“Oh, wait,” I said. “Before we get there—should we get condoms?”
Eric glanced at me, chewing his lip. “I mean… We can?”
I swallowed. “Do you think we need them?”
“Do you?”
We exchanged glances again.
After a moment, I quietly said, “We’ve both got some trust issues. We’ve both been cheated on recently. I… It won’t hurt my feelings if you’d prefer to use them.”
He shifted in the driver seat. “Yeah, it won’t hurt mine either.” He adjusted his grip on the wheel. “For, uh… For the record, I got tested for everything under the sun after I found out about…”
“About me?”
He nodded.
“I did, too.”
“Yeah?”
“Mmhmm.”
Silence set in again. It was as if we were both waiting for the other to make the decision.
And wasn’t he the one who’d finally worked up the nerve to break that silence earlier? When he’d been risking a hell of a lot more than an awkward conversation about condoms? Maybe it was my turn to take the reins.
I cleared my throat. “If you’re comfortable going without, so am I.”
He glanced at me, eyebrows up. “Are you?”
“I am, yeah.” I fought the urge to squirm. “I’ve, um… I’ve never been with someone bareback. But this time—not gonna lie, the idea is seriously turning me on.”
Eric pushed out a ragged breath. “Me… Me too.” Another glance. “You’re sure?”
“Completely.”
He didn’t say a word.
He just drove faster.
CHAPTER 23
ERIC
While Greenville and Moosehead Lake were waking up, Jesse and I sank into bed with nothing between us. I was trembling with need, but we took it slow, kissing and touching like we had all the time in the world. As far as I was concerned, it had taken us ages to get here, and I intended to enjoy every minute of it.
I loved the way this man felt against me. On top of me. Under me. I loved his hands moving all over my body, and I loved all his planes and contours beneath my palms and fingers. When his hard cock slid alongside mine, my skin broke out in goose bumps; I wanted him so damn bad.
I also wasn’t entirely sure I could take him comfortably. I wanted to try, and I trusted him to make sure I was ready, but he was bigger than anyone who’d ever topped me.
Strangely, that didn’t bother me like it had at first. The last time we’d fooled around, he’d made it abundantly clear that my body made him as hot as his made me. Yeah, it was intimidating to be naked with a guy who was so much bigger than me, but that intimidation had evaporated when he’d been blowing me that greedily. If he thought there was anything lacking with my dick, he was damn good at hiding it, becauseholy hell.
I slid my hands up his back as I lost myself in his languid kiss. Jesse made a soft, muffled sound as he explored my mouth. Resting his weight on one arm, he ran his other hand all over me, everywhere he could reach, and his touch was addictive. He didn’t just grope and feel me up—it was like he wanted to explore and memorize every bit of me he could reach.
I loved that I felt this way in his arms. Not just turned on, but likehewas genuinely turned onby me.
And then he closed his fingers around my dick, and he moaned even before I did. Breaking the kiss, he went for my neck, and he drove me absolutely wild with his lips on my throat and his fist around my cock.
