Chapter Thirty Six- Mine

Jackson's POV

The feverish rush of my lips settled into a slow strike of my tongue against hers. What began as a need to dominate became a necessity to confirm. Her hands on my arms were taken to my face as I needed to validate that she was truly beneath me and not some fantasy. The tender placement of her nails began to threaten my jaw as it clenched to her touch. As she moaned to a recent stroke of my tongue, I released her wrists and began my own physical perusal.

“Take this off…” My voice rasped. She wore a raincoat that concealed too much of her from me. I needed her curves in my hands and her racing heart naked against my own. But as the material came free and she was revealed to me as if it were the first time, she had changed.

The perfection was hollow. It remained in majority but was simplified. She had lost weight and the wonder as to why made my heart clench and my stomach wrap into a knot. Seeing the sadness in my eyes, she pulled me back into a ki