Whatever willpower he’d had in the past when it came to her was gone, so stopping was impossible.“Never,” Nate growled before diving back in.
Her thighs turned red from the burn of his beard, and he felt a primal sort of satisfaction at having marked her in even that small way.Lottie was his, had always been his, and always would be.Nate had forced himself to forget that for far too long, but no more.No more time wasted on worrying about the past or wondering about the future.In that moment, Nate vowed to do everything he could to please her and get her to trust him again.He needed her more than he needed anything else in his life, and as frightening as that had been in the past, it was making him feel powerful in that moment.Lottie’s strength and her charitable nature made him want to be a better person, and there was a power in that like none he’d ever felt before.
Surging forward, Nate drove a third finger into her center, leaking in his pants as he thought about how it would feel to have his cock inside her.Humming with satisfaction at that thought, he moved his mouth over her clit and sucked as hard as he could, feeling her legs tense before he heard the confirmation of her orgasm.Lottie moaned beautifully as her hands clung to his shoulders, her fingers nearly breaking through the fabric of his shirt.Not one to let up easily, Nate continued to eat her until she came again, finally only letting up when he felt her pushing him away.
“Too much,” she panted.Nate disagreed and felt that it wasn’t nearly enough, wanting to set up camp at the base of her pussy for at least another few hours.
Still, she was the one in charge, so he put her panties back and stood up from the ground, the smile slipping off his face as Lottie pushed him up against the wall and dropped to her knees.Nate barely had time to think as she unzipped his pants and freed his aching cock from his trunks.“What—” Lottie’s mouth engulfing his straining dick caused his mind to go blank.Her mouth on his cock felt almost as good as her silky walls had on his fingers, and Nate felt ready to explode.“Shit.It’s not going to take much.”
Humming, Lottie popped off him for a second and licked her lips.“Good.I want to taste you.”Gripping his base, she stuffed the rest of him into her mouth before sucking harder than Nate thought possible, his eyes squeezing tight as he tried to prolong the experience.
As hard as he tried, Nate was unable to keep himself from climaxing.Sparks of electricity shot up and down his spine seconds before he felt himself giving into the wave of pleasure they’d both been riding.“Oh fuck.”Nate cupped her cheek as he spilled into her mouth, his vision whiting out as he felt nothing but the best feelings imaginable running throughout his body.
When she stopped, Lottie placed a gentle kiss on the tip of his cock before tucking him back in his pants.She rose and adjusted her skirts as Nate zipped up his pants.As she plumped her curls, she smiled at him as he stared at her with open admiration.“What?”
Nate shook his head and held out his hand for her once again.“Just thinking that after that, I am definitely going to have to get you a better Christmas present.”
Lottie slapped at his chest but chuckled as they made their way back down the stairs and over to the house.“I think what you gave me just now was more than enough.”
Nate paused halfway up the porch steps and turned to her.“But I want you to have everything.”It wasn’t a platitude, but a promise.She’d given so much to everyone else and seemingly taken very little for herself.It didn’t seem right and was something he wanted to remedy if he could.
Lottie cupped his cheek and kissed his lips gently.“I don’t want everything.I only want you.”Again, what he could offer her in return seemed far too little, but if he was what she wanted, who was he to argue?
Smiling, they made their way back into the house where the party was still going strong, but not strong enough for Nate’s brothers not to shoot knowing looks his way.He shrugged it off just as he would the inevitable ribbing they gave him later that night.The time he’d just spent with Lottie would be worth it.It was worth everything.
Chapter Fourteen
Lottie
Christmas Eve had come and gone much like it always had, but instead of a phone call to Willa, Lottie had gone over to her best friend’s new place and given her and Beckett the gift she had procured for their baby.They had loved the vintage fire station toy that Lottie had scoured the Internet for and had refinished to look brand new, marveling over the woodwork of the tiny figures and the structure itself.In addition to that, Lottie had given the two of them a gift certificate to a hotel in Seattle so they could have a babymoon before their little one arrived that summer.After accepting her own gifts in return, Lottie went to the senior center to have Christmas Eve dinner.
The group of elderly friends and neighbors she’d been attending dinner with annually were just as much fun as they always had been, telling Lottie stories about their pasts while sharing bits of the present as well.Some tales she had heard before and others were brand new, but they were always entertaining and gave Lottie plenty of ideas for the book she was hoping to put together.Whether anyone would read a book of stories about the people of her hometown remained to be seen, but she was hopeful that if nothing else, the citizens she wrote about would appreciate being memorialized in that way.Most of the book still sat in various documents both on her desk and her laptop, but once she’d finished helping Nate with his project, she would have more time for her own.
The mayor had been on her mind a lot lately, especially over the last seven days.Since their time up in the loft, Lottie and Nate had spent little time together.It seemed that with the holidays approaching, every person in Applewood had some sort of emergency that they called the mayor to come solve.Arbitrating issues between townspeople wasn’t a part of his official duties, but like the other mayors before him, Nate took it upon himself to help out whenever he could.While he did that and worked on his town square proposal, Lottie busied herself helping him out in any way she could while also writing her newsletter and gathering information for her book.So far she had stories of humor, intrigue, and romance, but the more she thought about the stories she’d gathered, the more she worried about how her own would turn out.
Nate said he loved her, he obviously wanted her, but there was still that worry that he would push her away and she would have to go, leaving her alone again.Lottie sighed, her mood dipping with each passing second she stared at the cell phone in her hand.It was Christmas Day and well past lunch time, and she was overdue to make a call to her parents.A feeling of dread hung over Lottie, and she wondered why she kept up with the ruse that they were still family when they had never seemed to care about her, moving out of Applewood while she was away at college without even telling her until it had already happened.
