I sunk down to my knees and gripped her ass in my hands before spreading her so I could feast on the sight of her little pink rosebud.

“Fuck me,” I growled before taking my first taste.

“Oh, God. Keenan, what are you—” Her breath cut short when I sunk two fingers inside her pussy, one at a time—slowly. Simultaneously, I fingered her pussy while eating her ass and enjoyed how she came apart under my attention.

“Come here,” I ordered after rising to my feet. I gripped her hair and turned her around before pushing her to her knees. “Suck me.”

She wasted no time, taking me in her mouth. I held her hair high like a leash while her head bobbed eagerly. I’d forgotten how good it felt to have her lips wrapped around me. My head fell back, and I released a grunt when I felt my orgasm building. The need to come was strong, but there was only one place I planned to release.

“Stand up.”

She rose to her feet on shaky legs. “After I come in your ass, I’m putting my stamp back where it belongs.” When she opened her mouth to protest, I twisted her nipple and growled, “Don’t fuck with me on this.”

I would reclaim what was mine.

All she could do was nod before I planted her hands against the wall again and spread her legs before bending her over. I took care to lube my cock as much as possible before settling the head against her still wet ass. I had to go slowly since I didn’t have more than our combined saliva as a lubricant.

The heat from her ass, as I began to enter her, inflamed me. Although I couldn’t see her face, I knew she was crying by the uneven hitch in her voice as she gasped each time I sunk deeper.

“Hurts,” she whimpered, and fuck me if it didn’t make my cock grow. I had only just breached her with my cock head.

“That’s because you’re fighting it. Let me in.”

“How?” she cried.

“Stop thinking, that’s how.” I wrapped an arm around her waist and anchored her to me. The move caused her ass to suck me in deeper, and I almost came instantly.

Just a little more.

I slid the fingers of my other hand around until I was touching her pussy, which still dripped despite her protests.

She moaned shakily as I rubbed her there, teasing her and lifting her to a high she had never experienced before and never would unless I allowed it.

“Inside me.”

“What?” I started moving slowly inside her ass. My hips thrust in a rhythm that had been unfamiliar to me for the last four years.

“I want your fingers inside me… please.”

“Why?”

My pace increased infinitesimally. I would introduce her to hard fucking once again, but first, I needed to take my time. I didn’t want this to end until she submitted to me.

“I just need,” she mumbled incoherently,

“My cock?” She leaned her forehead against the wall and nodded, but I was having none of it. I gripped her throat and brought her back flush with my front. “Tell me it’s my cock you need.”

I increased my pace just a little more. Her ass was giving way to my ownership, and soon, she would, too. I just needed the words.

“Say it, baby. Tell me what you feel—” I thrust my fingers deeper inside her pussy and whispered in her ear, “Right here.”

“Fuck… Keenan.”

“Say it,” I barked.

“You own me!” she screamed and convulsed against my fingers as she came.

“That’s right, baby. Your sweet little ass belongs to me, and so do you.”

My rhythm quickly transformed from a slow tease to a forceful pounding. I gave up everything to the fuck.

Her ass welcomed my unforgiving strokes while her screams spurred me. When she could no longer hold herself up, I took her down to her knees. She quickly planted her hands on the steps and braced for my relentless thrusts inside her body.

My fingers were no longer thrusting inside her. Instead, I gripped her hips to pull her deeper onto my cock.

“It’s hurts so good. Oh, baby, I’m going to come,” she pleaded.

“Fuck, yes. Come on my cock. I want to feel your ass suck me in.”

Her legs shook and her breath came out in shorts gasps as she came hard forcing me to follow after and empty inside her.

The force of our orgasms seemed to suck the strength out of us both as we collapsed on the stairs.

We’d fallen asleep where we were on the staircase, and it was my phone ringing sometime later that woke me up.

“Yeah?” I grumbled lazily into the phone. I wasn’t even sure I had answered until the caller spoke two words that made my heart stop.

“Lake’s gone.”

I jumped up immediately and pulled up my jeans. Sheldon started to come to when I yelled into the phone. “What the fuck do you mean she’s gone?”

“I mean she slipped out sometime during the night,” Dash gritted.

“Night? Wait… What time is it?”

“It’s after six in the morning. What the fuck are you doing over there?”

“Nothing,” I answered a little too quickly. “I was asleep.”

“What’s going on?” Sheldon mumbled sleepily.

“Is that my sister?” Dash yelled through the phone.

“Is that Dash?” I nodded quietly to her before ordering her upstairs. For once, she listened without argument.

“Have you called her?”

“Several times. She won’t pick up, but I know she sees me calling because she keeps sending me to voicemail.”

“Why would she leave?”

“Probably because Keiran rejected her visit again.”

I clenched my eyes closed and swore. “He’s going to kill us and then her.”

“Yeah, and sooner than you think. We managed to convince the private investigator and the hospital to drop the charges.”

“How?”

“Money. How else?”

“So when is he being released?”

“In three hours.”

“Fuck!” I shouted. “So we have three hours to find her. Have you tried her aunt?”

“I’m on my way there now.”

“I’m on my way.” I hung up without saying more and ran full speed up the stairs to the first level, hooked a right, and ran up the second set of stairs.

“What’s going on?” Sheldon asked as she pulled on her jeans from yesterday.

“What are you doing?” I stopped short and glared down at her. Sheldon was average height while I was tall, and I used it to my advantage each time I sought to intimidate her.

“I’m getting dressed. I can’t exactly go home naked, can I?”

“You’re not going anywhere, so naked shouldn’t be a problem. Think of this as your home until we find Ken.”

“Don’t call her that. You don’t get that privilege.”

“As the man who fertilized your egg, I think I do.”

“But that’s all you were.” Her voice rose with each word as she yanked on her clothes.

“Because the bitch who birthed her didn’t try to inform me that she had my baby.”

“Don’t blame me because you’re a coward. What was I supposed to do? Search all over the world? Turn over every rock you might have crawled under?”

“Yes,” I answered simply. “It’s what I would have done if you had run away—if you do run away.”

She planted her hands on her hips and regarded me coolly. “Is that a threat?”

I walked up to her until my chest was flush with hers. I gripped her chin gently and lifted her face so I could look into her eyes. “It’s a threat, a promise, a commitment, and a vow. Take it seriously, baby, because if you ever leave, I will find you, but I can’t promise you will survive it.”

“I miss the old you,” she whispered unexpectedly. The pain in her eyes was unmistakable.

“That’s too bad because he’s gone.” A broken heart couldn’t be mended.

“Forever?”

“Yeah, baby. Forever.”

She slipped her chin from my fingers and took a step back. “Then there’s nothing left to say. I’m leaving.”

I nodded once, and she seemed to take that as acceptance, but when I picked her up and tossed her on the bed, she screamed and fought.

“Be still, or I’ll fuck you right here, and this time I won’t wait for permission.”