Total pages in book: 27
Estimated words: 25820 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 129(@200wpm)___ 103(@250wpm)___ 86(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 25820 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 129(@200wpm)___ 103(@250wpm)___ 86(@300wpm)
Her eyebrows shoot up. “Loving?”
“Yeah, loving. Isn’t that what’s going on between us? I’ll never let you go. Or are you going to toss me away once you finally get my virginity?”
She bursts into tears again, but this time her cries are mixed with laughs. “You dummy. Of course I’m not tossing you aside. You’d better be serious, though, because I’m not giving you up. I’m sticking by your side like a leech.”
I gather her into my arms, my heart feeling lighter than it has in hours. “Can we think of something less slimy to compare you to? Maybe a bird or a cat?”
“Birds don’t stay, and cats hate their owners.”
“Puppy then?”
“Do I look like a puppy?” She bats her eyelashes at me.
“You’re as cute as one but less slobbery. I wouldn’t mind leashing you.”
“I do not want to be walked around like a dog,” she warns.
“Leech it is.” I pick her up and carry her over to the bed. “I love you. I’m never leaving you. I’m going to remove all the rocks in your path so that you don’t even so much get a stubbed toe. All I want is for you to love me back for all of eternity.”
CHAPTER 18
AUTUMN
“I do love you.” I reach up, needing to touch his face. “That’s what this has to be. I’ve never felt anything like this before. I think that’s why it scares me. It’s all-consuming.”
“Good. I want to consume you.”
“Then do it already. You technically took my virginity forever ago,” I tease him. “I’m way past being healed.” He’d said the first time we have sex he didn’t want it to be painful, which I thought was super sweet. It’s days later, and even though we are still doing all kinds of dry humping and oral, there still hasn’t been full sex.
“That wasn’t the only thing I was waiting on.” He brushes his mouth against mine.
“What else were you waiting on?”
“For you to realize that I’m safe. That I love you. That I’m not going anywhere.”
“Noble.” Tears start to sting my eyes again. I had no idea men like him existed. I’m starting to wonder if Noble is my payback. For all the bullshit and lack of love I had to endure growing up in the system, I was rewarded and found Noble. Or maybe he’s the one that found me. Over and over again.
“Don’t cry on me. I hate it when you’re upset.” He presses kisses to my cheek.
“You really live up to your name.”
“Yeah, I think my mom wanted to make sure I wasn’t anything like my father.”
“You’re nothing like your father. She clearly did a good job raising you.”
“She’s going to love you. Already been on me about meeting you.”
“What?!” I gasp.
“Calm down, Kitten. Not happening today. I promise you have nothing to worry about. She’s going to be over the moon for you.”
“Okay.” I relax, trusting Noble. Honestly, it feels good to be able to let go and have trust in someone. I never thought that would be in the cards for me. “Can I ask you something?”
“You can ask me anything.” He smiles down at me, tucking my hair behind my ear. I love when he’s on top of me, the weight of his body pressing down into mine.
“How are you still a virgin?” A small part of me thought he might be with his whole ‘first kiss’ comment. Sometimes I find it hard to believe, but other times, I don’t.
“Why do you think I am?” he asks back.
“As much as your mother didn’t want you to be your father, you didn’t want to be him either.” He nods his head. “But you're good at like, ah… dirty stuff.” I hurry the words past my lips, feeling my face warming.
“I don’t know what it is, Kitten. It’s natural with you. Can’t help myself.”
“Then don’t.” I pull at his shirt, wanting to be skin to skin with him. I’ve never been so close to another person in my life, and I want to be closer. To be connected to him in a way no one else has ever been for either of us.
“Kitten.” His tone turns firm. I freeze. Excitement blooms through my whole body. “Good girl.” He drops a kiss to the top of my nose before he starts to strip my clothes from my body until I lie on the bed completely naked.
I lick my lips, sitting up on my elbow to watch as Noble removes his own clothes. He wraps his hand around his cock and strokes himself. His eyes are eating up every inch of me. A bead of cum drips from the tip.
“Take a picture, it will last longer,” I tease.
“No fucking way,” he growls. “That shit can get hacked or whatnot.” I want to point out that if someone hacked anything of Noble’s it would be for money or something. Not dirty pictures of me, but I know he’d argue the point so I bite the inside of my cheek.