Fraud (Antihero Inferno #2) - Lily White Page 0,112
a silent second, and I do see him.
I see Gabriel without the mask he always wears.
Reaching between us, I rip the button of his pants open, his hips lifting as I shove them down over his hips.
Gabriel pushes up to his knees to help me out, and I stare up at a body that is perfectly carved.
Sliding my palms up his chest and over his shoulders, I tug his mouth down to mine as he shifts to kick his pants off his legs. His cock notches at my pussy, the head sinking in slowly when a fist pounds against the door.
“Guys! Come the fuck on, we’re in the middle of a meeting.”
Gabriel growls at the sound of Tanner’s voice.
“Give us a minute!”
For a few seconds, we pause, my body squirming because I need him inside me.
“Are you fucking kidding me?” Tanner yells. “Again?”
“Go away,” I yell, laughter in my voice until Gabriel’s eyes meet mine and his cock sinks slowly inside me.
The sound that rolls over my lips is carnal, my eyes closing as his mouth drops to my ear again to remind me, “Those sounds are mine, Ivy. This perfect cunt is mine, too.”
When his hips move with every punishing thrust, I can’t argue.
He owns me in ways I’ve never allowed another person. Brings me to life until I’m swimming in the broad strokes of color we paint for each other.
We’re a storm again, only when it’s like this, I’m dancing within the violence instead of running like hell to survive it.
It’s not long before he drives another explosive orgasm through me, my body going taut as my inner muscles grip down, every thrust pushing me so far over the edge that my fingernails dig into his back, marking him as much as his mouth marks me.
“Pray,” he whispers against my ear, but it’s only his name that falls off my lips.
His teeth nip my earlobe.
“I think I like my name on your lips most of all.”
Gabriel sinks deeper inside me, fills every inch of me, stretches me until I feel nothing but him. But even he can’t keep from being shoved over that edge, his mouth finding mine as he pulls out in time to come on the inside of my thigh.
The mess we make somehow feels right.
We’ve always been messy.
Neither of us content to stay within neatly drawn lines.
We both break away from the kiss, our foreheads pressing together as he stares down at me.
“What am I going to do with you?”
Grinning at that, I’m breathless when I answer, “The thing you should have done all along.”
He manages to cock a brow.
“And that is?”
“Ask me to help you instead of always fighting against me.”
Something unsaid rolls behind his eyes. He blinks, and when he lifts the lids, my breath catches to see him so open.
“Will you help me?”
My smile stretches wider.
“It’s about time you ask. Of course, I will.”
“Even if it means going against your father?”
I press my palm to his cheek.
“I think we can do this without hurting him in the process. And if you’d just given me a chance to tell you that without bullying me, I could have explained it.”
Staring at me as if it’s the first time he’s really seen me, Gabriel grins.
“Sorry about that. Maybe someday I’ll try to make it up to you.”
“Oh, you’ll try?” I laugh. “Just do me a favor from now on, and that’s all it will take.”
He doesn’t need to ask for me to say it.
“Always show me the real Gabriel from now on. No more Fraud. No more fake bullshit. I don’t care what you show other people, but you better be real with me. Can you do that?”
His lips purse in consideration.
“Yeah.”
My heart swells for us to finally be here. At this point. On the other side of the dividing line.
“Good. Now let’s get cleaned up and get the hell out there before Tanner has a heart attack.”
Laughing, Gabriel pushes up on his arms, but is still looking down at me.
“He might try to kill you for the chair thing.”
I roll my eyes.
“I’m not worried about it. I’ve taken on guys just as big and bad as him. After fighting with you for years, there’s nothing in this world that scares me. Especially him.”
“Glad I could help,” he says with humor in his voice.
He smiles again, and I see the truth of him.
It’s like sunshine finally breaking through the dark clouds.
I don’t say it, but only one thought whispers in my mind.