“And I want you to only be kissed byme.” His eyes searched my face and he belatedly snatched his hand away. “You can, um… talk now.”
I could only manage one word— “Brian” —and it sounded like a warning, but whatever he saw in my expression must’ve told the tale because Brian took a deep, shivery breath and his shoulders visibly relaxed.
He bit his lip and continued, his voice all thready and breathless, “A-and if you are gonna fuck anyone… hard andthoroughly, then it should be—”
“Brian,” I cautioned. “Be careful. Be very, very sure. Because I can’t do things halfway.” I shook my head. “No friends with benefits. Not with you.”
“It should bemeyou’re fucking,” he finished with the sort of confidence I’d always believed he possessed.
I was on him in a second, both hands in his hair, and our chests pressed together. His lips were warm and firm, and when his tongue touched mine, I moaned. His arms wrapped around my waist, and his hot hands against the cooler skin of my back made me shiver.
But then whatever the hell was in his bag bumped against my leg.
“What’s that?” I demanded.
“Hmm? Oh. Um. Nothing, actually. We can talk about it later.” He threw the bag on the sofa where it landed with a rattle. “Much later. Back to the kissing.”
He surged up on his toes to fit his lips against mine and slowly slid his palms up my chest. It was… honestly surreal, like I’d fallen asleep on the sofa and had a crazy dream. This was a thing I’d imagined happening so often, for so long, the fact that itwashappening was truly unbelievable.
Those wereBrian’shands on me, that was the sweet taste ofBrian’s lips on my tongue, that wasBrian’shard cock pushing against my leg as he trapped me against the wall by the door.
Fuck.
“Baby,” I said, trying that on for size and finding that it fitreallyfucking well. So well, Brian gave a little shudder and my hands clenched in the fabric of his shirt hard enough to tear it. “Slow down. Just a little. Or else this will be over way too fast.”
“Yeah,” he said dazedly. “Yeah, okay.” But he didn’t move away, he just moved his mouth to the side of my neck and licked the tendon there, and…
You know what? Fuckslow. The fire between us had been burning fordecades,and I couldn’t stand to think of all the people we’d been wasting time with when we could have been together.
I pushed Brian back a pace, bent down, and yanked him over my shoulder in a fireman’s hold.
“Hey!” Brian protested a little breathlessly. “You can’t just carry a person around like a sack of potatoes!”
“Can’t I?” I rubbed a hand over his shorts and smacked his ass lightly, making him squirm as I carried him toward my bedroom.
“Well, youshouldn’t! Payback will be swift!” Brian yanked at my towel, which had already stood up to way more motion than I’d thought it could. It fell to the floor, leaving me bare-assed naked.
“Isthatthe punishment?” I laughed, tightening my hold on his legs as I strode down the hall. “Wow. You sure showedme.”
“Oh, God,” he whimpered, splaying his hands over my ass. “I’m so totally punishing myself here.Walk faster.”
I laughed harder and plopped Brian down in the center of my bed, then crawled on my hands and knees after him.
“How is this happening?” Brian demanded. “How is this real life, withmein your bed andyoulooking at me like that?”
“I don’t know,” I whispered, since I’d been thinking the same thing and it felt right that we were on the same page in this too. “It’s like a dream coming true.”
“I like it,” he whispered back, reaching up to brush hair off my forehead.
“Yeah?”
“You’ve always been my Dare, but now you’ll bemyDare,” he said softly, with such pure happiness in his voice that I couldn’t doubt the truth of it, and really, Ihadto kiss him. No choice.
I braced myself on one elbow as we kissed and slid a hand up his side, over his smooth skin, tracing the dips in his rib cage. He trembled and grabbed onto my hair like it was anchoring him to reality. I nearly pulled back to make sure he was okay, but he moaned against my mouth and rolled me over onto my back.
Well, damn.
Brian knew exactly what he wanted, and fuck if I didn’t love that.
