“I’m going to give you what you need, but you can’t come until I do. Got it?”
All I could do was nod.
The pace he set was relentless. The couch moved, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it broke from under our combined weight.
I needed to be closer to Tanner, so I pulled him until his chest was flush with mine. His hand was trapped between us, giving me slow, purposeful strokes as if he knew any more would set me off.
With my legs wrapped around him and my hands free, I cradled the back of his neck and kissed him. I swallowed every moan. A single gasp later, I felt him coming inside me. Marking me in the same way he’d been doing for days.
He didn’t need to tell me to let go because my body did it for me. My release flooded the space between us, lubricating his strokes until I stopped shaking.
“That was…” He shook his head, leaning his forehead against mine. “I’ve never had sex like this.”
“Same.”
He raised his head. “Really?”
“Does that surprise you?”
“A little.”
I kissed him again. “I’ve been busy for the best part of the last twelve years. Sex like this doesn’t just happen with a hookup or a relationship you’re only half-heartedly into.”
He hid his face in the crook of my neck and just nodded.
The alarm I set for my phone went off.
“What’s that?” he mumbled.
“My cue to get clean and get out. I’m meeting Noah downstairs, and I shouldn’t do it smelling like sex.”
“But it’s such a good smell.”
I sighed. “You’re going to be the death of me, Tanner Beckett.”
“I’ll die on the spot and will follow you into hell.”
“Hell? What have I done?”
“You’ve been the best. But it’s warm in hell, and those things you can do with your tongue? Look up the definition of sinful one day, and you’ll find just two words: Jax’s tongue.”
We grabbed a shower together. Something else we’d started doing after sex.
In fact, in all our time spent together, there were only two subjects we hadn’t touched on.
The first was Vegas. It was as if it hadn’t happened.
The other was us, and I knew it was my fault. My schedule at the hospital was hectic, and I spent every free moment with Tanner.
I’d started slipping into his bed after a night shift, waking him up with a blowjob before having breakfast with him and then dragging my tired ass to my apartment to sleep before doing it all over again the next day.
An early start to my day meant I could catch Tanner before the bar was busy. My favorite hobby was trying to see how loud he could scream when he came and then watching as he went down to the bar and had to face his team.
It was no secret what we were doing, especially when he told me that the door to his office had never spent so much time closed. I wasn’t a blushing kind of guy, but knowing Tanner’s team knew exactly what we were doing behind that door andwhenwe were doing it made me feel a little overexposed.
After the shower, I left Tanner’s apartment through the outside door and went around to walk into the bar through the main door.
I saw Noah at the bar. He already had two beers in front of him.
