27. Cody

TWENTY-SEVEN

Hailey's demand cleaved through the room, a bang right in the middle of me.

I should stop this before it got carried away, before there was no going back, before I put the final stake in my grave.

But I was trapped by the torrent that swilled in her eyes. That blue sea drawing me deeper, crystalline and clear. Dark and mesmerizing.

A place I knew I'd never been before.

The heat of her blistered our flesh, burning us both. It incited a frenzy there was no chance I was strong enough to resist.

I twisted a hand up in the soft, lush locks of her hair. I yanked her head back as the rest of her bowed forward, and the hard peaks of her gorgeous tits scraped at my chest.

Fuck me, this woman was nothing but illicit.

A crime I should know better than to commit.

So goddamn hot I couldn't think straight.

"Is that what you want, Shortcake? You want me to fuck you?"

"You promised you'd do it so good." She threw the text I'd been an idiot to send that night back in my face. On the night when I felt like I was going to lose my mind if I didn't have her in some way.

But if I didn't have her right then?

I was going to fully disintegrate.

I was ruined anyway, so I saw no point in not giving in.

"I've always said to be a man of my word."

"I hope you are."

A grin cracked the edge of my mouth while I felt like my insides were splintering apart.

My Shortcake was a spitfire.

I loved it.

Loved every fucking thing about her, and I knew that was the real problem in all of this.

Too late now to consider any of that.

I curled my hand up in those honey-swept tresses until I was holding her by the back of the head, my words going soft as I murmured, "You sure that's what you really want?"

Something that looked a little too close to insecurity passed through her gaze. "Do you?"

"Oh, darlin', I think you can feel just how damned bad I want you." I nudged the tip of my dick against her entrance. "Think I might die if I don't get inside you."

At the contact, she let go of a needy rasp.

"But you're going to have to make that decision," I told her.

Me?

I was already all in. Ready to give it. Whatever it took.

But I knew she wasn't close to being there yet. Maybe she'd never be, and I sure as hell didn't want to be a dirty regret.

Rather than booting me from her bedroom the way she probably should, she wound those sweet arms around my neck and plastered herself against me.

The confession came soft from her lips when she burrowed her face into my neck. "I want you."

Her heart ravaged against mine, thrashing a riot.

"Do you have a condom?"

She blinked like she was just then realizing we should probably be covered, the chaos that bounded around us making us both reckless. She leaned over enough that she could get into the top drawer of her nightstand and pulled one out, the woman close to frantic as she peeled it open.

I hissed when she sheathed my length, a flashfire igniting at her touch and tugging at my balls.

Gripping her by those lush, indecently delicious hips, I stared up at the woman who panted her sweet breaths against me, swallowed them down and let her invade. "Well, if you want me, darlin', then I guess you'd better take me."

Hailey choked a needy, disoriented laugh before she slowly began to sink down, the woman hugging my cock in a fist.

Her walls throbbed and clutched as I slowly fitted myself in her cunt, spreading her wide.

Pleasure sped up my spine and lust prowled through my insides, body already hunting for release.

Hailey trembled as she clung to me, and her breaths turned ragged as I filled her so full that she was clawing at my back.

"Fuck me, Shortcake, how could one woman feel so good?" I rumbled it at her temple, holding her there for a second and letting her adjust.

Because shit—she was so fucking tight, and her pussy kept clenching as she seated herself deep.

"You okay?" I finally asked when her breaths evened out.

She nodded, words breaking when she spoke. "More than okay."

A gluttonous laugh tumbled around in my chest, and I dragged my fingers down the elegant curve of her back.

Chills scattered across her flesh, and she was shaking all around when I said, "When I'm finished with you, okay isn't going to remain in your vocabulary."

She eased back, a little of the sass she'd been wearing earlier riding to her striking, unforgettable face.

No doubt, the sight of her right then was going to be emblazoned in my mind forever.

The girl sitting on my cock with those thighs wrapped around me, her hair mussed and her cheeks flushed.

Lips pouty and swollen from my kiss.

It turned out, kissing her was my favorite thing to do.

"Is that so?" She phrased it coy, a tease that pierced straight into me.

She squealed when I picked her up from around the waist without withdrawing and stood from the side of the bed, then she was gasping as I pressed her back to the wall and pinned her arms over her head.

