Rewind

Chapter 19

Chapter

Nineteen

A mina didn’t answer right away, but Ethan didn’t need her to. In fact, he wanted it to sink in for her to make her understand he wasn’t going anywhere. It wasn’t his intention to scare her off but if nothing else, this second chance at life taught him to go for what he wanted and there was nothing he wanted more than her.

The rest of the way to his condo was in silence. “Don’t get out just yet,” he instructed when he exited the car. Ethan went to the passenger side and opened the door for her.

She offered him a shy smile. “You’re such a gentleman. If you keep it up you’re going to spoil me.”

“You deserve to be spoiled.” He cupped her chin and captured her lips in a light kiss, not trusting himself to go further because anything more and he would take her against his vehicle.

“I need that, after tonight.”

“You have no idea, what I need right now Amina.” He looked pointedly at the erection tenting his pants.

“Maybe you’re the one I should be worried about tonight,” she teased.

“You absolutely do,” he agreed holding out his hand to her. “Shall we?”

He led her through the garage to the elevator.

A chill raced up his spine as they passed the spot where he’d been shot.

“Are you okay?” Amina asked seeming to notice his discomfort.

“This is where I was murdered.”

“Oh my God. I’m sorry. I get that eerie feeling as well, when I’m on that part of the road where I was hit, so I understand. Do you want to talk about it?”

Ethan shook his head, not wanting to rehash that day. He was still coming to terms with the fact that someone had wanted him dead. “No. I can think of better things I’d like to do at the moment than talk about that.”

Amina grazed his cheek with the back her hand in a gentle caress. “I’m here if you want to talk about it.”

“Mmm.”

No words were exchanged on the elevator ride to his condo and as soon as they were inside, he grabbed Amina and pulled her into his arms for a deep, hungry kiss.

He’d been craving this all night.

Amina twisted her head away. “Ethan let me catch my breath.”

“You can breathe later.” He captured her mouth again more forcefully. Something desperate inside of him awakened and the need to be one with Amina was a force so powerful he couldn’t deny it. He refused to allow her to deny it either.

Ethan cupped her ass and lifted her in his arms before slamming her against the wall.

Amina’s legs went around his waist and she returned his kiss with equal passion. She threaded her fingers through his hair as their tongues met in a wild dance of desire.

He grinded his erection against her, needing the relief only she could give. No woman turned him on the way she did and he couldn’t wait a second longer to claim her.

Finally breaking the tight seal of their lips, he buried his face against her neck and nibbled on her delicate flesh while he hiked up her dress, shoving it around her waist.

Ethan grabbed the edge of her panties and tore them off of her.

“Oh, no! I just bought those,” she groaned.

“I’ll buy you a hundred pairs if you want.” He dropped kisses along her jawline.

“You ruined them before I ripped them off, anyway.” Ethan placed kisses all over her neck.

“They were soaked from all your cream.” He pressed his lips against hers in a long, lingering kiss.

“I’m going to keep them.” He nibbled on her earlobe.

“Ethan,” she moaned.

Desperately needing to inside of her, he unbuttoned his pants, pulled down his zipper just enough to reach inside, and took out his cock. “Hold on tight baby,” he whispered, positioning himself against her slit.

The heat between her thighs threatened to scorch him. She was already leaking all over him.

As soon as Ethan slipped his tip past her labia he reared his hips back and thrust forward, sliding so deep, they were practically one person.

Amina wrapped her arms around him.

Her walls greedily clenched his member, choking the shit out of him. “Fuck, so tight. So good,” he groaned, hoping he’d be able to hold on long enough without embarrassing himself.

He briefly savored the decadent sensation of her liquid heat wrapped so lovingly around him.

They moved simultaneously in erratic motions at first, both racing to a completion they couldn’t quite reach. And slowly, they got in sync until the frenzied heat threatened to consume them both.

Ethan’s body was on the brink of eruption but he held back wanting to savor Amina’s sweet pussy for as long as he possibly could. He hadn’t been this eager for a woman since he lost his virginity.

Amina drove him to the edge of madness, and he couldn’t for the life of him understand how anyone could mistreat her and not worship her like the goddess she was.

“You’re so deep,” Amina moaned.

Her throaty cries of passion were his undoing. With each thrust, his need to consume all of her became more frantic.

“Amina!” he roared her name as he released his load inside of her.

She buried her face against his neck with a whimper. Her walls still clung to him like a tight velvet glove.

Ethan continued to give every bit of himself to her, grinding his hips against her pelvis.

She stiffened in his arms and then started to shake. “Oh God! Oh!” Amina’s cunt gripped him tighter still, milking every drop of essence from his balls.

He held her tightly, not moving as she went limp in his arms. Their breathing was ragged as they clung to each other. Being connected to Amina in this way put his heart, body and mind at peace and he knew that despite them being together for a short period of time, this was the woman he wanted to spend the rest of his life with.

