“Which part? Thanking you or loving that you were with me?”
“That you called Kelly Lakeshome.” He dragged his lips down my throat and across my chest. “Because that’s where I want you to stay.”
My body jerked against him, both from the glorious friction down below and the wet heat of his mouth.
I grabbed his face and crushed my mouth to his. Water sloshed around us as we rocked back and forth, both of us grabbing at each other as if we were afraid the other would disappear.
“Since I invited you in, it’s only fair that I do all the work,” I murmured against his mouth, reaching down to wrap my hand around his pulsing length and guide it inside me.
I’d gone on the pill after that first night in his bedroom, but even when I’d been on birth control in the past, I’d always made sure to use condoms too.
Jude was different. I trusted him, and I wanted absolutely nothing between us.
Sex without a condom was new for me, but sex with Jude with no barriers was mind-blowing enough to be life-altering.
“That’s it, baby…fuck,” he growled in my ear as he gripped my waist with one arm and held on to the edge of the tub with the other to give himself enough purchase to lift his hips and move with me.
The new angle brought him even deeper as we kept going, the porcelain of the tub killing my knees, but I was too far into total fucking bliss to care.
Jude sifted his fingers through my hair and pulled out the hair tie, sending my hair down in tangled waves over my wet shoulders.
“It may get messy like this,” I said, roping my arms around his neck as locks of hair fell over my eyes.
“I love you messy.” He brushed my hair off my forehead, grinding into me as he slipped his hand underwater to trace light circles around my clit. “Messy and mine.”
I denotated like a bomb, whimpering as shocks of pleasure shot down the lower half of my body. I wasn’t sure if my avalanche of an orgasm was because of how good we were together or from hearing the words “I love you” one after the other. I bet on both as I pressed my hand against the cold tile above us, afraid of falling over, thanks to my quivering legs.
“You like that, beautiful? Coming all over my cock while you ride me?”
I nodded, still gathering the brain cells to form words.
“You’re so fucking gorgeous,” he grunted out, his legs going rigid under me as we kept moving. “How did I ever get you?” He cupped my chin and turned my face until our gazes met, holding my eyes as he squeezed my breasts and captured my nipple between his teeth. “How are you even real—”
He clutched on to me with a roar as he rode out his release, still pumping inside me until he dropped his head into the crook of my neck.
We sat chest-to-chest in the half-empty tub as my heart hammered against his.
“For the record, your dirty side isdefinitelymy favorite,” I said, trailing my eyes up and down his body.
“You’remy favorite,” he said, taking my face in his hands as a slow grin split his mouth.
Words came easy for me, but not with this guy. I wanted to say so much, but I couldn’t because I felt too much.
Falling in love had rendered me speechless for the first time in my life.
I swallowed, searching his gaze with glossy eyes.
“Back at you.”
23
CLAUDIA
“I told you.Nothing to it, right?” Cece said, smiling at me as she opened a new bottle of vodka.
“Oh yeah, easy as pie.” I laughed as I swept my gaze around the bar—officially my bar as of today—noting the one cluster of older gentlemen at a table in the back.
“Between us,” she whispered after she fixed a slice of lime on the rim of a tumbler. “Larry hasn’t done or been here much over the past couple of years. It’s been me and the crew most of the time. He was always going away for the weekend or texting me that he didn’t feel like coming in and ‘we could handle it.’ He mostly came in on Saturdays, and that was it.”
