Page 88 of Penalty Shots

He trails his nose softly up my neck and to my mouth.

"If you ever thought for a moment that you weren't everything I ever wanted in this world, that a life with you isn't enough for me… then you're wrong. I want you. Not what you can give to me. Not what you can do for me. Just you."

"But..." I feel my lip quiver and he presses the gentlest of kisses to it and pulls back to look at me. "I'm broken, Keelan. I always will be."

"Then let me hold every piece of you," he says, his voice breaking. "Let me hold every broken piece. Because I'd rather have the pieces than nothing at all."

A hot tear runs down the side of my face and he brushes it away with his thumb.

"Will you let me, Rina? Will you let me hold you?"

Another tear. A sniffle. "Yes," I say softly.

"Okay, then," he says through a broken smile before his lips claim me in a kiss so real, so raw, I don't think I've ever been kissed like it in my life.

In that one kiss, I feel a lifetime of moments come to life. All the possibilities. Everything I've been too afraid to ask for. It all wakes up.

And for the first time since I first met this man, I feel like he's something other than off-limits.

He's mine. All mine.

We kiss. We touch. We give in to each other here on an empty beach.

He tugs the strings on the sides of my hips and slips the fabric off me. His fingers work delicious circles that send my back arching, my breasts pressing firmly against his chest.

He keeps touching and teasing me as his lips and tongue taste the skin of my neck.

"You are the best dessert, Rina."

I shake under his touch.

"And I love watching you come undone for me."

I look into his eyes, my hands feeling the taut skin against his abs.

"Then make me yours," I tell him.

The circle his finger is working on my sensitive skin stops. "Don't tempt me. I won't be able to stop myself."

I push my hips against his rock-hard erection.

"I want all of you," I tell him.

He gulps but reaches for the hem of his board shorts and tugs them down. The fullness of him falls against my thigh, and I feel a rush of excitement.

"I want you to know. There's no going back, Rina." He lines himself up at my entrance. "If you're mine. You're all mine. Do you understand?"

"Yes," I squeak out.

He pushes into me, and my body takes him. It's not our first time. Not even our second. But it's the first time I take Keelan for everything he is.

Kind. Selfless. Quirky. Sexy.

I want every piece of him. And as he thrusts into me, our bodies uniting just like our hearts with the sound of the waves under a darkened sky—I finally feel ready for whatever comes next.

Our lips part, our tongues taste, our bodies meld, and as he draws out the most intense orgasm of my life, I want nothing more than to do it again.

Chapter 25