7. Promise

CHAPTER 7

Ashiver goes through me as Kade's rough voice booms in the room. I stand up and start yanking at my clothes quickly as my eyes drift over the masses of shifting muscles exposed as Kade yanks all his clothes off.

Damn, he's fucking yummy! I've never seen a guy that looks like him up close. Even his ass when he turns around is fucking muscled up like he spends half his life in the gym.

Hell, I've never seen any guy. I've been too busy doing everything I can to take my mom's business to another level and survive her death. There was no time.

And then I just didn't want to.

But I want him. So much that I can feel my own pussy leaking down my thighs, making them a sticky mess.

Before he's fully stripped, I yank my panties off and leap onto the bed, yanking the sheet over my body. His head cocks and he grins like a maniac.

"I don't know why you're bothering to pull that sheet over you, kitten. In about three seconds I'm gonna rip it right the hell off."

My face heats up and he pauses, his pale green eyes searching mine. He paces closer and the searching look in his eyes narrows in on me. "Kitten, have you ever…?"

My face flushes and I shake my head. "I was always too busy."

"Damn," he groans. "I fucking love that, kitten. But I wish I could say the same."

I turn my face away from him and stare at the wall like it's the most interesting thing I've ever seen. "It doesn't matter."

"It does matter."

I turn my head towards him as he reaches the bed and gently touches my cheek. He leans over and caresses my skin so softly that it almost makes me cry. My eyes lock on his and he sighs heavily.

"It does matter. But I hope that you can look past that and just want me because I want you so damn bad that it feels like my body's on fire every damn time you're near me. You are the thing I've been missing my whole life and I didn't even know it until I saw you."

Tears trickle down my cheek and he groans. "Awww, kitten. Don't cry. I hate to see you cry."

"That's the sweetest thing anybody's ever said to me," I whimper and he smiles softly.

"You're killing me, kitten. I'm dying here. Every part of me wants you but now you're making me think we should wait."

I barely let him get the words out before I yank him down onto the bed and he lands on top of me.

"Oof!" I grunt as his big body lands on me and he immediately shifts up onto his hands.

"What the hell was that, kitten?" he growls.

I laugh and pull his head down to mine, my lips touching his lightly, feeling his breath on mine. My heart pounds, my blood boils and I groan when his lower body rubs along mine.

"I want you. I don't want to wait. Please don't make me wait, Kade. Don't you think I've waited long enough?"

His darkened green gaze searches mine, his brows lifted, his dark hair ruffled from my hands. His lean cheeks flush and he breaks my gaze to glide his hand down my body under the sheet.

"If you're sure…."

"I am so sure, Kade." I barely get the words out and he rips the sheet off and his body lands on mine, my breath punching out of me as his hands find my thighs and push them apart and he starts to slide down until he's staring at my pussy like it's a fucking dessert cart and he's starving.

He reaches his finger out and runs it along my slit. My head falls back and I fall back to the mattress, my knees falling wide. "Kade," I moan.

He groans and then he falls face forward in the last elegant face plant I've ever seen. But when his tongue touches my aching core, I don't give a fuck!

My hands lock on his head, tangling in his soft, dark hair and pushing him deeper just where I need him.

"Your pussy has to be the sweetest thing I've ever tasted, kitten. Like the sweetest honey." He growls all of this into my sopping hole and I'm so wound up that when his lips close around my clit and his finger pushes inside my swollen lips, it feels like my whole body goes so tight that I can't see, can't breathe, can't even think.

"Kade, Kade! Oh my god, yes, yes, yes!" Stars burst behind my eyes and I can't stop screaming his name until everything goes black and I don't feel a thing.

"Hey, kitten! Wake up!" I open my eyes to see Kade kneeling over me, his big dick lying right on my belly as he taps at my cheek.

I reach out a finger and touch his cock and he groans. "Baby, please. Don't do that or I swear I'm gonna lose it and nut all over your belly instead of in that sweet pussy where my cum belongs."

I grin weakly but my hand wraps around his dick and he jumps and moves away from me. "You passed out. Take a breath before you do that!" he groans.

But I pull at him and he knee-walks forward until I can wrap my lips around him. He almost collapses on top of me but he firms his legs up and I take him as deep as I can, wanting to make him feel as good as he made me feel.

He groans and yanks his cock out of my mouth with a pop.

"Hey! I wasn't done with that!" I snap. But he sighs and bends down, his lips on mine and I can taste my own release on his tongue and for some reason it turns me on so much that I pull my thighs together, needing something, anything to fill me up.

His breath touches my ear as he sighs. "I'm not done with you either. But you're gonna be in charge because I cannot bear to hurt you. So you're leading the way."

I cock my head at him, unsure what he means. But then he lies down on the bed and with his hands, he picks me up and holds me over top of his hips. "You take your time, kitten. Whatever speed you need, you're in charge. I want you to feel good."

I nod my head and slowly, carefully, drop until his cock head is right at my opening, teasing my swollen lips and making me gasp. I brace my hands on his chest, digging my fingernails in the muscles and wrapping my fingers in the soft, crisp, dark hair on his chest.

