APRIL My back hit the sand as my clothes fell off my body and I gasped in shock. “Wh—what do you think you’re doing?” I stuttered, wondering what had suddenly come over him as I lay there. He looked at me like I’d betrayed every bone in his body, then ripped his shirt off his body like that was a reasonable response. I watched him dip his head towards my chest and take my nipple into his mouth without another word and I foolishly arched my back off the floor in response, pushing it further into his mouth. Again, I wondered what it was about him that completely flushed all my senses down the drain once he touched me. My entire body was already lit ablaze, I couldn’t think nor make sense of anything else but the mindless pleasure of him flicking one nipple and sucking the other in a way that made me want to scream my head off.I forced logic to come back to the top, willing myself to overpower my sexual urges even for a moment. “I can’t… we shouldn’t… please,” I tried to reason wi
APRIL He growled under his breath, wrapping an arm around my waist and lifting me until our skins were tightly glued together and we were both upright on our knees, and then his lips brushed my right earlobe.“You’ll never say that to me again. I’ll make sure of it,” he whispered, and despite the calmness in his voice, I could tell that he was fucking enraged. The moment he resumed his thrusts, I could feel every single shred of his anger and it felt like it would tear my walls apart. It was so insanely unreal, I was screaming on the top of my lungs, my heart was thumping unbearably in my chest and my eyes were quickly feeling with tears that soon started streaming down my face at will.He was fucking me with every last bit of his might, like he wanted to mold my pussy to only accept his cock and no one else’s, like he wanted to mark it as his and his alone.“Are you still thinking of Nick while I’m buried deep inside you?” he growled like a maniac, smacking my breast harshly to pro
APRIL Since we were on an isolated island, walking back to the house in shredded clothes wasn’t a big deal. Despite that, Xander made me wear his shirt, claiming that he didn’t even want sea creatures getting a glimpse at my body. I wanted to point out how ironic and laughable that was seeing as he’d just fucked me into submission by the ocean shore, but I was too weak to think up the perfect snide remark, so o just settled for thanking him for the shirt and putting it on.As soon as we stepped into the house, I started to feel sharp and discomforting pains in my abdomen that was making every step more difficult than the last. My back was also hurting mildly, but I didn’t want to point out my discomfort to Xander, so I just masked the rest pain as best as I could. During dinner, he was staring at me a little too closely like he knew something was off, but he didn’t breathe a word in my direction until we went to bed. Towards the time my head hit the bed and when I finally slept off
APRILThen I cleared my throat and responded to convince us both that I was doing fine. “I just need some hot tea, a little sore throat means nothing.” He looked at me like I’d grown a second head out of the blue and then he was at my side on the bed in a flash, gently pressing the back of his palm against my forehead. “You have a fever. Tell me what’s wrong, please?” the softness in his eyes and the sweet touch that came with the concerned look that followed tore my walls down easily. “I… uh… I got my period and it hurts,” I croaked out again and his eyes flared open with genuine worry. “Fuck, I’m so sorry I didn’t make arrangements for that. Please give me a minute,” his response shocked me because I’d sincerely thought that he would be disgusted by my dilemma. He was off the bed as quickly as he’d sat down earlier. Then, he made a beeline for the closet, grabbed a shirt and pants, before pulling on shorts in seconds. “Hold tight, darling,” he rushed the words and was gone in
APRIL Xander had to have been swapped for a missing angel in heaven. That was the only reasonable explanation for how he’d been acting of late. He was magically a soft-spoken, hand-holding, heart-melting, and smiling gentleman. Each day came with a new Xander-wrapped surprise that gave me more insight into his true personality. He always brought me breakfast in bed, but since I got my period, he’s been bringing every meal to me and insisting that I remained relaxed and never move a muscle. He also made sure that my period heater was always filled with hot water, and he cuddled me like I was his life force every night. There’s something about how warm and sweet he’d become that was equally shocking and heartwarming. I’d suddenly started to see him in a new light, and I had to admit that it made me deeply enjoy his company more and more by the day.After my period, I thought that all the care and gentle treatment would subside, but it didn’t.He was always at my side, tending to my
APRIL“Fine,” I huffed.“I get those mood swings when I remember Nick. Because the truth is that I’ve never stopped missing him and craving him despite everything we’ve shared and how we’ve finally managed to become cordial with each other,” I confessed with a heavy heart. The hurt in Xander’s eyes was far too glaring for me to ignore. But it was best if I made things clear to him instead of leading him on when there could never be a future for both of us.“How is it that you still want him? What’s it that he’s done that I haven’t? We clearly have a connection, so what makes his so much more superior to the one you have with me?” his voice sounded wounded as he asked those questions. There’s no way I would admit to him or myself that we had a connection. That would be wrong and extremely foolish. “We don’t have a connection, Xander,” I responded bluntly, coldly, and he seemed to flinch at the words. “The only thing that connects us is lust and great sex. A connection would mean th
