After My Alpha Drugged Me for Ten Years novel · Chapter 23 of 24

Chapter 23: The Room That Was a Cell

Hazel's POV

Rowan laid the bedroll on the floor under the window, and I watched him shake it out flat.

The iron bed frame stood bolted beside it, empty and ugly.

I didn't want the frame.

I wanted the floor, and the light, and him.

"Hazel," he said. "You're sure?"

"Ask me again and I'll bite you."

He laughed, and it shook his whole chest.

"Then I won't."

I stripped off the flannel shirt and let it fall.

The afternoon sun came through the dirty window and lay across my ribs and my hips, and I stood in it and let him look.

He didn't say anything for a moment.

He crossed the room and knelt in front of me and put his mouth against my stomach.

His hands slid up the backs of my thighs, and I put mine in his hair.

"I used to lie on that bed," I said, "and imagine somebody kneeling like this."

"Did you?"

"I thought it was a kind of madness."

"It was a kind of hope."

I shuddered.

He kissed down to my hip, and the tops of my thighs, and then he looked up.

"Tell me what you want, and I'll do it."

"I want to open the window."

He blinked.

"Now?"

"Now."

I turned.

The window had a rusted latch I had stared at for ten years without ever once touching it.

I put my hands on it and pulled until the metal tore loose in a shower of orange flakes, and the sash shot up.

Cold air poured in over my bare skin.

It smelled of pines and the river and woodsmoke, and I breathed it in until I was dizzy.

Rowan stood up behind me.

His hands came to rest at my waist, and I felt all of him against my back, bare and hot.

"I can see the whole valley," I said.

"Look at it."

"I want to look at it while you fuck me."

His breath caught against my ear.

"God, Hazel."

"Please."

I braced my hands on the sill.

He ran one palm slowly down my spine and between my shoulder blades, and I arched into it.

He kissed the back of my neck, right over the mark.

Then he slid his hand between my legs, and found me wet, and swore under his breath.

"You're so ready."

"I've been ready for ten years."

He pushed two fingers into me and stroked my clit with his thumb.

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