Sweetest Kisses

by Goode, Ella

  “He probably was working.”

  “Some of the time. The rest of the time, he was getting paid to sleep with my mother. I can’t believe she did this to me.”

  “It’s going to be all right,” Violet murmurs but when our eyes meet, we share a wordless agreement that Amie is going to be hurt for a very long time.

  Chapter 12

  Violet

  I lay my head on Amie’s shoulder. We’ve been sitting on the beach for over an hour now enjoying the shade and cool breeze. It’s bittersweet having her here. I wish her visit could have been under different circumstances instead of the sadness that brought us back together. I’ve missed her so much. Growing up with sisters meant that I always had a friend. Amie and I have always been close. I grab her hand and hold it, wishing I could take away whatever pain she’s feeling.

  “He’s not worth it. I know that’s not what you want to hear right now but it’s the truth. You deserve a man that treats you like a queen.” She deserves to be treated like Victor treats me. Amie is beautiful on the inside and out. The thought of some jerk making her feel unwanted makes me sick to my stomach. I can’t even think about what my mother has done in this situation. I focus my anger on Detective Marks and push my mother’s disgusting behavior to the side. My mother is a battle for another day. One I’m not sure any of us will care to have. Amie squeezes my hand as she allows the tears to continue to flow down her cheeks. She’s always so strong. It hurts my heart to see her like this.

  “I love you, Violet. I’m so sorry that your life has been uprooted for all of these months because of some scam that Mom and Daniel tried to pull. I feel like an idiot.”

  I squeeze her hand that I’m still holding. Amie was always the one to comfort me when we were younger and I want to give her that now. Seeing what kind of men are out in the world makes me even more grateful that I have Victor. Many people will say our relationship has moved too quickly, but I know that I can trust him and he will do anything for me. He always has my best interests at heart.

  “You didn’t do anything wrong to feel bad about, Amie. Besides that, I’m happy here now. It was hard when I first arrived but then I made friends. Victor also changed things for me.” That brings a small smile to her face. I hate that my sister is hurt but it did make me find Victor.

  “So. You and I am Sokolov are a thing huh?” I nod my head and we both burst into laughter. Once we catch our breath Amie continues to talk. “He seems so serious except for when it comes to you, Violet. As soon as you entered the room his eyes softened. I hope someone looks at me one day the way he does you.”

  “You will find it. It comes out of nowhere.”

  “I don’t think Sokolov can come out of nowhere.”

  I snort a small laugh. The man is big. Unmissable. He not only takes up a lot of space, you can feel his energy without even seeing him. You know he is there. Just like I know he’s standing about thirty yards behind my sister and me keeping a watchful eye on us.

  “You didn’t love him.” I lift my head from off her shoulder to look at her. “It would hurt more if you did. I don’t think I’d be able to breathe if Victor was out of my life,” I admit. That single thought would be devastating. I don’t know how I lived without him before. “Real love is everything and I know you’ll find it. There’s no way some man isn’t going to blindside you. Trust me. It happens. A lot around here, actually.”

  Love has been in the air lately. “You saying I should hang around?”

  “Yes!” I half scream. Amie gives a smile at my excitement. “I do need you to help with the wedding.”

  “I can stay for the wedding.”

  “Maybe longer,” I hedge.

  “I have a job back home.”

  “A job? That’s all you’re coming at me with? Those are everywhere. We have lots of them here too.” I turn to look over my shoulder. “Victor.”

  “I give your sister a job.” He shrugs as if it’s a done deal.

  “I could suck.” Amie looks at Victor like he’s crazy.

  “You don’t suck at anything,” I snip at my sister.

  “You manage the Collins Properties, Inc. perfectly. Your father should sell. The market is good now. You can manage my company.”

  Amie’s mouth falls open a little. “I told Dad two months ago he should sell on an offer he got.” Amie looks from Victor to me.

  “He knows everything before you can even say it,” I whisper, which is pointless because Victor has freaky good hearing. I never have to say anything and the man knows what I’m thinking.