APRIL Everything turned to a blur from the moment he spotted us. One second, I was walking beside Xander, going down the stairs of the jet, and the next second, our surprise guest let out an angry growl before charging towards his dearest friend with the rage of a thousand men evident in his every move.It was Nick, and he was cloaked in a beastly anger as he stomped towards us. “What the fuck man?” a confused and annoyed Xander was off the stairs in a heartbeat and lunging towards Nick. When I got off the stairs as well, the private jet ascended and I wished it’d taken me along because of the palpable tension in the air. Before the angrily lunging Xander could throw a blow, Nick held out his hand and blew a powdery substance from his palm into Xander’s face that caught him by surprise. Xander stopped in his tracks and coughed before trying to dust the powder off his face.No more than a second later, Nick kicked him in the chest and he staggered backwards weakly. He hadn’t gotte
APRILWhen he reappeared in the living room minutes later, he was dressed in shorts, scenting of mint and grapes and I couldn’t even believe he was the same man that had beaten Xander like a mad man. The man smiling at me right now and ruffling a towel through his damp hair was nothing like that beast I’d encountered earlier. “April,” he breathed and threw the towel aside and blocked my path. The next thing I knew, his arms were enveloping me whole and he sniffed in my scent like he’d been dying to do that for far too long. I tried to step away from him but then he pulled away from the hug and started to inspect every corner of my skin worriedly. “Are you hurt anywhere? Did he harm you in any way? Were you restrained with chains at any point?” he asked as his hands continued to roam my body.Something snapped in me and I was suddenly enraged.“Really?” I let our a sarcastic laugh, “are you really going to pretend that you can’t bear to see a bruise on me after nearly killing your
APRILLogic had been flung out the window and I was fully engrossed in him. “Kissing you feels even more amazing than I remember,” he groaned before standing up and lifting me with him before starting towards the steps. As he walked, he kneaded my ass together in a way that made my pussy lips grind against each other which in turn made me moan helplessly. Soon he was kicking the room door open and placing me down on the bed. He spread my legs and pushed my dress up to expose my soaked core to him. “I’ve missed how fucking wet you get,” he hooked a finger in my panties and ripped them off me without restraint. Before I could catch my breath, he was kissing a line up my inner thighs while his thumb was massaging my clit in a way that nearly drove me mad. “So precious. So perfect,” he bummed as his lips hovered at my entrance. I bit down on my lower lip and moaned loudly, pushing myself closer to him so his lips were grazing my wet folds. The very next second, he let out a hungry
APRIL I was completely floored by his words, because I’d convinced myself constantly that he didn’t like me. “I’m already in love with Nick, and he’s the only man for me,” I boldly told him even though I was swept off my feet by his heartfelt confession. “How about you repeat that without looking away from me? Especially that last bit, make it believable enough,” Ace placed his hand on my jaw and turned my face so that our gazes were now locked.His eyes lingered with raw hunger on my lips and I found myself biting the full end of my bottom lip as I wondered what thoughts were running through his head as he watched me. “Go ahead, say it again,” he urged, his eyes now back on mine.I swallowed hard and tried, “Nick is….I only… I love… uh…” I found myself stuttering helplessly and being unable to even recall what I’d said earlier, especially because his thumb was stroking my chin sweetly.When he saw that I couldn’t repeat it, he looked awfully pleased, smiling as he wrapped an arm
APRIL Upon hearing my question, he seemed to instantly shut down. The playful smile on his face had faded in an instant, and it seemed like that was the one question he wasn’t expecting to be asked. I didn’t want to push him to share anything he was uncomfortable with, so I pressed my palms together and smacked my lips…“It’s fine, you don’t have to answer it. I just asked a question so you wouldn’t tickle me, I didn’t mean to cross any boundaries,” I pushed my hair out of my face and turned away from him. In a literal second, his hand cupped my jaw and my face was almost swimming in his huge palm, then he turned me so I was facing him again. For what felt like the hundredth time today, he glanced at my lips and his eyes darkened with desire. “I want to tell you, that’s just my default reaction to being reminded of her,” he explained, a sad smile touching his unfairly beautiful lips. I just nodded, giving him the go-ahead while trying to mask my surprise at his behavior.“Her nam
