Execution (Off Balance, #2)

by Lucia Franco

"Say please." My eyes shot up, and I saw red. "Fuck you."

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

Love is not what you can understand, it's what you feel in your heart. No words, it's just that

"Pozhaluysta…"

Please!

"Krasavitsa,"

Gorgeous

statnyy."

Handsome

Kova was my strength, but I was his weakness.

"You know, I would not let anyone else talk to me like that." I blushed, trying not to smile. "But you let me." He shook his head. "And I have no idea why,"

"Of course I care about you." He bristled. "You said mine, though. You said, 'hurt what is mine.' I think you care about me way more than you let on. Am I yours, Kova?" His Adam's apple bobbed, and his face contorted into a mixture of revelation and perplexity. I waited with baited breath. This was the first time Kova didn't know how to answer a question. I watched as he ran his tongue over his lips. Clearing his throat, his voice cracked as he said, "Some things are better left unsaid." I nodded solemnly.

"Why are we having sex?" "Why the fuck not," he retorted, pushing hard into me. "You want me, I want you. End of story. Now shut up."

my girl

"I wish you could see yourself through my eyes, only then would you realize how much you mean to me."

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

He looked over my shoulder and we both looked down at his fluid all over me. I'd never seen it like this before—there was so much. He lifted his hand and rubbed it into me, all over my tender breasts, down my stomach to my pussy.

Pulling me down to the couch, Kova cradled me to his body, keeping his fingers tucked into my sex. He expelled a restful breath and threw his leg over mine.

"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.

"I want to fuck until we both cannot walk. Why, why, why…only with you do I ever act like a goddamned savage."

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

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."

"You taste different," she said. I paled at the repugnance in her voice. This time I actually felt bad for her. She was licking me off him and didn’t know it.

"Bozhe moi.

Omg

"Ria, I told her you still had a way to go because the truth is I am not ready to let you go yet."

He tried to lift my chin again, and when I didn’t budge, he sighed and got down on one knee so he was eye level with me. "Jerk." A sad chuckle escaped my lips. "You always find a way to get what you want."

Krasivaya,

Beautiful

"YA takoy ublyudkare'. Proklyatyy, yesli ya proklyat, yesli ne budu."

I'm such a bastard. Damned if I am, damned if I don't.

I insisted Kova fit them in my schedule. I told him if my coach couldn't help me and make it work, I'd go to a physical therapist. He gave me that infamous glare upon my demand. I got what I wanted.

"Grebanyye yamy,"

Fucking pits

"Prosti,"

Sorry/forgive me

"Pozhalyusta prosti, menya,"

Please forgive me

"Mne ochen zhal,"

Im really sorry

He twitched inside me and I didn't have it in me to ask him to pull out.

This was Kova. He either gave all, or he gave nothing. And he was all in.

If I hadn’t known any better, I'd say he was making love to me. Heartbreaking, soul-crushing lovemaking.

Leaning down, he gently kissed my forehead, then pressed his lips to mine. My hand cupped the back of his head as he kissed me like he was saying goodbye forever, a thought that terrified me.

"By the way, I would find you anywhere." I tilted my head to the side in confusion. "You said you are going to move so I cannot show up whenever I wanted. Ria, I will always find you. You have a part of me that no one has ever had, as I do with you." Then he was gone.