  “See. You know what you are doing. I trust you could manage Sokolov Security. I’ll need some help. I plan on taking more time off.” Victor’s eyes flick to me. I know this isn’t the time but my body heats under his gaze because I know what he plans to do with his extra time off.

  “From here?” she asks. I jump up.

  “You’re thinking about it?”

  “Maybe. Even if I think your soon-to-be husband is only offering me the job because he is trying to make you happy.”

  “This is also true,” Victor confirms. “But I meant the other things I said. I am confident in your skills.”

  Amie stands. “I’ll think about it while we plan the wedding.”

  “Plan?” Victor walks closer to us. “We need no plans. We both say I do and we are done.”

  I fake an eye roll. “I want to plan a small wedding. Have my sister be my maid of honor.”

  “Okay,” Victor says instantly.

  “He does not look like someone who is so agreeable all the time but he is with you.” I hear the smile in Amie’s words.

  “It’s because I know how to get what I want.” I lean into Victor, offering him my mouth. He pulls me into his body, kissing me. Everything might not be perfect right now with my family but I know we’ll get there. This resort really does have love in the air and I know Amie is going to find her happily ever after soon.

  Chapter 13

  Violet

  “You think she likes her room?” I ask Victor as we leave the suite that we got for her at the hotel. I start to turn around to go back to check on her but Victor snags me around the waist, stopping me.

  “It is one of the best in the resort. It’s better than your place,” he reassures me. “Give her some time, Kotyonok, she needs to process this.” I know he’s right but it sucks seeing Amie like this. She’s always so strong. I want to be there for her but I’m not sure there is much I can do but love her and be here whenever she needs me.

  I know it’s not really her heart that Marks broke but something altogether different. A strength inside of her has been whittled away. I think it’s because it was a double betrayal. Not only by someone she was romantically interested in but by her own flesh and blood. Our mother’s betrayal is really what’s eating Amie alive. Who can you trust if not your own mother?

  “I don’t think I’ll ever forgive her,” I tell Victor as he leads me from my sister’s suite. He doesn't have to ask to know who I’m talking about. I was never close to my mother. I don’t think any of us girls were, but we always all stuck together. This is the ultimate betrayal, not just to Amie but our entire family. I pray I never see my mother again.

  “You don’t have to.” He shrugs.

  “My dad took it rather easy.” I scrunch my nose thinking back on how mellow he’d been about the whole thing. Passive really. I mean I’m happy it didn't rip his heart apart but I wish he would have been more mad for Amie. Why isn’t he more angry at our mother for what she’s done to our family? She not only betrayed Amie but she stole precious time from us that we’ll never get back. So many months of being apart from each other because of her selfishness.

  “He is a weak man, my kotyonok. I would never allow another man near you or to take our children from us. This would only happen over my dead body.” The words rumble from deep inside of Victor, vibrating from his body into mine.

  “Victor.” I turn toward him and lift my mouth, asking f
or a kiss. He obliges. I break the kiss before we get lost in it. “I need you, Victor. I need all of you. Will you give me that tonight?” He exhales a long breath. I know I’m testing his resolve but I don’t want to waste another second. I want to lose myself in him tonight. We are lucky to have the love we have, to have found each other, and I don’t want to wait anymore.

  “Come, Kotyonok.” He grabs my hand and continues to lead me toward my apartment.

  “That’s what I’m trying to do,” I snip back at him because he’s still holding out on me. That gets me a small smile from him as he shakes his head and continues walking. “Don’t you think it’s absurd that we are engaged and you won’t sleep with me?” I continue pushing his buttons. “I mean, do you not want me? Do you not find me sexy?”

  He stops walking to look down at me. “Kotyonok,” he warns. I know I’m poking my giant Russian beast. I think anyone else might be scared to do such a thing. Not me. When it comes to Victor, fear is not something I’ll ever feel around him. I know the sweetness that is at the center of my soon-to-be husband. He shows it to me every chance he gets.

