Vow to Protect: A Dark Mafia Arranged Marriage Romance by J.L. Beck & Monica Corwin

Author:J.L. Beck & Monica Corwin [Beck, J.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bleeding Heart Press
Published: 2021-08-12T16:00:00+00:00

19

Adrian

Every time she stiffens at my touch, I try to be patient and understanding, but I hate the haunted look she gets in her eyes. I hate how that bastard hurt her and that he is still drawing breath on this planet.

“What’s wrong?” I whisper. It’s the only thing I can do to keep from yelling and raging. My rational mind knows this is a reaction to her trauma. And the fact she has let me in so far in the couple of months she’s been here is amazing. Patience, I remind myself for the hundredth time.

“Nothing,” she says, but even now, I see she’s close to tears.

“Do you think I’m going to hurt you?”

A sob escapes, and she clamps a hand over her mouth. When she gains control of herself, she shakes her head hard. “No, it’s not that I think you’re going to hurt me. It’s just I can’t stop the what-ifs from spiraling in my mind. What if you force me down and have sex with me? What if you tie me to the bed? What if—?”

I cut her off with a gentle kiss. “What if I strip you naked and lay on top of you just so I can feel your soft, pretty skin? What if I just like to look at how you flush when you’re turned on? What if I want to give you pleasure and take none for myself? How often do the good possibilities squeeze in with the bad?”

“Never. Are you mad?” Her chin is tucked against her chest as if she expects me to strike out at her.

“Angel. I’m not mad. I’m disappointed that I can’t help you get past this faster. I’m disappointed I’m not inside you right now. But I would never hurt you. Not ever. I wish you could believe me and know it in your heart.”

She glances away, but not before I see the guilt stamped in her eyes and along the rigid line of her eyebrows. “I’m sorry.”

“Don’t be sorry, just keep trying for me. I’m going to take my clothes off and put myself right back here between your soft thighs. Do you trust me not to enter your body without your permission?”

It takes a few moments, but finally, she nods.

I quickly shift off the bed and strip out of my clothes, leaving them in a pile on the floor. She twitches like she wants to close her legs as I maneuver back between them. I’m already hard again just from looking at her and tasting her arousal on her fingers.

I lie on top of her, bracing my weight onto my forearms so I don’t crush her chest. “How do you feel?”

She nods once. “I think okay.”

My cock is flush with her pussy, and it would only take the barest of movement to slide into her wet heat. But I won’t do it. Not if it means crushing the little bit of trust I’ve gained over the past couple of months.

“I’m going to keep touching you, all right? But again, I won’t push inside you.

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