That, too, was an understatement.
“Ha!OMG, when I get back from drinks tonight, we’re spilling everything!Got it?”
Aurelie nodded, even though she had no intention of doing that.Tonight was her last evening off until a week from then, since she was scheduled for nights the last week of her visa.She and Jace would be on opposite schedules, and that…sucked.
She worked the rest of her shift in and out of focus, thankful that it was another slow day in the OB wing.Too many cases were still being sent to Bozeman, something that would change if they could get this clinic off the ground.It meant so much to her to make it happen, not just for the work that would be so much more active than what she currently did, but because it would be rewarding to help women like her mother, who’d been kept down physically and emotionally by the abusers in their lives.
When she walked in the door to her apartment a few hours later, she was greeted by an open bathroom door, steam coming out of it.Desire flooded her system, for a chance to shower off her day in an already-warm room, but to be naked with Jace, too.
In fact, that single desire led to her disrobing and opening the door to the shower in a matter of seconds.
“Mmmm,” Jace groaned with pleasure as she wrapped her arms around his warm body.He liked the shower the same way she did: practically scalding.Dirt covered the floor of the shower, meaning his day was either really good or really bad.“You feel good, wife.”
He’d been using that word a lot lately:wife.So much so that Aurelie lived in constant worry he’d slip up at Paige’s one of these evenings, but so far, he’d been the picture of stoicism.
She slipped a hand around his erection and squeezed his shaft.
“So do you, husband.”His groan turned into a feral growl, and when he flipped around to face her, she allowed his hardness to slide between her legs.
“I want you so fucking bad, Aury.How haven’t we gotten tired of this yet?”
She understood.Every time she thought that a particular round of lovemaking would sate her desire, she found it increased tenfold.
“I,” she said, peppering his chest with kisses, “don’t”—she moved down his abdomen, licking the moisture rolling off him.He growled again, pulled at her hair to keep it out of her way—“know.”
With that last word, she knelt in front of him, taking his length in her mouth and sucking hard while using her hand to cup him beneath his shaft.
His hands tightened in her hair.
“Goddammit, Aury.I’m not gonna last if you keep that up.”She sucked harder, pulled on him, swirled her tongue around his moist, salty tip until she felt him tense inside her mouth.“I’m so close, babe.”
That pet name drove her faster.She might not get to have Jace for more than a few more weeks, but she’d enjoy every last inch of him—sweet nothings included—until she couldn’t any more.
“Fuuuuck,” he cried out, pulling her head against his base.
She didn’t release him as he bucked beneath her, warm liquid filling her mouth.She swallowed it, still moving over his hardness until his knees buckled.
“Fuck, woman.What are you trying to do to me?”He lifted her off the ground and kissed her deeply.She wrapped a leg around him, pleased to find him still hard for her.He was a damn magician.
“Make you happy.”It was a small thing she could do, love him in this physical way to meet both their needs and show him how much he meant to her.
“You do that every day.”He slid inside her, pressing her back against the shower and rocking slowly in and out.“Now it’s my turn to repay the favor.”
She almost pulled back, those words like a fork on a metal plate, but then he was thrusting faster and deeper.Her worries—that he thought he owed her anything when he’d given hereverything—were drowned by desire.Jace knew just how to touch her, how to rock into her with the top of his shaft to hit her clit just so, even though each time was different.They were all the best sex of her life, something she’d hidden from Paige.It would be too hard to explain why they went their separate ways when they inevitably did.
Jace braced himself on the bench in her shower, allowing him to plunge into her depths with a power that would have knocked her on her ass had he not somehow supported her weight as well.
Yep.Magician.
In less than ten thrusts, she was seizing around him, crying out his name and a few other words in her native French.
She clutched onto him for dear life and didn’t let go until they’d both calmed.She breathed in the steam from the shower as Jace washed her hair, her body, her sensitive core.God, did life get better than this?
With someone capable of emotional intimacy, yes.That wasn’t her husband, nor could it be.He’d made that clear.
A girl can dream.
Absolutely not.That wasn’t the way to go.To not be able to give her heart away to this amazing man was one thing; it was another altogether to give it away in the hopes he’d accept it, only to be rebuffed.
