Micah reached for her hand and held it in his.
“I had a very hard time moving on. The guilt was... it was devastating to have been a part of something so awful. Micah, some of the families involved in his scheme lost all their savings, their homes... everything. I became obsessed with the case against him. It consumed me. Then one day it was over. He was sent off to jail, and they left all the people he ruined to fend for themselves and rebuild their lives. I was broke and living back with my mom, but I prayed every night that one day I’d be able to make enough money to set up some kind of fund to help families like that. It’s a pipe dream really, but with the bonus from the Morales deal, I would have been able to get it started in hopes I could grow it into something larger in the future.”
“But what did your mom mean by she didn’t think you would make it?”
“One night, not long after the trial ended, I made a stupid decision. Back then, I really believed the world would have been better without me. My mom, she found me on the floor in the bathroom. I had locked the door, but when I fell, I knocked over something and she heard it. We have this key. It’s like a skeleton key to open all the doors, and she got it when I didn’t answer. I woke up two days later in the hospital.”
Micah reached forward and dried the tears on her checks with his thumbs. She reached up, not even realizing she had started to cry. Isabel let out a soft laugh, trying to dispel the tension in the air. “It was a long time ago. I’m better now.”
He leaned in and placed a soft kiss on her lips, a kiss that made her heart soar and her mind confused.
“I’m very proud of you,” he whispered before pressing his lips to hers again, this time with more force, pulling her body back to his at the same time.
Isabel let him pull her to him, wrapping her arms around him and hoping he wouldn’t let her go.
“Are you tired?”
“Not yet, but in full disclosure, I did just take a sleeping pill.”
“Okay, then I’ll have to be quick,” he said, giving her a wink as she laughed.
Micah moved Isabel to where he wanted her and slowly pulled the clothes from her body. She had small marks in all the places he had left them. Some healing, others more recent. The look of them excited him more than he would admit. He pulled himself from her long enough to lose his sleep pants and grab a condom. She watched as he tore open the wrapper and rolled it down his thick, hard cock.
“Are you watching me?”
A blush raced up her body at being caught. “Maybe.”
“I think you were. Do you like what you see?”
“Very much.”
He moved back to her on the bed and dipped his head, pulling the soft skin of her breast into her mouth while she moaned out his name. The sensations he bestowed on her body were unlike anything she had felt before being with him. Add to it the way he watched her every move, and she was desperate for him at even the slightest look. He sucked one nipple into his mouth and caressed the other softly with his fingers. Suddenly, without warning, he bit down hard and pinched her other side. The pain made her scream and flush with need as her legs fell open to him.
“You like that, don’t you, Iz? Just a little pain with your pleasure?” he growled into her ear, pressing his hard cock into her.
“Fuck, yeah Micah. Please, I do. I really do. Give me more.”
He kissed her breasts softly, then rose on knees, holding her hips to keep himself inside her. “I’ll give you more Izzy, fuck, when you look at me like that, I want to give you the world.”
His eyes closed and his head fell back as he began thrusting inside her harder and harder with each movement. Each time he hit that one perfect spot that made her see stars when she came for him. She reached up as he pulled her into a sitting position and wrapped her arms around him so she wouldn’t fall. Up and down again and again, he pounded into her with such force she had a hard time catching her breath.
“Touch yourself Izzy, play with that little clit that I love so much. I want to feel you come all over my cock.”
Keeping a hold of him with one arm, she snaked the other between them, reaching for the tight bud between her most delicate lips. The counter pressure on her clit in combination with him fucking her made her explode. She screamed as he pushed on, giving her no mercy as he forced himself to a high unlike any drug. Her walls quivered with each long, hard stroke of his cock as they milked every last drop he could give.
Exhausted, she let her body go, barely able to hold on to Micah’s neck. He must have noticed her struggle and leaned forward, laying her on her back while pulling out of her. She gasped at the emptiness he left her with, but closed her eyes and finally, for the first time in hours, let everything go.
Isabel felt Micah lean over her and heard him whisper in her ear, “You are worth it, all of it, Izzy.”
Then he got up and made his way to the bathroom to clean up. Rolling over, the only thing she could think of was how hard the road ahead would be for them, and for once she wasn’t thinking only about the business. She was falling for him, and she had a suspicious feeling he was falling for her, too. Sated and tired, she let herself drift off to sleep in hopes the morning would bring them a better day.