to his chest. She needed him to stop talking. His words were making it
hard for her to push him away.
“No, it’s time you saw what
everyone else does.” He lifted her onto the counter, opening her legs to step
inside.
She stared into his eyes.
Even on the counter, he was taller than she was. Wrapping her arms around his
neck, she pressed her face against his skin. “Please, I don’t know what to do.”
He stroked her back, going
up to sink into her hair.
“Say yes, Rachel. I’ll care
for you. I’ll be everything you need.”
“You’re going to struggle.
You’re working part-time.” It was the only excuse she could think of. Chris was
making it hard for her to want to say no. Everything he was saying was the
truth. She shouldn’t feel this.
In this day and age she
should want to be independent and make a life for herself. Men were not needed
to get by.
Closing her eyes, she shut
everything else out of her mind.
“I’ve got more money than I
can stand. Working is something I do for the hell of it.”
“How?”
Chris looked at her. “Do you
really want to know the answer?” he asked.
She nodded.
“Fine, I went to Vegas for
several weekends. Instead of going to conventions for doctors, I went to the
tables in high risk gambling.”
Okay, as an answer that surprised
her.
“I gambled on everything I
had.”
“You didn’t lose?”
“No, I didn’t lose. I won
the rest of my fucking life in peace. I’ve got more than enough to keep me for
several lifetimes,” he said.
“No one can win that much.”
“Yeah, how do you think I
afford so much?” He was telling the truth. “I work because I spent so much of
my life studying to be a doctor. It’s who I am.”
The towel he’d been wearing
dropped to the floor. “Now, are you mine , or are you
going to walk away from me?”
Walking away wasn’t an
option for her. If she could walk away then she would have done it when he’d
brought the first woman back to the apartment.
“Are you going to hurt me?”
she asked, looking up at him.
“What do you mean?”
“Will there be other women?
Will I have to slink off back to my own apartment when you’re fucking other
women?” She couldn’t look at him right now.
He placed a finger
underneath her chin, forcing her to look at him.
She opened her eyes and
looked deep into his.
“No, there will never be
another woman. I won’t look at another woman. You’ll be mine, and I’ll be
yours.”
“But you’ll wear the
trousers?” she asked.
“Yes.”
****
Chris waited for her to
respond. There would never be another woman. Rachel would be all of his, and
he’d show her right away what he wanted from her. A part of her was suited to
him. The other part, the one that acknowledged him as her dead sister’s husband,
was holding her back. Claire would want them to be together. He knew his wife
better than Rachel.
Standing at the counter, he waited
for her to give him her answer. Nothing was going to hold him back. Rachel was
his woman, and no one was going to take that away from him, least of all
Rachel. He’d fight her every step of the way.
They were doing this.
“I don’t know if I can do this,”
Rachel said.
Taking hold of her hands, he
kissed each palm before laying them on the edge of the counter. He reached
around her, gripping her ass and bringing her to the edge of the counter. In
one quick move he slid deep inside her. Rachel’s arms went around his neck
holding on to him. Her eyes were wide as she stared at him. “I think you can do
this. I know you can do this.”
Her wet cunt gripped him
tightly. He’d never been with someone who was so responsive to him. Rachel kept
her gaze on his at all times. Gripping her ass, he pulled out of her warmth,
watching her reaction only to slam back inside.
She flung her head back
letting out a moan. This was what he’d been missing. No other woman could
compare to Rachel. She alone made him feel alive, and for the last three
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