Page 99 of Cruel King
When she finishes speaking, a sexy smile makes her brown eyes dance with mischief. She has no idea how breathtaking she can be.
“I’m worried you aren’t over Theo yet.”
I wish I didn’t have to say that since she’s being so sexy at this moment, but it’s the truth I can’t get past. As much as I want to be with her, I don’t want to be her rebound guy. I’m too crazy about her to be that.
Ava sets her hands on her hips and takes a deep breath before letting it out in a rush. “Well, then, I guess it’s about time to put that idea to rest. Yes, I will always love Theo just as I’ve loved him all my life. That won’t change. But we weren’t right together. I knew that, even though I didn’t want to admit it. I know now all this time I was wanting him to forgive me it wasn’t because I had been with you. It was because he felt something I didn’t, and I should have never let things go on as long as they did.”
“You looked pretty happy together. I’m having a hard time believing you weren’t having fun.”
“I was. I was spending time with my best friend. It felt so good to have him back in my life like he was when we were kids. Then when you were so mean to me, it felt nice to have Theo there to care about me and make me feel better. But I wasn’t feeling what he was feeling.”
Hearing she turned to him because I was so cruel once again makes my heart ache. If only I hadn’t been so quick to want to hurt her.
“I’m sorry I screwed everything up. You would have never turned to him if I hadn’t been such an asshole.”
With a big smile, she nods and says, “Exactly. So how about you not screwing this up now?”
“Okay. What do you suggest?”
Ava looks around the room we’re in and levels her gaze on my face. “We’re in a bedroom. I suggest we use it the way it was meant to be used.”
“Go to sleep?” I tease, loving this assertive and confident version of her.
Taking a step closer to me, she gives me a look and then says something that makes me instantly hard. “After. First, though, I say we remind each other why we couldn’t forget those two days we spent together five years ago.”
I slip my arm around her waist and pull her roughly to me. Looking down into her beautiful brown eyes, I smile at how incredible she feels against my body.
“I’m going to remind you all night long.”
She stands on her tiptoes and kisses me long and deep before grinning at me. “Promise?”
A tiny hint of fear that she still cares about Theo as more than a friend sits in the back of my mind, but I can’t let that stop me from being with the woman I’m madly in love with anymore. I want her so much it hurts not to be close to her. She’s all I think about, distracting me from nearly everything else in my life.
I want to make her mine tonight and forever.
Ava quickly unbuttons my shirt before slipping it off and tossing it over onto a chair in the corner of her room. “I figured it was my turn to undress you first,” she says with a giggle before moving to my pants.
We only had two days together five years ago, but that brief history blots out all the bad that’s happened between us. I smile at her mention of that snowy day and how beautiful she looked wearing only that white robe, furious at me while I surrendered to a fantasy I’d had for so long about her.
When she unzips my pants, I push her sundress down her body. My breath catches in my chest at how stunning she is as she stands in only her panties in front of me. Already hard as a rock, I can’t hold back anymore and spin her around toward the bed.
I tug her underwear down her legs and toss them toward where my shirt landed on the chair. Naked for me, she turns her head and gives me a sexy smile, biting her lower lip in that way that makes me want her so fucking badly.
“Are you planning to remain clothed for this?”
“My shirt is off.”
“Are we going to do this again?” she asks, and I shake my head.
“Not exactly. Up on the bed on your hands and knees,” I say, nuzzling her neck as she moans at my command.
She’s open and ready for me, so I set my hands on her hips and pull her back toward me, sliding my cock through her soaking wet pussy and grazing her clit. That makes her even more excited, and she wiggles her ass against me, making the thought of taking things slow an impossibility.
With one smooth thrust, my cock is buried inside her, and I’m in heaven. My fingertips sink into the flesh on her hips as I begin fucking her, my need to mark her as mine more powerful than I ever thought. She’s always been my Ava in my heart, and now I’m going to do whatever it takes to make her mine in every way.
I hear tiny whimpers come from her and I continue to plunge into her wet and willing body. She grips the bedspread tightly in her hands and lowers her head to the bed, changing the angle of our lovemaking to something even more incredible.
For so long, I’ve wished to be with her again and didn’t think it would ever happen, so now I can’t make this happen fast enough. Sliding my hand up her back, I tighten my hand in her hair, pulling it hard enough so she has to arch her back.