Chapter Seventeen
After having to hunt down Aaron in his computer room, she found out where Liam was staying. Instead of knocking on the door and risk him sending her away, she twisted the doorknob and let herself in. It took her eyes a moment to adjust to the darkness. Liam had pulled the curtains closed, and it looked like he threw a blanket over them as well to block out all light. She slowly made her way to the bed, keeping her hands out in front of her, so she didn’t bump into anything. She smiled in triumph when she felt the foot of the bed and hadn’t tripped over anything. As she worked her way up the side of the bed, her smile dropped when all she felt was bed instead of a body. The sheets were warm, so he had to of been in here recently.
“What are you doing in here, Cora?” Liam asked right behind her.
Cora gasped in shock and tried to turn and face him, but Liam grabbed her by her arms and held her still. His chest pressed against her back. Heat radiated off him. “I came to apologize.” She replied shakily. It wasn’t out of fear of him. It was out of desire. She came to his room with the intent to apologize, but with having him pressed close behind her and in the dark, it enhanced all her senses. She could hear his deep breathing behind her and feel his heat at her back. She felt cocooned in his arms. Being in the dark unable to see Liam, but only feel him and hear him was erotic.
“Is that so? For what exactly?” He asked as a hand drifted up her arm to her shoulder.
Goosebumps broke out across her arms, and Cora’s breaths turned choppy. “For being angry that you came back early and didn’t tell me.” She was having a hard time concentrating on words and not making love to him right there in the middle of the room.
“For not trusting me?” His fingers glided over the back of her neck, to the side over her pulse, which was speeding up.
“I do trust you. It’s myself I don’t trust. You kept things from me before Liam and it almost broke me. For you to keep something else just brought back old feelings.”
Liam’s fingers stopped, and Cora almost called out for him to keep going. She already missed his touch. He hadn’t touched her like this since before he left. All he had given her was a brief kiss downstairs before she ran away from him. She refused to leave him again. He was worth the fight to keep them together. “Is that how it’s always going to be between us, Cora? If I don’t tell you something, you’ll leave me?”
Cora turned around and this time Liam let her. She couldn’t see any of his features only a vague outline of his profile. “No, Liam. No more doubts. If you are keeping something from me, you have a reason. No more questioning you about it. If you’re not telling me something is because it's work related or you have a reason.”
“Just like that?” He sounded skeptical. She couldn’t fault him for that. She might as well lay all her cards on the table at this point. Not being able to see him helped her. Cora took a deep fortifying breath.
“I love you, Liam. I love you, and I trust you.” Cora waited in agony for Liam to say something. Anything. He just stood there staring at her. She at least thought he was since she couldn’t see him. Had she thought she liked being in the dark with him? She lied she hated it. She needed some indication of his feelings for her. “Say something, please.”
Liam didn’t. He reached up and cupped her face, pulling her into a toe-curling, heart-melting kiss. It in no way compared to his homecoming kiss earlier, or any kiss they had shared before this. This kiss tasted of love, passion, and promises of what was to come. He was pouring all his emotions into this kiss, and she didn’t mind at all. He may not say ‘I love you’ with words, but his kiss said it in spades.
Cora reached up and gripped Liam’s shoulders, and felt his bare skin under her hands. She had always appreciated Liam slept in the nude, and now she was even more so. She was desperate for him, and his clothes would just get in her way. Cora reached down his shoulders to his chest and down his stomach, but Liam captured her hands, and spun her back around before pinning her back to his chest. She turned her head to protest, but he leaned forward and kissed her hungrily. His hand caught her cheek and kept kissing her as his other hand released her hands, and slid down her stomach to the hem of her shirt. Cora tilted her hips silently begging Liam to touch her. She was on fire, and only he knew how to put out the flame. Liam ignored her silent plea and instead reached up under her shirt. He pushed the material up as his hand cupped her breast. Cora moaned into Liam’s mouth as their tongues mated. His tongue slid against hers back and forth mimicking sex. This man was so wicked with his tongue. Liam fondled her breast, kneading them before pushing the cup out of his way, so he could pluck her nipple. The hard nipple scraped against his calloused fingers as he tweaked and pulled at it.
