“You didn’t answer the question.”
This time his smile turns my legs to jelly, and I flatten my palms against the wall behind me before I do something stupid like wrap my arms around him and never let him go.
How is that stupider than offering him a quickie?Except I already know the answer. Mindless sex is one thing, but if I let him through the barriers I’ve built around my heart over the years, leaving him again will all but destroy me.
“I’ll take you up against the wall first, if that’s your best offer. But I haven’t come here for one quick screw. I’m going to have you every fucking way I want tonight, Jas. One night, that’s it, and then we’ll never see each other again. You understand?”
I understand all right. More than he probably guesses. Seems I’m not the only one who needs to move on.
Before I can stop myself, I reach up and tug his hair free. It falls over his face, and he looks wild, untamed, his blue eyes focused on me as though I’m all that matters in his world.
If only…
No. I don’t need to sugarcoat this with impossible dreams. I tangle my fingers in his hair and shove the regrets back into hell where they belong. “I understand.”
Chapter Three
Jasmine
His kiss is rough, meant to punish, but it’s everything I need. He pushes his tongue into my mouth, invading,taking, and I can’t get enough. I rake my fingers through his hair, trying to drag him closer, but he’s rock solid and doesn’t budge an inch.
I tear my mouth free and pant into his face. His breath is ragged and all I can hear besides the erratic hammer of my heart. Maybe he wants me to beg for it. Maybe I will.
“What’re you waiting for?” I run one hand down his chest, and the unyielding ridges of his muscles make my knees weak. I avoid touching his leather vest, try to imagine it’s not there at all, and it’s not that hard when all I can see are his beautiful blue eyes.
“That hot for me, are you?” There’s a mocking note in his voice, but I get the feeling it’s not all aimed at me.
“You’re the one who followed me here.” I glide my hand over his package, and even through his jeans, the heat of his erection burns my palm.
He swallows a groan, as though he doesn’t want me to know how much he likes my touch. “You’re unfinished business. You know how much I hate that.”
I force a smile, even though I die a little inside. “Why’d you think I opened the door? I need this as much as you.”Maybe even more.
He pulls open the buttons on the front of my dress. There’s nothing gentle about it, and one button pops right off and skids across the floor. In retaliation, I loosen his belt and yank down his zipper. His grunt is a heady mix of pain and lust.
“Mind the goods, babe.”
Warmth floods me at his use of the old endearment, even though I know it means nothing anymore. He probably calls every girl he screwsbabe.
I cup his balls through his boxer briefs, and the sensation is familiar and strange. It’s been so long since we were together, but it feels like only yesterday.
“Nice try, but I’m not kissing it better.”
He gives a snort of laughter, although it’s obvious it goes against the grain. “You agreed to my terms. And you can bet your sweet life that sassy mouth of yours is gonna be wrapped around my dick before I’ve finished with you.”
I tighten my grip on him, just so he knows that right now, I’m the one in charge. “Guess that depends on whether I want to or not.”
Before I guess his intention, he wrenches my dress over my shoulders and down my arms, dislodging my grip on him and pinning me in place. His grin is lethal. “You’ll be on your hands and knees begging for it.”
I wriggle in an attempt to free myself, but I don’t try too hard because he’s right. Tonight, I want everything he’s willing to give.
“Make me.”
It’s a challenge, and we know it. He could easily push me to my knees and take what he wants, but he won’t. That’s too easy.He never took the easy way out.Otherwise he never would’ve dated me for so long.
“You’re asking for trouble.” He closes the distance between us, his cock branding my naked stomach, and I arch my back, desperate for more. “Sure you can take it?”
“Sure you can deliver?” This is crazy. I never used to question everything he said, at least not when it came to sex. But tonight, nothing’s how it used to be.
