The kiss deepens even more. His tongue strokes along mine, sensual and slow at first, but it quickly becomes more. It turnsravenous. He devours my lips, and a heartbeat later, his thigh lodges between my legs, pressing right against my center. He rocks it forward, creating a delicious friction that makes me gasp into his mouth.
He rubs me, slowly and insistently as if he already knows and owns my body. As if we’ve been kissing and touching each other like this for years.
My hands clutch his shoulders, scrape down the biceps I’m a little bit obsessed with, and my nails sink into his coat. He grunts and rubs me faster; molten, liquid heat gathers at my core, and I start rocking my hips forward, riding his thigh.
He’s so hard. So hot. So fucking irresistible. I become aware of a pressure against my hip—the stiff, thick,longoutline of his cock. The fact thatI’mturning him on—me, a girl he’s only ever regarded as a friend—gets mehigh. Our kiss deepens even more, turning sloppy, until we’re devouring each other.
Blinding pleasure sweeps over me, starting at my core and spreading through my body until I can barely withstand it. My channel pulses around air, longing to be filled, and I release a choked cry that Max swallows and drinks down.
We become one organism, interconnected despite the clothes separating us… and then, it ends.
He tears his mouth away from mine, leaving me gasping and panting. Stumbles back several steps, eyes glassy, hair extra mussed, chest heaving. I’m panting, gasping for breath, scarcely believing what just happened.
I just kissed my best friend. He kissed meback. I rode his thigh until I came, the most satisfying orgasm in my life.
Now, he’s staring at me with wide eyes, and I’d kill to know what he’s thinking.
He throws his head back to the sky and mutters, “Fuck.” Swiftly closes the distance between us, and kisses me again.
“The next time I see you, you’ll be eighteen,” he murmurs. “Then, I won’t feel like a pervert for all the thoughts running through my head.Untilthen, Flame, I need you to keep your thoughts and your hands to yourself.” He kisses me again. “Can you do that for me? Be a good girl?”
He wants to… do this again?
No, it sounds like he wants to do a hell of a lot more than this again. Elation fills me to the brim as I wind my fingers in his hair. “Okay.”
“You’ll be my good girl?”
“I’ll be your best girl.”
“Flame.” He kisses my nose. “You already are.”
With that, he’s gone, slinking back into the night from whence he came. I watch him go, touching my fingers to my lips, feeling dazed and turned on, alreadyachingfor the next time I see Max.
But I don’t see him again. He leaves the break early after a fight with his father, only sending me a text when he’s already at the airport.
He doesn’t come home for spring break. We call and we text, but I don’t get to see him—though he promises to be home for the summer.
And by the time summer arrives, it’s already too late.
Chapter Thirty-Four
Max
Iwake up feeling like a new man—partially because I finally got into the pussy I’ve been craving forfartoo long, and partially because Ember’s cuddled into me.She’scuddled intome.Willingly.
My heart fuckingsoars.
Her body is draped over my arm, head resting on my chest. One of her legs is tangled up in mine, and her arm is slung over my torso, almost possessively. Her features are peaceful, no hint of pain, fear, or stark dissociation in sight.
She looks soyoung. So fuckingvulnerable. A fierce need to protect her for the rest of both of our lives rises up within me, almost crippling in its intensity. I stroke my fingers over her cheek, gently in hopes not to wake her, but of course, it doesn’t work.
She is, after all, an assassin. We’re notoriously light sleepers.
Her eyes flash open, but there’s no anger or fear in them. She looks dazed, adorably sleepy, and thoroughly exhausted. She blinks at me a few times, and her eyes flutter closed again. “Five more minutes.”
My smile is bright enough to rival the sun. She’s impossibly cute.
“Alright. Will you be a good girl and stay in bed while I get ready for the day? I’m gonna want to fuck you before I leave.”