Cora tore her mouth away from Liam’s, and drew air into her lungs. “Oh god, Liam.”
“Tell me again,” Liam demanded as his other hand dropped from her face and stroked her neglected nipple.
“Please, let me come, Liam.” She was so close to the edge.
“Tell me, Cora,” Liam ordered as a hand slide down her stomach and unsnapped her pants and lowered her zipper. “Tell me, and I’ll let you come.” His fingers slide back and forth at the top of the waistband of her underwear.
“I love you, God, I love you so much, Liam. I can’t live without you.” Cora panted. Liquid heat pooled between her legs. The slightest touch would send her over the edge.
Liam twisted his wrist inside her underwear and stopped just short of her core. “No more running away from me.” From us.
“Never again,” she would promise him anything in that moment if he would just let her come. His fingers dipped down and stroked her clit, before plunging two fingers inside of her.
“Yes,” Cora screeched. Her walls closed around his fingers as he stroked her. Cora widened her stance and leaned further back against Liam as he took most of her weight and took control of her body.
“That’s it, baby. Come all over my fingers. Show me how much you love me. Take what you want.” Liam started grinding his erection against her back as he continued tweaking her nipple and stroking her core. Cora rocked on her tiptoes as she fucked his fingers. Cora reached a hand up to grab the back of Liam’s neck, and turned her head for a kiss. Liam didn’t disappoint. He captured her lips as he plunged in and out of her, while the heel of his hand pressed down on Cora’s nub.
She tore her mouth away and panted, “Liam, so close.”
“Come for me, baby,” Liam demanded.
“No, not without you.”
Liam didn’t slow down. “You want me, baby? You’ll get me.” Liam pulled his fingers out, and immediately Cora felt empty. Liam dropped her pants to her ankles, and she helped kick them off. She heard Liam shuffle behind her before he pressed his stiff length against the crest of her ass. “You ready?” He husked.
“Yes, please. Make love to me, Liam.”
“Oh, I will. Later. Now, I’m going to claim every fucking inch of you.” Liam placed a hand between Cora’s shoulder blades and bent her over the bed.
Cora’s eyes widened in shock. Liam had never taken her like this. Like an animal. He was going to claim her in the most animalistic way possible, and she couldn’t wait.
“You okay?” Liam hesitated behind her rubbing his erection against her swollen folds. Her juices coated the head of his cock.
Cora looked at him over her shoulder. She had no idea if he could see her features or not. “Do it. Make me yours forever.” The fingers on her hip gripped her tightly, she had no doubt there would be a bruise there later, not that she cared. She could feel Liam adjust himself behind her, lining himself up.
“You're mine, Cora. Let me hear you say it.” His voice clipped.
“I’m yours,” Cora told him. Liam fed her an inch before pulling back out.
“Louder.” He ground more forcefully against the crease of her ass gaining a moan from her.
“I’m yours,” Cora screamed. Liam plunged in until his balls slapped against her clit.
“That’s right. Your mine. Now and always. No more running from me.” Cora couldn’t speak as Liam plunged in and out of her. Her pleasure was spiraling out of control. Liam leaned against her back as he pounded inside of her.
“Please, Liam. So close.” Cora dropped to her forearms and buried her head in the blanket to muffle her screams.
“Oh no, you don’t,” Liam told her as he reached around her and rubbed her bundle of nerves. “I want to hear you scream loud and clear. I want to whole house to know who made you come your brains out.”
Cora’s head shot up as Liam rubbed her clit as he continued to drive into her. All his weight was balanced on one fist, as he drove into her hard and fast. Cora squeezed her eyes shut, and threw back her head as she came. Liam grunted as her walls milked him and he thrust three more times before coming deep inside her. Neither wanted to move, but they couldn’t spend the rest of the day leaning over the bed. Liam pulled out of Cora with a plop. She scooted up on the bed, and laid down. She could see Liam’s profile as he walked away.
