She met his dark gaze as she approached him.His arms were still crossed, and his jaw was tight.She wasn’t the only one afraid of being rejected.
“I want all those things too, Cam.I want to start a company, and I want to start a life.With you.”
She stopped when they were only a foot apart, but he didn’t reach for her.Undeterred, she reached for him instead.Her touch was light as she wrapped her fingers around his wrists.His skin felt hot, and his pulse was fast.It gave her courage as she pulled his arms around her.“I’m sorry I jumped to the wrong conclusion.You’re the one person who’s been on my side through all of this.I’m just so gun-shy right now.The people I love keep hurting me, but I shouldn’t—”
“Say that again.”His gaze burned into hers, and the tips of their noses touched.
She swallowed hard.“They keep—”
“Before that.”
Her eyes widened when she realized what he wanted.Smiling tremulously, she ran her thumb over his lower lip.“I love you, Cameron Rowe.”
The tension left his body in one big whoosh.“It’s about time.”
He caught her to him, and Lexie instinctively went up on her tiptoes.His head dipped, and the time for apologies was gone.Their mouths met, and the kiss went white hot.He held her so tightly, her breasts flattened against his chest.His heat surrounded her, but she trembled as she tried to get even closer.
She did love him.It was why she’d reacted so strongly to what she’d found.She hadn’t cared if he was using her idea; she was terrified that he didn’t feel anything for her.
She tangled her fingers in his hair as their mouths ate at each other’s.The shirt she wore was driving her crazy.The silk was rubbing and gliding.It made her nipples burn and her thighs clench.The teasing wasn’t enough.She wanted his skin.She wanted his mouth.She needed to feel him moving inside her.
She ran her hands down his chest and tried to squeeze them between their bodies.
“Sexy Lexie,” he growled.
“You make me that way.”She traced the carved lines of his abs.She wanted him, and she was through being afraid of her feelings.
He kissed her hard, and then he was squeezing his hands between their bodies too.He fondled her breasts, plumping them and taking their weight.His thumbs played with her nipples through the fabric, and Lexie closed her eyes in pleasure.
Reaching lower, she cupped him.He pumped into her hand, and then his playful fingers got serious.He started undoing her top, but neither of them wanted to break contact.Their bodies bumped, and they kissed hungrily.She swung her hips back so she could get better access to his zipper, but he pulled her right back.Her breath caught at the feel of his erection pressing intimately against her belly.
He was big, and he was hard.
She stopped for a moment to savor the sensation, but the hesitation put her behind on the race to strip each other.He was opening the white shirt and shoving it off her shoulders before she got a good grip on his zipper.She felt the air touch her shoulders, then her breasts and her stomach.She finally found the tab of his pants, and his zipper slid down with a rasp.She pushed his pants down to his thighs at the same time his shirt fell from her arms to the floor.Finally, they stood inches apart, male to female, naked and aroused.
He cupped her bare breasts.“You are so perfect.”
She took that tiny step forward that brought their bodies into intimate contact.His arms enveloped her, and the kiss they shared was slow and erotic.
They’d had sex before.This time they were making love.
“Cam,” she sighed.
“You’re mine.”He began backing her towards the bedroom.“All mine.”
Cam didn’t care where she’d come from or who her family was.She was his, every last complicated inch of her.
He slid one leg between hers as he directed her towards the bedroom.Her skin was soft and heated, warm and wet.Her mouth was hungry as they kissed, but nothing was as wicked as her hands.His spine locked when her delicate fingers wrapped around his cock, tight and possessive.
He nipped at her lower lip.“Careful.”
“I don’t want to be careful anymore.”
He fisted a hand in her hair.Neither did he.
Catching her about the waist, he picked her up.She wrapped her legs around him as if it was the most natural thing in the world.Her hand still cradled him way down low, and she pressed her face into his neck.
Cam’s field of vision narrowed as she caressed him intimately, but his eyes popped back open when he realized they weren’t in the bedroom with the shades closed tight.Anyone could see in.
