as good as looking at you. You keep stealin’ my breath, Evan. Same way as you stole my heart the first day I saw you.”
F-R-A-N-K-I-E.
I signed it out against her back.
A brand.
A tattoo.
I LOVE YOU. LOVE YOU SO FUCKING MUCH. NEVER GOING TO LET YOU GO. NOT EVER AGAIN.
I gripped her by the waist, shifting languages, loving that Frankie could hear me in every way.
Our senses tied.
Our spirits bound.
“Tell me you want me as badly as I want you.”
She strained back, pressing her ass against my dick. “Yes. Please. Always. Forever. Any way you want me, I’m yours.”
I slipped a single finger through the cleft of her ass, dipped it into her needy pussy.
Frankie Leigh squirmed, desperate for more.
Body nothing but a plea.
This time, it was me who was groaning when I grabbed myself, pressed the head of my cock to her lips.
I slowly spread her. Nudged in an inch.
Lust clutched my guts, and I took her in one solid thrust.
Frankie jolted forward, nails scraping at the green felt of the pool table, girl bent over this way the most seductive thing I’d ever seen.
Paradise.
This girl was paradise. The feel of her clutching my dick, the constant throb of our bodies as we begged for the other.
Bare.
Frankie was on the pill, and I was clean, and there was no better feeling than zero space between us.
“You are perfect,” I raked out, splaying my hand out to run up the small of her back, riding up her spine as I pressed her chest against the table.
I wound my other hand around to find her clit.
Rubbing her fast.
Fucking her hard.
My attention turned to the mirror.
To the silhouette of us as I rocked my hips, as she fought to meet me thrust for thrust.
The intensity swelled and the energy flashed.
Strikes of lightning.
Thunderbolts of greed.
Devotion tightened my chest and the impending pleasure knotted my guts.
I drove faster and faster, words tumbling from my tongue, “You are my life, Frankie Leigh. I’m going to give you everything.”
“Everything,” she confessed, giving me the same.
Her pants rose into the air. Meshed with mine.
Our hearts racing to meet.
Boom. Boom. Boom.
Bodies smacking. Her sweet body getting ready to blow.
Could feel her clamping down on my cock. The friction and the slide.
Took her as deep as I could, until her mouth was dropped open, riding a fine line of pain and pleasure.
Felt it the second she shattered.
Splintering into a million pieces.
Her body an earthquake.
She throbbed and pulsed and it set me off.
That ball of greed fracturing out.
Broken.
Coming together.
Two of us one.
And it shouldn’t be possible, but after today? After the highs and the lows? I didn’t think we had ever been so close.
I stayed there bent over her, holding her in my arms as our chests heaved and our pulses thundered.
As our spirits swam.
I inhaled a tight, ragged breath, pushed back the mess of her hair with my nose so I could nuzzle against her cheek, both my hands winding around to hold her by the chest. My mouth moved to her ear. “Want to marry you, Frankie Leigh. Want to build a home. Want to be with you like this every day.”
She twisted her face around so she could look at me, hooked her arm back to wrap around my neck. “I am yours.”
I knocked lightly on my parents’ bedroom door. Sure my hair was a disaster and I smelled like sex, but I didn’t care. Couldn’t wait for their call, so I carefully cracked open the door and peeked inside.
Mom was sitting up against the headboard, her readers perched on her nose, reading a book. Dad was passed out with a sleeping Everett draped across his chest, his hand protectively set on his back.
Emotion surged.
Thick and overwhelming.
Mom took off her glasses and smiled, gesturing for me to enter. “Hey.” Could tell she was whispering.
“Hi.” I kept mine the same as I crept inside. “He’s out, huh?”
“He never even stirred.” She turned her gaze on Dad and Everett before she turned the weight of it on me. “That’s one beautiful sight, isn’t it?”
My smile was almost wistful. “Yeah. Never thought I’d get to witness a sight like that. Never thought I’d get to have it.” I eased down to sit on the edge of her bed.
Mom reached out and touched my cheek. “I’m so glad you have this chance.”
I cut my gaze over to Everett before I returned it to her. “I get it now, Mom, how you always told me I was perfect to you, no matter my