Ileaned my head back, letting the hot water beat down on my skull. The day had been uneventful, much like the past few weeks since I’d rescued Nicole and put a bullet through the mother fuckers who’d dared to touch her. And while uneventful days were good days because it meant everyone was safe, I was growing antsy. I needed action. I needed the Lockheart MC taken care of, and I was sure my brothers were beginning to feel the same restlessness.
But they’d gone underground, and nothing short of leaving the women and Erik unprotected would bring them out. Of that, I was sure. Andthatoption wasn’t even on the fucking table.
I tensed when the bathroom door opened. “What?” I griped. Only one of the guys would dare to just walk intomyfucking bathroom while I was showering. Our days in the military had created aseriouslack of boundaries between the four of us.
“It’s just me,” Nicole softly replied.
Fuck. What the hell was she doing in here while I was showering? And why hadn’t she knocked? “Is something wrong?” I asked, already thinking the worst. Had the Lockheart MC shown up? Was there danger?
“No!” she hurried to say. “No, nothing like that.” My eyes widened when she pushed the shower curtain back enough to step inside the tub with me. She wasnaked, every beautiful curve on display. Her fingers nervously tapped along her thighs, but she bravely met my heated gaze, even while she swallowed thickly, giving away her nerves. “I’m tired of tiptoeing around our feelings, Grit.”
I crossed my arms over my chest, uncaring that my hard cock was on proud display for her. One of my eyebrows lifted. “Tiptoeing around our feelings?” I questioned, wondering where the hell she was getting at with this.
She nodded and blew out a soft breath. “I… I eavesdropped on your conversation with Carter this morning. I heard your… confession.”
I snorted and dropped my arms to my side. “You did, huh?” I gruffly responded. Her breath hitched in her throat when I took a step toward her. “And what are you going to do about my feelings for you, sunshine?” I wasn’t nervous in the slightest. If she’d overheard and had decided to not only confess that she’d been nosy, but also bravely got in the shower with me as naked as the day she was born, that meant she wasn’t planning on running from me. She wantedsomething. I just needed to figure out what that something was.
Because the signals she was throwing out were that she wanted me to fuck her. To claim her. But I didn’t want to make the mistake of reading this entire situation wrong. Not after whatshe’d gone through because of this club. Because of her two stupid conversations with me.
Surprising the absolute fuck out of me, she reached up, curled her hands around the sides of my neck, and pulled my mouth down to hers. I groaned and immediately began to kiss her back. My tongue swiped along the seam of her lips, and she moaned, parting her lips and allowing me entrance. Growling low in my throat, I gripped her hips and lifted her with ease, pressing her back against the shower wall.
She gasped when my cock slid along her slick folds. Even I moaned at her silky heat along my shaft. And when she grinded against me, there was no doubt left in my mind what she wanted from me. And fuckyes, I was going to give her what she wanted. This woman fuckingownedme.
I blindly reached behind me to shut off the water, then carefully stepped from the shower and padded barefoot and wet to the bed, our lips never parting. She was anincrediblekisser, and I was already leaking precum, yet we’d barely even touched. Hadn’t really done more than kiss.Christ, she was driving mecrazy.
Her back met the mattress, but I didn’t even have time to check in with her before she was wrapping her legs back around my hips and pulling me down with her. I pushed myself up, already breathing heavily as I looked down at her, taking her in. Her lips were red and kiss-swollen, and her eyes were brighter than I’d ever seen them. She wasbeautiful. Took my damn breath away.
“I need you to tell me right now what you want,” I told her, my voice a mere growl. “I’m not guessing here and potentially triggering you, sunshine.”
She shook her head. “I want you. Inside me. On me. Fucking me,” she begged, andGod, I almost fucking came right then. “Iloveyou, Grit.” My heart damn near stopped in my chest. “Please. I want this. I wantyou.”
I kissed her again and fumbled to open my nightstand drawer and tug out a condom. When I made to move down her body to eat her out—becausefuck me, I was desperate to taste her cunt—she shook her head. “No. You can do that later. I’ve wanted this forweeks, Grit. Please don’t make me wait any longer.”
Goddammit. How the fuck was I meant to deny her when she was begging me while also somehow giving me demands?
Snarling, I ripped open the condom wrapper, then slid the latex over my leaking cock. When I pressed my tip to her opening, she moaned and tilted her head back in ecstasy, leaving her slender neck open and vulnerable. And as I eased inside of her, I began to suck and lick at her sensitive skin, leaving her trembling beneath me.
“You feel so fuckinggood, sunshine,” I growled as I buried my face in her neck.
She rocked her hips and turned her head, catching my lips in another hot, slow kiss. And I fell into her, drowning in her as we began to move as one.
I had no idea what the future would bring for us, but I knew one thing for certain. I loved this woman with every fiber of my goddamned soul, and I was never letting her go.