She was perfect for him in every way.

“That was…intense,” Amina spoke first.

Ethan chuckled. “That’s one way of putting it. I couldn’t help myself with you looking so damn beautiful.”

“You’re going to give me a big head, Ethan.”

“You’re giving me a big head now.” Already his semi-erect penis was hardening again.

“Oh, my god! You’re so freaky.”

“You made me this way.” He nibbled on her neck and inhaled her intoxicating scent.

She groaned. “I can already tell I’m going to be super sore tomorrow just like the last time.”

“How about a nice hot shower?”

“That sounds lovely.”

Ethan carried her to the master bathroom and then placed Amina on her feet.

He turned the water on and tested the temperature before undressing. Amina watched him with clear admiration in her eyes.

A grin curved his lips, as he deliberately flexed his pectoral muscles to tease her. “Like what you see?”

She licked her lips and nodded.

As he pulled his pants down, she shook her head and walked toward him. “No. Let me.” She stared pointedly at his engorged dick.

Ethan’s body tightened at the implication. “Amina, you don’t have to.”

She stopped in front of him and dropped to her knees. “I want to.” Amina pulled his pants down his hips until they pooled at his feet.

“At least let’s shower first so I can clean myself up for you.”

Amina wrapped her fingers around the base of his dick and ran her tongue around its circumference. She then looked up at him with wide eyes and a big smile. “It tastes fine to me.”

It took every bit of willpower within him not to grab her head and ram every single inch of him down her throat. But he managed to restrain himself. Ethan was turned on by the warmth of her breath against his heated skin. She drove him wild with need.

“You’re already leaking,” she observed before licking a drop of precum off his tip.

“Fuuuuk!” Ethan gritted his teeth and balled his fists at his sides, desperately trying to hold on to the little bit of self-control he still had.

She licked his length as if she was savoring a lolly pop. Amina then gently cupped his sack in her palm, giving it a light squeeze before slowly taking his rod into her mouth, bit by excruciating bit.

Her movements were awkward at first but once her head started to bob back and forth, Ethan’s body spiraled into an abyss of ecstasy. As she sucked him in and out of her mouth, Amina used her tongue to lubricate her passage.

He held on as long as he could, but something within him snapped. Ethan gripped the sides of her head and thrust forward, hitting the back of her throat.

She coughed, but didn’t pull back. Instead, she created a suction with her lips and hollowed her cheeks, before swallowing him whole.

“Oh shit!” His orgasm came fast and hard. He spilled his seed down her throat.

Amina slurped up every single drop of him before pulling back. She wiped her bottom lip while looking up at him.

“Did you like it?”

Ethan hooked his hands under her armpits and lifted Amina to her feet. He immediately claimed her lips in a hungry kiss, tasting their mingled secretions on his tongue.

“That was fucking amazing.” He groaned resting his forehead against hers.

“I’m glad you liked it. I’ve done that before but only because I was coerced to. But with you, I actually wanted to do it.”

He stroked the back of her head. “I’m honored that you did. Are you ready to take a shower?” He held out his hand to her.

She nodded with a smile.

Later, after a long steamy shower, Ethan and Amina lay curled up in his bed. Amina rested her head on his chest, and he stroked her back, reveling in how good it felt to hold her in his arms. He wanted this moment to last as long as possible and vowed to do whatever it took for them to remain together in this timeline.

Amina suddenly groaned.

Ethan frowned and looked at her to see distress lines etched in her face. “What’s the matter babe?”

“My hair probably looks a mess. I tried my best not to get it wet in the shower but it got damp anyway. I probably look like Chewbacca.”

He burst out laughing. “I’m sorry. That wasn’t the response I was expecting. But you still look beautiful.” He dropped a kiss on the tip of her nose.

“You laugh but it’s your fault for getting frisky in the shower, besides, if you would have let me go home to pack an overnight bag, I could have grabbed my bonnet and a shower cap.”

Though her hair wasn’t as straight as it had been before, the curls that had formed looked just fine to him.

“First, I think you look beautiful no matter what. But if you’d like I can check the spare room because my mom usually keeps some extra clothes and accessories here for when she stays over. I may be able to find a scarf for you to wear. Second, as I said before I don’t want you going back to your house. After that altercation outside of the restaurant, I don’t trust that bastard not to show up at your place. Please tell me he doesn’t have a key to your house.”

“He doesn’t. In my first life, I gave him one after we got engaged but not before, thank God.”

“That’s a good thing at least. Do you have a security system and cameras installed?”

“I have an alarm system that basically alerts the company who then gets in touch with me to ask if I need them to contact the police. I never updated that package after my grandmother passed.”

“Hmm, we’ll get your security system upgraded and cameras installed. Until then you can stay here with me.”

