Warning: highly explicit content in this chapter. Please read with caution.

                         Ryder

Ryder woke up before Aurora, the smell of her sweet scent and soft, naked skin, pressed up against him, had spurred him to open his eyes quicker. He gazed down and found her still laying beside him, fast asleep.

She looked like an angel, lying there with her eyes closed, murmuring things in her sleep, he couldn't understand. He could tell she had been having an intense dream.

He tried to listen to what she was saying, but all he could make out was only nonsensical dribble instead.

Either way, he didn't care. He could have stayed like this all day long,  just laying beside her, watching her sleep and he would have been just fine. She was so beautiful that it sometimes hurt him just looking at her.

Not wanting to wake her from her beauty sleep, Ryder leaned forward, hugging her towards him so that his chest was resting right up against the small of her back.

It had given him easier access to cock a feely on her breasts, while his other hand glided up and down her toned midsection, revelling in every second of the elevated heat, radiating off her body onto his.

Shifting his hips into his position, Ryder pressed his growing erection, against the firm cheeks of her buttocks, wanting to fill that sweet little pussy of hers so badly.

His cock twitched and throbbed in anticipation, as his hand, eventually slipped between her inner thighs and made its way down there.

He focused on the folds of her lips first,  massaging her there in gentle, rhythmic strokes, until he couldn't take it anymore and shoved both fingers inside her, hungrily, without restraint, pumping in and out of her with fast vigorous thrusts.

Fuck she was so wet, already.

After playing with her clit, for several minutes, Ryder grew despondent in no time and stopped torturing himself.

He wanted to take her while she was sleeping from behind, but he also wanted her to be awake. It was no fun if she was fast asleep.

His hand rubbed at her breasts again, as he pushed her cup aside and focused solely on her nipple, feeling it harden within seconds of fondling them.

He had been fighting the urge to turn her around and face him, so he could put those perfect breasts in his mouth. Right now, he had been fighting a lot of things.

Bringing himself closer to her neck Ryder swept a strand of her lustrous blonde hair away from her pretty face, so he could lean in and kiss what belonged to him.

But it was as if she could sense what he was doing and woke up with a start, gasping for air, as if she were suffocating from a lack of oxygen.

She gaped at him, shock and hatred written all over her face.

"Ryder!" she choked out.

He gave her a naughty grin and cocked a brow. "Yeah, sugar?"

"W-what the hell are you doing?"

"I'm sorry," he said, his face almost emotionless when he spoke. "But I guess I just couldn't help myself."

She slapped his hand away as if she'd suddenly grown a pair."Don't touch me," she growled at him.

Ryder sat there, speechless, not expecting a reaction like that from her. It somehow turned him on even more.  He had to have her now.

Like a lion homing in on its prey, Ryder pounced on her without hesitation and pinned her to the spot, holding her down, with his body sprawled on top of hers.

The more she writhed and screamed, beneath him, only prompted him to act on his impulses quicker.

He couldn't think of anything other than wanting to be inside her right now and the feeling of his cock being buried deep in that hot flesh again.

She kept jerking her head from side to side against the pillow, her small fists beating into his chest, as she kept screaming at him to get off her.

He could see it as soon as he looked into those beautiful blue eyes of hers. She had gone mad.

Leaning her against the pillow, Ryder held her there for a few seconds, as he covered his hand over her mouth, her warm, wet tears soaking his fingers. He didn't want Sebastian to hear her.

"Be quiet," he told her. "Do you know how thin the walls are in this house? I don't want my son to hear you. What would he think?"

She jerked back once, he released his hand, which he lived to regret as soon as she opened her mouth.

"I hope he does," she spat at him, as more tears kept swelling up in her eyes. " I hate you!"

Ryder wasn't going to lie; It stung when she said that.

"You don't mean that."

"Yes, I do, " she said, her eyes brazen and filled with intense revulsion for him. " You are nothing but a monster!"

Ryder let out a defeated sigh and shook his head, wishing it didn't have to come to this. 

"Fine, have it your way then."

She tried to remove her arm from his grip, but he used the momentum to his advantage and pushed her back against the pillow, without very little effort, keeping her in an unbreakable hold.

Her chest was rising and falling, her breathing constricted, as he jumped back on top of her again.

"I really don't want to hurt you anymore," he said sincerely, out of nowhere." But I can't stop myself from wanting you. I just can't help myself."

Her pale blue eyes widened as if she seemed surprised by his declaration.

"What's wrong cat got ya tongue, darlin'?"

She shook her head, her eyes narrowing from his, avoiding his gaze on her at all costs.

It wasn't hard to see just by looking at her that she was mad at him. It was just too bad because she was going to hear him out now.

"I have fucked a lot of women in my life, Aurora," he casually stated.

She looked at him as soon he said that, her pretty little mouth hung open in shock, as if he'd caught her completely off guard.

"Some of em' I used, some I dated," he said." But the real fun for me was when I started hunting the girls. The internet was always a playground for me. I loved the thrill of it. I loved the chase. I loved to see the look on their faces when I brought them here. It was like a drug to me."

He kneaded his fingers through his hair, while Aurora lay beneath him, her eyes placed intensely on him as if she couldn't believe the words coming out of his mouth.

"Until I realised they weren't filling the empty, bottomless void in my heart," he eventually confessed with ease.  "So I would get rid of them. I got rid of every single one, like a child would do getting rid of his old, unwanted toys."

Aurora gave him a strained expression as if each word had been cutting into her soul the longer he continued.

"But with you, it's different. You are something special. You really are."

Her lips parted as soon he said that, her heart beating against his chest, as she lay there, adsorbing this all in like a sponge, dumbfounded and at a complete loss for words.

He could tell she hadn't expected to hear that, but he wanted her to know how he felt and he refused to leave out every glory detail just to keep the peace.

"Despite what you think, this is more than just sex to me."

He could almost sense her laughing inwardly when he told her that,as if she had been finding difficulty in what he was telling her.

"Yes, you are breathtakingly beautiful with  an amazing body and you drive me fuckin' crazy, but it's more than just that."

"What is it then?"

Ryder thought for a moment, taken aback by her question. If he was being honest with himself , he had been unsure of how to answer her, because he didn't know himself.

He still wasn't sure if he fully loved her yet, but he could definitely feel his feelings growing stronger for her, each day he spent with her in this house.

Now that he thought about it he'd never really loved anyone before. Not even the mother of his child.

Yes the sex, was something he always sought after when he got involved with any woman, but he'd never allowed it go further than that.

"I honestly, don't know," he said breaking the awkward silence after neither of them said to a word to each other for several minutes. "All I know is I  want you and I don't think I could imagine my life without ya in it."

Aurora lay there and just glared at him with hostility lingering in her eyes, which told him that he still had a long way to go before she could ever be able to open up to him and let him in.

He hoped this trip would change the way she felt about him and made her see him in a different light. 

Still not saying anything to him, Aurora focused on the open window and stared hard at the birds flying over the trees outside  and the sun beginning to rise from the horizon, tears of sadness filling the brim of her eyes.

This had given him an idea.

"How would you look at that for real?"