Page 74 of Southpaw Slots
She reaches for my hand, but I suddenly don’twant to touch her for the first time maybe ever. Tears flood her eyes, and she sobs that fake little girl cry she does. Like at the wedding and with her precious cake.
My hands find my hips, and I unleash what she needs to hear. “You can’t just manipulate me anymore. I won’t stand for it. So either be direct andsayexactly what you think and feel or…I just can’t believe you. It feels like I’m with a stranger when you do that to me, and I don’t like it.” My hand slaps at my chest. “It hurts, Arianna. Tell me the truth. Thewholetruth.”
“I-I’m trying! I called him because I’ve been suspicious of Wyatt for a while. I don’t know why.” She huffs in choked breaths and my heart aches seeing her in pain. I’d do almost anything to take it away, but I won’t give in. Not this time. Not if she’s trying to manipulate me. Crossing my arms, I wait and listen. “So I’ve been stockpiling cash away in your family’s old vault. Phones, clothes, food, and water, everything in case we had to get away.”
My face pinches. “We?” Were her and Cass up to this? A sick feeling settles in my stomach.
“You and me.We. My husband and I andourbaby. Cass knows a little because he’s been dropping me off there, but not why I’m doing it. I’ve also been trying to make sure you two apologize to each other. He misses you.”
“How would you know what Cass wants, huh? Just how close have you become?” I’m ready to ripsomething off the walls. “How long have you two been meeting?”
“Just for the last two weeks.Nothingis going on with us. I’m in love with you. I figured he was the only man I could trust other than you right now. He knows you the best, so I reached out to him for his help.” Her face falls and the droplets drip off her face onto the floor. “I can’t even trust my brother anymore.”
“I thought youwantedWyatt and I together, sweet cheeks. And now that we are, what? Are you jealous?”
Her head snaps up to meet my gaze. “No! I don’t trust him! Not after what I saw.” She darts her gaze outside. “I-I don’t feel comfortable around him anymore.”
“And yet, you felt comfortable enough to have a baby with him.”
As her hand finds her hip, she narrows her eyes at me. The sunset turns into a raging fury behind them. Then she brushes past me and heads to the stairs. I can’t let her leave. Not like that.
Running after her, I gather her in my arms and carry her up the stairs to our room. “You’re not getting away from me.”
She tries to fight me, but she doesn’t have the strength. I carry her into our room and kick open the door with my foot. Laying her on the bed, I crawl over top of her, and she thrashes, but doesn’t give any real effort to get me off her. “Look at me, empress.Look at me.” Her body stills as she pants. “Are you trying to manipulate me right now?”
As if she’s thinking about it, she blinks several times. “Not at all, Asa. I’m telling you the truth and how I feel. I think it’s the first time, other thanourfirst time, that I’ve felt open with anyone.Youmake me feel that way. You make me feel safe and protected.” Pride swells my chest, and I think I fall deeper in love with her until she says, “Except with your loyalty to him.” And my heart sinks.
Despite how sick it makes me, I believe her. I do think she’s telling the truth. But maybe her interpretation of events is off. Wyatt wouldn’t betray us. He loves her. And I think he even loves me.
“I love you,” I tell her, and I let my body writhe against hers. Our souls echo each other’s. Something about her calls to me and has since that first kiss, possibly even before then. Maybe her parents and mine knew what they were doing by wanting us to be together. Wiping her tears away, I kiss each of her hot cheeks, then her full lips, jetting me to that serenity where only we exist. It’s just Arianna and me.
Without much thought, I’ve pulled down my pants, needing to get closer to her. Let my skin and hers collide. Sliding her dress up, I push aside her panties and let my cock rest on her entrance. It’s wet, warm, and inviting. Her nails dig into my neck as we caress lips, tongues soothing our desire for one another.Lifting onto my knees some, I almost enter her, but refrain for a moment, allowing her a choice.
When she lifts her hips to wrap herself around me, I’m suctioned deep within her. My cock throbs within her tunnel’s tight embrace. But I don’t move. Surrounding her with my arms, I breathe into her mouth my own truth. “I love you, Arianna. I do. I want to know everything about you and every day is the best day of my life because you’re in it.”
Her smile soothes me as she says, “Asa, I want to take care of you. Let me. You’re my family. I love you.” She moves slightly, so I’m thrust in deeper. Pretty soon, I’m there holding her as her hips work my length so slowly I know I want to sleep like this every night. Just tucked inside her body, our hearts beating together, and our lips combined. We’re one.
With another arch of her back, she comes beautifully, unraveling around me with a scream while I watch her exquisite face and embrace her. It’s not even that my own orgasm matches hers so much as I unload my love inside, so she has it all for safe keeping. And the thought enters my mind…
I needed this.
Just us.
Hopefully, Wyatt won’t be too upset. I had to help her calm down so she can make up with him and we can go back to being our pack again.
Like a koala, she attaches herself to me and mutters into my chest, “Thank you. I needed that.”
A sighed chuckle escapes my lips. “Me, too.”
She digs her head out from underneath me to look into my eyes, my dick still softening within her. “Asa?”
“Yeah, sugar lips?”
“Do you really want to be senator? Or consort?”
Tapping my lips to her forehead, a smile spreads across my face that she knows me so well. “No. I don’t.” Rolling over onto my back, I take her and her pussy with me. She lays her head on my chest. “You know what I want?”
Resting her chin on my pecs, she asks, “What?”