Even before the doors of the elevator trapped her inside that tiny box with Paxton, her heart was drumming madly in her throat. Then the cage jerked, throwing her against his strong body. She let out a shriek before they shot upward. Her heart spiked to rocket speed, and her wide eyes lifted pleadingly to his. “Oh, God…” she whispered. “I will never feel comfortable… or at safe… in your elevator…” He put his lips softly against her ear. “Don’t be so afraid, darlin’. You know you are perfectly safe in ‘my’ elevator… Besides, I’m on a committee that oversees maintenance issues. And, this stuffy building, as you call it many times, is state of the art.” His deep voice was a comforting rumble. “If you say so,” she mumbled, while her heart was still beating extremely fast. “I’m fine… I’m fine… I’m perfectly fine…” Rhiannon took a deep breath and kept repeating her little mantra. “I’m fine… I’m fine… I’m…” “Let’s make sure, why don’t we?” When

“Don’t leave, Rhiannon,” Paxton said, touching her forehead with his lips. “This isn’t what you really want and you know it. Just stay here, with me… I hate what you did to my brother, but I just can’t watch you walk out that door, walk away from me, knowing you will never come back here. Dammit, I don’t know why, or what you did to me, but I need you. I can’t breathe when you’re not here.” He held Rhiannon tight while whispering the words as sweetly as possible, as gently as possible. Paxton said them to Rhiannon while she was asleep, knowing that, for now, it was the only way she would listen to him without thinking of packing and leaving the penthouse.“Pax… Sweetheart…” she murmured slowly, nuzzling her cheek against his chest. Those words as they left her lips filled him with pleasure and a deep sadness. They were the same words she said to him that night… after they had sex for the first time. Even that night she called him “sweetheart” while he mistreated he

Swirling her tongue at the base of his beautiful cock, she licked at its sides as if it were a melting ice cream cone. Then she finally traced the edge of his head with the point of her tongue, rubbing her tongue hard against the spot facing her where head met length.“So yummy…” Rhiannon said feeling his body hardening, all his muscles tensing. She rested her closed lips over the tip and parted them slightly to taste the first drop of his desire. She pressed downward, letting the force of her descent open her lips around him, his engorged head filling her mouth and forcing her tongue down. Rhiannon kept her lips carefully over her teeth and took him until he hit the back of her mouth. She greedily sucked and pulled off him, licked and sucked some more, then wrapped her hand around his shaft and move it up and down in synch with her mouth. Paxton’s breathing grew louder and more ragged. He lifted his hands beside her head and she knew he wanted to grasp he

          She arrived at the church ten minutes before Kieran’s memorial service started. The place was packed with Kieran’s friends, most absent at the funeral, but Rhiannon managed to find an empty seat. Luckily, it was as far away as possible from all the Ridgways… especially from Paxton. She wasn’t really a part of that family so, it was even more necessary to sit a few rows back, on the other side of the church.           Just as she’d expected, Paxton stood away from her, also. They seemed like two perfect strangers. Not even that sad moment could bring them together. She remembered how close she had felt him during the funeral. How attentive he had been, holding her, soothing her. That day, they seemed a real… family, comforting each other.            That’s why, seeing him

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