“What building?” I hadn’t paid attention to the screen since Nate started feeding me.
“I see,” he said, amused, and I joined him in a grin. We watched for a few minutes longer before he began to kiss me, pressing his lips along my jawline, then moving slowly to my ear. My breath grew short, and the screen blurred in front of me as I struggled to concentrate. Why was I fighting this? It didn’t seem as important now as when we first met. Nate had shown he wasn’t merely interested in a one-night stand.
“Do you mind if I kiss you?”
“I thought you were.”
“Really kiss you.”
My smile answered for me, and he pressed his hand against my cheek and put his lips on mine. I sighed into his mouth, and our tongues met.
“Delicious.” He set the tub of popcorn down on the floor and pulled me closer. I shifted to make it easier to hold him around the neck, and our kisses grew deeper, richer. Hungry and hard.
“Do you know how much I want you?” Nate murmured, his voice tight.
“I think I can guess.”
In high school and college, my dates and I would go to the movies and fool around. There weren’t many safe places we could have sex, and I’d learned to be quiet both giving and receiving blowjobs and hand jobs in the back rows of movie theaters. To this day, I have only a hazy recollection of any of theFast and Furiousmovies, but I always got a hard-on when the music played.
Nate gripped me hard, his fingers twisting around the ends of my hair to hold me steady while he plundered my mouth with his slick tongue. I moaned, the sound lost in the crashing noise of something blowing up on-screen.
“Nate, what the hell.” But I didn’t stop him. I was past caring if anyone heard me. All my good intentions to restrain myself faded. “You’re not playing fair.”
Hard eyes pinned mine. “I’m not playing at all. I want you. I’ve made no secret about that. You turn me on like no one has in years. I think about you in my bed, naked and open for me. I think about kissing every inch of your body. I’m crazy for you.”
With each word, he broke down my defenses. My heart pounded, and a roaring filled my ears.
His lips brushed mine, coming to rest at the corner of my gasping mouth. Those strong yet gentle fingers played along the cords of my neck, and I shivered with unrestrained need. Not even with Jared had I felt so desired.
“I want to watch my fingers tease along your skin and feel you quiver. I want to hear you lose your breath, and bring you to the edge until you’re ready to explode.” His kisses grew insistent. “I want to make you scream my name.”
“Please, Nate.”
“Tell me. You know I’ll give you whatever you want because it’s what I want too. Your pleasure is mine.” His mouth moved against mine, the words imprinting themselves on my skin, tangling with my breath. “And God knows I want to give you pleasure. Come home with me. Stay with me tonight. All night.”
From our first meeting, I’d known Nate would be the one to force me to make a choice. Take a risk, or hold on to the memories in my heart. Frisco would tell me that life was a series of risks we hadn’t yet taken, but I’d already taken one risk to my heart, and it almost destroyed me.
“Okay,” I whispered. “I don’t want to wait any longer either.”
I had no desire to continue sitting in the theater until the end of the movie, and from Nate’s fidgeting, neither did he.
“Let’s get out of here,” I said. “You’re making me crazy.”
“Hold that thought.” Nate’s wicked smile left me captivated. “I’ll call a car.”
God, I hoped I wasn’t making a mistake.
Half an hour later, Nate pulled me into his brownstone and pushed me against the wall.
“Again.” I laughed breathlessly. “As soon as I walk inside, you attack me.”
“I can’t help it.” Nate’s fingers brushed against my denim-covered crotch and felt the solid outline of my cock. “You drive me wild. I told you I wanted you from the first time I saw you.”
I twisted out from underneath his kisses. “Please don’t screw me over. Don’t fuck me and disappear.”
“Is that what you’re afraid of?” Nate’s gentle tone surprised me, and I nodded, miserable that I came off as needy and weak to this powerful man. “I have a feeling the opposite is true. One time with you won’t be enough. You’re going to be impossible to forget.”
Chapter Fourteen
