Working quickly, I strip us both naked and get into bed with her, heaping the covers on top of us. She’s like an ice block against me. I wrap the blankets tighter around us, placing her frozen feet on mine and chafing her hands with my own.
“Come on baby, come on,” I murmur, trying to get some sign of life from her.
As my warmth seeps into her, her body slowly comes to life again and she starts to shiver. Thank fucking Christ. I hold her naked body tightly through the shakes. My girl is coming back to life. It’s violent and it’s scary, but sometimes that’s just what’s needed.
When the shivers ease off, I look down at her, cocooned in my arms, and find her gazing back at me. “Tell me what’s in your heart. I need to hear it, Alaina. Tell me every ugly and beautiful thing.”
Her fingers stroke across my jaw, as if she’s seeing me for the first time. “It was so easy lying to myself about my life. You ripped that all away and I wanted to hate you for that.”
The truth is a bitch. I learned that all the times I saw Mitchell and Alaina together.
“You’re in every wall of this cabin. Every light. Every shadow. That’s why you gave me this place, didn’t you? So I would have to think of you. But it wasn’t really you. You weren’t here.”
“I’m here now. I’m never letting you go again.”
Alaina flicks up her eyes to me, as bold and as fierce as she was as a teenager when she told me to go to hell. “You’re crazy, Rhys Thorn.”
“You make me crazy. You always have.”
“Would you do it again?”
Force myself into her life and her into my bed? Scare her out of her mind? Destroy her relationship and leave her paralyzed in the aftermath of what I did to her?
My eyes run over her face. At my woman enfolded in my arms with her cheek on my shoulder and her hand against my chest. “Yes. A thousand times, if I had to.”
“Screw you,” she whispers. And then she kisses me.
I groan against her mouth and kiss her back, crushing her sweet body against mine. I’d do what I did a thousand times over if it means I would have Alaina in my arms like she is now, kissing me like her life depends on it.
“No one’s ever…” She stops, her throat closing up.
She doesn’t need to tell me that no one except me has given a damn about her, her whole goddamn life. I saw every excruciating second of her pain until I couldn’t bear it anymore. “I know, baby. I’ll do whatever it takes to make you feel whole.”
Alaina studies my face, breathless, as if she can’t believe what I’m saying is real.
Believe me, baby. Believe me.
“I’ll always go a little bit crazy if you’re not in my arms, so you’d better just stay right here.”
The tip of her tongue flicks against my top lip. “Maybe I want you a little bit crazy sometimes.”
I growl and slide my hands down over her plump ass to part her thighs. Her bare pussy rubs against my cock, which has hardened so quickly at her words I feel like I could burst. “I can go crazy for you, baby, anytime you want.”
I scoop her up in my arms and drop her down on her back. Fisting my cock, I rub it through her slick folds. So pretty. So vulnerable. “Did you get wet thinking about me fucking you like last time?”
Alaina whimpers and nods. “I like it when you take me.”
Jesus Christ. I sink just a few inches into her tight heat and Alaina wraps her legs around me, pulling me fully into her. Her nails score my back and she cries out loudly as I impale her.
“Would you let me go if I tried to run?” she asks.
“Never.” I hammer into her, making her squeal. Showing her just how crazy she makes, how much I want her. “You try to leave me and I’ll pin you down and fuck you like this until you can’t move.”
I pull out and slide down her body, capturing her clit with my lips. All mine. Every inch of her body, given willingly. She’s even sweeter this way. Every swirl of my tongue has her crying out my name, and when she comes, I lick all over her pussy.
I flip her over and drag her up onto her knees. “Hold the headboard. I want to fuck you deep.”
Alaina does as she’s told and wriggles her knees open, letting me plunge hard and deep into her pussy. Such a good girl for me. I press down on her lower back and pull her to me, making her feel every inch of me as I pound into her hard.
“You like it when I take you, baby? You like it when I possess this tight little pussy of yours?”
Alaina is holding on for dear life to the headboard and can’t even form words. Just three more strokes and she’s clamping around my cock and coming with one long cry. It’s most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard. I can’t hold on a second longer and burst inside of her, leaning over her body, gripping the headboard with one hand and wrapping my other arm around her waist.
I press my face into her back and groan in satisfaction, feeling like I’ve released a decade of pent-up frustration. The first time was just a taste. This time was Alaina, giving herself fully to me.
“Come on, baby. Come here.” I pull her down beside me on the bed and wrap my arms and legs around her. I don’t think I could bear not touching her even for a second.
Alaina nestles against me. “What do we do now?”
I glance around the room. Out the window at the falling snow. “We spend the rest of the weekend here. Then, we go home