“Are you sure? You don’t think we’ll drive each other crazy living together?”

Ethan took her chin between his thumb and forefinger, tilting her head so that their gazes met. “Amina, I know this may seem crazy, but I intend to spend the rest of my life with you. Whether we move in together tomorrow or later down the road I intend for it to happen.”

She stared back at him wordlessly. Her mouth opened and then closed.

His heart sunk. Did he misread what was happening between them? Did she not feel as strongly for him as he did for her?”

“Say something Amina,” he softly commanded.

Her eyes glistened with the suspicious sheen of tears. “I’m scared. I feel like this is all a dream and I’m going to wake up and I’ll be back in my old life, suffering at the hands of someone who doesn’t give a damn about me. This has been a whirlwind and the crush I’ve had on you has turned into something I’m too afraid to put into words.”

The doom he’d felt just seconds before disappeared and his heart swelled with emotion.

“I love you, Amina. Like you said, this is a whirlwind and I’m scared too. I wish I would have made a move in our past life because maybe I would have been able to save you. But in my heart, I believe there’s a reason the two of us were brought back. It’s because we were meant to be together. The future is scary and there are people out there who want to cause us harm, but whatever comes our way, we’ll face it together. So please don’t leave me out on a limb. I want to hear how you feel as well.”

She ran her tongue across her lips. “I love you too Ethan. I thought I knew what love was before but I had no clue until now. I told you how horrible it was growing up in my Aunt Sharon’s house. She treated me more like a slave than a family member, but I so desperately wanted any bit of affection I could get from her. I tricked myself into thinking when she berated me, it was love. At least then she was giving me attention.”

“Oh baby.” He wrapped his arms around her. “I’m so sorry you went through that.”

“My grandmother rescued me from that hell and I know she loved me and I adored her but when she died I was devastated. That’s how Mark was able to worm his way into my life and he reintroduced me to that toxic fake love I had as a child. I believed myself to be in love with him but now I know it wasn’t real. But what I feel for you is terrifying because I don’t want to lose you like I lost my grandmother. I don’t think my heart could take it if something happens to you.”

“Nothing is going to happen to me. We came back to rectify the wrongs of our previous lives.”

“Mark may be out of my life for now but I wouldn’t put it past him to try something. As for you. Someone murdered you and the last time we discussed this, you didn’t remember who. They could still be out there waiting in the wings.”

He stroked the back of her head absently. He didn’t want to tell Amina what he’d learned because she was already going through enough, but he owed her the truth. “I remember who killed me.”

“What?” She pulled herself out of his hold and sat up. “Who was it?”

“It was a member of my stepmother’s security detail.”

“Did you argue?”

He shook his head and explained what had happened when he met Kim Soo-ah. “So, that’s it in a nutshell. He probably killed me at the behest of his boss. I can’t imagine he would take the initiative to do something like that on his own. What I’m still trying to figure out is why she would want to have me killed instead of just leaving me alone. She knew that I have a successful practice and didn’t need her pay off money.”

“Maybe that’s why she did it because she knew you couldn’t be bought. Someone you can’t buy may be a real threat to people like her. What if she tries something with you again?”

“Well, keep in mind those events aren’t supposed to happen for another five years. Since you’re not marrying Mark, that probably creates a new timeline, meaning your death has likely been prevented. So, if I change something in my life, my death can also be stopped.”

“Hmm, so it’s like the butterfly effect. Each action we do differently in this timeline, it will change the course of our future.”

“Exactly. First, I’m going to find the guard who shot me, which should be simple enough once I start doing a little digging around. That psychopath shouldn’t be running around free if he’s capable of killing at the behest his boss.”

“Yeah, that is wild,” Amina agreed shaking her head. “Do you think this guy was really carrying out orders or was he acting on his own?”

Ethan stroked his chin in thought. “I’m one hundred percent certain; it was on Soo-ah’s orders. What I don’t understand is why she was so desperate to get rid of me. There must be something I’m missing. I have five years before it happens but if I can nip whatever this thing in the bud is, I can focus all my attention on you.”

“Maybe there was some kind of cataclysmic event that made her desperate. Do you remember anything that happened?”

Ethan frowned trying to dig through his memory. During his confrontation with Soo-ah, she’d been arrogant and expected him to fall in line with her wishes. But there was something else. She’d wanted him to sign paperwork stating that he’d make no claims to the JKB fortune…and company? Is that how it happened? His recollection of past events was still muddled.

“Did you remember something?”

“Yes, but it could be nothing. You know what, for the rest of the night, I only want to focus on you.” He pulled her back into his arms.

A smile curved her lips. “Oh? And what exactly do you have in mind?”

He flipped Amina onto her back and positioned himself on top of her. “Oh, I can think of several things I’d like to do to you right now.” He lowered his head and joined his lips to hers.