46. Chapter 46 - Cade #2
“Yes. Just like everything. Like Eli messing with you. Like everything they’ve done. They’re chicken shits.” Her fists ball, digging into her temples. “I hate them. I hate being part of their family. I never want to see them again.”
Sunlight seeps through the rose colored glass on her wrist, kissing along her cheek where my mouth was just a moment ago.
“Maybe we need to change your family?” I whisper, taking her hands and pressing them to my chest.
Her light brows knit as she looks up at me. “I wish I could.”
“Marry me, Ros. Walk away from being a Bailey forever.” My heart leaps, surprising even myself with the proposal.
It’s not that I haven’t thought about it. Every day my love for her is stronger. I think I would have asked months ago if I didn’t worry that she wasn’t ready.
Tears roll down her cheeks as her gaze flicks between my eyes and where my hands cover hers. “I want that more than anything.” Then she focuses on me, doubt clouding her stare. “You really want to keep me?”
It hurts that she still questions her worth. “Forever, Ros. I want to protect you, love you, be with you by your side. I want to keep you safe while you continue to grow and thrive. I’ll be your thorns, you be my rose.”
She chokes on a sob with a trembling chin, frozen as the tears continue to fall.
“Ros, it’s a yes or no, baby. And don’t feel bad if you aren’t ready. There’s no rush.” I pull one of my hands free to cup her cheek, stroking her jaw with my thumb.
“It’s a yes,” she gasps. “Always yes. I just don’t know why you’d want to be stuck with me?”
Frustration wars with the elation surging through me in icy hot waves.
With a growl, I tighten my grip behind her head and tug her to me.
“How can you make me the happiest man in the world and also have me at the closest I’ve ever been to wanting to bend you over my knee and spank that pretty fucking ass?
” I crush my lips to hers and pin her to my chest.
My tongue pushes the seam of her mouth, opening her to taste the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with.
When I finally let go, she’s slow to open her sultry eyes, focusing on my jaw where her fingers trace my Adam’s apple.
“Would it hurt?” she asks tentatively before raising her gaze.
Her question takes me off guard. “I’d never hurt you.” My voice cracks at the thought.
She bites her lip but the corner turns up as her lids lower. “Then maybe you should?”
The shock of her whispered words rattles me. Then it blooms with the realization that the level of trust it takes from her really does mean she’s giving herself completely to me.
Reaching down, I cup her thighs, hitching her to grind my hard groin into her belly. “Do you need a little spanking for doubting my love?” I kiss the tip of her nose as she wiggles against me.
“Maybe?” Her hot exhale turns into a giggle when I turn.
“Then put your hands on the tree if you want to be punished.” I will always make sure she knows she’s in control. “Pull one away, I stop.”
She faces the trunk and pauses, glancing at me over her shoulder, then loops her thumbs into her leggings and fucking drops them to her knees before leaning to grab the pine.
I’m leaking in my damn jeans before I even start.
“Spread those legs.” I tap her ankle with my toe, struggling to keep any semblance of authority in my voice.
I never thought that after the hell she’s been through that she would be in a place where she would want this.
Flattening my hand, I rub it down the marks on the round globe of her ass, then drag my fingers up her glistening pussy.
Soaked.
“When do you want the wedding? Weeks or months?” I tap her leg just firm enough to get a small sound from the contact.
She looks back, biting the inside of her cheek. “I don’t know.”
Naughty.
I use a little more force and she jumps. But her fingers stay firmly splayed against the bark. “Weeks or months?”
“I’m still not sure,” she whines.
A grin fights to pull up my unscarred cheek as I run my callused palm over the pink mark, then reach under her dripping cunt to find her clit.
Her cry matches the jolt in her spine when she twitches from my touch.
“Pretty damn wet for someone who isn’t sure.” I flick until she moans, then pull back for another swat.
This time it’s enough to make my hand sting and my cock to leak into my jeans.
Shit. Too much.
Her nails dig into the tree and her head drops below her arms, panting heavily towards the ground.
“Weeks or months.” I keep up the charade, wondering if I’ve pushed her too far.
But I match the last snap in intensity, the pop echoing around us.
The sound has barely settled into the surrounding forest when her body shivers as her pussy clenches the hot summer air.
Is she really—
Thrusting my fingers into her, she cries out and bears down, her inner muscles contracting so tightly around my knuckles I can’t move them.
“Weeks.” She spills the word into the needles at her feet, hanging weakly by only her nails in the wood. “Sooner?” Her whimper falls between us.
Holy hell.
I need her.
Reaching into my pocket, I discover the worst possible reality.
I forgot to grab a condom.
But I’ll be damned if I leave her begging like this. I’ll make her give me one more before we go home.
Both of my palms rub her legs, my thumbs lifting and spreading her dimpled ass cheeks. “Days or weeks?” I grunt, running my fingers between her widened thighs.
She’s not the one being punished, I am, for forgetting.
“Please?” Those sapphire eyes meet mine, still glazed from her climax.
When I connect again in another stinging spank, they roll up as her jaw drops lax with another tremor.
“Cade…” The way my name pours from the recesses of her throat in a husky moan is about to tip me over the edge.
I can’t take it. My zipper falls at the first hint of a touch, springing my rock hard cock free to rest in the valley of her round ass.
With a long stroke, I grind the length up and down through her soaked cunt until my nuts are dripping. Then I run it lower so my engorged ridge can stroke her firm clit sending shivers through my loins.
I’m gonna come into the leaves any second.
“Tell me,” I barely grit through my clenched teeth. “How soon until I can call you my wife?”
Yet another snap against her skin and my pre-cum joins her wet juices falling to the earth.
Her chin arches towards the sky as the spasms begin to crash over her. I can feel her needy muscles fluttering over my shaft.
“When?” One last impact.
She cries out, dropping her arm to cup the tip of my mushroomed head, then she—
Fucking sinks me into her in a single thrust.
Her vise of a pussy erupts around me and I lose any sense of control.
A groan is torn out of my chest along with every bit of oxygen. Lights pop behind my eyes as her body locks me in, strangling me for every string until I manage to pull out, spurting the last strands across her thighs and panties.
My legs try to give out under me, so I grip her hips, leaning heavily as I fight to catch my breath.
She claws her way up the tree until we’re both standing and panting.
With a smile, she turns. “Tomorrow?” Then she grabs my dick, forcing another shudder through me.
I’m so sensitive it hurts but I ignore the sweet pain to grab her neck and crush my lips to hers. “Tomorrow.”