She cried out his name as she came again, a mess of emotion while he slammed inside her one last time and stilled.
The look of ecstasy and agony on his face was forever burned into her mind. Jack was handsome, but lost in rapture, he was absolutely gorgeous. He continued to shudder as if he hadn’t come not so long ago in her hands.
“Yes. All of it,” he rasped as he pumped a few more times, still watching her through shuttered eyes. “Ann.” Finally done, breathing hard, he leaned down and kissed her. “This. This is what I’ve been missing.”
Feeling the same scared her out of her mind. She was falling right back into the role of that weak girl who’d been heartbroken in high school. No. She refused to pay the emotional price tag attached to this romp. Hell, he’d only been back a few days. How tied could they be to each other?
I can use him and lose him. I know I can.
Yet as he stared into her eyes, she had a bad feeling she was lying to herself. She’d make some excuse to leave, then call her friends to circle the wagons. Time to regroup, to—
“Whoa. Where do you think you’re going?” Jack asked with a lazy smile, belied by the spark of determination in his eyes. She tried to move him, but he remained buried inside her. A part of her. And still semi-hard.
“I was going to clean up.”
“Now, angel, why would you want to do that?” He kissed her, so slowly, so thoroughly, she forgot all about making her escape and pulled him closer. “That’s it. Stay with me. Right here, with me.”
Chapter Six
“You’ve lost your friggin’ mind.” As always, Maya didn’t pull her punches.
Next to her on her couch, Riley sighed. “Give the girl a break. It’s not every day you have marathon sex with someone like Jack Bloom.”
“Fair enough. So was he better than he was in high school?”
Ann just smiled at Maya. Such a nice way to spend a Friday evening, reminiscing about amazing sex with her friends.
Maya scowled. “Figures. They all get bigger and better looking. Then God gives them staying power andbam. How do you fight that?”
Riley raised a brow. “Oh? Does Dex have staying power?”
“I wouldn’t know.”
Her lofty tone didn’t fool Ann. “What happened with Dex anyway? You saw him?”
Riley answered for Maya with a laugh. “While you’ve been playing tonsil hockey with Jack, Maya’s been sniffing around Dex’s new studio.”
“That’s right. He’s a photojournalist.” Ann remembered the guy’s fascination with anything camera related in high school. “A pretty good one, from what Bonnie told me. She’s friends with his mother.”
“Thanks for sharing,” Maya muttered. “And I amnothot and bothered. That would be you, Riley, panting after Anson.”
Anson and Dexter had been thick as thieves growing up. Cousins who were more like brothers, even after Dex had changed high schools during his last year. The Blacks had often been seen hanging out with each other. She remembered that Jack had been good friends with Anson especially.
“I wonder if Jack has reconnected with them,” said Ann. “Wouldn’t that be funny? Us against them.”
“Against? You mean, all of us, or just Riley and me? Did you manage to disengage from the guy without losing too many body parts? Or is he hiding under Riley’s couch, attached to you in an unmentionable place?” Maya pretended to look under Ann.
Riley grimaced. “You have the worst way with words.”
“Don’t hate, Maya.” Ann sighed in remembrance. “I was due a few orgasms.”
“A few, she says.” Maya pointed at Riley. “And don’tyousay a thing.”
Riley raised her hands. “What? That despite your claim you can snap your fingers and get sex you might as well be a born-again virgin? That if anyone is due, it’s you, Ms. I-Hate-Men? Nope. Not sayin’ a thing.”
“Glad to hear it.” Maya shot Riley a dark look. “Ann, aren’t you the one who came up with the idea for girl power? To get back at the ones who need to pay?” She ran a hand through her long hair. “I’m all for it. But we—as a group—need to remain strong. I’m glad Jack rang your bell. But don’t forget he did that twelve years ago and knocked you up.”
Riley scowled. “Nice.”
