He leans down and lays wet kisses down my spine and back up. When he comes back up he bites my shoulder blade hard enough that I know he’ll leave a mark, and the thought of his mark on me has my walls clenching around him, pulling a thick groan from him. He soothes the bite with a lick and then reaches back to grab a fist full of my hair and force my head up to the mirror. “Look at me when you come,” he demands.

That’s when everything goes black. I free-fall into ecstasy, chasing a high only he can give me. We come together and I slump over in his hold, feeling nothing and everything at the same time. My ears are ringing and my entire body is vibrating with pleasure, but everything outside of this moment, outside of us, feels faint and distant.

We both release a soft groan when he pulls out of me and spins me around, then my ass is hitting the cold hard edge of the sink.

“Jesus, Kai. What are you doing to me?” I can’t take anymore but fuck if I won’t accept whatever he’s about to give me.

“You’re not getting these back.” He points to the panties he threw on the ground when he untied me, picking them up and shoving them in his pocket. “And though the thought of my cum running down your legs makes me hard all over again, I won’t make you leave here like that, so I’m going to clean you up.” His way of cleaning me up is shoving his face between my legs again and tearing another orgasm from me before finally wiping me down. I can barely walk out of that bathroom let alone care to check if anyone sees us leaving.

The next day, I’m doing some stretching, some for my injured leg and some for my deliciously sore center, and Kai is about to go for a run, but he catches a glimpse of the FaceTime call coming through my phone and stops in his tracks.

“Ummm, why is Auntie calling you?”

Shit, I forgot to mention to Kai that I’ve kept in touch with Auntie all these years.

“Okay, so very short summary, we never lost touch. I’ve been in contact with her since leaving Houston. I just asked her not to tell you, and I also asked her not to tell me about you. I’m so sorry; I should’ve told you that.” When I left, I intended to cut everyone off, but I just couldn’t let go of Auntie. Back then I think that she was looking for a daughter as much as I was looking for a mom. She and Kai’s dad lost their mom when they were teenagers, so she understood my loss better than anyone I knew and so we clung to each other.