Always His (Crazed Devotion #1) (12 page)

I
watched as Ryker lay on the couch and Tori stood at his side. She pointed to the tattoo on his arm. “What is this?” she asked.

“That’s to help me remember someone I lost, a friend,” Ryker told her as he touched it.

“I lost a toy once, but Mommy found it under my bed,” Tori told him, and it made me smile.

“What’s that say?” she asked as she pointed to the verse on his chest. My own chest tightened as I remembered what it said. I had never realized a few words could mean so much, and seeing them tattooed on his chest had been my breaking point.

“It’s about your momma,” Ryker said. “It explains just how much I love her.” He looked up from Tori’s face to meet my gaze and winked.

And as if that wasn’t enough to make me weak in the knees, what happened next nearly made me crumble to the floor. My little girl crawled onto Ryker’s chest and curled up, wrapping her arms around his neck. He held her close and buried his nose in her hair.

In that moment, the last little shred of doubt lingering in my mind faded.

I moved across the living room and knelt at his side as he watched me in silence. Tori snuggled into him a little closer, and her eyes sagged as she fought off her exhaustion.

Ryker removed a hand from her back and wrapped it around my waist, his fingers gently curling into my side.

I laid my head on his chest next to Tori and kissed the area just over the tattoo. “I love you, Ryker,” I whispered, and he kissed my forehead. “My heart has always belonged to you.” No matter the distance between us or the mistakes we made, I had always been his. And I knew that was the way it always would be.

“C’mere,” Ryker said as he motioned for me to join him in the center of my living room.

Tori had been in bed for close to an hour after she passed out on Ryker’s chest. He’d carried her to bed, tucked her in securely, and even placed a gentle kiss to her forehead. I watched in awe through it all as I fell just a little harder.

I walked toward him as he held his hand out to me, and once I was close enough, he laced our fingers together. He raised our joined hands and kissed mine, then curled his other hand around my waist. The way he was looking at me made my heart race unbelievably fast.

“I haven’t been this happy in so long,” he said as he began to sway with me in his arms.

I looked up at him, and he dropped his head to bring our mouths closer. “I want more nights like tonight. With you and Tori,” he whispered, his gaze still locked on mine.

“She adores you.” I smiled, thinking about how much Tori had warmed up to him without hesitation.

“I adore her too,” he confessed. “She amazing, just like her momma.”

I ran my hands through his hair and laced them together behind his neck, then pulled his mouth toward mine. I began to tremble as he slipped his tongue between my lips and took over the kiss.

“You can always make me lose my mind,” he said. “You consume me with just a kiss.”

He slid the hand gripping my waist to my ass and pulled my body tighter against his. Heat filled my stomach as his erection pressed against it while he deepened the kiss and began backing me up.

“What are you doing?” I asked breathlessly.

“Taking my girl to the couch for a little make-out session.” He smiled against my lips. “It’s been a hell of a long time since we did that.”

“What are we, sixteen?” I asked as I allowed him to guide me backward.

“We are definitely not sixteen anymore,” he said as he lowered me to the couch and covered my body with his. “These curves,” he moaned. “They’re much more defined than they were all those years ago.”

“After a baby, things never are the same,” I said, looking up at him as his eyes scanned over me appreciatively.

“All these sweet curves drive me fucking wild,” he confessed as he ground his hardness against me. “They got me thinking all kinds of dirty thoughts.”

I parted my legs and allowed him to slip between them before wrapping them around his waist.

“Sometimes I think this can’t be real,” I said as he kissed along my neck.

“What can’t be real?” he asked.

“You, us,” I replied. “I used to think about it all the time. You coming back and making everything better.” I swallowed hard. “And then I just finally gave up believing it was a possibility.”

“Nic,” Ryker said, sounding distressed.

“I had to, because wanting you was just too hard,” I confessed as my chest tightened and tears threatened to spill over.

“I’m here, baby, and I promise you, I’m never leaving you again. I love you so much,” he said as he traced my lip with his thumb. “You’ll never know what it feels like to go without me again.”

There was a long silence between us as we both stared at one another.

“Stay the night,” I whispered.

