“Yes,” I said, swallowing hard and seconds away from picking her up and carrying her caveman style to my bedroom. My hands rested at my sides, letting her take the lead being more important to me. I wanted her, but she had to want me too.
“Um, did you…” she said, parting her lips when she traced her fingers up my neck and over my mouth. “Did you kiss Tessa?”
“No.”
She sucked in a breath and continued dragging her fingers over my skin. My heart raced at her warm touch, and she stepped closer, her floral scent surrounding me.
“Ask me why, Nora.”
Something like panic entered her eyes, and I understood the feeling. Answering this question would change everything. It would shift the air, tip the balance. There would be no hiding it anymore.
“W-Why didn’t you kiss Tessa?”
“Because, Nora.” I put my hand over hers and stilled her touch on my face. “She wasn’t you.”
Chapter Seventeen
Nora blinked a few times.“I waited for you. I wondered…you’re a very handsome guy, and Tessa…well, she was into you, and I didn’t know…”
“Nora?” I said, unable to stop smiling at how flustered she was. She wanted me. I knew it.
“Yes? Hm?” she said, her chest rising and falling fast, straining against her shirt.
“Shut up so I can kiss you.”
She sucked in a breath as every muscle in her body tensed. It didn’t last long though. She swallowed as I lowered my face and pressed my lips against hers. My hands still rested over hers, and I let go, moving my hand to her lower back and pulling her closer to me. We were chest to chest, our hearts beating against each other, and she gasped when I dug my hands into her lower back.
“More, Nora. I want more,” I said, bending lower to capture her mouth with mine. Her lips were softer than I imagined and were so fucking warm and full. I kissed her once, twice, and then slid my tongue into her mouth, wanting to have every part of her. Her timid kiss wouldn’t cut it. Not with how much I wanted her. I wanted all of her.
She tasted like whiskey. My mouth tingled as she kissed me back, hard. It was messy. Teeth and tongue and lips all clashing together, trying to get every drop from the other person, and I cupped her neck, tipping her head back to kiss her more, kiss her deeper. This wasn’t enough. My soul sprang to life as I tasted her. My skin prickled from head to toe as she kissed me back. Couldn’t she feel how savage she made me? Didn’t she know that she took up every single thought of mine?
She let out the tiniest moan.
It sent me spiraling through a torrent of lust. I hoisted her up around my waist, moving her legs so her ankles hooked behind my back. Nora arched her hips just enough, pressing against my hardening cock and trembling.
“I thought it was just me,” she said in a husky, sexy-as-hell voice against my ear.
I guided us into my apartment, slammed the door, and pushed her back against it as she bit my earlobe.
“Just you?”
“I didn’t know you…wanted me too.”
I pushed my erection into her, arching a brow as I looked down at her. “I’ve thought of nothing else but you the past few weeks. Nothing else. Your lips, your skin, your body.” I pulled her bottom lip between my teeth, letting go and running my nose down her neck.
She smelled so damn good. I bit the spot where her neck met her shoulder, and she arched her back, letting out a deep guttural sound that went straight to my dick.Fuck.“Fritz, wow.”
I laughed against her skin, and using my weight to hold her against the door, I ran my hands over her legs. I gripped her thick thighs, enjoying the feel of her against me, before moving to cup her ass.God.
It was heavy and full, and she wore the tiniest little pair of panties. As I brought my mouth back to hers, needing to kiss her again, I moved us from the door and down the hall. “Naked,” I said, sounding a bit deranged.
“I need to see you,” I barked out, using my foot to shut my bedroom door, and I set her on the edge of the bed. She looked up, wide-eyed and flushed cheeks, and my fingers fucking shook with how much I needed this. Needed her.
“You’re panting,” she said, nervously playing with the edge of her shirt.
I pushed her thighs apart, so I stood right in between them and moved my hands along her thighs and up her hips, slipping my fingers under her cotton shirt. She trembled as I caressed her stomach, moving up over her ribs and the center of her chest.
I gripped the edge of the shirt and tugged it up a bit, and Nora paused. I stilled and looked her in the eye. “Hey, is this okay?”
