PERIPHERY | NH |

THIRTY ONE

Niall

"You what?"

All of a sudden my ears are ringing and I can't understand a single word that Hunter says.

But if I did hear her correctly, it sounded like she said she loves me.

The woman who captivated me with her brilliant mind and shy personality loves me.

Me.

Someone who looks past my life and what it entails and didn't fall for me based off of my job — instead she fell for everything about me that doesn't make me Niall Horan.

"I love you, Niall." Her hazel eyes are more green in this light, the sun rising making her deep auburn hair glow as she sits in my lap with one of my dress shirts hastily buttoned. "I think I've known for a long time."

Without saying anything, I reach my hand up and let her soft hair run through my fingers as I pull her down to me. Hunter's lips always feel so good against my own.

I feel her hands rest against my chest as my own slips underneath the shirt and finds her hip before sliding ever further back to grip the skin of her ass. "No underwear?"

Hunter shakes her head as I let out a low moan, nipping her bottom lip. "I can go find some if you want."

"I absolutely do not want you to do that." My lips leave hers and travel down the front of her throat while she undoes the buttons and lets the shirt fall open. "Want you. Right here, right now."

Leaning forward I flick my tongue over her nipple, enjoying the way I can feel her body react to the simple touch, her body moving against mine. "Niall."

"Fuck, keep doing that." Hunter rolls her hips, grinding against my cock that started straining against my shorts as soon as I saw her toned legs step out onto the balcony. "I love you, so fucking much."

Kissing my way across her chest, I make sure to pay her other nipple the same attention as her hips seem to pick up speed as her head tips backwards. "This feels so good."

"You like grinding on my cock, bookworm?" Pulling away from her, I smirk when I see a frown on her face from the loss of my lips against her skin. Raising my finger and tracing a line from her collarbone all the way down to where she needs me the most, I watch the goosebumps that break out across her skin. "Tell me what you want."

"You." Her breath hitches as my thumb finds her clit, making reading circles around the sensitive nerve. "God, Niall. All I need is you. Love me.. Please."

Her hands free me from my shorts at the same time that I lift her by her hips — placing myself at her entrance before letting her grip back onto my shoulders, lowering herself onto me so slowly I swear I'm going to die.

Inch by inch, I'm pulled into her like she's the only one made for me. "I do, baby. Fuck, if only you knew how much I loved you."

Fully seated inside of her, my eyes drop to where we are connected and pull my bottom lip between my teeth as Hunter keeps her hands on my shoulders. It gives her the perfect stable place to brace herself as she lifts her body up only to come back down, filling herself with me.

"Give it to me, Niall. Please." Her eyes have a lust filled haze that makes me grip her hips before thrusting my hips up, burying myself deep inside of her. "Ah! Fuck, fuck."

I start a rhythm with her as I watch tendrils of her auburn hair fall over her shoulders as her jaw drops, her lips forming a perfect circle in response to the pleasure I was giving her.