I drop down and feel the mushroom head of his dick part my lips and push inside me. Both of us gasp and his teeth bite into his bottom lip as he struggles to hold me steady. Control. He's got so much control and that's not what I want.

I want wild, crazy, monkey sex that makes your eyes roll back in your head and your body go off like a damn bomb so hard that you black out.

I grit my teeth and slam down on his cock and he groans, his head falling back, his mouth open, his cheeks flushed and a light film of sweat on his forehead and chest.

Then his head comes down and he glares at me. "What the hell, kitten?"

But I can't see a damn thing. Pain rips through my core and it hurts so bad that my breath wheezes in my chest and tears fall down my cheeks in a silent trail. A sob rips out of me and he groans as I move restlessly.

"Shit! Don't move. Please don't move, baby. It will stop hurting in a minute. Just don't move."

He's frozen in place and I struggle to breathe through the pain, finally feeling it fade a bit and the knot in my core loosen.

"Move, Kade."

"Are you sure?" he asks me, his eyes searching mine.

I nod my head. "Yes, move. Please." My voice breaks and I need it so much. I want him to move. Crave it with every fiber of my being.

I lift myself up and hear the slick sound of my pussy grasping at his pole and then I slam down on him again and he reaches up and holds under my arms and helps me up and then back down.

We move in a rhythm that has my body buzzing. I can smell the sex in the air and it's like spice and musk. It's all over me. All over him and the room. Our bodies rise and fall in sync and he groans, his eyes rolling back and then coming back like he can't stand to look away from me.

"Fuck! You're damn gorgeous, kitten!" I dig my fingernails into his chest and then rise up and slam down faster and harder. "Dig those pretty nails into me, kitten. Mark me up. I want everybody out there to know that you claimed me. I'm yours."

And I scream, my body tensing as fireworks and stars collide in my body, streaming through a black sky and falling all around us like falling stars colliding with the earth.

He groans and his lean hips snap up into me. His dick jerks inside me and I feel the hot stream of his release inside me. One, two, three, four times until it's dripping down my thighs and mixing with my release in a sticky mess on my thighs and his.

And I fall down across his chest, my breath puffing out of me and moving the hair on his chest. He pats my back and grins weakly at me.

"Damn, kitten. I fucking love you."

And his eyes close and he falls asleep. And I'm left sitting there wondering if he really said what I thought he said and if he meant it.

Because I sure as hell love him.

My eyes open and light streams through the window, the sheer curtains barely cutting any of it and I groan, sitting up, rubbing my eyes.

And then I wrench my eyes open and stare around the room, stunned.

Because the guy who told me that he loved me is nowhere to be found.

I stand up and slip into my fluffy green robe, wandering around the room and searching. But his clothes are gone. His shoes are gone. All of him is gone.

Bam bam!

I run to the door, yanking it open, sure that he's the one knocking and he just managed to lock himself out.

But it's not him.

Petra stands there and her eyes widen. "Whoa! What the hell is going on? You look like you just lost your best friend and we both know that's not true because that's me."

"Did you see Kade out there?" I dart out and peek around her on the porch. Like he's hiding in the bushes or something.

"No, I didn't see him. What's going on? Why are you in bed so late? Did you…?" Her voice trails off and she wiggles her brows at me.

I roll my eyes. "Yeah. And he snuck out in the middle of the night like a rotten, sneaky, virginity-stealing bastard."

She rears back and lifts her hands up. "Whoa! TMI, Promise! Too much information. Take a deep breath. Maybe he just went next door to get coffee or something. I know I can't function without my first cup of coffee."

I nod my head slowly. "Yeah. That's possible."

She nods her head and smiles at me then glares over at the driveway. "But if he didn't and he just took off, I'm gonna really regret helping that son of a bitch."

I freeze. "What does that mean? What did you do?"

She stills and her cheeks flush. "Well, um…"

"What. Did. You. Do?" I grit out between clenched teeth, pulling the collar of my robe tighter around my neck.

"Well, that app? That doesn't really exist. I've actually been doing those matches." She scrambles across the room and behind a chair when I stalk towards her. "Hey! I'm really good at making matches. And when I started looking at you and the way you two were kind of dancing around each other, I knew that you just needed a push. So I went to him and offered to set you two up."

"Without telling me," I snap, glaring at her. She kinda sinks in on herself and I almost feel bad for being so nasty with her.

But I stiffen my back when I think about last night and this morning.

"I don't know what to say to you but I need some time to think about this."

I turn my back and walk towards the door and hold it open. She sidles up to it and stares at me and tears glisten in her eyes. "I really thought he loved you. I just wanted you to be happy."

I don't look at her and she slips out the door and I slide to the ground, crying silently, my hands covering my eyes. Until I feel a soft butt against my hands and when I lift them to find Tigerlily staring at me, her body rumbling with purrs. Her paw touches my wet chin gently and I pick her up and cuddle her to me, sobbing into her fur while she rubs her head against me and rumbles in my ear.

"I wish you'd really drew blood on his ass, Tigerlily."

She nods her head and I hold her close, sighing into her fur and closing my eyes. "If only his ass wasn't so damn perfect, Tigerlily."

And I close my eyes and sigh, my body curling up on the floor, the cat curled around my chin, the rumble of her purring lulling me back to sleep.