To start from the beginning, read "The Garden of Sin".
Jack rubbed both of his eyes with the palms of his hands before dropping them to the steering wheel. It felt like he hadn't slept in weeks.
He had been driving for the better part of three days following yet another lead, and for the hundredth time he silently prayed that this one would end in him finding her.
Them, he reminded himself. Finding them. He now had a son or a daughter. It had been almost a year since she had left him.
Running a hand through his light brown hair, he closed his eyes as the familiar ache tore through his frame. He couldn't go on like this much longer. If he didn't find her soon he didn't know what he was going to do.
His mind drifted to the obvious solution. It seemed like his thoughts strayed there more and more often of late. He could just end it. A bottle of sleeping pills would put him out of his misery quickly. He could just go to sleep, and never wake up. There would be no more pain if he went to sleep forever.
He regretted every horrible thing he had ever done. Every horrific thing he had ever said. The absence of liquor for the past year had brought every memory back to him with extreme clarity, and the shame that filled him practically consumed him.
He couldn't blame the liquor alone. He knew that a good majority of what he had done had stemmed from a place of fear and self loathing. He had been so terrified of losing her. So sure that one day something would take her from him, that his actions had been irrational, and in many cases brutal.
She was completely right. He had been a monster. All he wanted to do was make it up to her. Hold her in his arms again, and tell her how sorry he was. Tell her how much he loved her while promising to never hurt her again. He needed her forgiveness. He needed her love. He needed her.
Getting out of the car, Jack closed the door then leaned his weight against it. His forehead dropped to his arms as he placed them on top of the car. His voice was broken and strangled as his breath hitched in his chest. "Please, God. Please let her be here. Fucking help me."
Wiping the moisture away from his eyes, Jack turned around, and made his way across the street. He took the steps that led up to the small house two at a time, and once he stood before the front door he took a deep breath.
The nervousness he felt made him tremble, but he quickly strengthened his resolve before lifting his hand to knock upon the thick wood of the door. His eyes lowered fearfully as he waited for someone to answer.
It felt like an aeon had passed before the door finally creaked open. When the small woman that answered it stood staring at him curiously, he swallowed deeply before parting his lips to speak.
"Hello, I'm sorry to bother you. My name is Jack Avery, and I am looking for my wife."
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"You're mine now." Slipping his fingers through her golden hair to cradle her head, Jack's smile was radiant. It lit up his light, blue eyes as he leaned down to lightly touch his mouth to hers.
Tina let out a soft moan as her fingers trailed down the skin of his back. When her fingers reached the sheet that covered his naked waist, they slipped beneath it to roam over his firm backside that was cradled between her thighs.
"Why did you stop?" she panted beneath him.
Jack grinned unrepentantly. "I'm still amazed that you're finally here. Every single time that I've ever touched you, I had to wonder in the back of my mind if it was going to be the last time."
Tina's green eyes swelled with love before he lowered his mouth to hers once more. Gripping her tightly, he surged between her thighs as a soft exclamation of breath made his lips grow slack against hers.
"Tell me," he whispered softly as he began moving. His eyes had drifted shut, and his brows furrowed at the exquisite feel of her wrapped around him.
Tina didn't hesitate as her fingers dug into him. "I love you, Jack."
She gasped as he slammed forward in reaction to her words before continuing a steady pace. It incited her to continue. "Only you. No one else. I need you," she breathed as she gazed into his pleasure filled face.
A whimper escaped his throat before he let out a long drawn out moan. Taking her mouth with his own, he pressed her lips wide so that he could plunder her depths with his tongue, and taste her more fully. His hands fell away from her face to press down into the mattress, and he began propelling his weight harder between her legs.
The intensity of it became too much for Tina, and she pulled away from the onslaught of his lips to turn her head as a cry escaped her.
Jack's mouth quickly latched onto the soft skin below her ear, and he began to suck at it viciously as his speed increased.
"Oh God! Jack! Please!" Her fingers dug into his back as she held onto him while she arched away from the bed, and her eyes rolled into the back of her head.
When his teeth sunk into her cruelly, Tina let out another cry as the pain of it shot through her limbs right down to the center of her. The action was purely animalistic, and Tina's body clutched around him in reaction.
Her thighs clamped around his hips while her arms pulled him to her tighter. She was completely latched onto him as a primal growl escaped his throat, and he began shaking the whole bed with the power of his thrusts.
"Fuck!" Twisting his head, Jack's teeth gritted as a low growl seethed between them. His forehead dropped to her shoulder as his breath began to jerk out of him in halting bursts. His entire frame became rigid, and tense while he moved on top of her until each impact of their bodies began to elicit a powerful grunt from his throat.
Tina continued to beg mindlessly beneath him. Crying out his name, she shook, and trembled while he pounded into her with powerful strokes.
When his growl became a pleasure filled roar beside her ear, her trembling became spasms, and she lost all control as her slight frame twitched with the onset of an all consuming orgasm.
It hit her so hard that it almost hurt as he continued to rocket inside of her. She couldn't contain the intensity of what her body was experiencing, and after the first initial wave a sob escaped her.
Another followed, and soon tears were streaming down her face as her head moved mindlessly from side to side. When he finally lifted his fingers to grip onto the headboard savagely so that he could use it as a lever to slam into her with all of his strength, Tina was inconsolable.
A shudder escaped Jack, and then he began to spurt inside of her in hot jettisons that seemed to go on forever. When he had no more to give, he released the headboard, and slumped on top of her as she continued to shake beneath him.
Slipping to the side, Jack pulled her against him, and lifted his fingers to grasp the back of her head as he kissed her forehead with his tight lips. His breath escaped him slowly as he closed his eyes.
"Don't cry, baby," he said softly.
Looking down into her face, he brushed the thumb of his other hand along her cheek to wipe away the moisture. "Did I hurt you?"
Tina's head shook quickly, but she found it was difficult to speak as her ribcage lifted and shuddered.
"I love you so much," he gasped reverently. "You're my everything."
Her hand curled where it rested against his broad chest, and Tina closed her eyes as more tears escaped her.
"I'm going to take care of you forever," he whispered.
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