“If you’re asking for another sleepover at your rental, I’m all in, sweetheart. I just need you to be sure,” I panted, my heart racing too fast for any air to get into my lungs.
“I…” She swallowed, gasping for air like I was. “I want to go home with you. I want to be in your bed and drown in you, tonight.”
I wasn’t going to last five minutes when she was in my bed, but I had all night.Wehad all night. Later, I’d figure out how we’d make all night forever. Here and now was all that mattered.
I brought my mouth back to hers but kissed her slowly this time, savoring the sweet taste of her soft lips and the warmth of her body against mine.
“I’m officially seduced,” I murmured against her lips, smiling at her giggle. “Get in, and let’s go.”
28
Thea
“For a small town,there are a lot of traffic lights,” I murmured against Dominic’s lips after we came to a stop.
“I never realized it, either.” His hand inched higher up the inside of my thigh at every red light. His husky chuckle vibrated against my neck as his lips grazed the sensitive skin behind my ear. “All I want is to get you home, but I’m enjoying the hell out of the ride.”
He cupped my chin and took my mouth in a raw, frenzied kiss that burned my already swollen lips.
The blare of a horn behind us broke us apart.
My head fell onto Dominic’s shoulder as it shook with his laughter.
“We’re here,” he whispered into my hair.
I lifted my head to his wide grin.
“Hopefully, no one saw us groping each other on the way here.” I scrubbed a hand down my face.
“Honey, this is a small town, gossip is rampant. In fact,” he said before he shut off the engine and leaned over the console. “I can’t wait for the first jackass to come into the pub tomorrow and ask who was in my car.” His lips drifted along my jaw before nipping down my neck.
“What will you say?” My legs fell open as his hand glided all the way up my thigh, and found the blinding ache at my core.
“I’ll say,” he began before slipping a finger into my panties and taking a slow swipe across my wet, swollen flesh. “I’ll say that I was taking my girl home with me. And it was the greatest night of my whole damn life.”
I roped my arms around his neck while our lips came back together in a bruising kiss. His head fell back against the head rest as I climbed on his lap. I’d only had the one glass of wine, but my head buzzed as all my inhibitions and reservations dissipated into the ether.
“Baby,” Dominic panted before he grabbed my face and pulled back. “I have a whole bed for us. You on top of me like this is heaven, but there’s not enough room to do everything I want to do to you.”
“I can’t wait to be in your bed.” My hands drifted up his arms and framed his face. I’d been worried about leaving myself too vulnerable and losing myself in Dominic tonight, but a visceral need overtook any coherent thought in my head. Too fast and too close weren’t dangers, they were good things now. Amazing things.
I wanted to roll around in the sheets that smelled like him, claim him as mine, if not with my words, with my body. My tongue darted across my bottom lip, still tasting his soft skin from when I dragged kisses across his chest. My hands shook not from fear, but from almost crippling anticipation.
His eyes widened as his fingers dug into my hips.
“I’m not sure if blowing in my pants is a good thing or a bad thing, but if you keep moving like that and looking at me like you want to eat me alive, I won’t have very long to think about it.” He grabbed my head and leaned his forehead against mine. “I want you in my bed too, so fucking much.” He tapped my leg and kissed the tip of my nose.
I jutted my lip out in a pretend pout and climbed out of the cab after he opened the driver’s side door. When we got to the entrance of his apartment, he pulled me in front of him, his hand dropping to the small of my back. As soon as we shut the outside door behind us, his lips were on my neck. I popped the rest of the buttons of his shirt open as we made a sloppy ascent up the stairs. Dominic’s lips stayed on mine as he hastily unlocked the door and pulled us both inside.
He threw his keys and they landed with a loud clank somewhere on the floor before he shut the door behind us. I laughed against his lips as he backed me toward his bedroom, so damn sexy with his shirt half off his arms and his hooded dark eyes full of delicious intent.
“You have too many clothes on, Gallo.” I pulled at his shirt with one hand while my other fumbled with his belt buckle.
He spun me around, and pulled me flush to his body, my back to his front.
“Do you know why I asked you to wear this dress?” He weaved his fingers into my hair and lifted it off my neck, brushing it to the side. Warm lips grazed the nape of my neck before the pull of the zipper mingled with our labored breathing.
“Told me, you mean,” I breathed out, so turned on my voice creaked.
