“Show me how you like it,” he growled.
I licked my lips, my sex throbbing around his fingers that were sunk deep inside me. But he was no longer moving them in and out. I shifted my hips, hoping he’d move them again, but he didn’t.
“Vic, please.”
“Do what I ask.”
Fuck. I didn’t know why, but I felt my cheeks flame as I touched myself with his hand covering mine. I slowly began to gently rub the sensitive nub in a circular motion.
“Fuck,” he groaned. “My little Rainbird likes it slow and gentle too.”
He slid his fingers in and out, causing my legs to fall apart wider and my muscles to tighten. My movements grew quicker as his did.
“Jesus, baby,” he said, pumping harder, faster. My back arched and my butt lifted off the ground.
“Oh God,” I cried, my fingers circling faster, harder. The sensations tightening. Building. My thighs trembling.
Vic grabbed my wrist and he stopped me. “No. I want my cock inside you. I want to feel you quiver around me.” His fingers withdrew from my wetness, and he pushed me flat on my back. “Fuck, one sec—need a condom.”
I laughed as he threw the blankets aside and leapt to his feet. He disappeared upstairs and was back within seconds. He ripped open the package and rolled the condom onto his hard cock.
He picked me up and flipped me over. “Up. Hands and knees, baby.” He spanked my ass and I laughed.
I did as he said and wiggled my ass, peering over my shoulder at him. He groaned, and without warning, he shoved inside me.
Then Vic fucked me hard until my body trembled and quaked and I screamed his name.
Afterward, I lay in his arms in front of the sparking fire, the glow illuminating his bronzed skin.
“You’re leaving, aren’t you?” I don’t know how I knew. Maybe it was because he’d planned this night so we’d have time alone before he left. Or how he watched me when I got myself off, as if he wanted to embed it in his memory. Or how he kissed me as if it might be the last time.
“Yeah, baby. With Tyler down, I need to go.”
I swallowed back the tears. “Can you tell me where you’re going? How long you’ll be gone?”
“No.”
I closed my eyes and pulled his arms tighter around me, then linked our fingers and held his hand like it might be the last time. I wouldn’t ask him to stay, even though everything inside me wanted to. I wanted to beg him. Get on my hands and knees and plead with him to stay with Jackson and me.
But I wouldn’t. His demons lived and breathed in him. Tonight, I’d seen for myself what they did to him. He needed this.
I squeezed his hand. “Promise you’ll never leave me while I sleep, Vic?”
“Yeah.”
“Say it. I need to hear you say it.”
He turned me over on my back and leaned over me, his hand sliding up my body to my throat then farther to cup my chin. “I promise to never leave you while you sleep, Rainbird.”
Only then did I close my eyes and fall asleep wrapped in his arms.
Macayla
I woke to what sounded like a baseball bat pounding on the front door.
Vic’s body was a missile. He darted upright, tossing the covers over me and vaulting out of bed.
All softness had vanished.