I closed my eyes, basking in the feeling of Tex. In everything that he was. “Then trust I will put you back together.”

As if my words were a wrecking ball, the dam broke, and tears slid down Tex’s cheeks. He took in a shuddering breath before a scream left him. I tightened my arms around Tex and continued to thrust. Tex’s fingers curled around my forearms as if he was holding on for dear life. I didn’t stop, and he didn’t ask me to. His tears fell freely, and I gave him the moment to do so.

Piece by piece, he shattered in my arms. His cries became hoarse, and his body went lax.

Tex was an ugly crier but when I was the cause of his tears, it was the sexiest thing I’d ever witnessed. He tried to hide his face, but I wasn’t having any of that.

I kissed him and pressed our foreheads together before pulling back and grabbing his hips in a bruising grip. Pain trickled in where my bullet wound lay. I promptly ignored it. Nothing in this world could get me to stop. I picked up the pace and changed the angle just slightly. Tex’s hoarse moans filled the room. I pounded into him. Making sure his mind, body, soul, and heart knew I owned all of Tex.

“Cum for me,” I demanded as ecstasy licked up my spine.

Tex’s body tightened around me, sucking me in further, making it harder to pull out. I groaned as he dragged out my climax. I buried myself as deep as I could, wanting to mark every inch of Tex.

Spots danced in my vision as I remembered how to breathe. Bliss tried to drag me down, but I pushed through. My cock slipped free of Tex, and he fell face-first into the bed. I turned him over, still riding the high of my climax. I kissed each of his eyes and then his forehead.

I had no words that would make everything right. I couldn’t tell him to get over seeing his friend die or even the betrayal. Everyone processed things differently. However, what I could do was be there every time he needed to break apart.

“I love you.”

Tex blinked up at me, and I wiped some of the tears away. “Yeah? Will you still love me when I fuck up?”

There was no need to think about it. “I thought I made myself clear.” I wrapped one hand around his throat and the other around his cock.

Tex sucked in a breath through clenched teeth, no doubt sensitive after cumming back to back.

“You’re mine. You’ve had your moment of freedom. You will never escape me again.”

Tex stared at me for a long while before his lips tilted up in a smile. “Freedom? I was on the fucking run.”

I hummed and let him go. My arms fell to my side as I took in a slow, measured breath. The pleasure and need for Tex overruled everything, but now the pain was slowly trickling in. There was warmth where my bullet wound lay that I knew wasn’t sweat.