“Nah. I’m bushed. I’m going to take a shower. Then maybe have something to eat.”
Ray left, her footsteps echoing on the wooden stairs before fading. Logan retrieved three mugs from the cupboard. She crossed to the fridge, and lines marred her brow as she opened the door. I let my gaze drift over her. The short maroon dress she wore clung to her body and flowed out at mid-thigh, revealing her toned, tanned legs.
“Max?” She looked back at me, biting her lip.
I raised an eyebrow.
“We’re going to have to be discreet.”
My jaw clenched. She wanted to hide me like I was some dirty secret? Before I ruined everything I had built with this difficult woman, I pushed away from the doorjamb, reached for her and spun her to me. With my foot, I shut the fridge door and backed her up against it. “We’re alone now.”
“I meant—”
I didn’t give her a chance to talk. When she spoke shit like this, it just frustrated me. I glided my mouth across hers, gently sucking on her lush lower lip. She put her hands around my neck and kissed me back with the same hunger I recognized in myself. My heart nearly cracked through my ribs. Yeah, I’d have to show her that she wanted more than just sex with me.
Our mouths still joined, I shifted and leaned against the counter, pulling her closer. It took everything in me not to remove her underwear and sink into her—I wanted her that badly.
She moaned, pressing harder into me as if to find me.
With my height and her lack of it, it was damn hard this way. I picked her up and set her on the counter. As she parted her knees, I moved between them and trailed my mouth along her jaw. And stroked her bare thighs. “I’m dying to taste you, Logan.”
She fastened her luscious mouth back on mine. I kissed her deeper for a minute. “Not those lips”—my thumb stroked her core—“here. I want my mouth on your clit, I want to lick and suck you, and make you scream my name as you come.”
Amber eyes widened. Maybe my raw words had shocked her, but I didn’t care.
I reached beneath her dress, pulled off her panties, and dropped them on the counter. Sliding my hand up her thigh, I stroked her wet center. Knowing I had caused that, a groan of pure primal need escaped me.
I pushed her back on the granite top, and she hastily balanced on her elbows. Didn’t care that Ray could come down any second. “Put your feet on the counter.”
She stilled. I waited. Yeah, she’d be exposed to me and she knew it. Slowly, she pulled her feet up. My gaze lowered to her glistening core. “You’re so damn sexy, you know that?”
Her slumberous but wary expression told me there’d be a lot of firsts I’d be introducing her to. I was so fucking glad. I parted those wet lips I hungered for with my fingers and ran my tongue down her cleft, licking her.
“Oh, God—” she moaned, grabbing my hair as l ate her, savoring her musky-sweet taste. Her body jerked. Her soft cries grew. The delicious little noises escaping her had my dick in a vise. Her legs slid over my shoulders.
I wanted her to scream my name. Out loud. But we weren’t alone.
“Shh, you don’t want to bring Ray down here.” I lapped at her, then ran my tongue down one side of her clit and up the other. Clamping my lips around her swollen nub, using my teeth and tongue, I sucked her softly, then with firmer pulls.
Her fingers tightened in my hair, and she bit her lip, silencing her cries. Next time, I’d make her scream.
I pushed a finger into her, added another as I sucked. The wet sounds of my fingers thrusting in and out of her filled the kitchen. With a hard pull on her clit, her inner muscles clamped tightly around my fingers. I felt every ripple as she fell. Her cry tore free—
“Ila?” At Ray’s voice, I lifted my head. Logan’s eyes snapped open. Blindingly gold, she stared confusedly at me, her chest heaving as if she’d run a mile. It took her a moment, maybe two before she rasped, “Yes?”
“You okay?”
As if in a daze, she nodded. “Yes…I am.”
“I’ll be down in a minute.”
I licked her one more time, not satisfied with this quickie, and she jerked.
Still sensitive, was she? I filed away the info; straightened and kissed her on her mouth.
She scooted closer and deepened the kiss, her slender body pressing into mine. Fuck. My cock ached as I tightened my arms around her. And as the irresistible heat between her thighs pressed against my throbbing dick, a torturous groan escaped me.
At the sound of footsteps running down the stairs, she broke free. “Max—”
