His Dark Promise (Siren Publishing Classic) by K. R. Haynes Page A

her pussy and butt to him. The feel of his warm hand caressing the cheeks of her ass had her shivering against his touch. He then fitted the tip of his cock to the entrance to her core and drove straight in.
    Pleasure and pain washed over her from the animalistic way he took her. He had one hand splayed across her bare mound so he could fiddle lightly with her clit and the other hand rested on softness of her belly pressing her back on to him. Over and over again he shuttled his cock into her weeping core. They both were moaning and panting, fighting to stay afloat in the sea of overwhelming pleasure washing around them. The pressure he applied to her clit became harder and more intolerable to withstand by the second. Her orgasm was intensifying at a rapid speed, and Holly knew it was only a simple matter of him commanding her to come and she would explode into an ecstasy she would never ever get used to as it consumed her so completely.
    “Come,” he managed to growl out and she screamed his name out loud. Her eyes were closed as her body trembled and shook from the force of her climax. On and on it went, taking her higher and higher. Holly wasn’t aware of anything around her. She wasn’t aware of the agony etched on Travis’s face as he fell into his own tortured form of ecstasy. She wasn’t even aware of the rumble of thunder echoing from the dark sky above them. She didn’t even feel the heavy drops of rain splattering on her skin as the heavens above opened up to shower them in their own form of rapture.
    The only thing she was aware of was the warm splash of his seed jetting deep inside of her. She moaned at the feel of it. It was heaven and she wanted the feeling to never end. “Travis, oh god it feels so good, baby, so good.”
    She was trying to catch her breath on the way down from the lofty heights he took her body to. He had proved to her time and time again he was the conductor of her body and she was his delicate instrument he could play with. And once again he performed his role flawlessly and gave her what she had been wanting from him, the feel of his warm release flowing into her, marking her as his woman.
    Travis may not have realized he had taken her unprotected, but Holly did, and she had no regrets about it. They may not have openly discussed her use of birth control as a couple. She was, however, covered by being on the pill. So in a way she had ended up protecting him tonight.
    He may have only temporarily marked her body with his lovemaking and taken her to that forbidden place she could only eve r go with him. But could Travis Kane give her his heart as well? That was the silent question that formed on her lips as he slipped from her body. Could he love her? God, she sure hoped so. The not knowing was the part that was playing on her mind and destroying her emotions.
    When Travis stepped inside to grab a warm cloth to clean her up with, Holly gazed out into the darkness and wondered what she was meant to do now. Should she tell him what was in her heart or keep on denying her feelings totally to protect herself from his possible rejection? After all, she had rejected him numerous times in the past. It was only fair that he had a chance to do the same to her, wasn’t it?

Chapter Seventeen
     
    Holly lay awake in Travis’s arms the following morning staring down at the words engraved on the back of the watch he had given her. “Oceans may separate us, distance may come between us, but you’ll always be my sweet darlin’.” He had given her the watch late last night in bed right after he made love to her again. It was also the reason for his errand late yesterday afternoon. He had wanted to get the back of the watch engraved, he had told her.
    S he slid a glance over his sleeping form before lifting her gaze to the window where the curtains were only partially drawn in the oversized bedroom, giving her an unspoiled view of the sun rising high in the late mornin g . Mindlessly she ran her