APRIL My jaw was literally sweeping the floor at his sudden revelation, and I was convinced that I’d heard wrong. “Wha…. What?” I asked incredulously. “Because I’ve run out of reasons to make you stay and I can’t bear you leaving.”Boldly, he repeated himself, and that was a big deal because the Ace I’d known and detested for months hated to repeat himself, especially not in obedience to a woman’s request for him to do so. “I… I don’t know what to say, but I think I need to leave,” I told him in a weirdly dazed voice and it’s clear he could see that I was surprised by his words. He reached for my duffel bag and held into it, “if you insist on leaving, I’m getting into this duffel bag or I’m clinging to it and following you wherever you go.”“Please don’t leave me here. I’ve been craving your presence for months and I honestly don’t care that the only way I became worthy of it was by taking a bullet for you. I’ve run out of ideas to make you stay, but I’d really love it if you did
APRIL“Since you’ve taken your pills and you’ve been well fed, I think you should get a personal nurse or one of your trusted staff to tend to you, because I’m taking my leave,” I got out of the chair and started towards the living room where my duffel bag was lying on the couch. He followed behind me immediately, blocking my path before I could reach out for the bag. My face hit his chest and he wrapped his hand at the back of my neck before pulling me away a little and tilting my head so that he was gazing right into my eyes from almost two feet above me. “Cool your horses,” his gaze swept slowly over my face, “I still need to take a bath to get rid of that hospital stench and I need your help getting undressed.”He reached down and took my hands, then guided them slowly to the hem of his shirt, stealthily using my fingers to rub his toned waist. I felt my entire body tingle as he started to use my hand to lift his shirt off his abs at the same tortuous pace. As my fingers grazed
APRIL “You’re looking at me like there’s something you badly want to say, and it’s eating you from the inside out,” Ace was saying as he held out his hand for more of my Cheetos.“Nothing’s eating me out,” I lied and hugged my snacks to myself, refusing to share, “but some part of me’s been wondering why you never take anything seriously. You’re always nonchalant and unbothered in the most tense situations.”I ended up spilling what was on my mind anyways.“What a greedy bunny,” he smirked before stretching for the snack bar and picking up a chocolate bar. Then, he practically swallowed it in one bite before shrugging and getting off the bed, then taking off his hospital robe. I forced my gaze to train itself anywhere but on his magnificent chest that was now on display as he walked to the wardrobe. “On a lighter note, I got the doctors to discharge me because I have proof of him being an opium addict that could make him lose his license, so we can leave now,” he said while struggl
APRILLuckily, the doctor came to my aid before she could burn a hole in my skin.“Unfortunately, that’s not a wise choice Luna Jackson,” the doctor cautioned her in a tone filled with reverence, “it’s this young woman’s presence that pulled him out of a near coma, and it’s also her nearness to him that has allowed him recover faster than anyone should in his condition…” Ace’s parents looked between each other, clearly torn and in distress about the decision they had to make. They were weighing if their undying hatred for me was worth risking their son’s life, or if they could tolerate me just to keep their precious heir alive. “I honestly doubt that there’s a medical explanation for how all of that is possible, but since her presence keeps him grounded and fastens his healing, it’s best if she’s always at his side, especially right now after the shock incident,” the doctor finished and I could see the wheels turning in the heads of Alpha and Luna Jackson. “Whatever, you can go in,
APRIL Ten minutes ago, Ace’s mom had screamed the entire hospital down and about three doctors and some assisting nurses had come running to her precious son’s aid. We’d been seated, well not me… Ace’s parents had been seated on the bench outside the suite while I was standing and pacing worriedly while wondering what must’ve gone wrong with him. He’d been doing great in the last few days and we hadn’t needed the emergency button even once, and now everything suddenly went to shit? Maybe it was the stress he racked up from arguing with his father. “Why’re you still lurking around here? Shouldn’t you be on your merry way home? or haven’t you caused enough ruckus?” Ace’s mother shot me her signature hateful and irritated look. “I made a promise to be here until he’s fully healed and I’m sorry you don’t approve of it, but I’m going to stick to my word,” I told her in as respectful of a tone that I could garner. Deep down, I wanted to tell her how much of an unnecessarily mean bitch
APRILI knew this day was coming, I just hoped it’d wait until the day Ace was being discharged. Right now, his mother looked like she’d been dying to say that for days and I saw it in her eyes every time that she walked in here and spotted me, it was always clear that she was fighting the urge to unlock the nearest window and throw me out like trash. “We’d appreciate that, yes,” Ace’s father backed up his wife without wasting a breath.I didn’t even get a chance to think up a response before Ace piped in, “she can’t leave, she’s staying here with me until I’m officially discharged,” he insisted. His father’s face immediately turned red with fury and he was soon marching towards Ace’s bed like a man storming off to war.“What the fuck is your problem? Is death the only way you’ll ever see things sensibly? This is the second girl you’ve liked and just like the first one, she almost got you killed by foolishly letting you play hero!” his father flared up like Ace’s last words were fu