My breath catches when he opens his shirt because the man is gorgeous, and the sight of him takes my breath away every time.
“We’ll talk about that.”
I’d ask when but I can tell he wants something else right now. I step out of my sandals. Before I can drop my hands to the buttons on my blouse, he’s on top of me.
“How are you so beautiful and so smart and so everything, Emma Owens?”
Biting the corner of my bottom lip, I shake my head. “That’s a secret I’ll never share.”
“Do you have secrets?” He pops a brow.
“Do you?”
His gaze falls to the floor as he swallows hard. “Doesn’t everyone?”
“You know mine.” I try to lighten the mood. “I was celibate for a long time.”
His hands grip my waist. “A woman like you should never be denied what she wants.”
I slide my fingers over his cheek until they’re resting on his chin. I tilt it so his eyes meet mine. “I want you.”
His heated gaze travels over me. “I’m yours.”
Forever?
That question lingers on my tongue, but I know I can’t ask it because the answer will spear me. It will break me.
“Take me to bed,” I whisper.
Without a word, he takes my hand in his, kisses it, and leads me down the hallway.
CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE
Case
She moanswhen I stroke my tongue over the seam of her sex.
I take that as a challenge to lure another orgasm from her. She came once as I licked her. It was intense with her fingers clawing at my hair, tugging it, pulling it, and drawing pain to the surface.
But it couldn’t compete with what’s happening inside of me.
My heart is aching.
Never in my life did I think I’d fall in love. That has to be what this is.
I’d sacrifice everything for Emma. I’d step in front of a moving bus if it meant she’d get another minute on this earth.
“Case.” My name escapes her in a long-drawn-out sexy-as-fuck groan. “You need to stop that.”
“Never,” I say.
It’s a lie. It’s the only lie I ever want to tell her.
I can’t promise her anything more than tonight or a day or two more.
“Stop,” she whines. “Please.”
I do because I sense that she needs my arms around her more than she needs this.
