“I love your daughter and I’m not going anywhere,” Killian tells her, and she seems to grow more agitated.
“You guys think you can sit here and play house with Theo footing the bill. It isn’t going to happen.”
“Dad?”
“Oh, is he dad now? You’ve been calling him Theo for so long I thought you forgot the meaning of the word.” She laughs.
I can feel anger steaming out of Killian’s ears but he’s keeping his composure.
“Ashley, we agreed that you were going to give them a chance. I’m not happy that you did this without at least talking to us first, Liri, but I told you I will do anything to make you happy, and if Killian here is who makes you happy, I am going to do my best to support that. Financials have nothing to do with that,” he states coolly shooting my mother an icy glare.
I look between the two of them, and I notice how far apart they are sitting. All my life they were always kissing and touching in some small way. There is a distance between them I have never seen before. I squeeze Killian’s hand needing his touch to ground me.
“Now that we have staged our parental ambush, I’d like to invite you to dinner. Killian and I can get to know each other, and your mother can sit and push her issues from the past onto the rest of us.” My stepfather stands. My mother looks mortified and angry. “The car will be here around seven.” He nods at Killian and looks to my mom again. “Let’s go.”
“I’ll go when I’m good and ready. You know, Liri, when I told you to get the bad boy out of your system this isn’t what I meant. And it certainly isn’t why I put you on birth control.”
“Where do you get off, lady? Who talks to their daughter like that?” Killian snaps. “Get out of my house.”
“Your house?” She mock laughs and for the first time in my life I feel hatred toward my mother. “My husband pays your rent.”
“Actually, I don’t,” he cuts in. “Liri hasn’t taken any money out of her account for rent. She bought the furniture or some of it.”
“Well I.” My mother’s words fail her, and I am nothing but disappointed in her. She gets up from the couch and doesn’t bother to say goodbye. She follows my stepfather out the door, and I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
“Are you okay?” Killian looks up at me with so much concern and love. I am glad he was here.
“Honestly, I’m just disappointed. The ways she behaved just now disgusts me. I thought my stepdad would be the one we’d have to argue with. Never in a million years did I think she’d behave that way to you…to us. I’m sorry.”
“I was prepared for them to hate me. I’m the bad boy who corrupted their angel.” He smirks.
“And here I thought I was the one corrupting you by making you call yourself my boyfriend,” I tease.
He pulls me into his lap and kisses my throat. “Stop. I’m all sweaty and gross from class and I need a shower.”
“I’m only going to dirty you up again.” His teeth rake over my collarbone. I turn into him and he holds my face with the palm of his hand. “Don’t worry. She isn’t going to scare me away. If telling you that I love you didn’t send me running for the hills a pissed off mother won’t.”
“Good, I’d chase you down and drag you back.” I peck his lips.
“I like the sound of that,” he murmurs into my mouth, kissing me again.
“Killian, you do know that I love you, don’t you?” I have been wanting to say it back, but the timing has never felt right.
“I didn’t tell you because I wanted to hear it back. I said it because I felt it, Liri.”
“I’m feeling something else right now.” I squirm and rub my hand over the bulge in his pants.
“You make me crazy.”
“You make me want to get naked.”
“I can help with that.” I grin and he pulls my shirt over my head.
He gets a serious look about him and his playfulness has dissolved into raw desire. His fingers rub along my hips soft as a feather. My nipple is in his mouth and I grind against him. The chair rocks with us, and I scream when Killian pushes the lever and we jerk with the chair as the foot piece pops out.
“I want you screaming my name.” We fall back in the chair going with the back as it lowers. We struggle to get our clothes off, and I get a weird cramp in my toe that nearly brings me to tears, but the moment Killian fills me the pain disappears.
We’ve not done it with me on top before. I like it. I like being in control. I love seeing Killian being open and real. No games. No lines. Just him and me. His fingers dig into my hips as I rotate them moving in a circular motion, riding him. He makes me feel crazy and wild. I throw my head back and enjoy the way it feels as he moves in and out, arching up, hitting me in the right spot.