking reckless, selfish things.
My mouth that had been close to silent for years pouring with everything I had kept contained.
But I wanted to. I wanted to show her the gift that she was. Show her what I saw when I looked at her.
I ran the pad of my thumb around her clit. A rasp rocked out of her, and her nails sank deeper into my shoulders. “Cash. I…I…you’re ruining me.”
It was her turn to be hanging on.
And that’s what I wanted to be for her.
Her rock.
The one who would see to it that she never had to fear.
I swirled it as I continued to fuck her with my fingers. Her body writhed against the wall, the woman moaning and arching as she rode my hand.
“Let go, Daisy. Let go.”
And I wondered if it was me who was letting go as another orgasm tore through her body. The way it felt like my heart was getting shredded as I watched her come apart.
Her swollen lips parted on a silent cry as her head rocked back on the tiles.
Her pleasure all around.
“Cash.”
Her cunt throbbed around my fingers as she soared through the vapor and mist.
“This pleasure is yours, Little Wallflower. Would give it all to you if I could.”
She curled her arms around my neck, hanging on as another spasm knocked through her being. She buried her face into the side of my neck, and the needy whimper she emitted radiated through my flesh and seeped all the way to the bone.
I held her there. Letting her pleasure flicker and flash. Aftershocks ticked through her for the longest time while I kept her close.
Our hearts battered into the night as the water continued to fall around us.
Finally, I forced myself to pull my fingers free, and I carefully settled her onto her feet.
Her breaths were shallow. Her legs weak.
“You okay?” I asked, my voice low, wondering what the fuck I was supposed to do now.
Air hefted from between her lips, and those eyes were tumultuous as she tipped them in my direction. Daisy gave me a timid smile. “I’m not sure what just happened to me, but I’m pretty sure I will never be the same.”
I pressed my lips to her ear. “No one else send you soaring like that?”
Her demeanor shifted in severity. Still pinned to the shower wall, she pulled back so she met my eye. “No, Cash. I’ve never felt beautiful or cherished before. Ethan is the only man I’ve been with, and it was…”
In discomfort, she trailed off.
“Want to end him for that fact alone.” A frown cut deep between my eyes as I forced myself to step into an arena where I knew I couldn’t win. “Did you love him?”
I hadn’t asked her nearly enough questions since she came here. Avoiding the subject.
Violence had always been sufficient for me. The answer. The only connection I needed to anyone.
But that didn’t stand with Daisy.
She dipped her chin, averting my gaze when she whispered, “No. I was just…so alone, Cash. Everyone I had ever loved had left me.”
Guilt cut through me like a blade. I’d stolen so much from her, and she didn’t even know. Then I left her.
How could I be so wretched as to ever touch her? And how could it feel like that was exactly what I was supposed to do?
My mind ran to the tattoo on the inside of her wrist.
In Silence We Must Endure.
I took her wrist, pressed my lips to the words, and whispered, “You aren’t alone anymore.”