One coolish night, Noah made a fire, put onTo Have and Have Not,then languorously made out with AJ through the opening sequence. He wasn’t being particularly provocative, but he was so big and sexy andpresent,and he brought his whole body into it when he kissed, and AJreallyliked being near him, that when he lightly rested his hand over her zipper, she inadvertently came through her jeans.
One.
AJ tried to hide it, but Noah heard her breath hitch and pulled back. “Did you just—”
“That was an accident.” AJ had never been so embarrassed, but Noah was riveted. For a moment, he just stared at her. Then he grabbed her hand and pulled her onto the bearskin rug.
“Do you know how much I think about making you come?” he said as he tugged off her shirt. AJ reached for his, but he gently pushed her hand away. Instead, he laid her down and began to undo her pants. A fresh wave of embarrassment swept over AJ as he tugged off her jeans to reveal her underwear, which were completely and visibly soaked.
“You are so wet,” he breathed.
AJ considered rolling into the fireplace. “Tell me something I don’t know.”
Noah brushed the back of his hand against her panties, and she shivered. Then he lowered himself beside her, slipping one arm beneath herhead and leaving the other over her crotch. He kissed her, and AJ could feel his fingers tighten against the warm, damp fabric. Slowly, she moved against his hand.
“All right,” he murmured. “I can smell you, do you know that? It doesn’t matter how many other people are around or where we are, you’re all I can focus on.” AJ caught his eye, and he gave her a harsh look. “If you make a joke about Edward Cullen right now, I swear I will stop.”
AJ bit back a smile. “I can smell you, too,” she admitted. “It’s very…annoying.” She closed her eyes and felt his hand press against her. His lips were hot on her neck.
“You havenoidea,” said Noah. “At your job? I hadn’t seen or touched you in three years, but the second you walked in that pitch room I was done—just instantly hard. Then the next day we were alone together for almost two hours, and you smelled like fucking dessert—I was basically just sitting there inhaling you. Your concentration is insane. You didn’t look at me once.”
“That can’t be true.”
“It is,” he said. He put his mouth directly beside her ear. “If you had, I would have locked the door and made you come harder than I did in my bathroom in L.A.”
AJ gasped.
Two.
He pulled back, meeting her eyes as his hand slipped into her panties.
“Miami almost broke me.”
He drew in a sharp breath as he felt her contract, and once more, his lips were on hers.
“You looked so pretty,” he muttered, delicately teasing her with his fingertip. “Then I watched you hug everyonebutme, and I figured I’d done something to make you uncomfortable.”
“You didn’t,” said AJ. “I was trying to not be a dick.” She bit her lip at the stroke of his thumb.
“So was I,” said Noah. “I felt like such a fucking creep show, Age. We’re standing there talking about fan blogs as if I didn’t wake up that morning thinking aboutexactlyhow you feel.”
He kissed her, his free hand gripping her scalp. AJ arched against him, panting.
“I was doing okay until Risa took down your hair.” He groaned. “Your hair ismine,and I am an absolute caveman about it. I am. Ihatethat it’s down in the show. I hated watching it go down backstage for all those people to see. Ireallyhated not being able to touch it.”
He broke off, burrowing into her now extremely staticky hair. That was his problem. AJ was maintaining normal brain activity while his other hand was actively setting her on fire.
“Backstage, we were two feet apart, and I was just staring at you, wanting to die. Then you turned to me, and suddenly I had you, Ifucking had youin my hands.”
As his tongue swept into her mouth, he slipped two fingers inside her. She moaned, and Noah broke away, kissing her neck.
“You were a wreck and there were fifteen hundred people on the other side of that curtain, and all I could think wasThere’s no one hereto stop me.Like a full-on creep show caveman.”
“You were not a creep show caveman.” AJ would have laughed, but she could barely speak for the pleasure of his touch. “You really helped me that day.”
Noah did laugh. “I helped myself,” he said. “You just didn’t notice. That whole time, my hands were in your hair. I almost didn’t let you go. I really, really didn’t want to.”
“But you did.”
