Falling For My Ex's Dad by Oma Green

Chapter 206: Every Glorious Inch Of Him

Clairessa's POV

My heart didn't just skip.

No it detonated.

Fireworks.

Not the kind that lit up the sky-but the kind that exploded beneath my skin, igniting every nerve ending in my body as Gabriel's arms wrapped around me.

His lips hovered inches from mine, and before I could stop myself, my eyes slipped shut.

His scent hit me-woody, musky, dark... intoxicatingly familiar. It wrapped around me like a drug, sinking into my skin, clouding every thought.

I wanted his mouth to crash into mine, his tongue plunging deep, claiming me with a kiss that left no room for doubt—as he shoved me back against his desk, rough, commanding, unapologetically possessive.

Then his hands would roam lower-greedy, aching with need-slipping into my pants like he had every right to be there.

Fingers stroking through my wetness, coaxing me open, dragging me to the edge until I was gasping his name, hips grinding into his palm, breaking apart in his

arms.

He'd tear the rest of my clothes off and sink into me with that maddening, slow thrust-deep, hard, filling every inch of me until I couldn't think, couldn't breathe.

Until I was begging, screaming his name, my body trembling, shattered, spent- and still aching for more.

God, I wanted every filthy, glorious inch of him.

Every memory. Every fantasy. All of it.

But another part of me—the part that still ached from everything he'd put me through these past weeks-was screaming not to fall for it.

I couldn't let him think he still had that kind of power over me. That he could sell me off and then pull me back like I was his to claim whenever he pleased.

"No." The word forced itself out, my breath shaking. "You can't say things like that to me. Not now."

"Yes... I can." His voice was tight, strained. "I want you, Clairessa. And I'm done holding back."

A bitter laugh almost slipped through as I yanked myself free from his hold.

He wanted me back.

Words I had waited for. Longed for.

And now, suddenly-they were here. Spoken aloud.

But all I felt was doubt.

Where was this weeks ago?

When I lay in bed just down the hall, breaking a little more each night while he acted like I didn't exist?

Leaving me wrestling through sleepless nights, clutching my pillow, trying to erase the sting of his rejection.

And now, out of nowhere, he wanted us back?

My eyes burned-not from tears, but from a week's worth of betrayal, rage, and heartbreak.

to fix us?

"Clairessa, that's not—"

up a

He stilled.

and cutting. "You don't get

together. "You think this is

out. "Everything that's happened has been on your terms. What you

opened his mouth, but I didn't let him speak. Not this time. I stepped

these past weeks have been like

lost everything. And when I needed

bleeding through every feature. For a second, I saw it. He

make it right. But I need you to know-I'm truly sorry for making you face all of that alone. I'll say it a thousand times if I have

for me,

I pulled back.

for this. Not after

voice dropped to a deadly whisper. "We're done, Gabriel. Whatever this was—it's

flash of fear, disappointment, and something

that," he said

thing that exists between us now is the contract. That's

mine, a quiet desperation leaking through. "After everything... you still want that

Gabriel. But you made your choice the moment you slid that

didn't recognize the version of me standing in

for the record," I continued, my voice hardening, "the reason Adrian showed up late to the meeting today? It's because I

brows pulled together. "What

was still a chance we'd get back together," I said, my breath tightening. "And I told him the truth That there's no future for

second chance."

looked-genuinely taken aback-and for the first time, he was the

Gabriel Storm, always in

that's

take the

head and

late. Maybe if I'd played along-kept lying like

shown up

I didn't. I told him the

trying to outrun the reality I'd

tone was quieter. "There's no

the

the blow. "Or

me-really want me-then you risk losing him. Are you finally ready

stopped pacing.

a rough breath escaped

that simple.

Not a no.

Not a yes.

man still trying to win without risking a

that told me everything I

"Still trying to

the better pawn?"

lips curling into a faint smirk. "Don't worry. Adrian

again. I'll make

as if bracing for what was

have to lie to him... screw him...