My Addiction (Second Chances Series)(75)

I pulled her into me and hugged her close. I closed my eyes to the feeling that I would never have again. When I parted from her, the tears that pooled in her eyes suddenly fell. I wiped her cheeks and bent to kiss her softly on her lips.

“I’m so sorry, Ayana,” my voice just a whisper on her lips.

I turned quickly, grabbed my bags, and left the room. My chest was growing tight with each step I took from the door, but I needed to do this. I needed…

I stopped.

Shit, suddenly I heard this earth-shattering cry that bellowed from my room. It broke my soul and caused my heart to stop beating. My breath caught, and I instinctively turned around. Never in my life had I witnessed, much less heard, her break. And, shit, from the sounds that were coming from that room she was… shit she was…

I closed my eyes and leaned my back against the wall next to me. I didn’t know what to do. I couldn’t…

Suddenly, I heard the door open, and I watched her come barging out of the room. She looked left then right and froze when she saw me.

Her eyes bore into me, stripping me to nothing. I couldn’t move. The raw emotions that poured out of her body, her eyes, hypnotized me. She trembled trying to hold on to the doorframe, trying to keep herself upright.

Her chest moved up and down with such ferocity that I thought she was going to hyperventilate at any second. I moved from the wall and faced her. So many emotions were running through me, but one started to take over. One made me move my legs to her and the other managed to catch her airborne body as it collided with mine.

I lost my footing and I fell flat on my back with her still in my arms. She quickly started kissing me saying in between caressing me with her lips, “I love you, Bradley. I won’t let go of you. I can’t” She looked in my eyes, allowing tears to freely fall from them. “I’ll do whatever it takes to prove to you what you mean to me. You want all of me; you have it. I won’t hold back from you. I’ll give you every damaged part of me. Just please give me that chance. Please! I love you. Please!”

I flipped her on her back, and I moved in between her legs. I caressed her face and wiped the tears that continued to fall. My chest swelled with deep emotions that threatened to tear out of me. My soul belongs to this woman. I’ll admit that. Call me whatever you want, but there’s no way I can live without her.

I whispered to her, “What are you doing to me?”

She said just as softly, “The same thing you are doing to me.”

I smiled.

For the first time in hours, I smiled, leaned in and kissed the very lips that had driven me crazy for years. The arms of the woman that I could never live without went around me and locked in place, letting me know that she had no plans to ever let me go.

Our kiss I will say was getting a little too deep for the hallway as my hands started moving under her shirt, and I started moving my hips atop her. I didn’t give a shit that we were in the middle of the hallway though. If someone wanted to watch me take my woman, then so be it, because nothing is stopping me from…

She pulled back. “Is that your phone vibrating?”

Shit!

I reluctantly reached between us and pulled out my phone. I answered it, not paying any attention to who was on the line as I leaned into Ayana’s neck and started nibbling.

“Uh, Braddock the cab is here, and I’ve been calling the room and your phone. What’s going on? Are you coming or what?”

Shit! Nora.

I stopped kissing Ayana’s neck and looked at her. Clearly, she heard what Nora said to me and she looked at me questioningly. I realized I did feel my phone going off a few times while I was talking to Ayana, and while I stood in the hallway, but that was so far from my thoughts at the time.

“Braddock,” Nora repeated.

“Uh, yeah,” I answered. “I’ll be right down.” I hung up, sighed and stood. I helped Ayana up, and as I did, I could have sworn I heard someone groan from behind the door next to us.

I felt Ayana try and move from my arms, but I moved her closer to me. “So, I, uh, have made plans for the next few days.”

“So I heard.”

“Do you want to come?”

She scoffed and again tried to move from me. “Are you joking? You want me to go with you and Nora? I don’t think so. Let me go!”

I frowned and backed her against the wall behind her. I moved her arms above her head and held her there with one hand bringing the other one to her chin. I held her there with my body against her.

“Let’s get something straight, okay? No, I don’t want you to go anywhere with Nora. Hell, I’m not going anywhere with Nora, except to the airport. She is going back to Houston and I’m going to Vegas for a much needed vacation. Now I was hoping that the love of my life would want to accompany me so maybe we could pick up where we left off on the hallway floor of this hotel, but, shit, if she wants to stay here…”