his lips over her breast as she tried to even out her breaths. Then Kai moved away from her as Gia lifted her arms, stretching like a satisfied cat with her hands over her head and he stood up, catching her attention when he unfastened his jeans and lowered them.
He was ready for her, hard, long, and beautiful, gripping himself, stroking as he watched her bend her knee. Kai stared again at her wet pussy, his eyes darkening when she rubbed herself, his hand moving faster, then stopping to touch her ankle, bringing her foot to his mouth. He didn’t take his gaze from her face when he kissed her leg. Kai didn’t stop watching her at all as he made slow, sweet swipes of his fingers on the outside of her thigh, but then, a twitch shook his bottom lip and moved the right side of his mouth and the man gripped her ankle, holding it in his large hand and pulled fast, moving Gia to the edge of the bed.
“Ah!”
“This is my bed and you’re in it,” he told her, his voice back to that tone that sounded like a seduction. “You’re in it with me. I won’t share you with anyone.”
She shook her head, feeling a little breathless. “I…I’m not asking you to.”
Kai nodded, stroking her leg, still holding her between his massive hands. “If you don’t want me again after this, I won’t let you back in. If you’re with me now, you’re with me always.”
Gia understood his meaning. Kai was giving her the opportunity to leave. It wouldn’t come again. If she wanted him, she had to take him now. There would be no turning back. Kai seemed tired of her running, tired of her hiding in the past and Gia understood why. She’d grown tired of it too.
When he stared at her, the slow stroke of his fingers stopped as though he wouldn’t give her any pleasure until he had her answer. She gave it to him then. “There isn’t anywhere else I want to be.”
Kai nodded, taking her foot and leading it around his waist as he leveraged himself forward and plunged right inside her. “Then this is mine…this tight, wet pussy…it’s for me. Isn’t it, ku'uipo?”
Gia cried out, her body shaking at the sensation of being so filled, so stretched by him. It was a sweet sort of ache she hoped never went away. “It…yes, fuck…yes, it’s for you.”
“And this…” he continued, holding up one leg, stretching her farther, going deeper inside her until Gia was only able to open her mouth in a soundless, awed cry. “Do you feel this? Me inside you? What I’m giving you? That is yours, nani. That is only yours. Do you want what’s only for you?”
“Yes…” Gia cried, gripping his shoulder, craving more of him, only him. “I want all of you.”
“Good…that’s what I wanted to hear.” Then Kai moved faster, seemingly done with talking, making a noise, low and guttural in the back of his throat, head twisting when he started to thrust inside Gia faster, then took her mouth, holding her tight against him. “Gia…my nani Gia…”
He moved them, his breathing becoming erratic as he held her around the waist, pumping into her, Gia’s shoulders on the mattress while he held her hips up until he seemed unable to stand the sensation, the weight of what this felt like again.
“Kai…I…I love you…” she said, needing him to hear her, to know, wanting those words in that space while he moved inside her and they changed him. They shifted the tone.
Everything in his expression softened, his eyes, his mouth, his touch. Kai slowed, his hips still working, but his kisses became reverent, not rushed. His looks were awed, not feral.
Then Kai’s body tensed, his nostrils flared, and he gripped Gia’s face, pumping faster, holding her and himself together as they both crashed from the edge.
“I love you too.” He curled her to his chest, brushing her face clear of hair, letting his fingers rest between the thick curls before he kissed her forehead. “I never thought…” Kai paused, his breathing calming. Gia could hear the rapid rhythm of his heart beginning to slow as he held her against his chest. Everything was crystalizing in that instant—the weight of the moment, the feel of their bodies moving together and the surrender they’d both made. It was changing for them. Life was shifting forward.
“I never thought there would…be more,” Kai admitted, releasing a breath. His voice