“How’s that?”
“In the cage, there’s nothing but the moment. Everything else, any worries I had before I got in there, they immediately drifted away the moment my feet touched the canvas. The fight, the immediacy of battle, whatever the fuck you want to call it… I haven’t felt that in years. I’d accepted I was never going to feel it again. But with you, Kelly, nothing else matters. Nothing else exists.”
She lets out a shivering sigh as I bring my lips down to hers. Kissing her is the easiest, most natural thing I’ve ever done, and yet it’s tinged with a fiery newness that goes right to my center. The base of my manhood throbs and pulses as I grind against her.
She moans and grabs onto my arms.
“That was so nice,” she whimpers.
“The kiss?”
“Well, yeah.” She laughs. “But what you said too. I feel exactly the same. It’s bad. We should be thinking about—”
I kiss her again, selfishly, hungrily because I know what she’s going to say. She’s going to tell me we should be thinking about Natalie.
And she’s right.
But kissing her is so much better, my body flooding with heat as she shivers against me.
“You want it,” I snarl, feeling the shivers moving through her.
“I do,” she moans. “But I saw how…”
“How what?” I urge, and then I chuckle as her cheeks turn an adorable shade of red. “Are you blushing, Kelly?”
“Maybe.” She pouts at me. “Don’t mock me.”
“I’d never mock you… well, maybe a little, for fun. But never for real. What were you going to say?”
“I saw how big you are. I’m not sure I’d even be able to take you.”
“Your body needs it,” I snarl. “Your pussy is going to open for me, Kelly. Your tight pink wet hole is going to take my cock because that’s what you were made for. For me. Forever. Say it, Kelly. Tell me who you belong to.”
She gasps at the sudden ferocity of my words. “You,” she whimpers. “Just you. Always.”
“Good girl. So… this date.”
“You were going to tell me where you were taking me.”
I smirk. “Yeah, but it’s so easy to get distracted around you.”
“Hey, the same goes for you, Animal.”
I laugh, shaking my head. “Oh, so you’re going to throw my old MMA nickname at me now, eh? That’s it. I’ve got to think of something for you.”
“Nuh uh. I think Kelly and Animal has a nice ring to it.”
“What about Kaleb and Sassy, huh?”
“I am not sassy.”
“You can be,” I say, sliding my hands down to her round perfect ass, and pulling her close to me. “And I love when that side of you comes out.”
The word love hangs in the air.
The thought of going the whole hog and saying I love you should be ridiculous.
But somehow it doesn’t feel that way.
“What are you doing for the rest of the evening?” I ask her.
She shakes her head. “Nothing. Mom’s out. I was going to do some sketching, but I’m finding it difficult to focus.”
I nod, laughing gruffly. “I feel the same. Let me arrange the security and then I’ll take you somewhere.”
“How is the security going to work?” she murmurs. “Mom is super strict about her personal space. She says it’s a writer thing.”
“I can have them tail her from a distance. They’ll do the same with you. Or you can stay with me, for every single goddamn moment, until I figure out a way to sort out this Lennie prick. Your mother doesn’t even have to know they’re there. I’ve worked with this firm overseas, in all sorts of dangerous neighborhoods, to keep my workers safe while building my gyms.”
She ponders it for a moment. “I think I’ll tell her. She’ll understand once I tell her what Lennie did. And from a distance is perfect.”
“Alright then.” I take a step back and reach into my pocket, taking out my cell phone. “Go and put on a dress for me, Sassy. But if it’s too damn short, I’ll rip it off you and bend you over the couch and fuck you until you’re squirting down those thick beautiful thighs.”
She moans, biting her lip. “God, Kaleb. Do you know how crazy you make me when you talk like that?”
“Not as crazy as you make me.”
“I’ll look for something,” she murmurs, turning away from me.
I take the chance to drink in the sight of her ass, so full and perfect, made for grabbing and spanking and making slick with my precome before I drive into her waiting hole.
Fuck.
I better take her somewhere private.
I don’t think I’ll be able to restrain myself otherwise.
But first I need to arrange the security.
I make the call.
Chapter Eleven
Kelly
I emerge from the bedroom half an hour later, my heart thumping crazily in anticipation of Kaleb’s reaction.
He stands at the window, his back turned to me, his shirt showing the faint outline of his muscular back muscles as they bulge and shift.