“And there are several other things you could do with that cock than tease me,” she quipped back.
I knew it would be good between us, but I’d underestimated how much her filthy mouth would turn me on. It only took me a few seconds to get naked.
“Do I need to use a condom, Lo?” My cock jutted out, aching to engage.
Her eyes widened slightly as her gaze dropped down to my hips. “I’ve got an IUD, so not unless there’s something going on with you.”
“Clean as a whistle,” I said, enjoying the hint of apprehension in her eyes. She’d teased me long enough. Now she was going to have to deal with the repercussions.
“Be gentle, will you?” She laid her head back on the pillow and grabbed onto my shoulders with both hands. “I need to survive our first time if you want to be able to do this again.”
There was nothing gentle about what I wanted to do to her. “Be a good girl and spread your legs, or I’m going to die right now and we won’t get a first time, much less a second.”
Her thighs parted. Thank fuck. I notched the tip of my cock at her entrance, barely able to hold back. Then I eased inside her, one agonizing centimeter at a time. The walls of her pussy fit me like a fucking glove. We were made for each other in every way.
“Damn, Viper. Why the hell does this feel so good?” She angled her hips to take me deeper.
“Because we belong together. You’re my other half, Lo. I let you walk away once, but now you’re mine and I’m never going to let you go.” I held her gaze as I pulled almost all the way out. “If that’s not what you want, you need to tell me now.”
“That's all I want. You and me together. I came back for you.” Her chest rose and fell, dragging my attention away from her face.
I pushed back inside, going deeper than before, as I lowered down to suck one of her tight nipples into my mouth. She gasped and arched into me, taking all of me inside her.
As much as I wanted to savor each second, I couldn’t hold back. I slipped my hand between us, fingering her clit until she clenched around me. Then I let myself go. No matter what happened from that moment forward, we belonged to each other.
CHAPTER 7
MARLOWE
I didn’t expectViper to gently wipe me clean with a warm washcloth afterward. I also didn’t expect him to crawl back into bed, pull me tight into his chest, and spoon around me. The aftershocks of multiple orgasms still pulsed through my system. I’d been worried having sex might ruin our friendship, but it had only brought us closer.
“What are you thinking?” I stroked my fingers over his sinewy forearm as I relaxed into his embrace.
His whiskers scraped my shoulder, and his warm breath tickled my ear. “I’m thinking we should have done that back in high school. If we had, I never would have let you leave without me.”
“You think if we’d had sex back then, you would have followed me to Chicago?” I asked.
“Either that or I would have tied you up somewhere so you couldn’t go.”
“You know, I’m not against getting tied up.” I pushed my bare ass back against his cock. He was half-hard again already.
“Don’t tease me, Lo. You don’t know what picturing you with your hands tied together over your head might do to me.” Warmheat spread along my ear as he sucked the lobe into his hot, wet mouth.
I wasn’t so naïve to think that a relationship could be built on great sex, but with Viper it was the cherry on top. Despite the tough exterior and rough image he’d grown into, he was still a squishy marshmallow underneath. He was exactly what I needed in a man. I was only sorry it took me so long to admit that to myself and come crawling back.
“What happens now?” I turned around to face him. I didn’t need promises of a big white wedding or want him to say anything he didn’t mean, but I couldn’t get that damn pact out of my mind. We hadn’t talked about it yet, and I wasn’t sure he even remembered.
He pressed a soft kiss to the tip of my nose. “What do you want to happen next?”
“You can’t turn my question back on me.” Typical Viper. I wasn’t going to let him get away with it this time. “Seriously, does this change things? Are you still going to be my best friend?”
His dark eyebrows knit together. “It changes everything. I love you, Marlowe. I want us to have a future together, to be there for each other until the day we both die.”
Knowing his feelings for me ran as deep as what I felt in my heart for him, I relaxed. “I want that too.”
“Good. Now get some sleep. We’re going to draw a lot of attention at Friendsgiving tomorrow. You’re going to need your strength to deal with all the questions.” Viper smoothed my hair away from my face and gave me a sweet goodnight kiss.
We didn’t even make it back to the kitchen for my birthday dinner, but I didn’t care. With the future falling into place more perfectly than I ever could have imagined, I closed my eyes and hoped I’d dream about Viper.
