CHAPTER 9
Declan
Kissing her again felt like Heaven to me. I clutched her face tightly and felt her return, our lips parting as our tongues met eagerly. She tasted of the little bit if the wine that she’d had and the grease of the pizza, but all I cared about was the way that her mouth felt against mine.
I knew that it was wrong to do this with a married woman. I knew it in my brain, but something about the fact I already knew every inch of her body overruled my logic. She wasn’t happy. She wasn’t cherished, and she deserved that. Rayna was beautiful, and I knew how passionate she could be.
I slipped one hand down over her shoulder, her arm. It was when she winced that I pulled away and stared into her face. Her eyes were shimmering with tears, and I looked down at the spot that my arm had just touched. “Rayna?” I found the edge of her shirt and started to push it up as she shook her head.
“No, Declan. No,” she protested as she leaned in to kiss me again. “Just kiss me.”
I knew that I shouldn’t let her distract me, but her lips against mine threw my focus from the way that she felt. I kissed her back, tilting my head to deepen it as she moaned against me. I felt her arms slide around my neck away from my hand as my hands slipped down to cup her ass. Rayna moved her legs around my body, and I pulled her against me, wondering if I should move us to the bedroom. I didn’t bring her here to fuck her, but her warm body against mine was almost too much to bear. I had to have her, and she moved closer as I stumbled across the floor towards the master bedroom down the hallway. “Is this hard for you?” she whispered as we moved, making my cock harden further.
“I’ve got you. You’re safe,” I promised Rayna as she clung tighter to me.
We dropped onto the bed and kissed slowly as our bodies molded together. We were clothed, but that changed as the moments passed. Soon, we were naked, and Rayna’s lips were on my jaw as I groaned softly. Rayna was draped over my body, her skin warm and soft as she moved her mouth down my neck. I felt the heat between her thighs as she sat on my lower stomach, flowing onto my skin. Fuck, I wanted to be inside of her again.
I rolled her onto her back and looked into her eyes. “I want you.”
“I want you, Declan,” she admitted back as I looked down her bare body, athletic and toned. She looked good, and I let my eyes linger a little longer. “What?”
“You’ve been working out. I can tell looking at your muscles.” The light was dim, but I could still see her, noticing as she moved her arms out of the light with a frown.
“I go to your gym. I have seen you there a few times, but I never let you see me,” Rayna said as I looked at her with a smile. “I actually went to a different location for a little while just to avoid you.”
She kissed my lips tenderly, and I melted against her, just wanting to make her happy for a moment. We moved together easily, her legs parted as I moved between them and inside of her. She wrapped around me like a glove, and I moaned her name as I stilled inside of her. This was so wrong, but it felt so right as I started to move with her, easing towards our release. Her nipples were hard as they pressed against me and I made a mental note to worship them when this was done, to taste her and me together. I didn’t care. I just wanted to feel every inch of her sexy body all over again.
Hips rocked together as we cried out in the room. I was deep inside Rayna as she met me roughly with every thrust of her hips, bringing me closer to release as I buried my face in her tender neck. Rayna whimpered my name as she jerked forward and I felt her heat wash over me before I was going right along with her.
Adrenaline filled my body as I felt her sink onto the mattress and I kissed her face slowly, tasting her clammy sweat. I kissed her neck as she let out a sigh, nibbling softly and moving down to her wet chest. I couldn’t resist the pull of her pebbled nipples and covered one with my lips as my hand cupped the other one. My teeth dragged against it as she let out a guttural moan, making my cock twitch again.
I moved to the other one, tearing at it with my teeth as I wondered if her husband wanted her like this. She indicated that he didn’t but she was so beautiful and I let my eyes roam over her skin, finally seeing the bruises on her arms. I moved away from her as she squeaked in protest, staring at the clear marks of hands on her arms. “He did that to you?” I demanded as her eyes widened in fear. “He hits you?”
“Just for the last couple years or so. Like I said, it is more of an arranged marriage than anything else, a show that we put on for friends and family. I feel like…I feel like I have a whole different life at times.” She admitted as her eyes darkened. “It’s only where people can’t see it. The bruises.”
“I don’t want you to go back there,” I told her as I stroked her cheeks. “I can’t stand the idea of anyone hurting you.”
“He’s a powerful man, Declan. He could hurt you,” Rayna warned me as I stared at her.
“He’s just a man, one that doesn’t deserve you.”
“I think that if I leave him, I’ll lose my family too. We’re not close or anything, but they’ll choose him over me. I know it.” Her eyes were sad as she spoke and I kissed her. “You don’t even know me, Declan. You don’t want me in your life, not this fast and not with this baggage.”
“I want to protect you, and I know that I feel something for you. I brought you here to get to know you better, Rayna. Now that I am aware the truth, I want to help you. I can give you anything. I can get you out of that.” I promised her as her eyes looked warily at me.
She kissed me again, distracting me with sex as she rose above me before sliding down over my body. We used nothing, and I felt her heat against me as her pussy gripped me. I knew now that she was on the pill and while she told me that her husband was cheating on her, she said that he needed to use a condom with her. It made me feel ill that she was still sleeping with him, but they were married. I watched as her smaller breasts bounce with her movements as I gripped her hips. I wanted her to sleep here, to stay with me here. I didn’t know her well, but it was enough to know that I wanted to keep her away from the danger of her home.
We rested together after we were done and I watched as her eyes took me in before she looked around the room slowly. I told myself that she slept with me because she was mad at her husband, who was paying for sex when he had such an incredible woman was waiting for him at home. I told myself that it was just sex, but my heart said that it was more as our eyes locked.
She insisted on leaving after another hour or so in my bed. I hated taking her to her car, but I did, telling her that I’d contact her the same way the following afternoon. Rayna said that she worked every night just to get out of the house and to save up money to leave, even though I knew the idea of it broke her heart. Most women left a man with the support of her family and the strength and help to move on. She had nobody but friends and a bank account to help her, and I didn’t know if that was enough. I parked in the lot where her car was and watched her climb inside of the shiny SUV that showed that she had a wealthy husband. If he didn’t love her, he made it look like he did to society.
I saw her drive away and finally pulled away to go back to my empty house. I dropped into the bed that still smelled like Rayna and thought back to the times our bodies moved together tonight. It was sensual and one of the most erotic nights I’d ever experienced but more than that, I felt something forming in my heart for her. Was in insane to have feelings for a married woman with a questionable husband when I was just getting divorced myself, very soon?
Hiring an escort was supposed to be easy. It was meant to be a night with no strings like Rayna said, but it was much more than that. I thought about that as I felt sleep slowly take me over, planning to focus on my own divorce that I didn’t even mention to Rayna. Perhaps we both had luggage to bring into this, whatever this was.
Maybe a little time was all that we needed to figure this out.