“I…um…I’m not trying to make a move on you,” I said. “Honest. You turned down a date quick enough in the Roundup last night, and I respect your choice. So if I’m making you uncomfortable,feel free to move away and I’ll calm down.” I might have to step outside into the cold rain to do that, but if that was what she wanted, I would.
For a beat, she neither spoke nor moved. Then she licked her lips and I had to bite back a moan. “What if it’s not bothering me?” she finally asked.
Not what I expected. “I’d consider myself a damn lucky man,” I whispered.
She shifted, smooth and lithe, so that she was straddling me. Her fingers slipped under my blanket, tentatively pushing it off my shoulders. “Maybe it’s a good thing that we’re not going into business together, so we don’t need to worry about mixing business with pleasure.”
The wordpleasurebroke through the last of my self-control, and I kissed her.
FIVE
JAKE
In the back of my mind, I knew this was probably a bad idea. Even if we weren’t going into business together, Julia was my closest neighbor, our primary vet, and a friend of sorts.
Her touch on my shoulders and chest was just tentative enough to suggest that flings like this weren’t her default, and I didn’t want to mislead her into thinking that we could have something I wasn’t capable of offering.
But the kiss coupled with the light stroke of her fingers over my torso erased all rational thought, and I deepened the kiss, swiping my tongue into her mouth, dragging it along hers and feeling the hot friction. We were both adults, so I set my conscience aside and focused on the exquisite feeling of Julia in my arms.
The blanket around her shoulders fell away and I broke the kiss long enough to lift her sports bra over her head. I palmed her breasts, and her answering moan went straight through me. I damn near growled in response like some sort of animal in heat, which was exactly how I was feeling.
Behind us, the fire popped and crackled while the rain continued to beat against the outside of the cabin. We were cocooned in our own little world away from everything and everyone that could get in the way of us in this moment.
Julia pressed her breasts against my chest, her nipples taut peaks. I flexed my hips, rubbing my dick against her and she ground down on top of me through the layers of our underwear and the crumpled blankets still between us, shuddering in response as her passion grew.
I needed her naked, so I rose with her still in my arms. With reluctance, I set her down slowly, her body, flush against mine, trembled in response.
“Are you steady?” I asked when her feet touched the floor.
“For the moment,” she said in a breathy voice. “What are you doing?”
“Getting rid of these.” I stroked down her sides and toyed with the lace edge of her panties. Wrapping my hands around her hips, I slid my fingers under the waistband and slowly pushed them down over her hips.
Julia rocked toward me and I kissed her, nibbling lightly on her lower lip before following a trail down the side of her face to her neck. She tilted her head giving me more access and I worked my way down, catching first one nipple in my mouth and then the other, as I knelt in front of her and helped her step out of her underwear.
“Jake,” she whispered. Her fingers were in my hair as I kissed her stomach and the tops of both thighs. I wanted to part her and lick her until she came all over my face, but I wasn’t sure she wasready for that, so I rose, wrapped one arm around her and pulled her tight up against me so I could go back to kissing her.
She explored my body, her touch so light it was giving me goose bumps. Arousal mixed with a tight coil of tension was building at the base of my spine. She said my name again, drawing it out on a moan.
I pressed my hand between us, working my fingers between her legs to find her hot and wet for me. She gave a little sigh and dropped her head onto my shoulder as I touched her. “So good, but I need more.” She reached for my boxer briefs, already gripping the waistband.
“Wait,” I said. I had a sudden moment of clarity and caught her hands. “I don’t…I don’t have a condom with me.” Which was a damn shame. “I’m clean, but we can stop now if you’re worried about getting pregnant.”
Doing so would mean I’d need to go outside in the rain and hope it’d be enough to calm my raging arousal.
“Not worried.” She nipped at my jaw. “I can’t have children. Well…I guess Ican, but me getting pregnant is a one in a million shot.” She placed her palm flat against my dick, the heat from her hand where she cupped me making that coil of need tighten to the point of pain.
“I’m much more concerned about this. I want you inside me, Jake. Take these off.” She tugged on my briefs, that small friction against my dick making me shudder.
What she was doing felt amazing, but I was as anxious as she was for us to come together. After stripping off my briefs, I sat back down on the sofa and helped her straddle me again. Graspingthe base of my dick, I watched, fascinated, as she slowly sank down—inch by inch—until I was buried deep in her.
She was wet and warm and felt so damn good that I had to grip her hips and hold her still to keep from embarrassing myself before we even got started. “Give me a moment. I want to make this good for you, but that won’t happen if I come too soon.”
Her grin should have been my warning. She squeezed all those delicious muscles, and I groaned, clutching her hips to stop her. “Julia,” I said, doing my best to warn her while I tried to calculate feed in my head to keep from shooting off prematurely.
She wrapped her arms around my neck and arched her back giving me the sultriest look. I was a goner. I leaned forward, laving at her nipples, adding more and more pressure, each progression making her gasp in pleasure. Her hands were on my shoulders, her fingers digging into my back as she shuddered above me.
I started another kiss as we moved together. The shyness I’d noticed in Julia earlier was gone. She was as hungry and demanding as I was. Distantly, I heard thunder outside, but all that mattered was Julia and me together. Our bodies grew slick with sweat. I tried to control the pace but gave up when passion overwhelmed us.
