He broke the kiss only long enough to rest his forehead against hers.“Mara...”
“Don’t hold back,” she whispered.“I want this as much as you do.”
For a heartbeat he hesitated, fighting the urge to keep running from what he wanted.Then he gave in.
He kissed her again, slower this time but no less intense, hands sliding to her hips as he guided her backward off the mat.The world outside that room didn’t exist.It was just her, him, and the quiet thud of their hearts.
When her back met the wall, she smiled up at him, breathless.“So much for keeping distance.”
“Never was my strong suit,” he said hoarsely.
Her laugh melted into another kiss.It tasted like sweat and adrenaline and every bad idea he’d ever had.He didn’t care.
By the time they made it down the hall to his room, neither of them remembered who’d moved first.The door shut behind them with a soft click, cutting off the noise from the clubhouse.The air felt different in here.It was quieter, charged.
He cupped her face in his hands, brushing the corner of her mouth with his thumb.
“You sure?”he had to ask, voice low.
She nodded, eyes steady.“I’ve never been more sure of anything,” Mara told him.
Something in him broke then, clean and final.He kissed her again, softer now, reverent, like a promise he hadn’t realized he was making.For the first time in years, he stopped thinking about control.He just let himself feel.
They dispensed with their clothes.Viper watched tensely as Mara curiously looked over his scarred body.He forced himself to stand still as she approached him, touching the old bullet wounds on his abdomen.
“You’ve seen hell,” she murmured.
Viper nodded, unsure what else to say.He’d told her bits and pieces of his past, about his time in the army.How he wound up with the Devil’s Crown MC.With her, it was easy to tell, to talk.
Mara leaned in, kissed an old scar above his left pectoral.Unable to help himself any longer, Viper ran his rough hands down her smooth curves.They moved to the bed.Seeing Mara lying on her back, expectant look on her face, deepened the hunger growing inside him.He couldn’t look away from her gorgeous body, the rise and fall of her chest, her nipples growing hard.
Viper joined her, making her feel good with his mouth and hands.He left a trail of burning kisses down her mouth, throat, and her collarbones.Reaching her breasts, he sucked on each one reverently.Mara groaned above him, curling her fingers into the bars of the headboard.
He made his way lower, down her belly, and finally the valley between her legs.Viper sucked and licked her pussy lips, swirled his tongue around her clit.Mara cried out softly as he nipped at the bud softly.
She came against him, panting.Viper licked all her cream, enjoying her languid expression above him.
“Viper,” she whispered.“I want, no,needyou inside me.”
Viper grinned.He got out of bed to snatch a condom from the pocket of his jeans.After sliding the condom on, he straddled her again.Viper lifted her legs above his shoulders, then experimentally slid one, then two digits inside her.
Mara was already so wet and ready for him.Viper couldn’t wait to be inside her.He entered her, slow and steady at first.When he was finally fully sheathed inside her, Mara moaned.
“You good, baby?”Viper asked.
“Yeah, ride me, Viper.”
That sounded like an order, but Viper was happy to comply.He started with a steady rhythm which suited them both.When she started begging him for more, Viper picked up the pace.Soon enough, he reduced them both to needy animals.Sweat beaded their bodies.
Each time he entered her, it felt like a piece of her sweet and innocent soul reached out to his broken one, mending him.Hearing her gasp, he knew he found her sweet spot.Viper focused on that spot again.
Mara arched her back, crying out.Viper aimed for it over and over again, until Mara came all over him.Several thrusts later, Viper followed.Grunting, he pulled out of her slowly.
Viper made a quick trip to the bathroom.After disposing of the condom, he grabbed a towel and returned to her.Viper cleaned them both up, before slipping next to Mara again.He shut his eyes.Was this what peace felt like?
Later, when the room had gone quiet and the world had narrowed to the steady rhythm of her breathing beside him, Viper lay awake, staring at the ceiling.Faint moonlight crept in through the blinds, painting her skin silver.She looked peaceful, like the chaos outside couldn’t touch her here.
“Mara?”Viper called but she had already fallen asleep.