  I place my hands on his chest as I look up at him. He is so good at reading me and I am getting better at reading him too.

  “What is holding you back? Tell me.”

  “Your family.” He says the same things he’s been saying for a while now. “I wanted you to go into this without any fears. I didn’t want you to have to worry. That stemmed from things that were happening back where you come from.” I notice he doesn’t call it home but where I came from. He’s right. He’s my home now.

  “The rest of it, Victor.” I slide my hands up his chest.

  “I do not know how to handle these family things. But I see family is important to people. I’ve only loved one other woman besides you—my baba or to you, grandmother—so I do not know much about the dynamics of one. I see how others are, though. With your sweetness I knew you would need this cleared. That is not right, Kotyonok? If I am to be your family I need to make sure it is functioning the best I can.” He actually gives a small grimace. I throw my head back and laugh.

  “You had your work cut out for you then, didn’t you?” I keep on laughing. Not because this is okay but because it’s so messed up that all you can do is laugh or you’ll cry. My giant Russian was trying to fix a family that I’m not sure is worth fixing. At least not all of it. “You’re going to have a family now. A bigger one that’s going to grow. We’re going to be one and I know you’ll always make sure things are perfect in it. I know you’ll always take care of us the best you can. It’s a big reason I’m marrying you.”

  “What other reasons, Kotyonok?” He leans down a little so we are closer. I smile up at him, knowing he wants my affection. I want to give it to him. I want to finally give him everything.

  “You know I didn't fight you on the necklace,” I remind him. I love the weight of it around my neck. “I love you. That’s why I’m marrying you. I think we both knew this was coming the moment we met. I never really put up a fight. I think I only toyed and played with you, holding out for a little because I was enjoying myself for the first time in a long time.”

  “Kotyonok.” He moans my name before his mouth finds mine. “I love you too,” he tells me between kisses. Of course he does but I still love hearing him say it.

  “Then make love to me. I want us to know every part of each other. To be connected in the deepest of ways.”

  “I’m sorry, my kotyonok. I did not know how badly you needed me to make love to your body or I would have done it long ago.” He lifts me off my feet.

  “We have the rest of our lives, Victor. I’m sure you can make it up to me.” He only grunts his agreement as he carries me back off to his place. I think you're supposed to be a little leery of your first time with a man. I feel none of that. Only happiness fills me because I know Victor will make this perfect for me. Like I said. When it comes to Victor I have nothing to fear. Ever.

  Chapter 14

  Victor

  The trust that my kotyonok places in me is humbling. I tilt her head to the side and run my lips down the exposed column of her neck. She inhales, her chest shaking slightly. Her dress slips off her shoulders and slithers down to the floor. I follow the path of the fabric, disposing of Violet’s lacy bra and matching panties until she is completely bare.

  I place a soft kiss above the small thatch of hair on her pussy. Her knees tremble and her hands crash down on my shoulders.

  “W-wait,” she stutters.

  “For what?” I nose her legs apart and breathe in her arousal. My cock grows iron hard.

  “I don’t know. Shouldn’t I be lying down for this?”

  “Trust me. I’ll hold you up.” I like that she is in my grasp, reliant on me for her balance, for her support. My fingers dig into her hip bones as I drag her cunt to my mouth.

  The minute I make contact, she collapses, her hands sliding off my shoulders and her knees buckling beneath her. It doesn’t matter. She’s light enough for me to hold with one hand. I hitch her legs over my shoulders, brace a hand against the middle of her back and devour her like the meal she is. She’s wet and juicy, her lubrication filling my mouth. I eat her up, not allowing a single droplet of her essence to escape me. The pulse in my cock throbs with every lick and bite and suck. My whole body feels electrified and I’m ready to come on the floor. She moans, her words slurring together until she sounds like she’s speaking some foreign language.

  “Ohmygodthisfeelssogooddon’tstopdon’tstopthererighttherenowwwwwww!”

  Her thighs grow stiff and then shake as the orgasm overcomes her. She digs her fingers into my short hair and pulls, as if trying to fight the tide of pleasure that is rising up and swallowing her down.

