Chapter Seven
Henry
Present day...
“Do you really think I’d do that to you?” I ask, seeing the raw hurt in her eyes.
“I know what I saw,” she answers stubbornly.
I search her face, and though she’s angry, there is something else there. It’s the same look in her eyes I saw that first time in the library. It’s fear.
“You’re afraid,” I say, still unmoving.
“I am not.” Her tone is defensive.
“That’s what made it so easy for you to believe I’d do something so horrible to you.” The truth being brought to light is a powerful thing, and I watch as she begins to realize her own lie. “Look in your heart, Kory. Look at me now. I’ve made some mistakes in my life and I did some dumb shit as a kid. But when it came to you, I would’ve ripped out my heart before I’d harm yours.”
I reach out and take her hands in mine, and she lets me. Tears build in her eyes and she looks away. She follows the light on the water, and it’s a few moments before she speaks.
“I’ve spent so long hating you, but now I don’t know what to believe.” She releases a breath and then looks down at our joined hands. “We were young, but you were bigger than life. You had all this money and power, and girls were just waiting to get in line around you. I kept asking myself the whole time I was with you, why me? So when I saw you in the bathroom it was like all my doubts were confirmed.”
“Why didn’t you just let me explain?” I ask. “You took off and I was terrified something happened to you. I called the cops, Kory.”
“Sorry about that,” she says, and a smile pulls at her lips. “They were pretty confused when they came by my place and I was there.”
I want to laugh, too, because I want to put all this bullshit behind us. “I didn’t hook up with Cassie Springer that night, or anyone else after you.”
Her eyes snap up to mine, and I see confusion in her expression.
“I gave my heart away when I was eighteen years old, and I was waiting for her to come back to me.
“I love you, Kory. I’ve loved you from the first moment I saw you, and I never stopped.” I sit up, taking her face in my hands, brushing her tears away with my thumb. “And I never will.”
“Oh god, Henry, my heart can’t take this.” She leans forward, kissing me with so much passion. She pours it all into the space where our lips meet, and I know then that all the things that separated us have melted away.
I pull back to look at her. I don’t want this dream to go up in smoke. “Is this real?” I ask, feeling myself smile.
“I love you, too,” she says, her eyes shining. “I tried to make it stop, lied to myself that I had but I couldn’t, and I didn’t want it to.”
I sit back abruptly and grab the oars.
“What are you doing?” There’s a laugh in her voice now, and it’s music to my ears.
“We’re going home.”
* * *
“I can’t believe this is your place,” Kory says as I pick her up and carry her into the house. I close the door behind us and spin her around, pinning her to it.
“I’ll show you every square inch later. Right now, I need you.” I kiss her with desperation and desire as I reach down and hike her thighs up around my waist.
My mouth moves down her jaw and to her neck, devouring her soft skin. Her moans and the sound of my name on her lips are like every fantasy I’ve ever had come to life. I grip her ass and grind against her as my lips find the warm place between her breasts.
“Don’t stop.” She knots her fingers in my hair as she rocks her hips. It’s almost enough to have me coming undone before we’ve taken five steps in the door.
“Wasn’t planning on it, baby,” I say as I pull the top of her dress down, revealing her pink nipples. “Not ever.”
I suck one tight bud into my mouth and feel her body shudder in my arms. I move to the other, needing to taste all of her.
“Holy shit, that’s so good.” Her words come out in gasps as she tries to catch her breath.
“Wait until I do it to your pussy.” I move down to my knees and throw one of her legs over my shoulder. Pushing up her dress, I see her cream-colored panties are wet and I groan at the sight. “You’ve been put on this earth to kill me. I just know it.”
I hear her soft giggle before I pull them to the side and cover her with my mouth. Her giggle turns into a cry of pleasure followed by a low moan as I slide my tongue through her wet lips. She tastes like cinnamon and spice and everything nice, and I want to live between her legs.
“Fuck, I’ve dreamed of this,” I whisper against her wetness. “I don’t know if I’ll survive this.”
“I won’t survive if you stop!” she shouts, and grinds down on my mouth.
Her body reacting to mine as she searches out the release only I can give her makes me feel like a king. This is so much more than I ever hoped for, and I don’t want to slow down to think about it now. I’m terrified if I blink that I’ll wake up and none of this will be real.
Her legs tense and her thighs tremble. The grip she has on my hair tightens as her body coils with her imminent release. Being able to give her body this gift is what my fantasies are made of, and I flick my tongue across her clit in steady, even strokes to get her off.
“Henry!” she shouts, and the echo in the room makes me growl like an animal.