“Are you sure that’s okay?” he asked, and I nodded and arched my neck upward to kiss him once more.

W
aking up to a gorgeous woman straddling my waist as she guided my cock inside her warmth was the most mind-blowing sight. Fuck, I could get used to mornings like this.

Nicole’s slick warmth slid over me as she bit her lower lip and rocked her hips before pulling back, only to repeat the action again and again.

“Damn, you know how to make a guy love six a.m.,” I said as I gripped her hips and lifted my own to push in deeper. She gasped and threw her head back.

“You like that?” I pulled back and thrust upward again before she could answer and almost lost myself when she clamped down on my cock and her pussy pulsed. “Yeah,” I groaned. “You love that.”

“Ryker,” she called out as she rotated her hips and lost herself in pleasure.

I released my hold on her and let her take control as she began to fuck me. A wildness took her over and fuck if it wasn’t the sexiest damn thing. Not coming was torture, but I didn’t want this to end.

“God damn, Nicole,” I growled. “You feel so fucking good,” I said as she worked me over and over.

“I’m so close,” she said as she began bucking her hips and squeezing my cock. “Oh my God,” she moaned a little too loud, but I was too lost to care.

“There you go, baby,” I coaxed as she came. “Fuck, that is so sexy.” I flipped her onto her back and drove into her hard and fast, chasing toward my own release.

I woke up to Nicole sprawled out over my chest, her arm curled around my waist. She fit against me perfectly, as if her body had been molded to mine. It’d been so long since I’d felt this content. Holding her made me want so much all at once. Fuck, I wanted nights like last night all the time. Tori and Nicole were both smiling and laughing, and laughter filled the apartment as I held Tori above my head, pretending she was a plane flying through the air. Her sweet giggles as we played were something I could live with forever.

But the moment Victoria curled up on my chest and fell asleep, I felt like someone had my heart in their hands and was squeezing it tight. In that moment I knew I had fallen in love with that sweet little angel.

These two girls had me wrapped around their fingers; I was a fucking goner.

I lay perfectly still listening to Nicole’s gentle snores. Completely distracted, I hadn’t noticed Tori enter until she climbed up over my legs.

“Hey, Squirt,” I said, suddenly a little nervous about how she would take me being in bed with her mom.

“Hi,” she replied as she sat down on my stomach and held her bear close to her chest. My being there didn’t even seem to faze her. She leaned in and whispered, “I had an accident.”

A million things ran through my mind as I began to panic. What did she mean by an accident? She looked like she was okay.

But nothing prepared me for what happened next.

“I peed the bed,” she confessed.

Suddenly the warmth I felt on my chest became a little clearer as I realized just what was seeping through the sheet that separated us. I had no idea how to respond to this. Having a little person around was completely new to me.

Nicole’s laughter filled the room, and I felt foolish for my near panic attack.

“Welcome to the life with a three-year-old,” Nicole said as she sat up in bed. “She doesn’t do it often, but now you’ve been peed on, just wait until she pukes on you. You’ll be wishing it was pee instead.”

Nicole walked around the bed wearing only a tank top and a pair of those panties that look like tiny shorts. She lifted Victoria off me and placed the girl on her side like having pee on her hip was nothing. All I could do was chuckle. It would appear I had a lot to learn about kids.

After Nicole cleaned up Tori and herself, I was finally able to shower.

As I stepped out of the bathroom, I could smell fresh coffee and the delicious scent of pancakes. I followed the aroma, and when I rounded the corner to the kitchen, I stopped midstride and took in the sight before me.

Tori was standing on a kitchen chair at Nicole’s side with Nicole’s arm wrapped securely around her. With her opposite hand Nicole held on to Tori’s as it gripped the spatula they were using to flip the pancakes.

Tori giggled in excitement as they lifted the last pancake from the skillet and placed it on the plate next to them on the counter.

When I returned to Alabama, I knew Victoria was a part of Nicole, which in turn meant she would be part of my life as well. I had no reservations about accepting that. But never in my wildest dreams did I know I would love her so much. Nicole had always been my one true love. But now another girl held my heart too.