  I pierce her with my tongue again and again, forcing her over that cliff into the abyss of ecstasy one more time. She screams, her pussy clamping down as she orgasms again.

  My cock is in so much pain, it might break off if I don’t get inside of her. I stand, pick her up into my arms and drop her on the bed. I tear at my clothes, blinded by desperate need.

  “I’m taking you now, Kotyonok, I’m claiming you as mine,” I growl, leveraging my large body over her much smaller one.

  She blinks passion-glazed eyes. “Finally,” she says and curls her arms around my neck. She drags me down to take my mouth with hers, uncaring that her taste is smeared over my lips. She licks herself away, sucking on my tongue as if it was an extension of my cock.

  I reach between us and place my cockhead at her soft, wet entrance. She’s tight—her tissues swollen from her orgasms. I dip my head in and nearly come off the bed when the sensitive nerves of the head slide between her cunt lips.

  “Fuck, Kotyonok. This is so good. So good.” I pant heavily, waiting for her body to accommodate mine.

  Her wide, trusting eyes pin themselves to my face. I wipe a sweaty hand down her cheek as reassuringly as I can. “You can take me. Your body will make way for mine.”

  The wide violet eyes are full of trust and it only makes me harder.

  “Yes, Victor, I believe in you.”

  I lose control then. There’s no man on earth that would be able to hold himself back in this moment. I plunge forward, driving my shaft into her virgin pussy. She throws her head back and screams.

  Her pussy convulses around me. I stroke her with hard, deep thrusts.

  “This pussy is mine, Kotyonok,” I whisper harshly in her ear. “No one is allowed to touch it again, not even you, without my permission. No cock is near you. No seed in your body but mine. From this day forward, I own you.”

  “And you, Victor?” she asks. Her violet eyes glow.

  “And my body, my fists, my gun, my cock, my heart, my everything is at your small feet. You may step on me.” I hammer into her. “You may kick me.” I fuck her harder. “You may destroy me because I am yours to do what you will.”

  I plunge in once more, bottoming out inside her tight, hot channel. My
seed spills into her unprotected body. She comes with me. Her body is like a leaf in a hurricane. I curve around her, filling her from the inside and sheltering her on the outside. No one will ever touch my kotyonok again, for I would die to receive one more of her sweet kisses.

  Epilogue

  Violet

  My back arches off the bed as Victor brings me to my third orgasm. “I can’t take anymore,” I whisper as my body comes back down from its peak. My whole body tingles and there isn’t a part of me that’s not sensitive.

  “You taste different.”

  I look down at Victor, who is studying my sex. He gives another long lick. My whole body jerks.

  “Stop.” I pull at his short hair. Not that I can move the man unless he wants to be moved.

  He looks up at me. “Something is different.”

  I look around the beautiful hut we are staying at for our honeymoon trying to hide my secret. I had plans but Victor is going to ruin them. Last night I put together that I was pregnant and I tried to come up with a way to tell him. I thought I could tell him in Russian but it was really hard trying to figure out how to do that. Have you seen their alphabet? Google wasn't helping, nor was the service in this hut. I basically don’t have internet or cellular access. If I didn't know any better I’d say Victor was jamming it or something.

  “Are you blocking my phone from working?” I try and sit up but don’t get very far. Victor crawls up my body pushing me back down onto the soft bed as he thrusts into me. I moan, forgetting my own question as I get lost in my husband. God, I love calling him that.

  I had no idea that this was what married life was going to be like. He brings me to orgasm again before releasing deep inside of me. He rolls like he always does so he doesn't crush me under his big body. I sprawl out on top of him. I let my eyes flutter closed. I’m not sure if I drift off to sleep or not as his hands move up and down my bare back. I can’t tell you how long we’ve been on our honeymoon. We haven't left our hut except to swim. Usually all of our meals are brought to us. We are spending as much alone time together as we can. If it was up to Victor he would keep me in bed all day.