Execution (Off Balance, #2)

by Lucia Franco

Kova was a heartless, cunning man.

There was something downright magnetic about Kova that drew me to him. An allure, a fascination.

"I can't stand the sight of you."

"I hate you and want you at the same time." The

"This is what you do to me." He licked me again. I had no control over my body when he was like this. "Every time I am near you, every time I think about you, I feel this way, malysh. You have awakened a beast inside me."

"Every fucking time. Never in my life has this happened to me. It drives me crazy that I cannot get enough of you."

"Lyubov' ne to, chto vy mozhete ponyat', eto to, chto vy chuvstvuyete v svoyem serdtse. Net slov, eto prosto tak."

"I am right where I want to be," he murmured.

"My guilt does not compare to my need for you, Ria."

mouth again. We could be so good together, and so bad.

head. "I want to get on my knees and devour you right now like this." He kissed the fuck out of my mouth like I imagined he wanted to do between my thighs.

"Another time, another life… You look absolutely breathtaking tonight, malysh."

Sometimes the moments in life that caused the most damage to the heart put us on the path of reward and gratification.

"What's your weakness?" "You," he said without hesitation.

Kova was my strength, but I was his weakness. A weakness he worked on to improve and make resilient. A strength that I drew from.

"Say it," he pushed on in a whisper. I didn't need to, he could read the answer in my eyes. "I want to hear you say the words, Ria. I need to hear them."

"You." My voice cracked. "You are my strength, Kova."

"What inspires you?" "You," I said softly.

"We are a team—I exhale, you inhale. We fight together. We work together. It is an amazing feeling when you find someone who shares the same passion as you. The possibilities are endless. I am the beast beneath your beauty, pushing you. From here on out, we do it together. You come to me for anything and I will do everything in my power to make it happen."

We had it all yet didn't have anything.

He eyed me. "There have been a lot of things we shouldn't have done, Ria."

We had a way about each other that was so utterly confusing. In this moment it wasn't black and white, right or wrong. There were no colors, no ages, no blurred lines. I wasn't that girl, and he wasn't that guy. We were just two people who shared the same ambitions and a connection that couldn’t be explained, only felt.

am serious, Adrianna. I do not play games like that. Hurt what is mine and there will be consequences."

Clearing his throat, his voice cracked as he said, "Some things are better left unsaid."

"I always know when you are around. I can smell you."

"It is okay…your body tells me what you want, and I plan to give it to you," he said, and tugged my lobe into his mouth.

"Believe me, malysh, I notice everything about you." Kova chuckled.

"I am getting back inside your pussy, malysh. It has been too long." Well. Shit.

"I can feel your wetness, your pussy pulsating… I cannot wait to be deep inside you, to blow all over you."

"I know what it is you want," he whispered as he slowly thrusted in and out of me. I was so damn tight, I could feel every inch of him, every groove, every vein. A hot breath escaped me. "I always know, Ria. Let me give you what you need. I just need you to trust me."

"Trusting you terrifies me. You broke that trust once."

His eyes flared. "I would sure hope not, Adrianna. You better have not had anyone else's cock but mine."

"You might be the tightest pussy I will ever have, but we both know you are not the only pussy I will ever have, not tonight at least," he growled and thrusted so deep I was certain he hit the back of my cervix.

"Not everything is what it seems, Ria. Just because I am with Katja, do not presume you know what goes on behind closed doors, even if I insinuate there is more. Everyone's life is nothing but a façade. We all lie."

I was the beauty and he was the beast.

"Feel that between us? That chemistry, that fire. The harmony of two people who are so wrong for each other but somehow come together, throwing everything off balance to the point that nothing makes sense but it feels right. That is us. That is trust. You do not let someone into your body you do not trust.

Kova turned my face toward his and our eyes locked. He grasped my neck again, this time a little harder. "I wish you could see yourself through my eyes, only then would you realize how much you mean to me."

We were beyond lust, beyond infatuation. This was way more, a crazed obsession with deeply seated emotions we didn't want to acknowledge because everything in society told us it was wrong.

"That is it, malysh, fuck me."

"My girl likes that? When I tell her to fuck me?" I nodded.

"There is no better way to wake up than with you in my arms. I wish I could wake up like this every day." His voice was rough from sleep.

The only thing I give a fuck about right now is your tight pussy and how I am going to fuck you senseless."

"Only you…"

"I know what my girl likes. I always know what she likes, even when she cannot admit it to me."

I wanted to feel him shoot his load inside me, feel it seep out, feel him throb, and watch his face as he experienced sheer bliss with me.

"Fuck… I feel it. I am so deep. Holy shit, I cannot stop."

"I…cannot…stop… You are mine and only mine."

"Only you, Ria," he groaned, "only you. I cannot live without you or this feeling you bring me. I want to be in you every day, all day, for the rest of my life. I want to wake up next to you, make you only mine, and do this every fucking day. This is heaven. You are my everything."

"Is this normal?" My voice cracked. "What?" he asked, not moving. My heart was racing, I could feel his heart beating against my chest. "When two people connect so deeply when they have sex, is this normal? I feel like I'm on another dimension when I'm with you." Kova looked at me. "No, it is not. It is not normal at all," he said with such genuine sincerity I knew he wasn’t lying.

"Have you ever felt like that with anyone else?" I swallowed, not sure I should've asked that. He used his finger to trace over my lips. "No, never. Only you."