Eve shook her head and brought her lips within reach of his. “He’s not worth your time.”
He kissed her soft and slow. Once. Twice. Three times. “He wasn’t worth your time either.”
She shrugged and dropped her gaze. “Live and learn.” She aimed for nonchalant, but Adam had an uncanny ability to see past her defense mechanisms.
“I’m sorry he hurt you.” He stroked his fingers down her cheek.
“Me too.”
His thumb grazed her bottom lip, and finger under her chin, he raised her head and waited for her to find the courage to look him in the eye. “You know I won’t let anyone hurt you ever again, right?”
“I know.”
“You understand this…” He lifted her with a slight tilt of his hips and every nerve ending she possessed came alive. “Changes things.”
“It’s just sex,” she said, fighting the urge to look away.
“Not for me. But you already knew that when you started this.”
She could deny it. Make a joke. Brush him off. Wouldn’t do her much good. Hesawher.Stripped down. Raw and real. From her tears to her anger, she’d run him through the gauntlet, and still, he accepted her. Protected her. Made her feel precious.
Yes, she knew sex with Adam changed things. Protective instincts already triggered, intimacy added to his sense of duty. To his mind, this made her an even bigger responsibility. An added burden.
The last thing she wanted to be to this man was another check box on his list.
Didn’t matter. Dawn would come, and they would go their separate ways. She had dragons to slay, kingdoms to topple, and maidens to save. He had a real life with a real family he needed to get back to.
Until then, she had her knight in shining armor.
“Adam?”
“Yeah?”
“If you don’t mind, I’d really like you to fuck me now.”
With Eve cagedin his arms, Adam reversed their positions on the bed, and careful to keep his weight off her bandaged area, he set her back on the mattress and used his thighs to spread hers wide. Still buried to the nuts, he felt her pussy pulsing around him.
Long hair fanned out on the white sheet. Pink lips plump and parted. Silky smooth skin covering curves a man could get lost in for hours. She was beautiful. And his.
He pressed his lips to the beauty mark tucked beneath her left brow. The spot had been a desperate desire since he discovered it, and now that he had a full access pass, there wasn’t any part of her he intended to leave unexplored.
Moving to the other side, he kissed her closed lid before tasting her skin with the tip of his tongue. She moaned as he teased his way to her ear. When he reached his destination, he sucked her lobe between his teeth.
Her breath hitched, and she writhed beneath him, rocking her pelvis against his.
Fuck, she was hot, wet, and so damn ready it wouldn’t take much to make her come. Hell, if he wasn’t careful, it wouldn’t take much to make him come either. He withdrew an inch at a time, pausing when the head of his cock was about to slip free. “This what you want from me?”
“Yes,” she said, her voice a breathy exhale as she arched her spine, inviting him back into her body.
He took his time filling her, committing the moment to memory. She might not be ready to face the truth, and had deflected in the best way possible, but their previous conversation wasn’t done. Not yet. Not by a long shot.
“And this?” He palmed her breast and dipping his head he sucked her nipple between his lips, using his tongue to tease while he set a slow and steady pumping rhythm.
“Oh God, yes!” Her short nails bit into his skin, and he had to focus on her pleasure to keep from tumbling headfirst into his.
Eve came first. Always.
In bed and out of it.
