By the time we were done, we still hadn’t broken eye contact, but steam was billowing out of his shower. He took my hand, leading me to the shower and smirking slightly as he opened the door and even more steam rushed out at me.
“Hot enough for you?”
“It’s about to be.”
He chuckled but widened his eyes as he nodded. His gaze drifted down the length of my body as I walked into the shower, his lips parting slightly. I stepped under the hot spray and let it run over me for just a minute, and when I glanced at him again, the look in his eyes was so heated that my body responded like a pilot light had been lit.
Desire sparked to life in my veins, suddenly making me feel all achy and needy. My nipples hardened and wetness pooled between my legs. I watched him follow me into the shower and shut the door behind him, allowing my gaze to drop to the carved lines of his abdomen, his strong thighs, and the well-defined muscles of his calves.
Hell, even this guy’s knees were sexy—and he was myhusbandnow. I tugged my lower lip between my teeth and looked back up into his eyes, finding them already on me. He closed the distance between us, hands sliding back onto my hips and his forehead lowering to mine.
Water dripped from his hair and mine, the stream relentless on my back and shoulders, somehow easing some tension while a whole different kind was building inside. Nate’s chest was rising and falling a little faster than usual against mine, his erection hot and thick against my stomach.
“Do you want to talk about it?” he asked, his voice husky but earnest. “We got married today. We’re fuckingmarried, Kate.”
As if to prove the point—or maybe needing confirmation himself—he lifted his left hand and glanced at the brushed metal ring he wore now. I looked at it too, but then I shook my head when I brought my gaze back up to his.
“I don’t want to talk about it. Not now.” Instead, I pressed myself up on my toes and wrapped my arms around his shoulders. “It’s like you said, we got married today. I know it might not have been conventional, but I do think we should get to act like newlyweds for at least one night.”
“You’re right,” he agreed, bringing that same hand to my cheek. His fingers were as gentle as always but the hard metal of the ring against my skin definitely felt foreign. It did send a thrill down my spine, though. Knowing that ring officially made him mine. “We’ve got the rest of our lives to talk, I guess.”
Then he slanted his lips over mine for a searing kiss. I moaned into his mouth and pressed myself up against him, determined not to let everything we still had to figure out get between us tonight. If there was one thing I knew for an absolute fact, it was that Nate and I were on this journey together.
We had been for a long time, and now, we were finally going to get to figure it all out, but in person. One step at a time. As one.
CHAPTER 39
NATE
Kate’s lips pressed against mine, soft and hungry. Her hard nipples brushed against my chest, driving me even crazier than I had been since the minute she’d said yes on that field. All day long, I’d been thinking about this moment, when we’d finally be alone—and naked.
Okay, definitely not justthinkingabout the naked part. Fantasizing.
Whether as Kate or Emma, no one had ever gotten my engine running the way this woman did. I used to think the terminsatiablewas reserved for those who lacked self-control, but as loathe as I was to admit it, I’d been wrong.
Because when it came to Kate, I couldn’t get enough. This feverish need pumped through my blood every time we were together and I literally couldn’t wait to get my hands on her.
Abruptly breaking the kiss, I used my grip on her hips to turn her around to face the wall, sliding my hands down her arms until I’d wrapped my fingers around hers. I lifted them up until I was satisfied she was safely braced against the wall. Then I fitted myself against her back and let my fingertips run down her sides.
She shivered against me, dropping her head against my shoulder with her eyes already closed, her lower lip tucked between her teeth. Just seeing her like this made me groan out loud, my cock already painfully hard and begging my hips to move.
I only just managed to hold back, focusing on letting one hand glide around her chest to circle a nipple with the pad of my thumb. Her breathing hitched, her back arching to press herself harder against me.
It also had the result of pushing the top of her ass against my dick and I practically hissed, immediately letting my other hand snake down past her belly button. She moaned when I reached her mound, parting my fingers to stroke her, but without touching her clit. Not yet.
She gasped, turning her head into my neck as I teased her, spreading that slippery wetness that was all her own but still avoiding that treasure trove of nerves. It felt like we’d always had to rush when we were together, one way or another, either because of desperation or time constraints, but as desperate as I was even now, I wasn’t rushing tonight.
This woman was my wife now, and before the insanity of our lives crashed back in, I was going to learn everything there was to know about her. I’d already learned enough to know a few things that always made her squirm, but I wanted to discover every little part that made her moan when I touched it.
As my fingers continued their lazy exploration, Kate’s quiet moans filled the air, her body stiffening and relaxing depending on what I was doing. Her head stayed against my shoulder, but by the time she started trembling slightly, I realized the shower might not be the best place to do this.
I reached for the faucet without warning and shut off the water, my own body wound so tight that I was barely thinking anymore. It took Kate a second to register something hadchanged and she blinked rapidly before she looked up at me, her eyes slightly dazed and unfocused.
“Did you forget to pay the water bill?”
“We’re going to bed,” I said, reaching for her and carefully picking her up.
That snapped her out of the haze. She yelped and grabbed onto me, both of us dripping wet, but I managed to make it out of the shower and to my bed without incident.