Her legs clutched around my waist, and I withdrew real slow then thrust back in.

Hard and so fucking deep.

Surprise ripped up her throat as I filled her to the hilt, and she arched from the wall. "Oh my God…Cody…I…"

I couldn't help but smile. "You said you wanted to be fucked, darlin', and I'm not here to disappoint."

I started rocking into her, each stroke possessive, driving into her over and over.

Her body crawled the wall, rising and falling with each thrust, her tits brushing my chest each time I plunged into her.

Nothing but warm, slick paradise.

Her breaths fluttered, the scent of her enthralling, and her tongue kept chanting my name.

I devoured it, that sweet little tongue, ate up her words that she released.

"More…harder…I need…I need…"

"I know what you need," I rumbled back.

Pulling her from the wall, I placed her on her feet and spun her around.

She gasped again, having a hard time keeping up.

The walls spun around us, and energy crackled in the space.

I planted her hands on the bed before I gripped her by the hips.

Her full ass was in the air, and her slit glistened with her arousal.

I dragged my fingers through her pussy and up to her clit.

I tugged at it, making her moan, then I lined my dick up at her center and drove back home.

I nearly blacked out at the feel of her gripping me tight. Her needy pussy sucking me deep.

"This sweet cunt, Hailey. Think you're the one who's fucking me so good." I pulled out all the way to the tip.

Her lips throbbed, greedy for more.

I rocked back in.

"Yes," she rasped.

"Fantasy, Hailey. That's what you are. A goddamned fantasy. Never could have dreamed of something as good as this."

I started fucking her just like she'd asked, picking up a hard, reckless rhythm.

That cascade of hair whipped around her, and those hands curled into the covers as I wound her fast.

She drove back to meet me, thrust for thrust.

"Look at you, Hailey…your pussy is so needy. You're such a good girl, baby. The way you take my cock."

Fingers kneading into her ass cheeks, I spread her wider, pumping deeper, unable to look away from where we were joined.

Captivated by the point where I was consuming her.

Possessing her.

Wrecking her.

But I was sure it was this woman who was really doing all the wrecking.

Destroying me brick by brick. These walls that I'd had up for years. I should have known she'd be the only one who'd hold the power to demolish them.

I slipped an arm around her and pressed my chest to her back.

My bucks turned erratic as I began to play my fingers over the swollen nub of her clit.

She started whimpering, louder and louder with each demanding thrust.

Pleasure swelled, static that cracked in the air.

Suffocating.

The woman became the only oxygen I could breathe.

"Cody…I…please…"

Her head thrashed back and forth, and I could feel that she was getting ready to blow, the way her tight cunt cinched around me in a heady clutch that nearly sent me sailing.

I drove harder. Harder and deeper and faster.

She exploded, and I could feel the force of the scream that was rolling up her throat.

I grabbed the edge of the comforter and shoved it into her mouth just as it was tearing free.

The shout of my name was muffled in the fabric.

Oh, but I heard it. I heard her call, and I followed her lead.

Pleasure splintered, fracturing out from her pussy and climbing into me, and the girl hurled me right into her ecstasy.

I erupted, my cock pulsing and throbbing as I dumped into her. Bliss streaked up my spine and tremored down the backs of my legs. I buried a shout in her hair, my heart battering so fucking hard I thought it was going to claw its way out of my chest.

"Paradise." It grunted from my lips, my face in her hair. "Paradise, Hailey."

She whimpered into the fabric stuffed in her mouth. Aftershocks ticked and rolled, her flesh alight, a full-body glow.

I wanted to hold onto it forever. That light. An embodiment of this emotion that made me feel like I was right where I belonged for the first time in my life.

Like maybe I'd stumbled on a new purpose.

Or maybe it'd been waiting out there for me all along.

I slowed, easing, before I fully pulled out, instantly wishing I could be right back in the fist of her again.

We both went limp and slumped, though I eased to the side so I wouldn't crush her, and when I got myself together enough, I pulled her up onto the bed so we were lying chest-to-chest.

I ruffled my fingers through her sweat-drenched hair, stared at her through the shadows that played in the night.

She brushed the tips of her fingers softly over my lips.

And I knew it then.

I'd been missing a piece inside, and it was exactly in the shape of Hailey Wagner.