“The promise.” I’m panting. “What is it?”
He kisses my mouth. “Promise you won’t fall in love with me.”
He’s laughing, and now so am I. The hit of levity feels good, even as my heart squeezes.
Too late. I’m falling, Ryder. Plummeting to my death. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.
“Fuck you, you presumptuous asshole,” I reply.
“Would you? Fuck me? Please?”
I bite the corner of his mouth. “Yes, baby.”
I don’t know why I keep putting myself out there with Ryder after he turned me down. He clearly has some major hesitations, and I feel like I should have some sense of self-preservation. I should hold back alittlebit.
Here I am, though, calling himbaby. What’s more vulnerable than that, using an endearment with someone for the first time?
But judging by the way the look in Ryder’s eyes shifts—it softens, but it’s sharp too, andoh God—he likes that, doesn’t he?
He impales me on a vicious thrust, capturing my cry in a deep, messy kiss.
Holy shit, Ryder Rivers likes it when I call him baby.
CHAPTER 16
The Opposite of Safe Sex
RYDER
While I like calling Billie darlin’,I’m not a fan of being called nicknames myself.
They’re cheesy. Overdone. In most cases, they’re downright cringe-worthy.
But when Billie Wallace calls me baby?
Lord above.My balls contract and my pulse gallops and it hits me like a fucking train that Ilovenicknames. With an important caveat: Only whensheuses them.
She sits on my cock like she means it, rolling her hips so she takes me deeper. My dick is in agony inside her perfect little pussy. She’s fuckingtight, her grip on me warm and fierce and somehow soft too.
Billie in a nutshell.
“Wait.” I grab her hips to still them. Close my eyes. Breathe through my nose. “A minute. I need a minute.”
“Ry? Areyouokay?” She cups my face in her hand.
I last longer than this.
Much fucking longer. Ain’t like me to come five seconds after I’m inside a girl.
Here I am, though, about to do exactly that. It’s embarrassing. And scary.
The tips of Billie’s bare breasts brush against my chest. Even through my shirt, the feel of her sweet little nipples makes goose bumps break out on my arms.
I have to stay in control. This could get out of hand real fast if I don’t keep my wits about me.
How can I do that, though, when she’s so fun to fuck?
When she’s so real, so generous, so playful?
