A worried cry woke me. Like a whimper. I bolted up, searching for the sound when I remembered everything. The bar. Elle.Elle.“Hey, hey.” I moved her so she fell into my lap. Her heart pounded, and sweat covered her body. My poor girl was having a nightmare.
“Wake up, let me fight your demons for you,” I said, kissing her temple. She let out another pathetic sound, and it gutted me. I never wanted her to make that whimper as long as I breathed. My chest tightened, and I gently shook her. “Baby, hey, I got you.”
She slowly blinked her eyes open. Her pulse raced at the base of her throat, and she clung to me. “Cal?”
“Hm?” I pulled her closer to me so I cradled her entire body. I liked her there, where I could protect her from everything but myself.
“I just… I can’t…” she trailed off, her voice going high. “Kiss me.”
The day I denied her that was the day I saw my parents again.
I tilted her neck up, holding my hand gently on her throat and brought my lips to hers. She let out a cry, but this time it was pleasure. She crawled onto me so her legs wrapped around my waist, and fuck, she was warm. “Elle,” I said, kissing down her neck. “We should sleep. You’re tired.”
“I want to forget. Please.” She tugged at my hair, her eyes desperate. “I need you, Cal.”
God, I couldn’t turn her down. Not when she said those words and wore that helpless expression. “Tell me what you need, and I’ll do it.”
“Touch me.”
I roamed my hands over her skin under her shirt, removing it and tossing it to the side. Our chests touched, and I grazed my fingers over her spine, her ribs, her the edge of her panties. “I want to see your tattoo.”
“Okay.” She crawled off me and spun, letting me view her back. I traced the cursive letters, enjoying how her skin broke out in goose bumps.
“Write, don’t think,” I said, pulling her against me. “It fits you.”
She hummed in response, and I dipped my hand in her panties. She was already wet, and I sucked in a breath. Fuck, this girl. She was everything.
“No.” She stilled, and I froze.What the fuck was I thinking?She needed comfort.
“I’m sorry.”
“Cal,” she said, getting onto her knees and sliding her underwear off. Her flushed cheeks and wide eyes didn’t seem like she was mad. I breathed easier.
“What are you doing?”
She reached over toward the table, grabbed a condom, and jutted her chin toward my shorts. “I want to see your face.”
“Oh.”
“Yeah.” She smiled, a little bashful. “You make me feel…safe.”
I closed my eyes, my chest breaking apart at her words. “Baby.” I cupped her face and kissed her again, slowly, tasting and teasing her perfect little mouth. I lifted my hips a bit as she tugged my shorts down. In a twisting of limbs, we got them off and onto the floor so it was just our bodies.
I kissed her collarbone, nipping it as she ripped open the condom and slid it on me. I hissed, the pleasure of her hands making me jolt. “You’re fucking perfect.”
With my legs on either side of her, she took my cock deep inside her. We were chest to chest, our mouths a breath a part, and my soul hummed. I’d never had sex like this before, with prolonged eye contact. I had to watch her though, to make sure she was okay. “Cal,” she said, closing her eyes as I thrust into her. She arched her back, and we found a slow pace that took me deeper and deeper. I couldn’t stop touching her. Her throat, her chest, her back. When she opened her eyes again, they were hooded with pleasure and lust andfeeling.
“This is what I wanted. You. Us.” She leaned forward, her forehead resting against mine. “I’m so glad I have you.”
Fuck.
I needed more of her. Desperately. No more space between our bodies. Just us. Her body and mine. She made a sexy ass sound again, and I held her tight against me as I fucked her. She’d somehow worked her way into my life and mind, and I wasn’t sure how to ever let go.
“Cal, I’m… I need more.”
I held onto her with one hand, using the other to stimulate her clit, and it barely took thirty seconds before she trembled and fell apart against me. Her sounds, her body, her greedy hands running all over my skin had my own release building uptoo. I kissed the base of her throat, and she somehow tightened her muscles, andfuck.“Elle,” I groaned, my own orgasm knocking the wind out of me.
My ears rang, and my skin beaded with sweat as we remained there, forehead to forehead with our breaths coming out in pants. Had never been like this before. There had never been a girl likeherbefore.