I want to mark every inch of her as mine and then do it all over again. I want my name to be the only one on her lips, and I want it now. I’ve waited a decade to have her under me and I won’t wait any longer.
Her warm release hits my tongue and I drink it down. When she slowly comes down from her high, I kiss her pussy gently one last time then lower her leg to the ground. I stand up, then scoop her up in my arms, carrying her through the house.
“More,” she mumbles against my neck, and she brushes her lips against the skin there.
“You can have as much as you want, baby.” I hold her closer to me, squeezing her ass as I walk. “I’m all yours.”
“I like the sound of that,” she answers, then pulls back to look at me.
“Get used to it.”
When I walk into the bedroom, there’s a sliver of light coming from the bathroom and moonlight pours from the window. I want to turn on a spotlight and see every inch of her, but I also feel like this moment is special, and I don’t want to scare Kory with my maddening desire for her. So instead, I let the soft glow surround her as I place her in the middle of the bed.
I climb on top of her and put some of my weight on her body as her arms and legs wrap around me. When I kiss her, the taste of her passion is passed between us and it spurs on my need. I don’t know how much longer I can wait.
“I love you so much. Let me show you,” I say, moving my lips down her neck.
“Henry, I’ve never done this before. I’m not on the pill or anything. I didn’t expect this to happen when I woke up this morning.” There’s a slight hysteria in her voice, but as my mouth goes to her breasts, she relaxes again.
“I’ve never done this either, so we’ll both just have to figure it out as we go. But I’m fairly certain after what just happened against my front door, we can make it work.” I pull her dress down the rest of the way, sliding it off her body and leaving her in only a pair of panties. “And I’m not worried about protection. I’ve only ever wanted one woman in my life, and if the first time we made love, we made a baby, it would make me the happiest man alive.”
“Is this another way to keep me from running?” she asks as I reach down and slip her panties off her hips.
“You’re never going to run from me again, Kory. I’ll make sure of that.” I take off my shirt and slacks, leaving on my underwear as I lie on top of her naked body. “But I plan on putting a baby in you as soon as I can because I’ve waited long enough. We’ve got years of making up to do, and I’m not slowing down again.”
She brings her hands to my waist and she pushes down my boxer briefs. She reaches inside and encircles my cock with sure fingers, rubbing it up and down.
“You keep that up and I’m going to get the sheets pregnant instead of you.”
“Well, we can’t have that,” she whispers as she guides my cock to her opening.
The tip of my cock slips through her wetness, and I hiss at the sensations. It’s warm and soft, and I want to push through her folds and sink every inch into her tight body.
She leans up to my ear as I put most of my weight on her body and lean down on my elbows. I place a kiss on her neck as her lips go to my ear.
“I love you, Henry.”
They’re the words I’ve longed to hear since the day I met her, and I can’t hold back anymore. I thrust into her all the way, feeling her tense for a moment as we both lose our virginity. She’s the only home I’ve ever wanted and I finally have it wrapped around me.
I tell her of all my love, over and over as I place soft kisses on her. I try not to move as her body adjusts to the new sensation, and soon I am rewarded. She slowly rocks her hips under me, and as she relaxes, she becomes bolder.
I move with her, and though it’s cliché, our bodies truly become one. I’ve never been more connected to a soul, and making love has wound us impossibly tighter to one another.
I stare into her eyes and hold her hands in mine. The moonlight shines on her face and I don’t know how but she looks even more beautiful than she already is. My heart grows and so does our passion, and soon neither of us is content with the slow, steady pace.
Giving us what we both desperately need, I move my hips so that each thrust grazes across her clit. After only a few long strokes, she’s ready to climax and I’m doing all I can to hold off until then.
When her body stops fighting it, she opens her legs and screams out my name as she peaks. I feel the pulses of her climax all along my shaft and I can only follow her over the edge. I see stars as the pleasure hits me, and it takes everything in me to keep from collapsing on top of her in a heap.
Instead, I cling to her, and when I feel her body become limp under me, I roll us over and wrap my arms and legs around her.
“I can’t move, Henry. There’s no way I could run.” I feel her smile against my chest, but I don’t let go.
“Just making sure you don’t try to hit it and quit it.” She laughs, and it runs all the way down my cock, which is still inside her. I thrust up, wanting to feel it again, and her laugh turns into a moan. “I’m not finished with you.”
“I’ll never leave you again,” she vows, sitting up and looking down at me. “I’m home.”
“Forever,” I say, and she nods.
I hold her hips as she begins to move, and we make love all over again.