Total pages in book: 153
Estimated words: 144571 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 723(@200wpm)___ 578(@250wpm)___ 482(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 144571 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 723(@200wpm)___ 578(@250wpm)___ 482(@300wpm)
“Are you sure?” he asked, his voice low and soothing, offering her everything. He wouldn’t mind if she wanted something different. Wouldn’t argue or fuss. He would give her what she needed.
But what she wanted was to be able to do everything with him. To have their intimacy wash away her doubts and fears so she was at peace with her past because either way, she was okay.
She held a hand out, and he fell to his knees.
He lowered himself on her, his mouth meeting hers. She wrapped her arms and legs around him, holding him close. All of her possessive tendencies flared when she was with him. She wanted him beside her so she could watch over him, make sure he was okay.
She gasped when his cock rubbed over her clit, pressing the piercing there down. So wet. She could feel her arousal coating his dick, making them ready for what came next.
“I’ll never get used to this,” he whispered before he thrust up inside her.
She held on as he began to move, allowing her body to follow the rhythm he set. There was no panic this time, no shadows worrying at the edge of her consciousness. This time there was only her and him. Kala and Cooper.
He kissed her over and over as his cock worked inside her, finding the place that made her moan, that sent her over the edge, her whole body tightening with pure pleasure. She held on so tight, not wanting the moment to end, but still, a deep sense of satisfaction flooded her veins as he stiffened above her. The heat of him filling her up was a drug she was fairly sure she was addicted to now.
But nothing was better than the way he felt when he dropped down on top of her, completely spent. His face found the crook of her neck and he held her.
“Baby, I…”
“I feel the same, Coop.” She couldn’t hold the words back. Didn’t even want to. She’d always known she loved him.
“But you’re not ready to hear it,” he whispered. “You’re not ready to say it fully.”
“Not yet. But someday. Soon. I promise.” She held on to him and wished they never had to leave these woods.
Cooper chuckled. “I think if we ever have a wedding day, we should invite Jimmy. Like don’t we owe it to the dude to feed him chicken or beef? Give him a couple of drinks? He was probably the worst thing you did to a dude when you were younger.”
“Uhm….” Maybe she was ready to leave.
Chapter Twelve
Day Two
Kala groaned as they started up the hill. “She gave you an F.”
Cooper snorted behind her. He’d been the one up early this morning, waking her with coffee and protein bars and kisses. And she hadn’t even karate chopped his throat or anything. She’d known it was him.
She hadn’t dreamed the night before.
“I think I probably deserved it. Also, she let me make up that paper.”
Why had she ever broached this subject? All of her sins were, as Shakespeare put it, remembered. “Mrs. Teacle was cheating on her taxes. You didn’t even cheat. You just didn’t understand The Scarlet Letter.”
“I watched the Wishbone version. They left things out.”
“And Mrs. Teacle left out forty thousand dollars’ worth of winnings from Vegas.” It was a case closed in her head.
“You’re a menace.”
Day Three
Cooper knew he should be irritated that Joyce Reed was nowhere to be found. They walked from known campsite to known campsite, stopping at Ranger stations to ask around. Other than that, it was the two of them, and they didn’t seem to be getting anywhere.
Definitely should be irritated, and yet he couldn’t work up the will. All he could find was this weird sense of contentment when she didn’t hesitate to allow him to give her a hand up a slippery rock surface. “So Jimmy. Mrs. Teacle, who gave me a valid F and wasn’t expecting a group of teen hacker vigilantes.”
Her nose wrinkled, and she looked adorable. “It wasn’t a group, per se. It was me and Lou.”
Lou had helped her get revenge on anyone who Kala vaguely believed hurt him, and the last two years of high school, Cooper had been her accomplice in some shady shit she pulled on people who hurt Lou. The first time she’d asked him had felt like sunshine coming back in his life. Now he could see it had been a test to see if he could leave a little of his Captain America, right-is-right and wrong-is-wrong mentality behind. His baby was on the morally gray side even back then. “You don’t need more than you and Lou. I’m only trying to get a full accounting of all the villains my personal Batman took out.”
“Black Widow, please,” she corrected as she moved along the tree line. Above them a gloriously blue sky shone down.