“Watch your eyes.” He warned before a bright light illuminated from the bathroom then the water turned on. Cora barely closed her eyes in time as the light shone through her eyelids. The light disappeared a moment later. Cora opened her eyes, but black spots winked in and out of her vision then she felt a dip in the bed. “Open your legs for me.” Cora complied then felt a warm washcloth between her legs.
“Oh,” Cora gasped at the feel of the terry cloth against her still tingling flesh. It shouldn’t have turned her on. Hell, she shouldn’t be ready for another round after the last mind-blowing orgasm, but her body didn’t seem to care.
“Hmm, I think my girl is still hungry,” Liam said with a smile as he rubbed the cloth firmer between her legs, making sure to press down on her clit. Cora opened her legs wider and rocked into his glides, as it moved through her folds.
“Please, Liam.”
“I am pleasing you.”
“Not the cloth.” As hot as it was she wanted his fingers between her legs, not the cloth. His mouth. Cock. Anything but the cloth.
Liam threw it over his shoulder without a care before renewing his caresses with his fingers. He slid along her folds without entering her and barely touching her bud. “What do you want, Cora?”
“You, only you.” She said without hesitation. Her breaths were coming in choppy. Liam barely dipped his fingers through her folds before retreating.
“Do you want to come from my hand or my mouth?” He asked suddenly. It took Cora a moment to realize he even asked her a question. She had to make a choice? There was no right or wrong answer. But she really wanted to feel his mouth on her. His tongue should be illegal in all fifty states.
“Mouth,”
“Naughty girl.” He told her before kissing her deeply, and rolling on top of her. His growing erection lay against her leg and ground against her. Liam suddenly broke the kiss and kissed his way down her neck, and took a dusky nipple into his mouth and laved and bit it gently. Cora grew restless under him and started thrashing. “Soon baby,” he uttered with her nipple into his mouth. He pulled back and released it with a pop before traveling further down her stomach. He reached down between her thighs and spread her as wide as he could. He buried his head between her legs and just breathed in her essence. Her musk was a potent drug. His thumbs brushed her nether lips, and spread her open for him, before he used the flat of his tongue to lick her from ass to clit. Cora’s back bowed, and she whispered his name before he did it again. Done messing around, Liam speared into her and laved her. Cora chanted his name and reached down to grip his hair as he took his fill of her. She started wriggling against him, and he had to place a hand on her hip to keep her down. He took her nub between his lips and suckled her as she came for him. Liam kept licking her until the last of the tremors faded.
“You still alive, baby?” He asked her as he crawled back up to her. Cora didn’t answer him. She took his face between both hands and pulled him down for a kiss. Liam’s lips tasted of her musk, but she didn’t care. Cora wrapped her legs around Liam’s waist and reached down to take him firmly in hand and guide him to her entrance. Liam gently probed her opening before reaching for her hand and lacing their fingers.
“I love you, Cora.” He said, before he thrust slowly into her. Cora gasped at his confession and the feel of him slowly stretching her. He made love to her slowly and gently looking down at her the whole time. They couldn’t see each other’s eyes, but they gazed at each other as their bodies mated. She felt his love in his touch. The gentleness of his thrusts. It had always been there she just had never realized it until now. He had always loved her. As she did him. Cora held him close never wanting this perfect moment to end. All too soon, he came and collapsed on the bed beside her.
It was several moments before Liam had the energy to hop out of bed and pick the cloth back up, that was now cold and cleaned Cora up, before throwing the washcloth in the bathroom, and rejoined her in bed. They still had a lot to discuss and work out, but now that she admitted she was his and she loved him, he was never walking away from an argument again. He couldn’t live without her. The rest would come. He still worried that Alejandro was on the loose. The man could be right outside the walls or halfway back to Panama by now. Liam wanted to keep Cora here, so she would be better protected, but he doubted she would be willing to stay. She was not one to sit idle, and he needed to be closer to town, so he could get to his sister faster in case of an emergency. He wanted to go back to Cora’s home, but his instincts were screaming at him to stay. What should he do? If he told Cora to stay, she would insist on going home. If he told her it was because his instincts were telling him to stay, she could just brush it off and sway him to leave. Either way, she would try to go home. So, what to do?